William Shakespeare

During the intensive bombing of the London Blitz, CD gave readings of Shakespeare in restaurants to anyone who cared to listen.

They began annual memorial performances of Shakespeare 's plays in Terry's honour. In 1929, their opening season, CSJ appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream

She played male parts in plays by Shakespeare and others, not as burlesque, but as straight parts after the style of Charlotte Cushman . At least one reviewer, in Coventry's Era, objected to...

At Highgate Institute, FK gave a formal reading of Shakespeare ; she abandoned acting altogether this month to make her living exclusively through readings.

She worked briefly with the Ben Greet Players after finishing her degree, taking small roles in various Shakespearean plays which the company was known for performing on tour in picturesque outdoor settings. At times...

She also returned (from September 1939) to producing plays, from which proceeds went towards the war effort. In 1943 she began work with the Canterbury University College Drama Society in the Little Theatre, Christchurch...

EG opened her career as an actress at Smock Alley Theatre , Dublin, as the heroine in Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet, playing to the middle-aged Romeo of the manager, Thomas Sheridan .

Her guardianship of Shakespeare 's memory extended to public opposition of the Baconian theory that emerged in the early twentieth century: the belief that Shakespeare was not the author of the works attributed to him...

Later, as the detective novels kept coming, directing highlights for her included King LearWilliam Shakespeare at the Civic Theatre in Christchurch in 1956, Macbeth in 1962, and Henry V to inaugurate the new James Hay Theatre...

FMD published fiction in magazines launched with his brother. The first of his major novels, Zapiski iz podpol'ia (Notes from Underground), appeared in 1864. That year marked his descent into poverty but also...

IB christened the Queen's memorial oak, which was planted by the actor Samuel Phelps in Primrose Hill in London as part of the Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration.

EF 's best-known play, the feminist piece Lear's Daughters, written in collaboration with the Women's Theatre Group , a prequel revisioning Shakespeare 's story, was staged in London.

LL has written several plays for children and adolescents. These include Disgusting Objects, a play about schoolgirls' first encounter with sexism written for the Scottish Youth Theatre in 1982, and Shanghaied, a play...

In the same year JOH and Moore also collaborated on the one-act comedy Journeys End in Lovers' Meeting (titled from Shakespeare ), which was performed in June 1895 (according to her father's memoir) at...

AF was a constant source of scenes, burlesques, and improvisations for performance by the Women's Liberation Street Theatre Group . She also wrote for a number of underground or radical papers: Ink, Islington Gutter...