Looney's Shakespeare Identified ( 1920 ) began the modern Oxfordian movement and made Oxford the most widely accepted anti-Stratfordian candidate.

The Oxford theory was first proposed by J. Thomas Looney in his 1920 book Shakespeare Identified in Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

Shakespeare borrowed the character of Banquo from Holinshed's Chronicles, a history of Britain published by Raphael Holinshed in 1587.

Shakespeare may have included a sly retaliation against the complaint in his play The Merry Wives of Windsor ( published after the Henry IV series ).

He also began an intense study of Elizabethan literature thinking there might be evidence that Francis Bacon wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare ( see Shakespearean authorship question ); this ultimately resulted in two pamphlets, published in 1896 and 1897.

Facsimile of the first page of Macbeth from the First Folio, published in 1623Scholars also cite an entertainment seen by King James at Oxford in the summer of 1605 that featured three " sibyls " like the weird sisters ; Kermode surmises that Shakespeare could have heard about this and alluded to it with the weird sisters.

The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story Un Capitano Moro (" A Moorish Captain ") by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565.

Looney declared that the late play The Tempest was not written by Oxford, and that others performed or published after Oxford's death were most probably left incomplete and finished by other writers, thus explaining the apparent idiosyncrasies of style found in the late Shakespeare plays.

In 1985 he published his 900-page The Mysterious William Shakespeare: the Myth and the Reality, and by framing the issue as one of fairness in the atmosphere of conspiracy that permeated America after Watergate, he used the media to circumnavigate academia and appeal directly to the public.

The poems Venus and Adonis and Lucrece, first published in 1593 and 1594 under the name " William Shakespeare ", proved highly popular for several decades – with Venus and Adonis published six more times before 1616, while Lucrece required four additional printings during this same period.

Although early editions of the work were published with the spelling " Shakspeare ", after Bowdler's death, later editions ( from 1847 ) adopted the spelling " Shakespeare ", reflecting changes in the standard spelling of Shakespeare's name.

In 1807 Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb published Tales from Shakespeare for children with synopses of 20 of the plays, seldom quoting the original text.

In the 1920s, when Waley's translation was published, reviewers compared Genji to Austen, Proust, and Shakespeare.

) In 1726, the lawyer, poet and pantomime deviser Lewis Theobald published a scathing pamphlet called Shakespeare Restored, which catalogued the errors in Pope's work and suggested a number of revisions to the text.

Other possible sources are the anonymous play King Leir ( published in 1605 ); A Mirror for Magistrates ( 1574 ), by John Higgins ; The Malcontent ( 1604 ), by John Marston ; The London Prodigal ( 1605 ); Arcadia ( 1580 – 1590 ), by Sir Philip Sidney, from which Shakespeare took the main outline of the Gloucester subplot ; Montaigne's Essays, which were translated into English by John Florio in 1603 ; An Historical Description of Iland of Britaine, by William Harrison ; Remaines Concerning Britaine, by William Camden ( 1606 ); Albion's England, by William Warner, ( 1589 ); and A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, by Samuel Harsnett ( 1603 ), which provided some of the language used by Edgar while he feigns madness.

The New Cambridge Shakespeare has published separate editions of Q and F ; the most recent Pelican Shakespeare edition contains both the 1608 Quarto and the 1623 Folio text as well as a conflated version ; the New Arden edition edited by R. A. Foakes is not the only recent edition to offer the traditional conflated text.

Badham also published some critiques of Shakespeare.

Facsimile of the title page of Measure for Measure from the First Folio, published in 1623Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604.

Cinthio also published the same story in a play version with some small differences, which Shakespeare may or may not have been aware of.

See, for example Robert Southwell and Henry Garnet, author of A Treatise of Equivocation ( published secretly c. 1595 ) — to whom, it is supposed, Shakespeare was specifically referring.

Secondly, Elam suggests that Shakespeare derived his Italian idioms and some of the dialogue from John Florio's Second Fruits, a bilingual introduction to Italian language and culture published in 1591.

Upon returning to London, they published A Shrew in 1594, some time after which Shakespeare rewrote his original play.

In 1929, these essays ( along with a few others written for the occasion ) were collected under the title Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress and published by Shakespeare and Company.

Fleeing its provincial atmosphere, Fontane published articles in the Leipzig newspaper Die Eisenbahn and translated Shakespeare.

Gray, Did Shakespeare write a tragedy of Dido ?, 1920.

James Joyce photographed with Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier at Shakespeare and Company ( bookstore ) | Shakespeare and Company in Paris in 1920.

* Macbeth ( 1920 ); music for the Shakespeare play

He produced Shakespeare's As You Like It for the opening night of the Shakespeare Festival at Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1919, and brought it back to the Lyric in April 1920.

11 ( Incidental music to the play by Shakespeare ( Composed 1918 – 1919, first performed 1920 )

Author James Joyce talking with his publishers Sylvia Beach and Monnier at Shakespeare and Company ( bookshop ) | Shakespeare & Co., Paris, 1920

* The Normality of Shakespeare Illustrated in his Treatment of Love and Marriage ( 1920 ) pamphlet

W. J. Johnson has compared the importance of the Mahabharata to world civilization to that of the Bible, the works of Shakespeare, the works of Homer, Greek drama, or the Qur ' an.

In the opinion of J. Thomas Looney, as " far as forms of versification are concerned De Vere presents just that rich variety which is so noticeable in Shakespeare ; and almost all the forms he employs we find reproduced in the Shakespeare work.

* Hunter, G. K. " Sources and Meanings in Titus Andronicus ", in J. C. Gray ( editor ) The Mirror up to Shakespeare Essays in Honour of G. R.

In his 1982 edition of the play for the Oxford Shakespeare, H. J.

After little further discussion of the issue in the 1970s, the 1980s saw the publication of three scholarly editions of The Shrew, all of which re-addressed the question in light of the by now general acceptance of Alexander's theory ; Brian Morris ' 1981 edition for the Arden Shakespeare, H. J.

Notable later 20th century productions include the Hilton Edwards ' 1959 production at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, starring Milo O ' Shea and Anna Manahan ; John Barton's 1960 Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Peter O ' Toole and Peggy Ashcroft, and which included both the complete Induction and the epilogue from A Shrew ; Maurice Daniels's 1961 RSC production at the Aldwych Theatre, starring Derek Godfrey and Vanessa Redgrave ; Trevor Nunn's 1969 RSC production also at the Aldwych, starring Michael Williams and Janet Suzman ; Clifford Williams ' 1973 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Alan Bates and Susan Fleetwood ; William Ball's 1976 commedia dell ' arte-style production at the American Conservatory Theater ; Wilford Leach's 1978 production at the Delacorte Theater, starring Raúl Juliá and Meryl Streep ; Barry Kyle's 1982 RSC production at the Barbican Centre, starring Alun Armstrong and Sinéad Cusack ; Toby Robertson's 1986 production at the Clwyd Theatr Cymru, starring Timothy Dalton and Vanessa Redgrave ; Jonathan Miller's 1987 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Brian Cox and Fiona Shaw ; A. J.

* DeRose, David J. and Kolin, Phillip C. " Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography and Commentary ", TDR, 37: 2 ( Summer, 1993 ), 178 – 181

Arden Shakespeare editor J. H. P.

After the film's release, certain publications, including Private Eye, noted strong similarities between the film and the 1941 novel No Bed for Bacon, by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon, which also features Shakespeare falling in love and finding inspiration for his later plays.

In historiography, what is now called speculative fiction has previously been termed " historical invention ", " historical fiction ", and similar names and is extensively noted in literary criticism of the works of William Shakespeare as when he co-locates Athenian Duke Theseus and Amazonian Queen Hippolyta, English fairy Puck, and Roman god Cupid across time and space in the Fairyland of its Merovingian Germanic sovereign Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream ; in mythography it has been termed " mythopoesis " or mythopoeia, " fictional speculation ", the creative design and generation of lore, regarding such works as J. R. R.

Lanchester and Laughton appeared in the Old Vic season of 1933 – 1934, playing Shakespeare, Chekov and Wilde, and in 1936 she was Peter Pan to Laughton's Captain Hook in J. M. Barrie's play at the London Palladium.

* William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe — Robert A. J.

": Queen Margaret Thatcherized in Recent Productions of 3 Henry VI ", in Edward J. Esche ( editor ), Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Performance ( London: Ashgate, 2000 )

He got along well with the one Leale sister, who shared his love of literature ( notably Shakespeare — his tutor at UCL was the Shakespeare scholar W. J. Craig — and Milton ) and spoke fluent French, much to his admiration.

* J. D. Martinez, The Swords of Shakespeare: An Illustrated Guide to Stage Combat Choreography in the Plays of Shakespeare, McFarland & Company ( 1996 ), ISBN 0-89950-959-2.

For example, one can buy box sets of the plays of Shakespeare, collection of J. R. R.

Kinsella was not exposed to literature in school, claiming in a 2010 interview, " One Shakespeare play and one J. M. Barrie play was the total literature of my high school years.

" As such, the play is considered to be one of the first Shakespeare composed upon arriving in London ( Roger Warren, following E. A. J.