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Olivia Shakespear (née Tucker; 17 March 1863 – 3 October 1938) was a British novelist, playwright, and patron of the arts. She wrote six books that are described as "marriage problem" novels. Her works sold poorly, sometimes only a few hundred copies.
Olivia is a fictional character from William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, believed to have been written around 1600 or 1601. She is at the centre of the various plots, both the comedic and the romantic.
2 de ago. de 2021 · Colorín, colorado, de cuento a cuento y de principio a fin, la lucha por alcanzar la belleza no ha terminado. Reseña de "La hora de la belleza", de Olivia Shakespear, una historia gótica que en 1896 criticaba cómo la sociedad entendía la belleza.
Abstract. Olivia Shakespear was born on 17 March 1863, at Southlands, Chale, on the Isle of Wight. Her father, Major-General Henry Tod Tucker, C.B. (1808–1896), was commissioned into the Bengal Infantry in 1824 and served on Headquarters staff in both Sikh Wars.
The character of Olivia in Shakespeare’s classic comedy Twelfth Night; or, What You Will is one of his more complex comic heroines, because of the inner conflict raging within the character after she falls in love with what she thinks is a young servant named Cesario (but is in fact a young woman named Viola….
A beautiful noblewoman in Illyria. At the beginning of the play, she has rejected both Orsino and her ridiculous suitor, Sir Andrew Aguecheek. In mourning for her recently deceased brother, she has vowed not to receive any man, or to go outside, for seven years.
In 1896, as Yeats turned thirty-one, and a bit more than mid‐way between his first proposal to Maud Gonne in 1891 and their ‘spiritual marriage’ of 1898, Olivia Shakespear introduced him to the real experience of what fascinated him so much as metaphor: the sexual union of man and woman.
