Record Number: 9479
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Extracted by G. C. Moore Smith from J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, "Memoranda on the Tragedy of Hamlet"(1879): 'There was once in existence a copy of Speght's edition of Chaucer, 1598, with manuscript notes by Gabriel Harvey, one of those notes being in the following terms: -- "The younger sort take much delight in Shakespear's Venus and Adonis, but his Lucrece and his tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark have it in them to please the wiser sort."'
Century:1500-1599, 1600-1699
Date:unknown
Country:England
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Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1545
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Works
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsEd. Speght, 1598
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:9479
Source:Gabriel Harvey
Editor:G. C. Moore Smith
Title:Gabriel Harvey's Marginalia
Place of Publication:Stratford-Upon-Avon
Date of Publication:1913
Vol:n/a
Page:viii
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Gabriel Harvey, G. C. Moore Smith (ed.), Gabriel Harvey's Marginalia, (Stratford-Upon-Avon, 1913), p. viii, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=9479, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
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