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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Catharine MacAulay's daughter shared her mother's republican views, and read Shakespeare for her own purposes, confessing that far from being delighted by King John, she...William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book, Unknown
1800-1849?Great was our delight, too, when chance opportunities came in the way of such of us as could read. An opportunity of this kind arrived when a firm of printers in London...William Edwin Adams William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book
1800-1849?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?...Thomas Carter William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book
1700-1799'During the first half year I was at this school Mr Gibson got Moliere's plays for me in 10 vols., French and English, which I afterwards used to construe with Mr Suine. ...John Marsh Jean-Baptiste Poquelin[plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read some of Miss Bailey's plays - Tahourdin calls in the evening Shelley reads Moores journal aloud'.Mary Godwin Joanna Baillie[plays]Print: Book
1900-1945'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's "Old Mor...Norman Nicholson William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book
1600-1699'So stayed within all day, reading of two or three good plays.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'M. reads Miss Bailey's plays'.Mary Godwin Joanna Baillie[Plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'In the afternoon read Miss Bailie's plays'Mary Godwin Joanna Baillie[Plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes the plays of Aeschylus - finishes the Hist. of Caubul - writes - reads three chap. of Gibbon aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Aeschylus[Plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'Mary Shelley Francis Beaumont[Plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the plays of Sophocles - & Antony & Cleopatra of Shakespear...Percy Bysshe Shelley Sophocles[Plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering'Mary Shelley Terence[Plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Montaigne and Terence'Mary Shelley Terence[plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Moliere's Plays'Mary Shelley Moliere [pseud.][Plays]Print: Book
1850-1899'Left Black's and fell in with Wm Lotherington and Perrot this was about eleven o clock they came home with me, and we drank Brandy and Water and read Falstaff till one o...John Buckley Castieau William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'This is the Journal book of misfortunes - Read Livy - A great many of the plays of Alfieri - S writes - he reads Oedipus Tyrannos to me'Mary Shelley Vittorio Alfieri[Plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Beaumonts & Fletchers plays - and the Revolt of Islam aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Francis Beaumont[Plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise Lost aloud'Mary Shelley Francis Beaumont[Plays]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown


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