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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareHenry IV, Part IIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Christmas day. Miserably wet... Taming of the Shrew'.George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareThe Taming of the ShrewPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style for reading aloud'George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'G. read some of "Twelfth Night", but his head got bad and he was obliged to leave off'George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareTwelfth NightPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often ...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareHamletPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Goethe's Maxims in the Wanderjahre. Then we compared several scenes of Hamlet in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often admi...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareHamlet, translated into German by SchlegelPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth Night'.George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareTwelfth NightPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'.George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Not well. G began Midsummer Night's Dream. I went to bed early.'George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareA Winter's TalePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'we went to hear the reading of Gruppe's Ferdusi. But the reading was bad and the room insufferably hot. So we came away and read Shakspeare (sic) at home'.George Eliot and G.H. LewesWilliam ShakespeareunknownPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'G. read Richard III'. George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareRichard IIIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening Dessoir came and read Hamlet'.[M.] Dessoir William ShakespeareHamletPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'read... Shakspeare's (sic) Venus and Adonis'.George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareVenus and AdonisPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the final scene where Valentine on Proteus' mere begging ...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareTwo Gentlemen of VeronaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the final scene where Valentine on Proteus' mere begging ...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Shakspeare's (sic) Sonnets and part of "Tempest"'George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read "Romeo and Juliet"'George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown


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