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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
 
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William ShakespeareDramatic WorksPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William ShakespeareDramatic WorksPrint: Book
1800-1849'I do not care for a First Folio ofShakespeare. I rather prefer the common editions of Rowe and Tonson, without notes, and with plates, which, being so execrably bad, ser...Charles Lamb William ShakespeareThe Works of Mr William Shakespeare; in six volume...Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening played Bezique with Polly & read Shakespeare with Harry.'John Buckley and Harry CastieauWilliam Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read in Shakspear "The Midsummer Nights Dream" for the first time - I have still got 3 parts out of 4 plays to read yet and hope I shall not leave the world without read...John Clare William ShakespeareMidsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Shakspears "Henry The Fifth" of which I have always been very fond from almost a boy I first met with it in an odd vol which I got for 6d [...] I can never lay it d...John Clare William ShakespeareHenry The FifthPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "Macbeth" what a soul thrilling power hovers about this tragedy I have read it over about twenty times'John Clare William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1800-1849'read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of knoxes essays'John Clare William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Accordingly, it was announced that the reading of Shakespeare would be one of our lessons, and on the following afternoon we began "The Merchant of Venice". There was on...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareMerchant of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, "The Tempest", in a school edition, pr...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, "The Tempest", in a school edition, pr...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, "The Tempest", in a school edition, pr...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1850-1899'When I came home I found Charley Gee engaged with our youngsters singing comic songs & making himself otherwise entertaining, the children enjoyed his company very much ...John Buckley and Harry CastieauWilliam Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I went at once to the bookseller's which sold "The Penn...Edwin Muir William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1900-1945'When, a year or two later, we read "Julius Caesar" at school, I recognised the scene immediately... I did not find it very funny, but I recognised its authenticity. Shak...Norman Nicholson William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: 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'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of heightened imagination; -seeing it not only through s...Thomas A. Jackson William Shakespeare[unknown]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
1850-1899'Finished the "Epicurean" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of "Julius Caesar" by Shakespeare as I had all night, I was able t...Albert Battiscombe William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1850-1899"Been reading Shakespeare's plays. viz "Measure for Measure" "Much Ado About Nothing" -'Albert Battiscombe William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: Book


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