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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
 
1900-1945'I have read the whole of Shakespeare several times and the character with whom I have most sympathy is poor Hamlet, the introvert, the dreamer!'Stuart Wood [pseud?] William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Drew my chair to the door, sat down in the sun, and spent an hour or two in reading the "Merry Wives of Windsor". Thank God for Shakespeare at any rate. Baron Lefroy can...John Mitchel William ShakespeareMerry Wives of WindsorPrint: Book
1800-1849'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dialogues of Plato, with the critical diligence of a jun...John Mitchel William Shakespeare[various titles]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read "Antony and Cleopatra".'John Mitchel William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sat alone all the evening and read two Shakespeare's plays, "Measure for Measure" and "Henry the 6th".'Thomas Fremantle William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Sat alone all the evening and read two Shakespeare's plays, "Measure for Measure" and "Henry the 6th".'Thomas Fremantle William ShakespeareHenry VIPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Have you read Shakespear? If you have not, then I desire you, read it directly, and tell me what you think of him -which is his masterpiece. He is always excellent'Thomas Carlyle William Shakespeare[Works]Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		Quotes Shakespeare throughout work:V.1 p.55,p.62,p.86, p.105,p.126; V.2 p.55,p.89,p.199; V.3 p.176 eg. V.1. p.105 Letter XIII to Miss Reid, Fort William May 24 1773 '?He...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William ShakespearevariousPrint: Book
1800-1849'read a scene or two out of "As You Like It" - go upstairs to talk with Shelley - Read Ovid (54 lines only) Shelley finishes the 3d canto of Ariosto'.Mary Godwin William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1850-1899'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old authors.'Robert Louis Stevenson William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Chap. of Gibbon'Percy Bysshe Shelley William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Up and to Deptford by water, reading "Othello, Moore of Venice", which I ever heretofore esteemed a mighty good play; but having so lately read "The Adventures of five h...Samuel Pepys William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the evening S. finishes reading MacBeth'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareMacBethPrint: 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 William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: 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 William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Berkeley and part of "Much ado about nothing["] aloud; read XI XII XIII Essays of Hume.'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareMuch Ado about NothingPrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Hamlet'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 42nd Canto - Livy - Anacharsis. Horace - and Shakespears Coriolanus - S. translates the Symposium & reads Philaster'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away [from dirty hotel at village of Mort] & climbed some wild rocks -- & sat the...Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday August 27th. Reach Lucerne about half after twelve [p.m.] -- Go to the Cheval. Read King Richard III. & King Lear. Quite Horrified -- [I] can't describe my ...Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book


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