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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'Saturday August 27th. Reach Lucerne about half after twelve -- Go to the Cheval. Read King Richard III. & King Lear. Quite Horrified -- [I] can't describe my feeling...Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareRichard IIIPrint: Book
1800-1849From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin: 'Wednesday August 31st. [...] Shelley ...Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Nov. 6th. Rise at nine [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff & King Richard III [...] Dine at four.' Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareRichard IIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Nov. 7th. Rise at nine -- Work. Read Political Justice -- Mary [Wollstonecraft Godwin] dines at one & goes to Shelley. Read King Richard the Third -- Dine by ...Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareRichard IIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday April 18. [...] Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday April 18. [...] Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Jany. 20th. [...] Work all day. S. reads Henry 4th to us.'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHenry IVPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Richard III in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareRichard IIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareRichard IIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Theocritus - & Henry VIII aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHenry VIIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Theocritus and Virgil's Georgics - after tea he reads aloud and finishes the play of Henry VIII'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHenry VIIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 12 Canto of Tasso & two acts of Troilus and Cressida'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareTroilus and CressidaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Troilus and Cressida - read 3 books of Pope's Homer'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareTroilus and CressidaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: 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'finish the trajedies of Alfieri - Walk out with S. He reads Malthus & Cymbeline aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareTempest, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareTwo Gentlemen of VeronaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Vita di Alfieri & Livy - S. reads Winter's tale aloud to me'.Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareWinter's TalePrint: Book


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