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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1900-1945	'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her grea...	Mary Augusta Ward	Euripides		Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics]'Euripides qto edition - Aeschylus - Sophocles'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Euripides	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Alcestes'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Euripides	Alcestes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read trans. of Lucian - S reads Euripides'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Euripides	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads the Hippolitus of Euripides'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Euripides	Hippolitus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads the alcestis [sic] of Euripides.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Euripides	Alceste	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Georgics and Dante - S. read Euripides'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Euripides	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Medea Euripedes [sic]'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Euripides	Medea	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Romeo & Juliet - S. reads the Hipolitus [sic] of Euripides'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Euripides	Hippolitus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary's list of Percy Shelley's reading in 1819 - database entries are based on references in the journal]. s Euripides Lucretius Homer's Illiad and Odyssey' [...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Euripides		Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Today I finished Longinus's treatise, & Euripedes's Rhesus. I read them [italics]regularly[end italics] thr...	Elizabeth Barrett	Euripides	Rhesus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'finish Caleb Williams. S. reads Euripides'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Euripides	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'	Mary Shelley	Euripides	Ion	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I do not know how many Greek plays you intend publishing, but I have been working at Euripides a good deal lately and should of all things wish to edit either the Mad He...	Oscar Wilde	Euripides	Hercules Furens	Print: BookUnknown
	1850-1899	'I do not know how many Greek plays you intend publishing, but I have been working at Euripides a good deal lately and should of all things wish to edit either the Mad He...	Oscar Wilde	Euripides	Phoenissae	Print: BookUnknown
	1900-1945	'Baccae [sic] is far and away the best play of Euripides I have read.'	Virginia Woolf	Euripides	The Bacchae	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least planned, a methodical course of study, according to com...	Samuel Johnson	Euripides	[Tragedies]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On Wednesday, June 19, Dr. Johnson and I returned to London; he was not well to-day, and said very little, employing himself chiefly in reading Euripides'.	Samuel Johnson	Euripides		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses of Euripides - he has translated them seriously bes...	Samuel Johnson	Euripides		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Wilde's copy of "The Bacchae of Euripides" edited by one of his Trinity tutors, R.Y. Tyrrell, has also survived. On the title-page of the famous play... Wilde wrote "Osc...	Oscar Wilde	Euripides	The Bacchae	Print: Book

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