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

	1850-1899	'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.	George Eliot [pseud.]	Sophocles	Antigone	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics]'Euripides qto edition - Aeschylus - Sophocles'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Sophocles	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Shelley] begins reading aloud Cynthia's revels - writes - and read the Oedipus of Sophocles'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Sophocles	Oedipus Rex	Print: 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	Sophocles	[Plays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads the Philoctetes of Sophocles - Read 2nd and 3rd act of Phormio & Mile et une nuits'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Sophocles	Philoctetes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Sophocles	Electra	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Sophocles	Ajax	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read 9th Canto of Ariosto - Finish Phormio - S reads Ajax'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Sophocles	Ajax	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'This is the Journal book of misfortunes - Read Livy - A great many of the plays of Alfieri - S writes - he reads Oedipus Tyrannos to me'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Sophocles	Oedipus Tyrannos	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Sophocles	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - he reads the Hercules of Sophocles aloud to me'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Sophocles	Hercules	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Oedipus Tyrannus'	Mary Shelley	Sophocles	Oedipus Tyrannus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish Oedipus Tyrannus'	Mary Shelley	Sophocles	Oedipus Tyrannus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'finish the Antigone'	Mary Shelley	Sophocles	Antigone	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Philoctetes'	Mary Shelley	Sophocles	Philoctetes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Percy is reading the [underline] Antigone [end underlining]' [letter to Maria Gisborne]	Percy Shelley	Sophocles	Antigone	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 16 March 1844: 'I return Mr Burges's criticism [...] which interested me much in the reading. Do let him understand how obliged to hi...	Elizabeth Barrett	Sophocles	'recognised fragments of Sophocles'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Except Shakespeare, who grew from childhood as part of myself, nearly every classic has come with this same shock of almost intolerable enthusiasm: Virgil, Sophocle...	Freya Stark	Sophocles	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read part of Oedipus Coloneus [title underlined].'	Alfred Tennyson	Sophocles (?)	Oedipus Coloneus [sic]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Do you know Soulary and Sully-Prudhomme? Such birds, both of them: Soulary a really consummate artist, More akin to Rosetti than anyone else in English: Sully-Prudhomme ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Soulary	unknown	Print: Unknown

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