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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Samuel Westcott Tilke

 

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William Shakespeare : 

'Though one former ploughboy extolled Shakespeare for possessing a deep sense of the pure morality of the Gospel" and quoted from him on most of the 440 pages of his autobiography, he was anxious to insist that "Shakespeare can be far more appreciated and better understood in the closet than in a public theater".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Westcott Tilke      Print: Book

 

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