Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Christopher Marlowe

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'At the front of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16, in use during 1798, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied Marlowe's Edward II V.v.55-...Dorothy Wordsworth Christopher MarloweEdward IIPrint: Book
1850-1899" But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permanen...Edmund Gosse Christopher MarloweHero and LeanderPrint: Book
1850-1899" When I reached home, tired out with enthusiasm and exercise, I must needs, so soon as I had eaten, search out my ste...Edmund Gosse Christopher MarloweHero and LeanderPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted val...Edwin Muir Christopher MarlowePrint: Book
1850-1899'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e...Allen Clarke Christopher Marlowe[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Reading "The Jew of Malta", which in spite of critics is the most interesting of the plays I've read.'Hilary Spalding Christopher MarloweJew of Malta, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe...William Henry Davies Christopher MarlowePrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of...Fanny Kemble Christopher MarloweDoctor FaustusPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape...Hilary Spalding Christopher MarloweDr FaustusPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape...Hilary Spalding Christopher MarloweTambourlainePrint: Book
1900-1945'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nas...Lawrence Durrell Christopher Marlowe[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old auth...Robert Louis Stevenson Christopher MarloweunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901: 'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impre...Virginia Stephen Christopher MarloweDoctor FaustusPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901: 'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impre...Virginia Stephen Christopher MarloweEdward IIPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tomorrow I go on to Ben Jonson, but I shan't like him as much as Marlow. I read Dr Faustus...'Virginia Stephen Christopher MarloweDr FaustusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tomorrow I go on to Ben Jonson, but I shan't like him as much as Marlow. I read Dr Faustus, and Edward II...'Virginia Stephen Christopher MarloweEdward IIPrint: Book
1900-1945'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik...Dylan Thomas Christopher MarlowePrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se...Oscar Wilde Christopher MarloweComplete WorksPrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was occupied by the reading of Dr Faustus. The various parts were read by the members - ...Members of XII Book Club including Charles Evans and Reginald RobsonChristopher MarloweDr FaustusPrint: Book
1900-1945The Club was then much impressed by a reading from Christopher Marlows Doctor Faustus parted as under Thos. C Elliot...Live dramatic reading featuring T. C. Elliott, R. H. Robson, and A. Rawling of XII Book ClubChristopher MarloweDoctor FaustusUnknown
1900-1945The Club was then much impressed by a reading from Christopher Marlows Doctor Faustus parted as under Thos. C Elliot...Reginald H. Robson Christopher MarloweDoctor FaustusUnknown

 

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