Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

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1800-1849'read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see ...John Clare William ShakespeareThe SonnetsPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'Double Falshood' a play of Shakespear's never acted till this winter. I think it a poor one for his. Bed 12.Gertrude Savile William ShakespeareDouble Falsehood; Or, the Distrest Lovers... writtPrint: Book
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[Marginalia by Macaulay on the first page of his copy of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'An admirable opening scen...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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[Marginalia by Macaulay by the passage about the biting of the thumbs in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'This is n...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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[Marginalia by Macaulay by the scene in the street beginning with Mercutio's lines: 'Where the devil should this Romeo...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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[Marginalia by Macaulay by the commencement of the third act in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Mercutio, here, is...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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[Marginalia by Macaulay by the the lines 'Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, / Shall bitterly begin his fearf...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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[Marginalia by Macaulay at the close of the Third Act of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Very fine is the way in w...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia]: 'When [...] the poor child commits her life to the hands of Friar Law...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1850-1899'There is a pencil note in his copy of "Paradise Lost": "Had to write 500 lines of this for being caught reading "King...Tom Thomas William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1850-1899'We spent a whole term on the first two scenes of "The Tempest".'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William ShakespearePlays [various]Print: Book
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[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William ShakespearePlaysPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia, by the lines 'Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar/ All our whole city is much bound to him...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia by the speech about Queen Mab in Romeo and Juliet: "This speech, - full of matter, of thought, o...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia by the lines 'Hath Romeo slain himself' to 'Of those eyes shut, that make thee answer "I"' : "If...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1800-1849Macaulay's marginalia by the point where Balthazar brings the evil tidings to Mantua in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in the scene in the vault of death in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "The desperate calmness of...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the opening dialogue: "beyond praise".Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'that season comes/ Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrate...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, "The long story about Fortinbras, and all that follows from it, seems to ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, in the scene of the royal audience in the room of state: "The silence of ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the scene with the strolling player's declamation about Pyrrhus: "the ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, at the opening of Act 1, Scene 4: "Nothing can be finer than this specime...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'Dost thou hear?/ Since my dear soul was mistress of her cho...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the conversation between Hamlet and the courtier, in Act 5: "This is a...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia. By an editorial note by Dr Johnson, to the lines, 'Who would fardels bear, / To groan and swea...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia. By the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet: "It is a noble emendation. Had Warburton often ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia by the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet in the scene where Hamlet declines to kill his uncl...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 1, Scene 3: "Here begins the finest of all human performances."Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 2, Scene 2, opposite Cornwall's description of the fellow who h...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the lines 'Now i pr'ythee, daughter, do not make me mad!/ I will no...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the apostrophe commencing, 'O, let not women's weapons, water-drops...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by opening of the play: "Idolising Shakspeare [sic] as I do, I cannot ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the quarrel between Kent and Cornwall's steward: "It is rather a fa...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 3, Scene 4: "The softening of Lear's nature and manners, under ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in response to a note by Dr Johnson at the end of King Lear. Johnson protested against the unpl...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra. A response to an editorial note by Steevens. "Solemn nons...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Henry V, by the Prologue. Macaulay responds to an editorial note by Dr Johnson, ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHenry VPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Warburton's editorial note to the lines 'Now the hu...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'the rattling tongue / Of saucy and audac...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'Be, as thou wast wont to be' to 'Hath su...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, on the last page: "A glorious play. The love-scenes F...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aesc...Elizabeth Barrett William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded som...Molly Vivian William ShakespearePrint: Book
1800-1849'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a ci...Christopher Thomson William ShakespearePrint: Book
1800-1849'Circuit preacher Joseph Barker found that theology simply could not compete with Shakespeare: "What pleased me most ...Joseph Barker William ShakespearePrint: Book
1800-1849'Though one former ploughboy extolled Shakespeare for possessing a deep sense of the pure morality of the Gospel" and ...Samuel Westcott Tilke William ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen...Thomas Jones William ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from...Richard Pyke William ShakespearePrint: Book
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'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, ...Samuel Bamford William ShakespearePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ...Mary Smith William ShakespearePrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia by the conversation in the street between Brutus and Cassius, in the First Act of Julius Caesar...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Julius Caesar] "The last scenes are huddled up, and affect me less than Plutarch'...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia by the lines "Let me have men about me that are fat/ Sleek headed men, and such as sleep o' nig...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
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Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple): "I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford the...anon William ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw...Philip Inman William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owne...Percy Wall William ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't ...Jack Lawson William ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945[Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a mea...Alice Foley William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth...Chaim Lewis William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra, by an editorial note by Steevens, which reminds the reader...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the composition of the Senate] "Abs...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the history of the Roman Consular G...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the creation of the first Censor, w...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, on the last page]: "A noble play. As usual, Shakspeare [sic] had th...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
1850-1899'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...Chester Armstrong William ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899[According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ...Flora Thompson William ShakespearePrint: Book
1800-1849'During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in '...John Cole William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1850-1899'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile...John Robert Clynes William ShakespeareTwelfth NightPrint: Book
1850-1899'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile...John Robert Clynes William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile...John Robert Clynes William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1850-1899'Later in the month (30 November), Grace writes that she is "reading Henry V to M. and R. [Margaret and Rose] in the e...Grace Macaulay William ShakespeareHenry VPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay William ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog...Joseph Malaby Dent William ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clar...Ethel Clark William ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free ex...H.M. Tomlinson William ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working ...Lennox Kerr William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Worked hard, and read Midsummer Night's Dream, [and] Ballads ...'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 19 May 1800: 'Read Timon of Athens.'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareTimon of AthensPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 25 May 1800: 'Read Macbeth in the morning ...'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 29 May 1800: 'In the morning worked in the garden a little, read King ...Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareKing JohnPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 3 June 1800: 'I worked in the garden before dinner. Read R[ichar]d Sec...Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareRichard the SecondPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 5 May 1802, 'I read The Lover's Complaint to Wm. in bed, and left him...Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareA Lover's ComplaintPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 8 May 1802, 'We sowed the Scarlet Beans in the orchard, and read Henry...William and Dorothy WordsworthWilliam ShakespeareHenry VPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 15 May 1802, 'It is now 1/2 past 10 ... A very cold and chearless morn...Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 22 June 1802, 'I read the Midsummer Night's Dream, and began As You Lik...Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 22 June 1802, 'I read the Midsummer Night's Dream, and began As You Lik...Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 23 June 1802, 'It is now 20 minutes past 10 -- a sunshiny morning. I...Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 1 July 1802, 'In the evening ... we had a nice walk, and afterwards sa...Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 8 July 1802, 'In the afternoon ... I read the Winter's Tale ...'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareA Winter's TalePrint: Book
1850-1899Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in ear...Philip Gibbs William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso...Christiana Thompson William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso...Alfred Baker Strettell William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...questionaire respondent Wiliam ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...questionaire respondent William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...questionaire respondent William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...questionaire respondent William ShakespeareMuch Ado about NothingPrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...questionaire respondent William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1900-1945I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespe...Victor Sawdon Pritchett William ShakespeareShakespeare's Complete WorksPrint: Book
1850-1899'Seventeen-year-old Ruth Bourne recorded disparaging remarks in her diary about the feeble renderings of Julius Caesar...Shakespeare Reading Circle (local)William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1850-1899'Seventeen-year-old Ruth Bourne recorded disparaging remarks in her diary about the feeble renderings of Julius Caesar...Shakespeare Reading Circle (local)William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1900-1945Ex-Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey in the Falloden Papers, on how he spent his time after being deposed from the Cab...Sir Edward Grey William ShakespeareplaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu...Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm so thin and hard and metallic that I think sometimes I'm going to turn into the pin that Death ...John Ruskin William ShakespeareRichard IIPrint: Book
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?I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they go...Leslie Stephen William ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'Then I woke up, switched on the light, & began to read Venus & Adonis. It's pretty stuff - rather like the Death of ...Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareVenus and AdonisPrint: Book
1850-1899'[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta...Robert Louis Stevenson William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities....Mark Grossek William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: Book
1850-1899"It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1850-1899" It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of ...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareMuch Ado about NothingPrint: Book
1850-1899" But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions. Shakespeare now passed into my possession ent...Edmund Gosse William ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899'Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one ...Leslie Stephen William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899 "If it was not enough to have all the Catholic theology suddenly discharged upon one, I have suddenly taken a fancy t...Leslie Stephen William ShakespeareHenry VIIIPrint: Book
1900-1945'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit...Ralph Finn William ShakespearePrint: Book
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'... [Dorothea Beale] learnt to love Shakespeare through her father reading it aloud ...'William ShakespearePrint: Book
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'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the ...Lucy Lyttelton William ShakespearePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian N...Thomas Paley William ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ...Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick William ShakespearePrint: Book
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"Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, ...Marie Stopes William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
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"Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, ...Marie Stopes William ShakespeareVenus and AdonisPrint: Book
1900-1945"Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence wrote of having read Shakespeare's history plays whilst in prison [as suffragette] ..."Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence William ShakespeareHistory playsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led...Robert Smillie William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1850-1899'"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London h...Frederick Willis William ShakespearePrint: Book
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" ... [Sir John] Suckling, coming across what he called 'an imperfect Copy' of [Shakespeare's The Rape of] Lucrece, de...Sir John Suckling William ShakespeareThe Rape of LucreceUnknown
1900-1945'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmot...R.L. Wild William ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell William ShakespearePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been with a nice little party of college friends, to see King John, and for a week after, I could do nothing b...Sarah Harriet Burney William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book
1900-1945Rupert Brooke to Jacques Raverat, April 1909: "'I have done no 'work' for ages: and my tripos is in a few weeks ... T...Rupert Brooke William ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945 'I have been working with Shakespeare (a very good book) with an occasional dip into Aiken, and my B flats and Bs rea...Peter Pears ShakespeareArt of Singing, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849"[in November 1803, when Coleridge was thirty-one] Wordsworth had been reading Shakespeare's sonnets in Coleridge's co...William Wordsworth William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: 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 William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
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'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a...Alfred Edgar Coppard William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1700-1799'Catharine MacAulay's daughter shared her mother's republican views, and read Shakespeare for her own purposes, confes...William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book, Unknown
1700-1799'she read much Shakespeare.'Laetitia Pilkington William ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodid...Bernard Kops William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: Book
1900-1945'There were some problems which I never solved in all my youth. For instance, there was Gloucester's Natural Son in Ki...Gwen Raverat William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1700-1799'After supper read the "Tragedy of Macbeth", which I like very well.'Thomas Turner William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read "The Merry Wives of Windsor" wherein I think the genius of the author shows itself in a very conspicuous manner ...Thomas Turner William ShakespeareThe Merry Wives of WindsorPrint: Book
1850-1899'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliq...George Darwin William Shakespeare[Histories]Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 8 January 1873, on meeting with Mrs Kemble on previous evening: "She is very magnificent...Frances Anne Kemble William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamUnknown
1700-1799'In the evening wrote my London letters and read Shakespeare's "As you Like It" and "Taming a Shrew", both of which I ...Thomas Turner William ShakespeareAs you like itPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the evening wrote my London letters and read Shakespeare's "As you Like It" and "Taming a Shrew", both of which I ...Thomas Turner William ShakespeareThe taming of the shrewPrint: Book
1700-1799'After the fatigue of the day was over, I read part of Shakespeare's "Works".'Thomas Turner William ShakespeareWorksPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read part of Shakespeare's "Works", which I think extreme good in their kind.'Thomas Turner William ShakespeareWorksPrint: Book
1900-1945'1943 My Favourite: Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood". Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole Poems: ...Hilary Spalding William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I have nothing to say in favour or disfavour of the Shakespeare illustrated. Some pieces are not calculated for more ...Samuel Richardson William Shakespeare[illustrated, edited version]Print: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareHenry the FifthPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T...Hilary Spalding William ShakespearePericlesPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareKing JohnPrint: Book
1850-1899?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp...Thomas Burt William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: Book
1850-1899?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp...Thomas Burt William ShakespeareMeasure for measurePrint: Book
1850-1899?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp...Thomas Burt William ShakespeareLove's Labour's LostPrint: Book
1850-1899?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp...Thomas Burt William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1850-1899?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp...Thomas Burt William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1850-1899?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp...Thomas Burt William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1900-1945[Sunday, on a bike picnic] 'It began to pour down just as B [unidentified] and I reached a barn... so we stayed there ...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I revised "Pericles" [for Elocution exam] and wrote notes on it. It's a horrid play, completely unlikely but quite f...Hilary Spalding William ShakespearePericlesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Wilhelm Meister aloud, and then G. read part of the Merchant of Venice'George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Ill all day and unable to go out. G. finished Romeo and Juliet'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'G. read Julius Caesar aloud, as far as Caesar's appearance in the senate house. Very much struck with the masculine s...George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Spent afternoon reading "Twelfth Night"... read more of "England their England" which is a scream.'Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareTwelfth NightPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he ...George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareHenry IVPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Had a really wizard lecture from [Prof.] Renwick on Milton, in which he read a good lot of Milton and Shakespeare to ...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took Iphigenia to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us th...William ShakespeareRichard IIIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took Iphigenia to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us th...George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareHenry IV, Part IIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Christmas day. Miserably wet... Taming of the Shrew'.George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareThe Taming of the ShrewPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style f...George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'G. read some of "Twelfth Night", but his head got bad and he was obliged to leave off'George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareTwelfth NightPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareHamletPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Goethe's Maxims in the Wanderjahre. Then we compared several scenes of Hamlet in Schlegel's translation with the...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareHamlet, translated into German by SchlegelPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth ...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareTwelfth NightPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'.George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Not well. G began Midsummer Night's Dream. I went to bed early.'George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareA Winter's TalePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'we went to hear the reading of Gruppe's Ferdusi. But the reading was bad and the room insufferably hot. So we came aw...George Eliot and G.H. LewesWilliam ShakespeareunknownPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'G. read Richard III'. George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareRichard IIIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening Dessoir came and read Hamlet'.[M.] Dessoir William ShakespeareHamletPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'read... Shakspeare's (sic) Venus and Adonis'.George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareVenus and AdonisPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I read Shakspeare's (sic) "Passionate Pilgrim" at breakfast and found a sonnet in which he expresses admiration of Sp...George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare (and others)The Passionate PilgrimPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the f...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareTwo Gentlemen of VeronaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the f...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Shakspeare's (sic) Sonnets and part of "Tempest"'George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read "Macbeth".'George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read "Romeo and Juliet"'George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'.George Eliot [pseud.] William ShakespeareHenry VPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'.George Eliot [pseud.] William ShakespeareHenry VIIIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI,...George Eliot [pseud.] William ShakespeareHenry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI,...George Eliot [pseud.] William ShakespeareRichard IIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849?Whilst in Mr W?s employ, I combined my poetic readings at all leisure moments. I procured and read speedily a complet...Samuel Bamford William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1800-1849?Great was our delight, too, when chance opportunities came in the way of such of us as could read. An opportunity of...William Edwin Adams William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book
1850-1899'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ...William Henry Davies William Shakespeare[extracts in school textbook]Print: 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 William Shakespeare[works not reproduced in schoolbooks]Print: Book
1800-1849?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, ...Thomas Carter William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book
1850-1899?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp...Thomas Burt William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: 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 William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: 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 William ShakespeareHamletPrint: 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 William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: 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 William ShakespeareMerchant of VenicePrint: 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 William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1800-1849'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ...Christopher Thomson William Shakespeare[various titles]Print: Book
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'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ...Christopher Thomson William ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899"As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolWilliam ShakespearePrint: Book
1800-1849 'Then we write a part of the romance and read some Shakespears [sic]'.Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespearePlays including Richard III and King LearPrint: Book
1800-1849'We read Shakespeare'.Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.'George Eliot [pseud.] William ShakespeareKing JohnPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'When I come here we play at battlecock and shuttledore and mama reads Shakespear in the evening[.] When she goes with...Henrietta Frances Ponsonby ShakespeareunknownUnknown
1800-1849'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's hus...Lady Caroline Lamb William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
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Henry Chorley, in Memorials of Mrs Hemans (1836): 'She [Felicia Hemans, nee Browne] was early a reader of Shakespeare;...Felicia Browne William ShakespeareplaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday, sitting in Thornie's room I read through all Shakespeare's sonnets'.George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical coll...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to Bertie Greathead, 2 August 1798, on having got to know Mrs Siddons the previous winter: 'She read "Hamle...Sarah Siddons William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ...Anna Seward William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849 'A Reverend Mr Darnell followed in this January of 1812. He too read Milton. This time it was Comus, and the whole p...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke, Rev. Darnell and other house guestsWilliam ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book
1800-1849 'A Reverend Mr Darnell followed in this January of 1812. He too read Milton. This time it was Comus, and the whole pa...William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book
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Mary Berry, Journal, 2 January 1822, during stay at Guy's Cliff: 'Mrs Siddons read "Othello," the two parts of Iago an...Sarah Siddons William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1800-1849'My beloved hour of the day was when the [table] cloth was drawn, and I stole away from the dessert, and read Shaksper...Harriet Martineau William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Robert Owen] told me [Harriet Martineau] that he knew the Bible so well as to have been heartily sick of it in his e...Harriet Martineau William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1700-1799'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l...Elizabeth Smith William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 16 December 1837: 'Read Midsummer Night's Dream in the evening. Surprised to find how com...Harriet Martineau William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849?for Hamlet & the trifling of his favour Hold it a fashion and a Toy in blood; A violet in the youth of primy nature...Lady Caroline Lamb William ShakespeareHamletUnknown
1900-1945'I did not move from my chair but reached for a book. Picked up a Shakespeare and read the closing scene, "Othello".' William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William ShakespeareWorksPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William ShakespeareStockdale's Edition of ShakespearePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William ShakespeareDramatic WorksPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William ShakespeareDramatic WorksPrint: Book
1800-1849'I do not care for a First Folio ofShakespeare. I rather prefer the common editions of Rowe and Tonson, without notes,...Charles Lamb William ShakespeareThe Works of Mr William Shakespeare; in six volumesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read in Shakspear "The Midsummer Nights Dream" for the first time - I have still got 3 parts out of 4 plays to read y...John Clare William ShakespeareMidsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Shakspears "Henry The Fifth" of which I have always been very fond from almost a boy I first met with it in an o...John Clare William ShakespeareHenry The FifthPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "Macbeth" what a soul thrilling power hovers about this tragedy I have read it over about twenty times'John Clare William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1800-1849'read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of knoxes essays'John Clare William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Accordingly, it was announced that the reading of Shakespeare would be one of our lessons, and on the following after...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareMerchant of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
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'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I w...Edwin Muir William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1900-1945'When, a year or two later, we read "Julius Caesar" at school, I recognised the scene immediately... I did not find it...Norman Nicholson William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1900-1945'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two...Norman Nicholson William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book
1850-1899'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h...Thomas A. Jackson William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ...Thomas A. Jackson William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished the "Epicurean" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of "Julius Cae...Albert Battiscombe William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1850-1899"Been reading Shakespeare's plays. viz "Measure for Measure" "Much Ado About Nothing" -'Albert Battiscombe William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: Book
1850-1899'Been reading Shakespeare's plays. viz "Measure for Measure" "Much Ado About Nothing" -'Albert Battiscombe William ShakespeareMuch Ado About NothingPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 18. No letters: strike still on. A fine day. But what is that to me? I am an invalid. I spend my life in bed....Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a...Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareAll's Well that Ends WellPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a...Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a...Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a...Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a...Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareTwelfth NightPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a...Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 3...I read "The Tempest". The papers came. I over-read them. Tell the truth. I did no work. In fact I was mor...Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 4...I have read a good deal of "Cosmic Anatomy" and understood it far better. Yes, such a book does fascinat...Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.'Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'February 5. Wrote at my story, read Shakespeare, Read Goethe, thought, prayed.'Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I was repelled at home, rather than encouraged to read, and I never remember to have seen a book in my elders' hands....Thomas Okey William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 14th March, Discussion Group ? ?Stunt? rehearsal. Also 1st rehearsal of ?Good Friday? which will draw half...Gerald Moore William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 5th April, I am cast for Amieus in ?As you like it?. I was looking over my script today. Not very much but...Gerald Moore William ShakespeareAs you Like itPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 10th July ?Henry IV? ? (Shakespeare ? bought it yesterday, Temple 2 vols)'. Gerald Moore William ShakespeareHenry IVPrint: Book
1800-1849'In 1835, [James] Edwards [Sewell, reader's brother] [...] had the curacy of Hursley. Mr. Gilbert Heathcote held the ...Elizabeth Sewell William ShakespeareworksPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read the whole of Shakespeare several times and the character with whom I have most sympathy is poor Hamlet, t...Stuart Wood [pseud?] William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Drew my chair to the door, sat down in the sun, and spent an hour or two in reading the "Merry Wives of Windsor". Tha...John Mitchel William ShakespeareMerry Wives of WindsorPrint: Book
1800-1849'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dial...John Mitchel William Shakespeare[various titles]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read "Antony and Cleopatra".'John Mitchel William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sat alone all the evening and read two Shakespeare's plays, "Measure for Measure" and "Henry the 6th".'Thomas Fremantle William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Sat alone all the evening and read two Shakespeare's plays, "Measure for Measure" and "Henry the 6th".'Thomas Fremantle William ShakespeareHenry VIPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Have you read Shakespear? If you have not, then I desire you, read it directly, and tell me what you think of him -wh...Thomas Carlyle William Shakespeare[Works]Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown
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Quotes Shakespeare throughout work:V.1 p.55,p.62,p.86, p.105,p.126; V.2 p.55,p.89,p.199; V.3 p.176 eg. V.1. p.105 Lett...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William ShakespearevariousPrint: Book
1800-1849'read a scene or two out of "As You Like It" - go upstairs to talk with Shelley - Read Ovid (54 lines only) Shelley fi...Mary Godwin William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate databas...Percy Bysshe Shelley William Shakespeare[Plays]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 William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Ch...Percy Bysshe Shelley William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Up and to Deptford by water, reading "Othello, Moore of Venice", which I ever heretofore esteemed a mighty good play;...Samuel Pepys William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the evening S. finishes reading MacBeth'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareMacBethPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the pla...Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the pla...Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Berkeley and part of "Much ado about nothing["] aloud; read XI XII XIII Essays of Hume.'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareMuch Ado about NothingPrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Hamlet'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 42nd Canto - Livy - Anacharsis. Horace - and Shakespears Coriolanus - S. translates the Symposium & reads Philas...Mary Shelley William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away [from dirty hotel at vil...Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday August 27th. Reach Lucerne about half after twelve [p.m.] -- Go to the Cheval. Read King Richard III. & K...Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday August 27th. Reach Lucerne about half after twelve -- Go to the Cheval. Read King Richard III. & King Lea...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 Wollstonecraf...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...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...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...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
1800-1849'Read Vita di Alfieri - half the 9th book of Virgil - S reads Winters tale aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareWinter's TalePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Vita di Tasso - Read Timon of Athens - work - S finishes the Winter's Tale'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareTimon of AthensPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Timon of Athens'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareTimon of AthensPrint: Book
1800-1849'Arrive at Venise at 2 o'clock - Read alls well that ends well'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareAll's Well That Ends WellPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Hamlet'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Romeo & Juliet - S. reads the Hipolitus of Euripides'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read King Lear'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Othello'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Julius Caesar'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read King John - & Livy'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareKing JohnPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - & the merry Wives of Windsor'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareMerry Wives of Windsor, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Metastasio - S. reads the Hist. P.[lay]s of Shakespeare'Percy Bysshe Shelley William Shakespeare[History Plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec 2nd. [...] Read Julius Caesar of Shakespeare.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareTitus AndronicusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareHenry IV part IPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareHenry IV part IIPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Jany. 17th. [...] Read King Lear.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday March 3rd. [...] Read Hamlet.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday March 10th. [...] Read Romeo and Juliet.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in Geor...Elizabeth Barrett William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: Book
1850-1899'Do you remember the knocking in Macbeth? ...The porter is a man I have a great respect for. He had a great command of...Mrs Stevenson William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1800-1849'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age th...Elizabeth Barrett William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: Book
1800-1849'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age th...Elizabeth Barrett William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1800-1849'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together with Shakespeare ...Elizabeth Barrett William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads the Tempest alout [sic] - & the Bible & Sophocles to himself'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareTempest, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the book of Proverbs. S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - Finishes the Tempest aloud to me.'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareTempest, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV al...Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHenry IV Part IPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV al...Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareKing JohnPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Henry IV aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHenry IVPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Henry V'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHenry VPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Henry VI aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHenry VIPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Utopia - Write - S reads Henry VI aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareHenry VIPrint: Book
1800-1849'Troilus & Cressid [sic] in the evening'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareTroilus and CressidaPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. begins King Lear in the evening.'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
Benjamin Robert Haydon, in his Autobiography, mentions 'Liz', 'An attractive girl on the second floor of a house ful...Liz William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the f...Elizabeth Missing Sewell William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been with a nice little party of College friends, to see King John, and for a week after, I could do nothing b...Sarah Harriet Burney William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: 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 William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918: 'I daresay you share my feeling that Asheham is the best p...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 10 December 1931: 'I read As you like it the other day and was almost sending yo...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1800-1849'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underli...Sarah Harriet Burney William Shakespeare[History plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them;...Sarah Harriet Burney William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book
1900-19452 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899 'As soon as I have done, I shall begin my ?Pastoral Drama? business; I have so many nice things to say about "Midsumm...Robert Louis Stevenson William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's Dream.Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her...Edith Sitwell William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1900-1945'I sat in my rickety camp chair which had been artfully and ingeniously repaired by [Sherpa] Wangdi to prevent it fall...Frank Smythe William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats th...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareHenry IV Part 1Print: Book
1900-1945Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron...Virginia Woolf William ShakespearePericlesPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareTitus AndronicusPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareTroilus and CressidaPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...Virginia Woolf William ShakespearePericlesPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareThe Taming of the ShrewPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] s...Sir Ronald Storrs William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareThe Ages of Man: Shakespeare's Image of Man and NaturePrint: Book
1700-1799'Several of the officers [participating in military review at Wilmingtown] came up to dine, amongst others Coll: Howe,...Janet Schaw William ShakespeareHenry IVPrint: Book
1700-1799'Several of the officers [participating in military review at Wilmingtown] came up to dine, amongst others Coll: Howe,...Robert Howe William ShakespeareHenry IVPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading Marlow, and I was so much more impressed by him than I thought I should be, that I read Cymbeline...Virginia Stephen William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1800-1849'I felt rather lonely this Morning at breakfast so I went and unbox'd a Shakspeare - "There's my Comfort". John Keats William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899In a long letter to Edward Garnett, in which Conrad outlines some aspects of his family history, he writes that his fa...Joseph Conrad William ShakespeareThe Two Gentlemen of Verona Manuscript: Codex, Sheet, One page of his father's translation into Polish.
1850-1899'I am to act Orsino (the Duke) in "Twelfth Night" at the Jenkins’. I could not resist that; it is such a delightful ...Robert Louis Stevenson William ShakespeareTwelfth Night, Or What You Will.Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in...Leonard Woolf William ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Desmond MacCarthy, 26 February 1905: 'The books you gave me were a godsend at once. I had to trave...Leonard Woolf William ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 24 June 1906: 'Here an enterprising female has started a Shakespeare Reading ...Shakespeare Reading SocietyWilliam ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1700-1799[Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her mem...Laetitia Pilkington William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1700-1799[Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her mem...Laetitia Pilkington William Shakespeare[Plays]Print: Book
1700-1799'Whoever reads the Part of the Fairies in the [italics] Midsummer Night's Dream [end italics] may easily perceive how ...Laetitia Pilkington William ShakespeareMidsummer Night's Dream, APrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man...Louisa, Lady Stuart William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899[Signature] R.L.H. Stevenson 'You don’t know what H. means, ha? I have been reading Nym; and that’s the humour of...Robert Louis Stevenson William ShakespeareHenry VPrint: Book
1900-1945'My real object in writing is to make a confession-which is to take back a whole cartload of goatisms which I used at ...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and...Elizabeth Hamilton William Shakespeare[History Plays]Print: Book
1900-1945Under heading 'Invocation of Poetry by Rhetoric': 'A mass of dead words is set spinning, then kindles. [italics]Or[...Edward Morgan Forster William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1700-1799'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those...Samuel Johnson William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h...Samuel Johnson William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A...Tennyson children (boys)William ShakespearePrint: Book
1800-1849'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother ...Alfred Tennyson William ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humouri...Alfred and Emily TennysonWilliam ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1700-1799'I observed the great defect of the tragedy of "Othello" was, that it had not a moral; for that no man could resist th...Samuel Johnson William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1700-1799'I observed the great defect of the tragedy of "Othello" was, that it had not a moral; for that no man could resist th...James Boswell William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1900-1945'He was certainly a keen student of literature, as can be seen from some 1907-8 exercise books which show him working ...Wilfred Owen William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book
1800-1849From William Allingham's 'Reminiscences' of Tennyson (1863-64): 'Oct. 4th [1863] I walked over alone to Farringford...Alfred Tennyson William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'June 22nd. Farringford. Every night A. has read Shakespeare, or Pascal, or Mo...Alfred Tennyson William ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'During our Oxford years the works to which she turned most frequently were Shakepeare's "Richard II", Raleigh's "Disc...Winifred Holtby William ShakespeareRichard IIPrint: Book
1700-1799'He [Johnson] was just nine Years old when having got the play of Hamlet to read in his Father's Kitchen, he read on v...Samuel Johnson William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's survey of his father's 'Criticisms on Poets and Poetry': 'After reading Pericles, Act v. alo...Alfred Tennyson William ShakespearePericles (Act V)Print: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days: 'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pai...Alfred Tennyson William ShakespeareKing Lear, Cymbeline, Troilus and CressidaPrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days: 'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pai...Hallam Tennyson William ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last day: 'At 2 o'clock [p.m., on Wednesday 5 October 1892] he again...Alfred Tennyson William ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last day: 'At 2 o'clock [p.m., on Wednesday 5 October 1892] he again...Alfred Tennyson William ShakespearePrint: Book
1700-1799'I was reading Congreve's Way of the World two Evenings ago, the character of Petulant is borrowed from Shakespear's N...Hester Lynch Thrale William ShakespeareHenry VPrint: Book
1700-1799'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen...Hester Lynch Thrale William ShakespeareTaming of the Shrew, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and SophiaWilliam ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading aloud meant group recitation, which Dylan hated. Chanting a poem in unison one afternoon, he put his hands ov...Dylan Thomas William ShakespeareRichard IIPrint: Book
1900-1945'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik...Dylan Thomas William ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [itali...Dylan Thomas William ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899'He read to-night Mark Antony's Oration very fairly indeed for a boy of his age'Harry Castieau William ShakespeareAnthony and CleopatraPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read a story in the evening to the youngsters & then heard Harry read for marks. We were engaged in a dialogue from...John Buckley and Harry CastieauWilliam ShakespeareMerchant of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening read for some time with Harry, he manages Shakespeare tolerably well for a boy of his age'John Buckley and Harry CastieauWilliam Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening played Bezique with Polly & read Shakespeare with Harry.'John Buckley and Harry CastieauWilliam Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1700-1799'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breat...James Hogg William ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899'When we were tired of singing we went into the house & did some Shakespearian Readings. Harry & I read the Grave-digg...Castieau familyWilliam ShakespeareTaming of the ShrewPrint: Book
1850-1899'When we were tired of singing we went into the house & did some Shakespearian Readings. Harry & I read the Grave-digg...Castieau familyWilliam ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mamma, Harry & myself read a scene or two from Shakspeare (sic). Harry was particularly delighted with the Witches Ch...Castieau familyWilliam ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mamma, Harry & myself read a scene or two from Shakspeare (sic). Harry was particularly delighted with the Witches Ch...Castieau familyWilliam ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1850-1899'Spent the evening reading with Harry & Sissy, both of these youngsters have some idea of dramatic reading & like very...Castieau familyWilliam Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'When I came home I found Charley Gee engaged with our youngsters singing comic songs & making himself otherwise enter...John Buckley and Harry CastieauWilliam Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, wit...Mary Ward William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1850-1899'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, wit...Mary Ward William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1850-1899'A part reading from the Midsummer Night Dream was then given, nearly all the members present taking part - after that...XII Book Club membersWilliam ShakespeareMidsummer Night's Dream, APrint: Book
1850-1899'A part reading from the Midsummer Night Dream was then given, nearly all the members present taking part - after that...Harold J. Morland William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1850-1899'A part reading from the Midsummer Night Dream was then given, nearly all the members present taking part - after that...Adelaide Morland William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1850-1899'The programme included [...] a Shakespearean reading in the garden from the Tempest in which many members and some vi...Members of the XII Book Club, and guestsWilliam ShakespeareTempest, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'F.J. Edminson read an able and interesting paper on "The Tempest".'Frederick J. Edminson William ShakespeareTempest, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 30 September 1797: '... this took a strange turn when I was about nine y...Robert Southey William Shakespeare[history plays, particularly Henry VI, Parts I and II]Print: Book
1850-1899'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ...Helen Rawlings William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ...Pattie Stansfield William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ...T.T. Cass William ShakespeareTaming of the Shrew, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ...Mrs Cass William ShakespeareTaming of the Shrew, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'At 8pm, there is a very good St George's Day concert by D-Block. They read extracts from the works of Shakespeare, Ru...prisoners of warWilliam Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??illegible] and portraits as an intr...Maria Neild William ShakespeareMuch Ado About NothingPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ...Frederick Edminson William ShakespeareHenry VPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [?? illegible] and portraits as an int...Elizabeth Edminson William ShakespeareHenry VPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [?? illegible] and portraits as an int...Charles Stansfield William ShakespearePrint: Book
1800-1849'Byron's example has formed a sort of Upper House of poetry. There is Lord Leveson Gower a very clever young man. Lo...Walter Scott William ShakespeareCymbelineUnknown
1800-1849'I should be sorry the saying were verified in him So wise and young they say never live long.'Walter Scott William ShakespeareRichard IIIUnknown
1800-1849'Never was there such a representative of Wall in Pyramus and Thisbe.'Walter Scott William ShakespeareMidsummer Night's DreamUnknown
1800-1849'Three days ago I would have been contented to buy this consola as Judy says, dearer than by a dozen falls in the mud ...Walter Scott William ShakespeareJulius CaesarUnknown
1800-1849'Read "King John" completely for the first time; I like the historical plays myself better than the pet ones. "Midsumm...John Ruskin William ShakespeareKing JohnPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished "Henry the Fourth", 1st part.'John Ruskin William ShakespeareHenry IV Part IPrint: Book
1850-1899'"Midsummer Night's Dream" in evening'John Ruskin William ShakespeareMidsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1900-1945'Last night by a log-fire, I seemed the loneliest most contented man in the world. I was reading Romeo and Juliet and ...Walter D'Arcy Cresswell William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
From Anne Isabella Milbanke's reminiscences of her father: '"Of Shakespeare, Otway, Dryden, he was a devoted admire...Ralph Milbanke William ShakespearePrint: Book
1800-1849Which resolutions with health and my habits of indutry will make me 'Sleep in spite of thunder'.Walter Scott William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1850-1899'read, with understanding for the first time in my life, the first scene of "As you like it".'John Ruskin William ShakespeareAs you like itPrint: Book
1800-1849'An excellent plot, excellent friends, and full of preparations'. Footnote: An allusion to Hotspur's plot in I Henr...Walter Scott William ShakespeareHenry IVUnknown
1900-1945'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were ...Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh William ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to a reading of 'The Winter's Tale'. The production was under the joint managemen...Members of XII Book ClubWilliam ShakespeareWinter's Tale, ThePrint: Book
1850-189915 October 1879, from Berlin: 'Since dinner I have read the Merry Wives of Windsor with great delight. I have been ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber William ShakespeareThe Merry Wives of WindsorPrint: Book
1850-189915 October 1879, from Berlin: 'Since dinner I have read the Merry Wives of Windsor with great delight. I have been ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber William Shakespearehistory playsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Progress was so slight [in Charles Schreiber's recovery following disorder of lungs in spring 1883] that the doctors ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber William ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899[between Journal entries for 2 January and 28 February 1887] 'Until [Lady Charlotte Schreiber's] eyes were uncovere...Maria [nee Guest] William ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899[between journal entries for 6 November 1889 and 2 Jun 1890] 'From one till two every day, a Mr. Upton came to read...William ShakespeareplaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate d...Elizabeth Ann Smith William ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate d...R.B. Graham William ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate d...Charles Stansfield William ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate d...Charles Stansfield William Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream, APrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate d...Charles and Katherine EvansWilliam ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1700-1799'Under [Anne Rutherford Scott, his mother's] strong encouragement Scott, at the age of seven, read aloud Shakespeare's...Walter Scott William ShakespeareplaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'In a mill town in the late 1840's, a group of girl operatives met at five o'clock in the morning to read Shakespeare ...William ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part...Francis Pollard William ShakespeareThe Two Noble Kinsmen
1900-1945F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part ...T. C. Elliott Shakespeare and FletcherThe Two Noble KinsmenPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part ...Katharine S. Evans Shakespeare and FletcherThe Two Noble KinsmenPrint: Book
1900-1945F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part ...E. Dorothy Brain Shakespeare and FletcherThe Two Noble Kinsmen
1900-1945

'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...

Martha L. (Pattie) Stansfield William ShakespeareThe TempestUnknown
1900-1945

'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...

E. Dorothy Brain William ShakespeareThe TempestUnknown
1900-1945

'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...

Thomas C. Elliott William ShakespeareThe TempestUnknown
1900-1945

'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...

Charles E. Stansfield William ShakespeareThe TempestUnknown
1900-1945

'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...

Sylvanus A. Reynolds William ShakespeareThe TempestUnknown
1900-1945

'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...

Alfred Rawlings William ShakespeareThe TempestUnknown
1900-1945

'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...

Mary Pollard William ShakespeareThe TempestUnknown
1900-1945

'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...

Howard Smith William ShakespeareThe TempestUnknown
1900-1945

'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...

Reginald H. Robson William ShakespeareThe TempestUnknown
1900-1945

'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...

Muriel Bowman-Smith William ShakespeareThe TempestUnknown
1900-1945

'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...

Rosamund Wallis William ShakespeareThe TempestUnknown
1900-1945

'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...

Helen Rawlings William ShakespeareThe TempestUnknown
1900-1945

'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...

Mary E. Robson William ShakespeareThe TempestUnknown
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

Reginald H. Robson William ShakespeareHenry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram)Print: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

Sylvanus A. Reynolds William ShakespeareHenry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram)Print: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

Charles E. Stansfield William ShakespeareHenry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram)Print: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

George Burrow William ShakespeareHenry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram)Print: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Broomfield: 15. V. 31 George Burrow in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 5. George Burro...Members of the XII Book ClubWilliam ShakespeareThe Taming of the ShrewPrint: Book
1900-1945'Le Havre, though undamaged by war, was stark and gloomy to march through ... "We are quite near Agincourt", I wrote d...Wilfred Ruprecht Bion William ShakespeareHenry VPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last ...

Janet Rawlings William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last ...

Dorothy Brain William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last ...

Dorothea Taylor William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last ...

Francis E. Pollard William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last ...

Victor Alexander William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1900-1945'It is surprising how irritating it is when simple little questions or arguments arise which none of us can settle bec...Albert John Martin William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book

 

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