√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 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 Shakespeare | The Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read '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 Shakespeare | Double Falsehood; Or, the Distrest Lovers... writt | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay on the first page of his copy of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'An admirable opening scen... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [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 Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the scene in the street beginning with Mercutio's lines: 'Where the devil should this Romeo... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the commencement of the third act in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Mercutio, here, is... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the the lines 'Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, / Shall bitterly begin his fearf... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [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 Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia]: 'When [...] the poor child commits her life to the hands of Friar Law... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: 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 Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We spent a whole term on the first two scenes of "The Tempest".' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Shakespeare | Plays [various] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Shakespeare | Plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Macaulay's marginalia by the point where Balthazar brings the evil tidings to Mantua in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the opening dialogue: "beyond praise". | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the scene with the strolling player's declamation about Pyrrhus: "the ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia. By the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet: "It is a noble emendation. Had Warburton often ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra. A response to an editorial note by Steevens. "Solemn nons... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 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 Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| | We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aesc... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a ci... | Christopher Thomson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Circuit preacher Joseph Barker found that theology simply could not compete with Shakespeare:
"What pleased me most ... | Joseph Barker | William Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, ... | Samuel Bamford | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ... | Mary Smith | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia by the conversation in the street between Brutus and Cassius, in the First Act of Julius Caesar... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [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 Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [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 Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple):
"I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford the... | anon | William Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't ... | Jack Lawson | William Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth... | Chaim Lewis | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra, by an editorial note by Steevens, which reminds the reader... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the composition of the Senate] "Abs... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [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 Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [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 Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [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 Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | William Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in '... | John Cole | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: 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 Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | William Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 19 May 1800: 'Read Timon of Athens.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | Timon of Athens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 25 May 1800: 'Read Macbeth in the morning ...' | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 29 May 1800: 'In the morning worked in the garden a little, read King ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | King John | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 3 June 1800: 'I worked in the garden before dinner. Read R[ichar]d Sec... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | Richard the Second | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 5 May 1802, 'I read The Lover's Complaint to Wm. in bed, and left him... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | A Lover's Complaint | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 8 May 1802, 'We sowed the Scarlet Beans in the orchard, and read Henry... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 15 May 1802, 'It is now 1/2 past 10 ... A very cold and chearless morn... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 22 June 1802, 'I read the Midsummer Night's Dream, and began As You Lik... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 22 June 1802, 'I read the Midsummer Night's Dream, and began As You Lik... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 23 June 1802, 'It is now 20 minutes past 10 -- a sunshiny morning. I... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 1 July 1802, 'In the evening ... we had a nice walk, and afterwards sa... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 8 July 1802, 'In the afternoon ... I read the Winter's Tale ...' | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | A Winter's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Philip 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 Shakespeare | unknown | Print: 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 Shakespeare | unknown | Print: 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 Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Wiliam Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | William Shakespeare | Much Ado about Nothing | Print: 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 |
| 1900-1945 | I 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 Shakespeare | Shakespeare's Complete Works | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Ex-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 Shakespeare | plays | Print: 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 |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 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 Shakespeare | Richard II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ?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 Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Venus and Adonis | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Much Ado about Nothing | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions. Shakespeare now passed into my possession ent... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | unknown | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Henry VIII | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit... | Ralph Finn | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | '... [Dorothea Beale] learnt to love Shakespeare through her father reading it aloud ...' | | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the ... | Lucy Lyttelton | William Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | "Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, ... | Marie Stopes | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | "Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, ... | Marie Stopes | William Shakespeare | Venus and Adonis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence wrote of having read Shakespeare's history plays whilst in prison [as suffragette] ..." | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | William Shakespeare | History plays | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London h... | Frederick Willis | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | " ... [Sir John] Suckling, coming across what he called 'an imperfect Copy' of [Shakespeare's The Rape of] Lucrece, de... | Sir John Suckling | William Shakespeare | The Rape of Lucrece | Unknown |
| 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 Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | 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 | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Rupert 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 Shakespeare | | Print: 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 | Shakespeare | Art of Singing, The | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: 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 |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '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 Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: 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 Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After supper read the "Tragedy of Macbeth", which I like very well.' | Thomas Turner | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: 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 Shakespeare | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Print: 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 |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 8 January 1873, on meeting with Mrs Kemble on previous evening: "She is very magnificent... | Frances Anne Kemble | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Unknown |
| 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 Shakespeare | As you like it | Print: 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 Shakespeare | The taming of the shrew | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After the fatigue of the day was over, I read part of Shakespeare's "Works".' | Thomas Turner | William Shakespeare | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of Shakespeare's "Works", which I think extreme good in their kind.' | Thomas Turner | William Shakespeare | Works | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Henry the Fifth | 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 Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: 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 Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Pericles | Print: 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 Shakespeare | King John | 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 Shakespeare | The Tempest | 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 Shakespeare | Measure for measure | 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 Shakespeare | Love's Labour's Lost | 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 Shakespeare | Hamlet | 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 Shakespeare | Othello | 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 Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Pericles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Wilhelm Meister aloud, and then G. read part of the Merchant of Venice' | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Ill all day and unable to go out. G. finished Romeo and Juliet'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spent afternoon reading "Twelfth Night"... read more of "England their England" which is a scream.' | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: 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 Shakespeare | unknown | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: 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 Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Henry IV, Part II | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Christmas day. Miserably wet... Taming of the Shrew'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Hamlet, translated into German by Schlegel | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Not well. G began Midsummer Night's Dream. I went to bed early.' | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: 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 Shakespeare | A Winter's Tale | Print: 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. Lewes | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. read Richard III'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening Dessoir came and read Hamlet'. | [M.] Dessoir | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'read... Shakspeare's (sic) Venus and Adonis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Venus and Adonis | Print: 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 Pilgrim | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Two Gentlemen of Verona | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Shakspeare's (sic) Sonnets and part of "Tempest"' | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Macbeth".' | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Romeo and Juliet"' | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | Henry VIII | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Henry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3 | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Richard II | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Merchant of Venice | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: 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 |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | William Shakespeare | | Print: 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 school | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Then we write a part of the romance and read some Shakespears [sic]'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Plays including Richard III and King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We read Shakespeare'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | King John | Print: 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 | Shakespeare | unknown | Unknown |
| 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 Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Henry Chorley, in Memorials of Mrs Hemans (1836): 'She [Felicia Hemans, nee Browne] was early a reader of Shakespeare;... | Felicia Browne | William Shakespeare | plays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday, sitting in Thornie's room I read through all Shakespeare's sonnets'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Bertie Greathead, 2 August 1798, on having got to know Mrs Siddons the previous winter: 'She read "Hamle... | Sarah Siddons | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[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 guests | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | 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 pa... | | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 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 Shakespeare | Othello | Print: 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 Shakespeare | unknown | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 16 December 1837: 'Read Midsummer Night's Dream in the evening. Surprised to find how com... | Harriet Martineau | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Hamlet | Unknown |
| 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 Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Shakespeare | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Shakespeare | Stockdale's Edition of Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Shakespeare | Dramatic Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Shakespeare | Dramatic Works | Print: 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 Shakespeare | The Works of Mr William Shakespeare; in six volumes | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Henry The Fifth | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Merchant of Venice | Print: 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 Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: 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 Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '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 Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Been reading Shakespeare's plays. viz "Measure for Measure" "Much Ado About Nothing" -' | Albert Battiscombe | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Been reading Shakespeare's plays. viz "Measure for Measure" "Much Ado About Nothing" -' | Albert Battiscombe | William Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing | Print: 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 Shakespeare | unknown | Print: 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 Shakespeare | All's Well that Ends Well | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: 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 Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: 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 Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: 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 Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.' | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.' | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'February 5. Wrote at my story, read Shakespeare, Read Goethe, thought, prayed.' | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: 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 Shakespeare | As you Like it | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 10th July
?Henry IV? ? (Shakespeare ? bought it yesterday, Temple 2 vols)'.
| Gerald Moore | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1835, [James] Edwards [Sewell, reader's brother] [...] had the curacy of Hursley. Mr. Gilbert Heathcote held the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | William Shakespeare | works | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Merry Wives of Windsor | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sat alone all the evening and read two Shakespeare's plays, "Measure for Measure" and "Henry the 6th".' | Thomas Fremantle | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sat alone all the evening and read two Shakespeare's plays, "Measure for Measure" and "Henry the 6th".' | Thomas Fremantle | William Shakespeare | Henry VI | Print: 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 |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 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 Shakespeare | various | Print: 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 Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: 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 Shakespeare | unknown | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening S. finishes reading MacBeth' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | MacBeth | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Othello | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Much Ado about Nothing | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Hamlet' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 42nd Canto - Livy - Anacharsis. Horace - and Shakespears Coriolanus - S. translates the Symposium & reads Philas... | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: 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 Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: 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 Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley
and Mary Wollstonecraf... | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Nov. 6th. Rise at nine [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff & King Richard III [...] Dine at
four.'
... | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Nov. 7th. Rise at nine -- Work. Read Political Justice -- Mary [Wollstonecraft
Godwin] dines at one & goes... | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 18. [...] Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 18. [...] Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 20th. [...] Work all day. S. reads Henry 4th to us.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Richard III in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Theocritus - & Henry VIII aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry VIII | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Henry VIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 12 Canto of Tasso & two acts of Troilus and Cressida' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Troilus and Cressida - read 3 books of Pope's Homer' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Tempest, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Two Gentlemen of Verona | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vita di Alfieri & Livy - S. reads Winter's tale aloud to me'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Winter's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vita di Alfieri - half the 9th book of Virgil - S reads Winters tale aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Winter's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Vita di Tasso - Read Timon of Athens - work - S finishes the Winter's Tale' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Timon of Athens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Timon of Athens' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Timon of Athens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Arrive at Venise at 2 o'clock - Read alls well that ends well' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | All's Well That Ends Well | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Hamlet' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Romeo & Juliet - S. reads the Hipolitus of Euripides' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read King Lear' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Othello' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Julius Caesar' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read King John - & Livy' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | King John | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - & the merry Wives of Windsor' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Merry Wives of Windsor, The | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Titus Andronicus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Henry IV part I | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Henry IV part II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 17th. [...] Read King Lear.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday March 3rd. [...] Read Hamlet.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday March 10th. [...] Read Romeo and Juliet.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in Geor... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: 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 Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Othello | Print: 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 Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads the Tempest alout [sic] - & the Bible & Sophocles to himself' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Tempest, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the book of Proverbs. S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - Finishes the Tempest aloud to me.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Tempest, The | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Henry IV Part I | Print: 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 Shakespeare | King John | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Henry IV aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Henry V' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Henry VI aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry VI | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Utopia - Write - S reads Henry VI aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry VI | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Troilus & Cressid [sic] in the evening' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. begins King Lear in the evening.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: 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 Shakespeare | unknown | Print: 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 |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901:
'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impre... | Virginia Stephen | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918:
'I daresay you share my feeling that Asheham is the best p... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 10 December 1931:
'I read As you like it the other day and was almost sending yo... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: 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 |
| 1900-1945 | 2 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 Shakespeare | unknown | Print: 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 Shakespeare | A 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 |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 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 Shakespeare | Henry IV Part 1 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Pericles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Titus Andronicus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Pericles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] s... | Sir Ronald Storrs | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | The Ages of Man: Shakespeare's Image of Man and Nature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Several of the officers [participating in military review at Wilmingtown] came up to dine, amongst others Coll: Howe,... | Janet Schaw | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Several of the officers [participating in military review at Wilmingtown] came up to dine, amongst others Coll: Howe,... | Robert Howe | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: 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 Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In a long letter to Edward Garnett, in which Conrad outlines some aspects of his family history, he writes that his fa... | Joseph Conrad | William Shakespeare | The 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 Shakespeare | Twelfth Night, Or What You Will. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Desmond MacCarthy, 26 February 1905:
'The books you gave me were a godsend at once. I had to trave... | Leonard Woolf | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 24 June 1906:
'Here an enterprising female has started a Shakespeare Reading ... | Shakespeare Reading Society | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: 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 | Macbeth | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream, A | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: 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 |
| 1900-1945 | Under heading 'Invocation of Poetry by Rhetoric':
'A mass of dead words is set spinning, then kindles. [italics]Or[... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humouri... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Othello | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Othello | Print: 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 |
| 1800-1849 | From William Allingham's 'Reminiscences' of Tennyson (1863-64):
'Oct. 4th [1863] I walked over alone to Farringford... | Alfred Tennyson | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872:
'June 22nd. Farringford. Every night A. has read Shakespeare, or Pascal, or Mo... | Alfred Tennyson | William Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Richard II | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's survey of his father's 'Criticisms on Poets and Poetry':
'After reading Pericles, Act v. alo... | Alfred Tennyson | William Shakespeare | Pericles (Act V) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days:
'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pai... | Alfred Tennyson | William Shakespeare | King Lear, Cymbeline, Troilus and Cressida | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days:
'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pai... | Hallam Tennyson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From 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 Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From 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 Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Taming of the Shrew, The | Print: 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 Sophia | William Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Richard II | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | William Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He read to-night Mark Antony's Oration very fairly indeed for a boy of his age' | Harry Castieau | William Shakespeare | Anthony and Cleopatra | Print: 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 Castieau | William Shakespeare | Merchant of Venice | Print: 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 Castieau | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening played Bezique with Polly & read Shakespeare with Harry.' | John Buckley and Harry Castieau | William 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 Shakespeare | | Print: 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 family | William Shakespeare | Taming of the Shrew | Print: 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 family | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mamma, Harry & myself read a scene or two from Shakspeare (sic). Harry was particularly delighted with the Witches Ch... | Castieau family | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mamma, Harry & myself read a scene or two from Shakspeare (sic). Harry was particularly delighted with the Witches Ch... | Castieau family | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the evening reading with Harry & Sissy, both of these youngsters have some idea of dramatic reading & like very... | Castieau family | William 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 Castieau | William 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 Shakespeare | Othello | 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 Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: 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 members | William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream, A | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: 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 guests | William Shakespeare | Tempest, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'F.J. Edminson read an able and interesting paper on "The Tempest".' | Frederick J. Edminson | William Shakespeare | Tempest, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert 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 Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ... | Pattie Stansfield | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Taming of the Shrew, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ... | Mrs Cass | William Shakespeare | Taming of the Shrew, The | Print: 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 war | William 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 Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ... | Frederick Edminson | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I should be sorry the saying were verified in him
So wise and young they say never live long.' | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Never was there such a representative of Wall in Pyramus and Thisbe.' | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream | Unknown |
| 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 Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Unknown |
| 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 Shakespeare | King John | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "Henry the Fourth", 1st part.' | John Ruskin | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part I | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Midsummer Night's Dream" in evening' | John Ruskin | William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Which resolutions with health and my habits of indutry will make me 'Sleep in spite of thunder'. | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read, with understanding for the first time in my life, the first scene of "As you like it".' | John Ruskin | William Shakespeare | As you like it | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Henry IV | Unknown |
| 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 Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Club | William Shakespeare | Winter's Tale, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 15 October 1879, from Berlin:
'Since dinner I have read the Merry Wives of Windsor with great delight. I have been ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | William Shakespeare | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 15 October 1879, from Berlin:
'Since dinner I have read the Merry Wives of Windsor with great delight. I have been ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | William Shakespeare | history plays | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | plays | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | Print: 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 | | Print: 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, A | Print: 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 Evans | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: 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 Shakespeare | plays | Print: 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 Shakespeare | | Print: 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 Shakespeare | The Two Noble Kinsmen | |
| 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 ... | T. C. Elliott | Shakespeare and Fletcher | The Two Noble Kinsmen | Print: BookUnknown |
| 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 ... | Katharine S. Evans | Shakespeare and Fletcher | The Two Noble Kinsmen | Print: 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 ... | E. Dorothy Brain | Shakespeare and Fletcher | The 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 Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 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 Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 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 Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 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 Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 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 Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 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 Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 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 Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 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 Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 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 Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 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 Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 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 Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 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 Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 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 Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 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 Shakespeare | Henry 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 Shakespeare | Henry 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 Shakespeare | Henry 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 Shakespeare | Henry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield: 15. V. 31
George Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[...]
5. George Burro... | Members of the XII Book Club | William Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Janet Rawlings | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Dorothy Brain | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Dorothea Taylor | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Victor Alexander | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: 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 Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |