Evidence: | 'On Saturday, April 4, I drank tea with Johnson at Dr. Taylor's, where he had dined. He entertained us with an account of a tragedy written by a Dr. Kennedy (not the Lisbon physician). "The catastrophe of it (said he) was, that a King, who was jealous of his Queen with his prime-minister, castrated himself. This tragedy was actually shewn about in manuscript to several people, and, amongst others, to Mr.
Fitzherbert, who repeated to me two lines of the Prologue :
" Our hero's fate we have but gently touch'd ;
The fair might blame us, if it were less couch'd"."'
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 4 Apr 1778 | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Mr Fitzherbert |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Dr Kennedy |
Title: | [a tragedy] |
Genre: | Drama |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ shown by the author |
Record ID: | 21755 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | James Boswell | |
Editor: | R.W. Chapman | |
Title: | Life of Johnson | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 906-7 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | James Boswell, R.W. Chapman (ed.), Life of Johnson (Oxford, 1980), p. 906-7, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21755, accessed: 27 April 2024 |
Originally published 1791. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)