Evidence: | 'I am a reader in ordinary, and I cannot defend the introduction of the First Catilinarian oration, at full length, into a play. Catiline is a very middling play. The characters are certainly discriminated, but with no delicacy. Jonson makes Cethegus a mere vulgar ruffian. He quite fogets that all the conspirators were gentlemen, noblemen, politicians, probably scholars. He has seized only the coarsest peculiarities of character. As to the conduct of the piece, nothing can be worse than the long debates and narratives which make up half of it.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 25 Oct 1800 and 28 Dec 1859 | ||||||||||
Country: | India | ||||||||||
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Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Thomas Babington Macaulay |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 25 Oct 1800 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | historian and critic |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | India |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Ben Jonson |
Title: | Catiline |
Genre: | Drama |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 308 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Thomas Babington Macaulay | |
Editor: | George Otto Trevelyan | |
Title: | The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 402-3 | |
Additional comments: | Appendix on Macaulay's marginal notes. The quotation is marginalia in Macaulay's handwriting. |
Citation: | Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Otto Trevelyan (ed.), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (Oxford, 1978), 2, p. 402-3, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=308, accessed: 18 April 2024 |
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