| Evidence: | 'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834.
The second in January and the beginning of February 1835'.
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1835 and 28 Feb 1835 | ||||||||||
| Country: | India | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Calcutta | ||||||||||
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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 / critic |
| Religion: | Christian |
| 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: | Plautus |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | Classics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Latin not translated |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 5535 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Thomas Babington Macaulay | |
| Editor: | George Otto Trevelyan | |
| Title: | Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1971 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 443 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Otto Trevelyan (ed.), Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (Oxford, 1971), p. 443, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5535, accessed: 18 April 2024 | |
| NB this is marginalia attached to Macaulay?s copy of Plautus. Macaulay read this in total six times ? see other entries in database |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)