Evidence: | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, at the opening of Act 1, Scene 4: "Nothing can be finer than this specimen of Hamlet's peculiar character. His intellect is out of all proportion to his will or his passions. Under the most exciting circumstances, while expecting every moment to see the ghost of his father rise before him, he goes on discussing questions of morals, manners, or politics, as if he were in the schools of Wittenberg." |
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Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1800 and 1859 | ||||||||||
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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: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | William Shakespeare |
Title: | Hamlet |
Genre: | Drama |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 768 | |
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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: | 413 | |
Additional comments: | In chapter on Macaulay's marginal notes |
Citation: | Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Otto Trevelyan (ed.), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (Oxford, 1978), 2, p. 413, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=768, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
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