Evidence: | 'Accordingly, it was announced that the reading of Shakespeare would be one of our lessons, and on the following afternoon we began "The Merchant of Venice". There was one large volume, and it was handed about the class; I was permitted to read the part of Bassanio, and I set forth, with ecstatic pipe ... I was in the seventh heaven of delight, but alas! We had only reached the second act of the play, when the readings mysteriously stopped. I never knew the cause, but I suspect it was at my Father's desire. He prided himself on never having read a page of Shakespeare...' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Sep 1860 and 30 Nov 1860 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Devon other location: school room in local day-school, in Devon |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Edmund Gosse |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1849 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | son of zoological writer |
Religion: | Plymouth Brethren |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
schoolmaster, and the other 20 or so boys |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | William Shakespeare |
Title: | Merchant of Venice |
Genre: | Drama |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 11247 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Edmund Gosse | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Father and Son: a study of two temperments | |
Place of Publication: | Keele: Ryburn Publishing | |
Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 148 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Edmund Gosse, Father and Son: a study of two temperments (Keele: Ryburn Publishing, 1994), p. 148, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11247, accessed: 04 December 2023 |
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