| Evidence: | 'I am to act Orsino (the Duke) in "Twelfth Night" at the Jenkins’. I could not resist that; it is such a delightful part; and I got them to put off my rehearsals to the last moment, so that I may get a fortnight with you in London and a fortnight with Bob in France: for that must be done this time, [italics]couteque coute [end italics]. I am not altogether satisfied that I shall do Orsino [italics]comme il faut[end italics]; but the Jenkins are pleased, and that is the great affair.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 6 Feb 1875 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Probably Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Probably Edinburgh. county: Lothian |
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| Reader: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 13 Nov 1850 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Aspiring writer and intermittent law student |
| Religion: | Uncommitted |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Probably Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Possibly schoolfellows. |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | William Shakespeare |
| Title: | Twelfth Night, Or What You Will. |
| Genre: | Drama, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | First printed in the Folio of 1623. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 19405 | |
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| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
| Title: | The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 115 | |
| Additional comments: | Section headed Saturday [6 February] in Letter 362, To Frances Sitwell, Friday [5 February 1875] [17 Heriot Row]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. Dates in square brackets have been added by the editors. |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 115, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19405, accessed: 28 March 2023 | |
| Before undertaking to rehearse and act the part of Orsino for the Jenkins, RLS could have read the text of the play in one or more modern editions, at school and/or on his own. Henry Charles Leeming Jenkin had been RLS’s Professor of Engineering and he and his family and circle were now friends of the young man. |
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