Evidence: | Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 24 June 1906:
'Here an enterprising female has started a Shakespeare Reading Society. We read As You Like It on Friday. It was not quite as bad as it might have been & I had expected the worst. There was considerable difficulty over the word copulation "I press in here, Sir, amongst the rest of the country copulatives" was allowed to pass, because no one was quite sure whether it referred to grammar or sexual intercourse. It was only the weight of my assurance that it referred to the former that induced Touchstone not to leave it out. I was Jaques.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jun 1906 and 24 Jun 1906 | ||||||||||
Country: | Ceylon | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Jaffna (province) | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reading Group: | Shakespeare Reading Society |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Unknown |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Great Britain |
Country of experience: | Ceylon |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | William Shakespeare |
Title: | As You Like It |
Genre: | Drama, Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 19789 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Frederic Spotts | |
Title: | Letters of Leonard Woolf | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1990 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 119 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf (London, 1990), p. 119, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19789, accessed: 28 March 2023 |
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