| Evidence: | 'When we were tired of singing we went into the house & did some Shakespearian Readings. Harry & I read the Grave-diggers. Harry read the Gravediggers very well. Afterwards Polly & I did Pericles & Catherine in "The Taming of the Shrew" this amused us very well & brought on ten o'clock, then Polly & I had our toddy & then I got in real life a lesson of how absurd the Play was we had been reading & how false it was to nature for my Katherina gave me a lecture & shut me up in very quick time.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 11 Mar 1874 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Australia | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Melbourne location in dwelling: at home |
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| Reading Group: | Castieau family |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Unknown |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | Prison Governor |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | Australia |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | William Shakespeare |
| Title: | Hamlet |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 23952 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | |
| Author: | John Buckley Castieau | |
| Title: | Diaries | |
| Location: | National Library of Australia | |
| Call no: | NLA MS 2218 | |
| Page/folio: | n/a |
| Citation: | John Buckley Castieau, Diaries National Library of Australia, p. NLA MS 2218, p. n/a, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=23952, accessed: 25 March 2023 | |
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