| Evidence: | Sunday, 12 February 1826;
'Read a few pages of Will d'Avenant who was fond of having it supposed that Shakespeare
intrigued with his mother. I think the pretension can only be treated as Phaeton's was
according to Fielding's farce [Tumbledown Dick].
'"Besides by all the village boys I'm sham'd,
You the Sun's son, you rascal? -- you be damnd."
'Egad I'll put that into Woodstock.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 12 Feb 1826 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Walter Scott |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1771 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | William Davenant |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 26574 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Walter Scott | |
| Editor: | W. E. K. Anderson | |
| Title: | The Journal of Sir Walter Scott | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1972 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 86 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Walter Scott, W. E. K. Anderson (ed.), The Journal of Sir Walter Scott (Oxford, 1972), p. 86, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26574, accessed: 31 May 2023 | |
| See p.86 n.2 in source for details on Scott's use of the Fielding quotation in Woodstock. |
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