Evidence: | "It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, The Tempest, in a school edition, prepared I suppose, for one of the university examinations which were then being instituted in the provinces...This book was my own hoarded possession; the rest of Shakespeare's works were beyond my hopes. But gradually I contrived to borrow a volume here and a volume there. I completed The Merchant of Venice, read Cymbeline, Julius Caesar, and Much Ado; most of the others, I think, remained closed to me for a long time. But these were enough to steep my horizon with all the colours of sunrise." |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1864 and 31 Dec 1865 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | William Shakespeare |
Title: | Julius Caesar |
Genre: | Drama |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) |
Record ID: | 3974 | |
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Author: | Edmund Gosse | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Father and Son : a study of two temperments | |
Place of Publication: | Keele | |
Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 185-6 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Edmund Gosse, Father and Son : a study of two temperments (Keele, 1994), p. 185-6, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3974, accessed: 30 November 2023 |
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