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Record 4108

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
"'Putting Shakespeare and his immediate followers out of the way, whom do you think the best dramatist?' 'Otway, Lee and Southern, unquestionably.'"
Century: 1700-1799, 1800-1849
Date: unknown
Country: Ireland
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Charles Robert Maturin
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1782
Socio-economic group: Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation: Curate
Religion: Christian (Church of England)
Country of origin: Ireland
Country of experience: Ireland
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Thomas Otway
Title: Complete Plays
Genre: Drama
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1675-85 (9 plays)
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 4108  
Source - Print  
  Author: Charles Robert Maturin
  Editor: n/a
  Title: The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal
  Place of Publication: n/a
  Date of Publication: 1827
  Vol: XX
  Page: 149
  Additional comments: Anonymous article entitled 'Recollections of Maturin n. 3', pp. 146-52.

Citation: Charles Robert Maturin, The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal (1827), XX, p. 149, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4108, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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