| Evidence: | 'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834
The second in January and the beginning of February 1835
The third on the Sundays from the 24th of May to the 23rd of August 1835.
The fourth on the Sundays beginning from the 1st of January 1837'.
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1837 and 31 Dec 1838 | ||||||||||
| Country: | India | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Calcutta | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Thomas Babington Macaulay |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 25 Oct 1800 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Historian / critic |
| Religion: | Christian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | India |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Plautus |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | Classics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Latin not translated |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 5537 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Thomas Babington Macaulay | |
| Editor: | George Otto Trevelyan | |
| Title: | Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1971 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 443 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Otto Trevelyan (ed.), Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (Oxford, 1971), p. 443, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5537, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| NB this is marginalia attached to Macaulay?s copy of Plautus. Macaulay read this in total six times ? see other entries in database. |
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