| Evidence: | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, in the scene of the royal audience in the room of state: "The silence of Hamlet during the earlier part of this scene is very fine, but not equal to the silence of Prometheus and Cassandra in the Prometheus and Agammemnon of Aeschylus." |
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| Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1800 and 1859 | ||||||||||
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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 and Critic |
| Religion: | Church of England |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | William Shakespeare |
| Title: | Hamlet |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 760 | |
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| Author: | Thomas Babington Macaulay | |
| Editor: | George Otto Trevelyan | |
| Title: | The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 412 | |
| Additional comments: | In chapter on Macaulay's marginal notes |
| Citation: | Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Otto Trevelyan (ed.), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (Oxford, 1978), 2, p. 412, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=760, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
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