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Aeschlyus : Choephorae

'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choephorae now. In the evenings we are reading "History of Thirty Years' Peace" and Beranger. Throughly disappointed in Beranger'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

Aeschlyus : Eumenides

'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. is reading him to me'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

Aeschlyus [?] : Prometheus

'The "Prometheus" in the morning'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

Aeschlyus : [unknown]

'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

Aeschlyus : Prometheus Bound

'S. translates Promethes Desmotes and I write it'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Aeschlyus : [several plays]

'Read Tacitus - Clarkes travels - transcribe for S. - S writes - reads several of the plays of Aeschylus and Spencer aloud in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

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