Record Number: 19789

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 24 June 1906: 'Here an enterprising female has started a Shakespeare Reading Society. We read As You Like It on Friday. It was not quite as bad as it might have been & I had expected the worst. There was considerable difficulty over the word copulation "I press in here, Sir, amongst the rest of the country copulatives" was allowed to pass, because no one was quite sure whether it referred to grammar or sexual intercourse. It was only the weight of my assurance that it referred to the former that induced Touchstone not to leave it out. I was Jaques.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jun 1906 and 24 Jun 1906

Country:

Ceylon

Time

n/a

Place:

county: Jaffna (province)

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reading Group:

Shakespeare Reading Society

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Unknown

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Great Britain

Country of Experience:

Ceylon

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

William Shakespeare

Title:

As You Like It

Genre:

Drama, Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19789

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Frederic Spotts

Title:

Letters of Leonard Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

n/a

Page:

119

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf, (London, 1990), p. 119, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19789, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None