Record Number: 764
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the scene with the strolling player's declamation about Pyrrhus: "the only thing deserving of much admiration in the speech is the manner in which it is raised above the ordinary diction which surrounds it. It is poetry within poetry, - a play within a play. It was therefore proper to make its language bear the same relation to the language, in which Hamlet and Horatio talk, which the language of Hamlet and Horatio bears to the common style of conversation among gentlemen. This is a sufficient defence of the style, which is undoubtedly in itself far too turgid for dramatic, or even for lyric, composition."
Century:1800-1849, 1850-1899
Date:Between 1800 and 1859
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Hamlet
Genre:Drama
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:764
Source: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:412-3
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. 412-3, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=764, accessed: 26 April 2024
Additional Comments:
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