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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1900-1945	'I keep the two books a little longer. "Shakespeare" is good.'	Joseph Conrad	A.[Andrew] C.[Cecil] Bradley	Shakespearean Tragedy:Lectures on Hamlet, Othello,...	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just seen the Pound pamphlet though Farrar & Rinehart never took the trouble to send me a copy. I think it looks fine and is a tribute not only to Mr. Pound but...	Ford Madox Ford	Archibald MacLeish	The Hamlet of A. MacLeish	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the opening dialogue: "beyond praise".	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'that season comes/ Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated" : "Sweet writing".	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, "The long story about Fortinbras, and all that follows from it, seems to me to be a clumsy addition to the plot".	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	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...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	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 speec...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, at the opening of Act 1, Scene 4: "Nothing can be finer than this specimen of Hamlet's peculiar character. His intellect is ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'Dost thou hear?/ Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice,/ And could of men distinguish, her election/ Ha...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the conversation between Hamlet and the courtier, in Act 5: "This is a most admirable scene. The fooling of Osric is noth...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia. By an editorial note by Dr Johnson, to the lines, 'Who would fardels bear, / To groan and sweat under a weary life'. Johnson wrote, "All the old ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia. By the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet: "It is a noble emendation. Had Warburton often hit off such corrections, he would be entitled to th...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia by the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet in the scene where Hamlet declines to kill his uncle in the act of praying. Johnson comments that the s...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a ...	John Cole	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be cha...	Mary Ward	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...	Hilary Spalding	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakespeare?s comedies, besides the supreme tragedies, amon...	Thomas Burt	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often ...	George Eliot [pseud]	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read Goethe's Maxims in the Wanderjahre. Then we compared several scenes of Hamlet in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often admi...	George Eliot [pseud]	William Shakespeare	Hamlet, translated into German by Schlegel	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In the evening Dessoir came and read Hamlet'.	[M.] Dessoir	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

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