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

	1700-1799	Mary Berry to Bertie Greathead, 2 August 1798, on having got to know Mrs Siddons the previous winter: 'She read "Hamlet" to us one evening, in N. Audley-street, which was...	Sarah Siddons	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He [Johnson] was just nine Years old when having got the play of Hamlet to read in his Father's Kitchen, he read on very qu[i]etly till he came to the Ghost scene, when ...	Samuel Johnson	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	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
	1800-1849	'[Robert Owen] told me [Harriet Martineau] that he knew the Bible so well as to have been heartily sick of it in his early youth. He owned that he had never read it sinc...	Harriet Martineau	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?for Hamlet & the trifling of his favour Hold it a fashion and a Toy in blood; A violet in the youth of primy nature Forward not permanent ? sweet not lasting The per...	Lady Caroline Lamb	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Unknown
	1800-1849	'S reads Hamlet'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Saturday April 18. [...] Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Hamlet'	Mary Shelley	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Sunday March 3rd. [...] Read Hamlet.'	Claire Clairmont	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book

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