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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 1, Scene 3: "Here begins the finest of all human performances."Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 2, Scene 2, opposite Cornwall's description of the fellow who has been praised for bluntness: "Excellent! It is wor...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the lines 'Now i pr'ythee, daughter, do not make me mad!/ I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell!' : "This last st...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the apostrophe commencing, 'O, let not women's weapons, water-drops...' : "Where is there anything like this in the wor...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by opening of the play: "Idolising Shakspeare [sic] as I do, I cannot but feel that the whole scene is very unnatural. He...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the quarrel between Kent and Cornwall's steward: "It is rather a fault in the play, to my thinking, that Kent should be...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 3, Scene 4: "The softening of Lear's nature and manners, under the discipline of severe sorrow, is mot happily mark...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in response to a note by Dr Johnson at the end of King Lear. Johnson protested against the unpleasing character of a story, "in which the wicked pr...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849 'Then we write a part of the romance and read some Shakespears [sic]'.Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespearePlays including Richard III and King LearPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday August 27th. Reach Lucerne about half after twelve [p.m.] -- Go to the Cheval. Read King Richard III. & King Lear. Quite Horrified -- [I] can't describe my ...Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin: 'Wednesday August 31st. [...] Shelley ...Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday April 18. [...] Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read King Lear'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Jany. 17th. [...] Read King Lear.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. begins King Lear in the evening.'Percy Bysshe Shelley William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1850-1899'There is a pencil note in his copy of "Paradise Lost": "Had to write 500 lines of this for being caught reading "King Lear" in class."'Tom Thomas William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: 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 ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days: 'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pain in his jaw [...] 'On Wednesday the 29th we tele...Alfred Tennyson William ShakespeareKing Lear, Cymbeline, Troilus and CressidaPrint: Book
1850-1899'King Lear'Sarah Good William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book


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