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

		'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the Secretary remembered that that indefatigable polish...	Ernest E. Unwin	L.P. Jacks	'Macbeth and Bangus upon the blasted heath'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 25 May 1800: 'Read Macbeth in the morning ...'	Dorothy Wordsworth	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Seventeen-year-old Ruth Bourne recorded disparaging remarks in her diary about the feeble renderings of Julius Caesar and Macbeth made by members of her [Shakespeare rea...	Shakespeare Reading Circle (local)	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read "Macbeth".'	George Eliot [pseud]	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'After supper read the "Tragedy of Macbeth", which I like very well.'	Thomas Turner	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	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	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine ...	George Eliot [pseud]	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read "Macbeth" what a soul thrilling power hovers about this tragedy I have read it over about twenty times'	John Clare	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the evening S. finishes reading MacBeth'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	MacBeth	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Do you remember the knocking in Macbeth? ...The porter is a man I have a great respect for. He had a great command of language. All that he says, curiously enough, my mo...	Mrs Stevenson	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Mamma, Harry & myself read a scene or two from Shakspeare (sic). Harry was particularly delighted with the Witches Chorus in Macbeth & would insist upon his audience enc...	Castieau family	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her memory. She told him] 'I could repeat not only all his ...	Laetitia Pilkington	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that he has taught us any thing; but he has told us old thin...	Samuel Johnson	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'A part reading from the Midsummer Night Dream was then given, nearly all the members present taking part - after that Mr and Mrs Morland read a selection from Macbeth'.	Harold J. Morland	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'A part reading from the Midsummer Night Dream was then given, nearly all the members present taking part - after that Mr and Mrs Morland read a selection from Macbeth'.	Adelaide Morland	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Which resolutions with health and my habits of indutry will make me 'Sleep in spite of thunder'.	Walter Scott	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37. Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last read & approved [...] ...	Janet Rawlings	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37. Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last read & approved [...] ...	Dorothy Brain	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37. Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last read & approved [...] ...	Dorothea Taylor	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37. Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last read & approved [...] ...	Francis E. Pollard	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book

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