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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Title of text being read: King Lear

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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, 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
1800-1849
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
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


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