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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'To-day I ... prepare myself for leaving England. I read, whilst [here] the "Ingoldsby Legends" entire, Second Part "King Henry IV," and more cursorily "Midsummer ...Wainwight Merrill William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 22 June 1802, 'I read the Midsummer Night's Dream, and began As You Like It.'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 8 January 1873, on meeting with Mrs Kemble on previous evening: "She is very magnificent, and was very gracious, and being draped (for an ev...Frances Anne Kemble William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamUnknown
1850-1899'Not well. G began Midsummer Night's Dream. I went to bed early.'George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 16 December 1837: 'Read Midsummer Night's Dream in the evening. Surprised to find how completely I remembered it.'Harriet Martineau William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read in Shakspear "The Midsummer Nights Dream" for the first time - I have still got 3 parts out of 4 plays to read yet and hope I shall not leave the world without read...John Clare William ShakespeareMidsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1850-1899 'As soon as I have done, I shall begin my ?Pastoral Drama? business; I have so many nice things to say about "Midsummer Night?s Dream"[?]'Robert Louis Stevenson William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's Dream.Print: Book
1700-1799'Whoever reads the Part of the Fairies in the [italics] Midsummer Night's Dream [end italics] may easily perceive how many beautiful Images [italics] Milton [end italics]...Laetitia Pilkington William ShakespeareMidsummer Night's Dream, APrint: 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'.XII Book Club membersWilliam ShakespeareMidsummer Night's Dream, APrint: Book
1800-1849'Never was there such a representative of Wall in Pyramus and Thisbe.'Walter Scott William ShakespeareMidsummer Night's DreamUnknown
1850-1899'"Midsummer Night's Dream" in evening'John Ruskin William ShakespeareMidsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate different aspects of him and these were interspersed ...Charles Stansfield William Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream, APrint: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849'Worked hard, and read Midsummer Night's Dream, [and] Ballads ...'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'the rattling tongue / Of saucy and audacious eloquence': This is Shakspeare's [sic] manly se...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Warburton's editorial note to the lines 'Now the hungry lions roar, / And the wolf beholds the moon'. ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'Be, as thou wast wont to be' to 'Hath such force and blessed power": "Beautiful and easy bey...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, on the last page: "A glorious play. The love-scenes Fletcher might perhaps have written. The fairy scene...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile mills of Oldham to become deputy leader of the Hous...John Robert Clynes William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book


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