Record Number: 4101

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

?Upon the whole, this play with the powerful assistance of eminent actors and scenical illusion and burning palaces, and processions with towers of the Inquisition in perspective and Moors who preach the Gospel to Christians just as they are going to be burnt for not believing it and half mad, half poisoned heroines who visit their lovers in dungeons with wreaths of flowers on their heads, may produce an effect on the stage ? but what effect will it produce in the closet??

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

1817

Country:

n/a

Time

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Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Charles Maturin

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1782

Socio-Economic Group:

Clergy (includes all denominations)

Occupation:

Curate

Religion:

Christian (Church of England)

Country of Origin:

Ireland

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Richard Lalor Sheil

Title:

The Apostate: a tragedy in five acts

Genre:

Drama

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

4101

Source:

Print

Author:

Charles Robert Maturin

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The British Review and London Critical Journal

Place of Publication:

n/a

Date of Publication:

1817 (April)

Vol:

XVII

Page:

260

Additional Comments:

(Evidently) a review article on the publication of Sheil's tragic drama, but gives no publisher, date or place details.

Citation:

Charles Robert Maturin, The British Review and London Critical Journal, (1817 (April)), XVII, p. 260, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4101, accessed: 20 April 2025

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Additional Comments:

None