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Mathew Lyons's avatar

I think you might like the long section on Woolf and Shakespeare in this book, in that case!

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Harry Watson's avatar

I've always liked John Keats' idea of synchronised reading of Shakespeare to keep people who are far apart a sense of togetherness.

In December 1818, he wrote from London to his brother George and sister-in-law Georgiana in Kentucky with the following suggestion: "I shall read a passage of Shakespeare every Sunday at ten oClock – you read one at the same time and we shall be as near each other as blind bodies can be in the same room."

Not sure they did it and of course time differences wouldn't have helped. After all 10 o'clock wasn't even 10 o'clock all over Britain at the time. However in Keats sense of togetherness the Keats-Shelley house during Lockdown did have a 'synchronised' reading group at noon on Wednesdays - what 'noon' you chose was left to the individual readers.

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