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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
| William Charles Macready (1793-1873) | 355 | |
| Recent revivals | 355 | |
| Shakespeare in English music and art | 357 | |
| Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery | 357 | |
| Shakespeare in America | 358 | |
| Translations | 358 | |
| Shakespeare in Germany | 358 | |
| German translations | 360 | |
| Modern German critics | 362 | |
| Shakespeare on the German stage | 363 | |
| Shakespeare in France | 364 | |
| Voltaire's strictures | 365 | |
| French critics' gradual emancipation from Voltairean influence | 366 | |
| Shakespeare оп the French stage | 368 | |
| Shakespeare in Italy | 369 | |
| In Holland | 370 | |
| In Russia | 370 | |
| In Poland | 370 | |
| In Hungary | 371 | |
| In other countries | 371 | |
| XXI | ||
| GENERAL ESTIMATE | ||
| PAGE | ||
| General estimate | 372 | |
| Shakespeare's defects | 372 | |
| Character of Shakespeare's achievement | 373 | |
| Its universal recognition | 374 | |
APPENDIX
| I | ||
| THE SOURCES OF BIOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE | ||
| PAGE | ||
| Contemporary records abundant | 377 | |
| First efforts in biography | 377 | |
| Biographers of the nineteenth century | 378 | |
| Stratford topography | 379 | |
| Specialised studies in biography | 380 | |
| Epitomes | 380 | |
| Aids to study of plots and text | 380 | |
| Concordances | 380 | |
| Bibliographies | 381 | |
| Critical studies | 381 | |
| Shakespearean forgeries | 381 | |
| John Jordan (1746-1809) | 382 | |
| The Ireland forgeries (1796) | 382 | |
| List of forgeries promulgated by Collier and others (1835-1849) | 383 | |
| II | ||
| THE BACON-SHAKESPEARE CONTROVERSY | ||
| PAGE | ||
| Its source | 386 | |
| Sir Tobie Matthew's letter of 1621 | 387 | |
| Chief exponents of the theory | 388 | |
| Its vogue in America | 388 | |
| Extent of the literature | 389 | |
| Absurdity of the theory | 389 | |