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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
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General estimate 372
Shakespeare's defects 372
Character of Shakespeare's achievement 373
Its universal recognition 374

APPENDIX

I
THE SOURCES OF BIOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE
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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
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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