A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles. Sir Sidney Lee

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles

341 Shakespeare in America 341 Translations 342 Shakespeare in Germany 342 German translations 343 Modern German critics 345 Shakespeare on the German stage 345 Shakespeare in France 347 Voltaire’s strictures 348 French critics’ gradual emancipation from Voltairean influence 349 Shakespeare on the French stage 350 Shakespeare in Italy 352 In Holland 354 In Russia 353 In Poland 353 In Hungary 353 In other countries 354 XXI—GENERAL ESTIMATES General estimate 355 Shakespeare’s defects 355 Character of Shakespeare’s achievement 356 Its universal recognition 357 APPENDIX I—THE SOURCES OF BIOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE Contemporary records abundant 361

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	First efforts in biography	361
	Biographers of the nineteenth century	362
	Stratford topography	363
	Specialised studies in biography	363
	Epitomes	364
	Aids to study of plots and text	364
	Concordances	364
	Bibliographies	365
	Critical studies	365
	Shakespearean forgeries	365
	John Jordan (1746–1809)	366
	The Ireland forgeries (1796)	366
	List of forgeries promulgated by Collier and others (1835–1849)	367
	II—THE BACON-SHAKESPEARE CONTROVERSY
	Its source	370
	Toby Matthew’s letter of 1621	371
	Chief exponents of the theory	371
	Its vogue in America	372
	Extent of the literature	372
	Absurdity of the theory	373
	III—THE YOUTHFUL CAREER OF THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON
	Shakespeare and Southampton	374
	Southampton’s parentage	374
1573, Oct. 6