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Article: The Critical Reception of Shakespeare in Germany 1682-1914: Native Literature and Foreign Genius.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2006
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The Critical Reception of Shakespeare in Germany 1682-1914:Native Literature and Foreign Genius. By Roger paulin. (Anglistische und Amerikanistische Texte und Studien, 11) Hildesheim: Olms. 2003. x+532 pp. 948. ISBN 3-487-11945-5.
Roger Paulin's subject is the German assimilation--appropriation, even--of Shakespeare, from the first brief mention in Morhof to his adoption as a specifically German classic in the so-called 'Schlegel-Tieck' translation, Freiligrath's 'Deutschland ist Hamlet!' (1844), and Gerhart Hauptmann's address 'Deutschland und Shakespeare' of 1915. The formulation 'critical reception' in the title signals omission not only of the distinguished ...