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Dingelstedt's Celebration of the Tercentenary: Shakespeare's Histories as a Cycle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

Robert K. Sarlos
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This rather proud statement is by Gerhart Hauptmann; anyone I wishing to challenge the validity of the boast will be wise to consider first the number of professional Shakespeare performances in the German language as compared with those in English, to take account of the amount and quality of German Shakespeare scholarship, and to realize that Shakespeare had reached many peoples in Eastern and Northern Europe by way of German transmission. In addition, the citation well illustrates the spirit in which German intellectuals approach Shakespeare.

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Research Article
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Theatre Survey , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , November 1964 , pp. 117 - 131
Copyright
Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1964

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NOTES

1 Gerhart Hauptmann, quoted in Stahl, Ernst Leopold, Shakespeare und das deutsche Theater (Stuttgart, 1947), p. 5.Google Scholar

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3 Ibid.

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15 Ibid., p. 465; Eckhardt, Ludwig, “Shakespeares englische Historien auf der Weimarer Bühne,” Shakespeare Jahrbuch I (1865), p. 363Google Scholar, pointed to the steady rise between Richard II and Richard III, and asked “Wüide dagegen Richard II nach König Johann nicht abfallen?”—implying that superiority rather than inferiority led Dingelstedt to discard King John.

16 Dingelstedt, , op. cit., Vol. 12, p. 465.Google Scholar

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18 Ibid., Vol. 9, p. 43.

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23 Parts of II, 4; III, 6; and some lines from III, 5, are woven in.

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40 Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, April 25,1864, p. 1883.

41 Augusburger Allgemeine Zeitung, Mai 7, 1864, pp. 2081–2082.

42 Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, Mai 8,1864, p. 2097. Yet the reviewer considered Dessoir's rendering of Falstaff and of Cade “jongleurartig.”

43 Ibid.

44 Ibid., p. 2098.

45 Ibid.

46 Ibid.

47 Weimarer Zeitung, No. 107,1864, as quoted by Roenneke, , op. cit., p. 116.Google Scholar

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49 Ibid., p. 202.

50 Eckardt, , op. cit., p. 390.Google Scholar

51 Ibid., p. 381.

52 Stahr, , op. cit., p. 213.Google Scholar

53 Ibid.

54 Ibid., p. 229.

55 Ibid., p. 231.

56 Ibid., p. 227.

57 Laube, Heinrich, Das Burgtheater (Leipzig, 1868), p. 202.Google Scholar