Shakspeare's Hamlet [sic] (German)

Shakspeare's Hamlet [sic] (German)

Shakespeare, William. tr. August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Berlin: Unger, 1800

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1800

"Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often admirably done but Shakespeare's strong concrete language is almost always weakened." Diary 1854-1861 42

Shakespeare, William. tr. August Wilhelm von Schlegel, Shakspeare's Hamlet [sic] (German), George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57141

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