[346a] Cf. Jahrbuch der Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft for 1894.
[346b] Ibid. 1896, p. 438.
[347] The exact statistics for 1896 and 1897 were: ‘Othello,’ acted 135 and 121 times for the respective years; ‘Hamlet,’ 102 and 91; ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ 95 and 118; ‘Taming of the Shrew,’ 91 and 92; ‘The Merchant of Venice,’ 84 and 62; ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ 68 and 92; ‘A Winter’s Tale,’ 49 and 65; ‘Much Ado about Nothing,’ 47 and 32; ‘Lear,’ 41 and 34; ‘As You Like It,’ 37 and 29; ‘Comedy of Errors,’ 29 and 43; ‘Julius Cæsar,’ 27 and 29; ‘Macbeth,’ 10 and 12; ‘Timon of Athens,’ 7 and 0; ‘The Tempest,’ 5 and 1; ‘Antony and Cleopatra,’ 2 and 4; ‘Coriolanus,’ 0 and 20; ‘Cymbeline,’ 0 and 4; ‘Richard II,’ 15 and 5; ‘Henry IV,’ Part I, 26 and 23, Part II, 6 and 13; ‘Henry V,’ 4 and 7; ‘Henry VI,’ Part I, 3 and 5, Part II, 2 and 2; ‘Richard III,’ 25 and 26 (Jahrbuch der Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft for 1897, pp. 306 seq., and for 1898, pp. 440 seq.)
[348a] Jusserand, A French Ambassador, p. 56.
[348b] Cf. Al. Schmidt, Voltaire’s Verdienst von der Einführung Shakespeare’s in Frankreich, Konigsberg, 1864.
[350a] Frederic Melchior, Baron Grimm (1723-1807), for some years a friend of Rousseau and the correspondent of Diderot and the encyclopédistes, scattered many appreciative references to Shakespeare in his voluminous Correspondance Littéraire Philosophique et Critique, extending over the period 1753-1770, the greater part of which was published in 16 vols. 1812-13.
[350b] Mélanges Historiques, 182 ?, iii. 141-87.
[350c] Ibid. 1824, iii. 217-34.
[351a] Very interesting comments on these performances appeared day by day in the Paris newspaper Le Globe. They were by Charles Magnin, who reprinted them in his Causeries et Méditations Historiques et Littéraires (Paris, 1843, ii. 62 et seq.)
[351b] Cf. Lacroix, Histoire de l’Influence de Shakespeare sur le Théâtre Français, 1867; Edinburgh Review; 1849, pp. 39-77; Elze, Essays, pp. 193 seq.; M. Jusserand, Shakespeare en France sous l’Ancien Régime, Paris, 1898.