Shakespeare in France

[I.]Amicable Literary Relations between France and England from the Fourteenth to the Present Century[198]
[II.]
M. Jusserand on Shakespeare in France. French Knowledge of English Literature in Shakespeare's day.
Shakespeare in Eighteenth-century France. Eulogies of Victor Hugo and Dumas père

[201]
[III.]French Misapprehensions of Shakespeare's Tragic Conceptions. Causes of the Misunderstanding[206]
[IV.]Charles Nodier's Sympathetic Tribute. The Rarity of his Pensées de Shakespeare, 1801[211]

[XI]

The Commemoration of Shakespeare in London

[I.]Early Proposals for a National Memorial of Shakespeare in London[214]
[II.]The Cenotaph in Westminster Abbey[215]
[III.]The Failure of the Nineteenth-century Schemes[217]
[IV.]The National Memorial at Stratford-on-Avon[219]
[V.]Shakespeare's Association with London[226]
[VI.]The Value of a London Memorial as a Symbol of his Universal Influence[228]
[VII.]The Real Significance of Milton's Warning against a Monumental Commemoration of Shakespeare[230]
[VIII.]The Undesirability of making the Memorial serve Utilitarian Purposes[235]
[IX.]The Present State of the Plastic Art. The Imperative Need of securing a Supreme Work of Sculpture[236]
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SHAKESPEARE AND THE MODERN STAGE