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Items
Details
Title
Theatre allemand [manuscript], 18th or 19th century.
Description
1 item.
Associated name
Scope and content
A short essay that defends Shakespeare from the attacks by Johann Christoph Gottsched; compares and contrasts Shakespeare to Beaumont, Fletcher, Jonson, Corneille, Racine. Mentions Othello, Lear, Hamlet and Merchant of Venice. Includes act II, scene 3 from Faust and notes that it has been 7 or 8 years since he played Faust for the first time. He mentions Hans Wurst as the eighth devil.
Language Note
Item is in French.
Note
Pencil note: "huber traducteur de Gesner" suggests that the author is Michel Huber, translator of the Swiss poet Salomon Gessre.
Genre/form
Item Details
Call number
Y.d.813
Folger accession
cs1168