Shakespeare and the Modern Stage / with Other Essays

by Sir Sidney Lee

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  Popular Acceptance of the Forgery. Its Unchallenged Circulation through the Eighteenth,
Nineteenth, and Twentieth Centuries  
194

X

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