The England of Shakespeare (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The England of Shakespeare

The prophecy has been fearfully falsified. We should like to hear an expression of the Professor's views at the present time. Probably he has joined the pleasant company of other German writers, inebriated with their arrogance, who maintain that our poet has left his native shore and sought an asylum and an enduring home in the Fatherland. One of our greatest authorities on Shakespeare, Sir Sidney Lee, has well said, We welcome the homage which Germany pays Shakespeare. We treat that homage as a tribute, in whatever spirit rendered, to poetic genius and power which are essentially English. The German homage to Shake speare is an involuntary confession. There are lessons which Shakespeare can teach that the Germans have yet to learn, and we can wish nothing better for them and for ourselves than that they should supply the defect at an early date.

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