| Evidence: | 'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often admirably done but Shakespeare's strong concrete language is almost always weakened'. |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 7 Jan 1855 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Germany | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Berlin | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | George Eliot [pseud] |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writers |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | Germany |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | William Shakespeare |
| Title: | Hamlet |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Form of Text: | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 7211 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | George Eliot [pseud] | |
| Editor: | Margaret Harris | |
| Title: | The Journals of George Eliot | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1998 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 42 | |
| Additional comments: | Co editor Judith Johnston |
| Citation: | George Eliot [pseud], Margaret Harris (ed.), The Journals of George Eliot (Cambridge, 1998), p. 42, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7211, accessed: 21 March 2023 | |
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