class="c8">The Fabrication by George Steevens in 1763 of a Letter signed "G. Peel"

190 III.
  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

 

Index

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