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