COLLECTIONS AND ARTICLES:

The Reception of Shakespeare in Eighteenth-Century France and Germany, co-edited by Kenneth E. Larson and Hansjoerg R. Schelle, published as a special issue of Michigan Germanic Studies [15.2 (1989)]. Includes two essays by Kenneth E. Larson:

 "Pro und contra Schlegel: Die zwei gegensätzlichen Blankversübersetzungen des King Lear von Heinrich Voß (1806 und 1819)," 1989 Jahrbuch of the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft West: 113-33.

"The Origins of the 'Schlegel-Tieck' Shakespeare in the 1820s," The German Quarterly 60 (1987): 19-37.

"Wieland's Shakespeare: A Reappraisal," Lessing Yearbook 16 (1984): 229-51.
 

BOOK REVIEWS:

Simon Williams, Shakespeare on the German Stage, Vol. 1: 1586-1914, in The German Quarterly 65.2 (Spring, 1992) 222-23.

Reinhart Meyer et al., Bibliographia Dramatica et Dramaticorum. Kommentierte Bibliographie der ... Dramen des 18. Jahrhunderts, 1. Abteilung, vols. 1-3, in Lessing Yearbook 20 (1988) 356-58.

Wolfgang H. Schrader, Ethik und Anthropologie in der englischen Aufklärung. Der Wandel der moral-sense-theorie von Shaftesbury bis Hume, in Lessing Yearbook 18 (1986) 292-93.

Manfred Durzak, Zu Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Poesie im bürgerlichen Zeitalter, in Germanistik 26.4 (1985) 890.

Helmut Pillau, Die fortgedachte Dissonanz. Hegels Tragödientheorie und Schillers Tragödie. Deutsche Antworten auf die Französische Revolution, in Germanistik 26.4 (1985) 919.

John D. Simons, Friedrich Schiller, in Germanistik 26.4 (1985) 919-20.
 

PAPERS:

"The Classical German Shakespeare as Emblem of Germany as 'Geistige Weltmacht': Validating National Power through Cultural Prefiguration", 1991 MLA.

"How Large was the Shakespeare Canon?", 1988 MLA.

Discussant for papers on 18th-century French translations of Shakespeare and A. W. Schlegel's treatment of Shakespeare's puns in panel on "The Reception of Shakespeare," 1988 Midwest MLA.

"Did Shakespeare Really Write in German? Or: How the Bard Became ein Klassiker:   Notes on the Politics of Culture," Wells College, March, 1988.

"Shakespeare Between Aufklärung and Sturm und Drang," 1987 MLA.

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