Partie IV

., Lettre XI.

76. _In looking back, etc._ These two concluding paragraphs were lifted into Hazlitt’s lecture on Shakspeare and Milton. See vol. V. pp. 44–46, and notes.

SCHLEGEL ON THE DRAMA.

August Wilhelm von Schlegel’s (1767–1845) ‘Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature’ were delivered in Vienna in 1808. Hazlitt reviews the English translation, published in 1815, by John Black (1783–1855), who afterwards became editor of _The Morning Chronicle_.

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79. _The admirable translator._ Schlegel had translated Shakespeare (9 vols. 1797–1810), and Calderon (_Spanish Theatre_, 2 vols., 1803–1809).

_Madame de Staël._ Schlegel lived for many years at Madame de Staël’s house at Coppet.

81. _Florimel._ _The Faerie Queene_,