CHAPTER VI

HAMLET AND THE DANES

Degeneration of Grimm's Fairy Tales—From Tales of Terror to Tales of Terrorism—German Mistake of being Deep—The Germanisation of Shakespeare—Carlyle and the Spoilt Child—The Test of Teutonism— Hell or Hans Andersen—Causes of English Inaction—Barbarism and Splendid Isolation— The Peace of the Plutocrats—Hamlet the Englishman—The Triumph of Bismarck.