Sir Israel Gollanz was a literary scholar and chair of English language and literature at King's College, London from 1903 until 1930. He was also one of the founders and original fellows of the British Academy. Gollancz was the general editor of the Temple Shakespeare, the Temple Classics, the King's Library, the King's Novels, the Medieval Library, and the Shakespeare Survey. Gollancz won wide recognition for his scholarship both at home and abroad, and was knighted in 1919. He died at his home in June 1930.Gordon McMullan is Professor of English at King's College London and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre. He is a critic and an editor with a focus on Shakespeare and early modern drama. He is a general editor of the Arden Early Modern Drama series and author of Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing: Authorship in the Proximity of Death.

• Gordon McMullan: Introduction to the 2016 edition Thomas Hardy, O.M.: TO SHAKESPEARE AFTER 300 YEARS M. H. Spielman, F.S.A.: 'THIS FIGURE, THAT THOU HERE SEEST PUT' Austin Dobson: THE RIDDLE Frederic Harrison, D.C.L., Litt.D., LL.D.: A DREAM OF PARNASSUS Laurence Binyon: ENGLAND'S POET The Rt. Hon. Viscount Bryce, O.M., President of the British Academy: SOME STRAY THOUGHTS His Eminence Cardinal Gasquet: SHAKESPEARE John Drinkwater: FOR APRIL 23, 161-1916 Rev. William Barry, D.D. (Rome): THE CATHOLIC STRAIN IN SHAKESPEARE Mrs Alice Meynell: HEROINES John Galsworthy: THE GREAT TREE F. R. Benson, LL. D.: A STRATFORDIAN'S HOMAGE H. B. Irving, M.A. (Oxford): THE HOMAGE OF THE ACTORS Gordon Bottomley: ON PEACEFUL PENETRATION Alfred Perceval Graves: THE FAIRIES' HOMAGE Professor W. P. Ker LL.D. , F. B.A.: CERVANTES, SHAKESPEARE, AND PASTORAL IDEA Edmund Gosse. C. B., LL.D.: THE SONGS OF SHAKESPEARE Evelyn Underhill: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE John Burnet, LL. D.: SHAKESPEARE AND GREEK PHILOSOPHY W. Macneile Dixon, Litt.D: IN REMEMBERANCE OF OUR WORTHY MASTER SHAKESPEARE W. H. Hadow, D.Mus: SHAKESPEARE AND MUSIC J. A. Fuller-Maitland: BIANCA'S MUSIC LESSON William Barclay Squire: SHAKESPEARAN OPERAS Reginald Blomfield, R.A.: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sir Sidney Colvin, Hon. D.Litt.: THE SACK OF TROY IN SHAKESPEARE'S 'LUCRECE' AND IN SOME FIFTEENTH CENTURY DRAWINGS AND TAPESTRIES Lionel Cust, C.V.O., Litt.D., F.S.A.: SHAKESPEARE Lieut.-Col. Sir Ronald Ross, K.C.B., F.R.S., Nobel Laureate: SHAKESPEARE, 1916 W. H. Davies: SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS Henry Bradley, Hon. D.Litt., F.B.A.: SHAKESPEARE AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Sir Sidney Lee, Litt.D., F.B.A.: SHAKESPEARE INVENTOR OF LANGUAGE Herbert Trench: SHAKESPEARE Alfred Noyes, Hon. D.Litt: THE SHADOW OF THE MASTER Mrs C.C. Stopes: THE MAKING OF SHAKESPEARE The Very Rev. H.C. Beeching, D.D.: THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT A. Clutton-Brock: THE UNWORLDLINESS OF SHAKESPEARE Morton Luce: THE CHARACTER OF SHAKESPEARE W.F. Trench, M.A., D. Litt: SHAKESPEARE: THE NEED FOR MEDITATION George Saintsbury, D.Litt, F.B.A.: SHAKESPEARE AS TOUCHSTONE Rt. Hon. J.M. Robertson, M.P.: THE PARADOX OF SHAKESPEARE W.J. Courthope, C.B., Litt.D., F.B.A.: THE TERCENTENARY OF SHAKESPEARE'S DEATH - 1916 Rt. Hon. Sir J. Rennell Rodd, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O.: A THOUGHT FROM ITALY John Bailey: A NOTE ON FALSTAFF E.K. Chambers, C.B.: THE OCCASION OF 'A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM' Oliver Elton: HELENA W.L. Courtney, LL.D.: ORSINO TO OLIVIA A.C. Bradley, L.L.D., F.B.A.: FESTE THE JESTER Israel Gollancz, Litt.D., F.B.A.: BITS OF TIMBER: SOME OBSERVATIONS ON SHAKESPERIAN NAMES - 'SHYLOCK', 'POLONIUS', 'MALVOLIO' W.W. Greg, Litt.D.: A CRITICAL MOUSETRAP R. Warwick Bond: 1600 Sir Henry Newbolt: A NOTE ON 'ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA' M.W. MacCallum: THE CAWDOR PROBLEM Hugh Walker, LL.D.: THE KNOCKING AT THE GATE ONCE MORE J.W. Mackail, L.L.D., F.B.A.: MOTHER AND SON IN 'CYMBELINE' A.C. Benson, C.V.O., LL.D.: ARIEL Rudyard Kipling: THE VISION OF THE ENCHANTED ISLAND J. Le Gay Brereton: DE WITT AT THE SWAN W.J. Lawrence: A FORGOTTEN PLAYHOUSE CUSTOM OF SHAKESPEARE'S DAY Rt. Hon. W.J.M. Starkie, LL.D., Litt.D.: WIT AND HUMOUR IN SHAKESPEARE A.R. Skemp: SHAKESPEARE R.G. Moulton, M.A.: SHAKESPEARE AS THE CENTRAL POINT IN WORLD LITERATURE C.H. Hereford, Litt.D.: THE GERMAN CONTRIBUTION TO SHAKESPEARE CRITICISM G.C. Moore Smith, Litt.D.: SONNETS, 1616 : 1916 A.W. Pollard: A BIBLIOGRAPHER'S PRAISE Sir A.W. Ward: 1616 AND ITS CENTENARIES Israel Zangwill: THE TWO EMPIRES H.B. Wheatley, D.C.L.: LONDON'S HOMAGE TO SHAKESPEARE Miss Mabel E. Wotton: A MEETING-PLACE FOR SHAKESPEARE AND DRAYTON IN THE CITY OF LONDON Frederick S. Boas, LL.D.: OXFORD AND SHAKESPEARE Arthur Gray: SHAKESPEARE AND CAMBRIDGE Miss M. Dormer Harris: SHAKESPEARE AND WARWICKSHIRE H.J.C. Grierson, LL.D.: SHAKESPEARE AND SCOTLAND Rt. Hon Mr Justice Madden, LL.D., Litt.D.: SHAKESPEARE AND IRELAND Douglas Hyde, Litt.D., LL.D.: AN RUD THÁRLA DO GHAEDHEAL AG STRATFORD AR AN ABHAINN (HOW IT FARED WITH A GAEL AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON) John Edward Lloyd: SHAKESPEARE'S WELSHMEN J. Morris Jones: I GOFF BARDD AVON (TO THE MEMORY OF THE BARD OF AVON) Rev. J.O. Williams: Y BARDD A GANODD I'R BYD J.W.H. Atkins: SHAKESPEARE AND KING ARTHUR Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., F.B.A.: A GREEK EPIGRAM ON THE TOMB OF SHAKESPEARE Alexander W. Mair, Litt.D.: GREEK DIALOGUE IN PRAISE OF SHAKESPEARE Sir Herbert Warren, K.C.V.O.: COMMEMORATIO DORYSSOI Rev. H. Gollancz, D.Litt.: HEBREW ODE A.A. Macdonell, Ph.D., F.B.A.: A SANSKRIT PANEGYRIC The Hon. William Pember Reeves, Ph.D.: THE DREAM IMPERIAL Wilfred Campbell, LL.D.: SHAKESPEARE Captain Charles G.D. Roberts, LL.D.: TO SHAKESPEARE, 1916 Canon F.G. Scott, C.M.G., D.C.L: 'SHAKESPEARE' Ananda Coomaraswamy: INTELLECTUAL FRATERNITY Sir Rabindranath Tagore, D.Litt.: SHAKESPEARE Mohammed Igval and Sardar Jogundra Singh: TO SHAKESPEARE: A TRIBUTE FROM THE EAST S.Z. Aung: FROM THE BURMESE BUDDHISTS Maung Tin, M.A.: SHAKESPEARE: A BURMAN'S APPRECIATION His Excellency Waliy Ad-Din Yeyen Bey: TO THE MEMORY OF SHAKESPEARE William Tsikinya-Chaka: A SOUTH AFRICAN'S HOMAGE Charles Mills Gayley, Litt.D., LL.D.: HEART OF THE RACE Horace Howard Furness, Jr.: THE HOMAGE OF THE SHAKESPERE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA Clayton Hamilton: THE PARADOX OF SHAKESPEARE John Grier Hibben, Ph.D., LL.D.: SHAKESPEARE Robert Underwood Johnson, Litt.D., LL.D.: SHAKESPEARE John Matthews Manly, LL.D.: TWO NEGLECTED TASKS Brander Matthews, Litt.D.: IF SHAKESPERE SHOULD COME BACK? Frederick Morgan Padelford, Ph.D.: SONNETS: I. SHAKESPEARE Frederick Morgan Padelford, Ph.D.: II. THE FOREST OF ARDEN William Lyon Phelps: A PLEA FOR CHARLES THE WRESTLER Felix E. Schelling: THE COMMON FOLK OF SHAKESPEARE Owen Wister, M.A.: FROM A LOVER OF SHAKESPEARE AND OF ENGLAND George Santayana, Litt.D., Ph.D.: SONNET Henri Chantavoine: A SHAKESPEARE Henri Bergson: HOMMAGE A SHAKESPEARE Maurice Bouchor: SHAKESPEARE Émile Boutroux: L'ART ET LA NATURE, DANS SHAKESPEARE ET DANS BACON Albert Feuillerat: SIMPLE NOTES Émile Hovelaque: COMMENT FAIRE CONNAITRE SHAKESPEARE AUX PETITS FRANCAIS His Excellency J.-J. Jusserand: FRAGMENTS SUR SHAKESPEARE Émile Legouis: CA ET LA Romain Rolland: A MON MEILLEUR AMI - SHAKESPEARE Pierre Villey: MONTAIGNE ET SHAKESPEARE Henri De Regnier: A SHAKESPEARE His Excellency Joannes Gennadius, D.C.L., Litt.D., LL.D.: MEMORY OF THE RENOWNED AND GENTLE SHAKESPEARE ISIDORO DEL LUNGO: DANTE E SHAKESPEARE Luigi Luzzatti: PRO SHAKESPEARE! Cavaliere Adolfo De Bosis: SHAKESPEARE Cino Chiarini: SHAKESPEARE Paolo Orano: 'HAMLET È GIORDANO BRUNO?' José De Armas: CONVERSACIÓN DE DOS ALMAS His Excellency Senor Don Alfonso Merry Del Val: TO SHAKESPEARE, FROM A SPANIARD A. Maura: SHAKESPEARE Armando Palacio Valdés: EL CIELO DE SHAKSPEARE C. Silva Vildosóla: SHAKESPEARE Y LAS LITERATURAS HISPANO-AMERICANAS His Excellency M. Texeira-Gomes: PORTUGUESE TRIBUTE George Young, M.V.O.: PORTUGAL AND THE SHAKESPEARE TERCENTENARY His Excellency Nicolas Misu: ROUMANIA'S HOMAGE Louis Frédéric Choisy: L'IMPERSONNALITE DE SHAKESPEARE René Morax: SHAKESPEARE Émile Verhaeren: SHAKESPEARE VU DE PROFIL Maurice Maeterlinck: SHAKESPEARE Paul Hamelius: SHAKESPEARE AND BELGIUM René de Clercq: ALS DEEZ TIJDEN GROOT (GREAT LIKE THESE TIMES) Cyriel Buysse: IN GEDACHTE MET SHAKESPEARE Albert Verwey: GRATO M' E 'L SONNO W.G.C. Byvanck: READING SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS B.A.P. Van Dam, M.D.: ARE THESE INTERPOLATIONS IN THE TEXT OF 'HAMLET'? Otto Jerspersen: A MARGINAL NOTE ON SHAKESPEARE'S LANGUAGE AND A TEXTUAL CRUX IN KING LEAR Jón Stefánson: AN EDDIC HOMAGE TO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Niels Møller: PAA VEJ TIL SHAKESPEARE (ON THE WAY TO SHAKESPEARE) George Brandes, LL.D.: SHAKESPEARE Karl Mantzius: DENMARK AND SHAKESPEARE Vald. Vedel: 'PERSONALITY' ELLER 'IMPERSONALITY' Karl Warburg: HAMLET I SVERIGE C. Collin: SHAKESPEARE AND THE NORWEGIAN DRAMA K. Balmont: I. THE GENIUS OF SHAKESPEARE K. Balmont: II. ON THE SHOAL OF TIME K. Balmont: III. THE ALL-EMBRACING Maximillian Voloshin: PORTIA 'Amari': ANOTHER RUSSIAN HOMAGE Father Nicholas Velimirovic: SHAKESPEARE - THE PANANTHROPOS Pavle Popovic: SHAKESPEARE IN SIBERIA Srgjan Tusic: THE HOMAGE OF THE JUGOSLAVS Henryk Sienkiewicz: DLACZEGO MOGLEM CYZTAC SZEKSPIRA (WHY I WAS ABLE TO READ SHAKESPEARE) Eino Leino: SHAKESPEARE-TUNNELMA (WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION) Yrgo Hirn: SHAKESPEARE IN FINLAND Juhani Aho: ENSIMÄINEN SUOMALAINEN SHAKESPEAREN ENSI-ILTA SUOMESSA Yuzo Tsubouchi: SHAKESPEARE AND CHIKAMATSU Gonnoské Komai: TO SHAKESPEARE, THE GREATEST CONQUEROR OF THEM ALL Liu Po Tuan: CHINESE HOMAGE Ahmad Khan: PERSIAN HOMAGE K.H. Funduklian: ARMENIAN TRIBUTE Miss Zabelle C. Boyajian: ARMENIA'S LOVE TO SHAKESPEARE EPILOGUE LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

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Sir Israel Gollanz was a literary scholar and chair of English language and literature at King's College, London from 1903 until 1930. He was also one of the founders and original fellows of the British Academy. Gollancz was the general editor of the Temple Shakespeare, the Temple Classics, the King's Library, the King's Novels, the Medieval Library, and the Shakespeare Survey. Gollancz won wide recognition for his scholarship both at home and abroad, and was knighted in 1919. He died at his home in June 1930.Gordon McMullan is Professor of English at King's College London and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre. He is a critic and an editor with a focus on Shakespeare and early modern drama. He is a general editor of the Arden Early Modern Drama series and author of Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing: Authorship in the Proximity of Death.

• Gordon McMullan: Introduction to the 2016 edition Thomas Hardy, O.M.: TO SHAKESPEARE AFTER 300 YEARS M. H. Spielman, F.S.A.: 'THIS FIGURE, THAT THOU HERE SEEST PUT' Austin Dobson: THE RIDDLE Frederic Harrison, D.C.L., Litt.D., LL.D.: A DREAM OF PARNASSUS Laurence Binyon: ENGLAND'S POET The Rt. Hon. Viscount Bryce, O.M., President of the British Academy: SOME STRAY THOUGHTS His Eminence Cardinal Gasquet: SHAKESPEARE John Drinkwater: FOR APRIL 23, 161-1916 Rev. William Barry, D.D. (Rome): THE CATHOLIC STRAIN IN SHAKESPEARE Mrs Alice Meynell: HEROINES John Galsworthy: THE GREAT TREE F. R. Benson, LL. D.: A STRATFORDIAN'S HOMAGE H. B. Irving, M.A. (Oxford): THE HOMAGE OF THE ACTORS Gordon Bottomley: ON PEACEFUL PENETRATION Alfred Perceval Graves: THE FAIRIES' HOMAGE Professor W. P. Ker LL.D. , F. B.A.: CERVANTES, SHAKESPEARE, AND PASTORAL IDEA Edmund Gosse. C. B., LL.D.: THE SONGS OF SHAKESPEARE Evelyn Underhill: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE John Burnet, LL. D.: SHAKESPEARE AND GREEK PHILOSOPHY W. Macneile Dixon, Litt.D: IN REMEMBERANCE OF OUR WORTHY MASTER SHAKESPEARE W. H. Hadow, D.Mus: SHAKESPEARE AND MUSIC J. A. Fuller-Maitland: BIANCA'S MUSIC LESSON William Barclay Squire: SHAKESPEARAN OPERAS Reginald Blomfield, R.A.: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sir Sidney Colvin, Hon. D.Litt.: THE SACK OF TROY IN SHAKESPEARE'S 'LUCRECE' AND IN SOME FIFTEENTH CENTURY DRAWINGS AND TAPESTRIES Lionel Cust, C.V.O., Litt.D., F.S.A.: SHAKESPEARE Lieut.-Col. Sir Ronald Ross, K.C.B., F.R.S., Nobel Laureate: SHAKESPEARE, 1916 W. H. Davies: SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS Henry Bradley, Hon. D.Litt., F.B.A.: SHAKESPEARE AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Sir Sidney Lee, Litt.D., F.B.A.: SHAKESPEARE INVENTOR OF LANGUAGE Herbert Trench: SHAKESPEARE Alfred Noyes, Hon. D.Litt: THE SHADOW OF THE MASTER Mrs C.C. Stopes: THE MAKING OF SHAKESPEARE The Very Rev. H.C. Beeching, D.D.: THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT A. Clutton-Brock: THE UNWORLDLINESS OF SHAKESPEARE Morton Luce: THE CHARACTER OF SHAKESPEARE W.F. Trench, M.A., D. Litt: SHAKESPEARE: THE NEED FOR MEDITATION George Saintsbury, D.Litt, F.B.A.: SHAKESPEARE AS TOUCHSTONE Rt. Hon. J.M. Robertson, M.P.: THE PARADOX OF SHAKESPEARE W.J. Courthope, C.B., Litt.D., F.B.A.: THE TERCENTENARY OF SHAKESPEARE'S DEATH - 1916 Rt. Hon. Sir J. Rennell Rodd, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O.: A THOUGHT FROM ITALY John Bailey: A NOTE ON FALSTAFF E.K. Chambers, C.B.: THE OCCASION OF 'A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM' Oliver Elton: HELENA W.L. Courtney, LL.D.: ORSINO TO OLIVIA A.C. Bradley, L.L.D., F.B.A.: FESTE THE JESTER Israel Gollancz, Litt.D., F.B.A.: BITS OF TIMBER: SOME OBSERVATIONS ON SHAKESPERIAN NAMES - 'SHYLOCK', 'POLONIUS', 'MALVOLIO' W.W. Greg, Litt.D.: A CRITICAL MOUSETRAP R. Warwick Bond: 1600 Sir Henry Newbolt: A NOTE ON 'ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA' M.W. MacCallum: THE CAWDOR PROBLEM Hugh Walker, LL.D.: THE KNOCKING AT THE GATE ONCE MORE J.W. Mackail, L.L.D., F.B.A.: MOTHER AND SON IN 'CYMBELINE' A.C. Benson, C.V.O., LL.D.: ARIEL Rudyard Kipling: THE VISION OF THE ENCHANTED ISLAND J. Le Gay Brereton: DE WITT AT THE SWAN W.J. Lawrence: A FORGOTTEN PLAYHOUSE CUSTOM OF SHAKESPEARE'S DAY Rt. Hon. W.J.M. Starkie, LL.D., Litt.D.: WIT AND HUMOUR IN SHAKESPEARE A.R. Skemp: SHAKESPEARE R.G. Moulton, M.A.: SHAKESPEARE AS THE CENTRAL POINT IN WORLD LITERATURE C.H. Hereford, Litt.D.: THE GERMAN CONTRIBUTION TO SHAKESPEARE CRITICISM G.C. Moore Smith, Litt.D.: SONNETS, 1616 : 1916 A.W. Pollard: A BIBLIOGRAPHER'S PRAISE Sir A.W. Ward: 1616 AND ITS CENTENARIES Israel Zangwill: THE TWO EMPIRES H.B. Wheatley, D.C.L.: LONDON'S HOMAGE TO SHAKESPEARE Miss Mabel E. Wotton: A MEETING-PLACE FOR SHAKESPEARE AND DRAYTON IN THE CITY OF LONDON Frederick S. Boas, LL.D.: OXFORD AND SHAKESPEARE Arthur Gray: SHAKESPEARE AND CAMBRIDGE Miss M. Dormer Harris: SHAKESPEARE AND WARWICKSHIRE H.J.C. Grierson, LL.D.: SHAKESPEARE AND SCOTLAND Rt. Hon Mr Justice Madden, LL.D., Litt.D.: SHAKESPEARE AND IRELAND Douglas Hyde, Litt.D., LL.D.: AN RUD THÁRLA DO GHAEDHEAL AG STRATFORD AR AN ABHAINN (HOW IT FARED WITH A GAEL AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON) John Edward Lloyd: SHAKESPEARE'S WELSHMEN J. Morris Jones: I GOFF BARDD AVON (TO THE MEMORY OF THE BARD OF AVON) Rev. J.O. Williams: Y BARDD A GANODD I'R BYD J.W.H. Atkins: SHAKESPEARE AND KING ARTHUR Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., F.B.A.: A GREEK EPIGRAM ON THE TOMB OF SHAKESPEARE Alexander W. Mair, Litt.D.: GREEK DIALOGUE IN PRAISE OF SHAKESPEARE Sir Herbert Warren, K.C.V.O.: COMMEMORATIO DORYSSOI Rev. H. Gollancz, D.Litt.: HEBREW ODE A.A. Macdonell, Ph.D., F.B.A.: A SANSKRIT PANEGYRIC The Hon. William Pember Reeves, Ph.D.: THE DREAM IMPERIAL Wilfred Campbell, LL.D.: SHAKESPEARE Captain Charles G.D. Roberts, LL.D.: TO SHAKESPEARE, 1916 Canon F.G. Scott, C.M.G., D.C.L: 'SHAKESPEARE' Ananda Coomaraswamy: INTELLECTUAL FRATERNITY Sir Rabindranath Tagore, D.Litt.: SHAKESPEARE Mohammed Igval and Sardar Jogundra Singh: TO SHAKESPEARE: A TRIBUTE FROM THE EAST S.Z. Aung: FROM THE BURMESE BUDDHISTS Maung Tin, M.A.: SHAKESPEARE: A BURMAN'S APPRECIATION His Excellency Waliy Ad-Din Yeyen Bey: TO THE MEMORY OF SHAKESPEARE William Tsikinya-Chaka: A SOUTH AFRICAN'S HOMAGE Charles Mills Gayley, Litt.D., LL.D.: HEART OF THE RACE Horace Howard Furness, Jr.: THE HOMAGE OF THE SHAKESPERE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA Clayton Hamilton: THE PARADOX OF SHAKESPEARE John Grier Hibben, Ph.D., LL.D.: SHAKESPEARE Robert Underwood Johnson, Litt.D., LL.D.: SHAKESPEARE John Matthews Manly, LL.D.: TWO NEGLECTED TASKS Brander Matthews, Litt.D.: IF SHAKESPERE SHOULD COME BACK? Frederick Morgan Padelford, Ph.D.: SONNETS: I. SHAKESPEARE Frederick Morgan Padelford, Ph.D.: II. THE FOREST OF ARDEN William Lyon Phelps: A PLEA FOR CHARLES THE WRESTLER Felix E. Schelling: THE COMMON FOLK OF SHAKESPEARE Owen Wister, M.A.: FROM A LOVER OF SHAKESPEARE AND OF ENGLAND George Santayana, Litt.D., Ph.D.: SONNET Henri Chantavoine: A SHAKESPEARE Henri Bergson: HOMMAGE A SHAKESPEARE Maurice Bouchor: SHAKESPEARE Émile Boutroux: L'ART ET LA NATURE, DANS SHAKESPEARE ET DANS BACON Albert Feuillerat: SIMPLE NOTES Émile Hovelaque: COMMENT FAIRE CONNAITRE SHAKESPEARE AUX PETITS FRANCAIS His Excellency J.-J. Jusserand: FRAGMENTS SUR SHAKESPEARE Émile Legouis: CA ET LA Romain Rolland: A MON MEILLEUR AMI - SHAKESPEARE Pierre Villey: MONTAIGNE ET SHAKESPEARE Henri De Regnier: A SHAKESPEARE His Excellency Joannes Gennadius, D.C.L., Litt.D., LL.D.: MEMORY OF THE RENOWNED AND GENTLE SHAKESPEARE ISIDORO DEL LUNGO: DANTE E SHAKESPEARE Luigi Luzzatti: PRO SHAKESPEARE! Cavaliere Adolfo De Bosis: SHAKESPEARE Cino Chiarini: SHAKESPEARE Paolo Orano: 'HAMLET È GIORDANO BRUNO?' José De Armas: CONVERSACIÓN DE DOS ALMAS His Excellency Senor Don Alfonso Merry Del Val: TO SHAKESPEARE, FROM A SPANIARD A. Maura: SHAKESPEARE Armando Palacio Valdés: EL CIELO DE SHAKSPEARE C. Silva Vildosóla: SHAKESPEARE Y LAS LITERATURAS HISPANO-AMERICANAS His Excellency M. Texeira-Gomes: PORTUGUESE TRIBUTE George Young, M.V.O.: PORTUGAL AND THE SHAKESPEARE TERCENTENARY His Excellency Nicolas Misu: ROUMANIA'S HOMAGE Louis Frédéric Choisy: L'IMPERSONNALITE DE SHAKESPEARE René Morax: SHAKESPEARE Émile Verhaeren: SHAKESPEARE VU DE PROFIL Maurice Maeterlinck: SHAKESPEARE Paul Hamelius: SHAKESPEARE AND BELGIUM René de Clercq: ALS DEEZ TIJDEN GROOT (GREAT LIKE THESE TIMES) Cyriel Buysse: IN GEDACHTE MET SHAKESPEARE Albert Verwey: GRATO M' E 'L SONNO W.G.C. Byvanck: READING SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS B.A.P. Van Dam, M.D.: ARE THESE INTERPOLATIONS IN THE TEXT OF 'HAMLET'? Otto Jerspersen: A MARGINAL NOTE ON SHAKESPEARE'S LANGUAGE AND A TEXTUAL CRUX IN KING LEAR Jón Stefánson: AN EDDIC HOMAGE TO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Niels Møller: PAA VEJ TIL SHAKESPEARE (ON THE WAY TO SHAKESPEARE) George Brandes, LL.D.: SHAKESPEARE Karl Mantzius: DENMARK AND SHAKESPEARE Vald. Vedel: 'PERSONALITY' ELLER 'IMPERSONALITY' Karl Warburg: HAMLET I SVERIGE C. Collin: SHAKESPEARE AND THE NORWEGIAN DRAMA K. Balmont: I. THE GENIUS OF SHAKESPEARE K. Balmont: II. ON THE SHOAL OF TIME K. Balmont: III. THE ALL-EMBRACING Maximillian Voloshin: PORTIA 'Amari': ANOTHER RUSSIAN HOMAGE Father Nicholas Velimirovic: SHAKESPEARE - THE PANANTHROPOS Pavle Popovic: SHAKESPEARE IN SIBERIA Srgjan Tusic: THE HOMAGE OF THE JUGOSLAVS Henryk Sienkiewicz: DLACZEGO MOGLEM CYZTAC SZEKSPIRA (WHY I WAS ABLE TO READ SHAKESPEARE) Eino Leino: SHAKESPEARE-TUNNELMA (WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION) Yrgo Hirn: SHAKESPEARE IN FINLAND Juhani Aho: ENSIMÄINEN SUOMALAINEN SHAKESPEAREN ENSI-ILTA SUOMESSA Yuzo Tsubouchi: SHAKESPEARE AND CHIKAMATSU Gonnoské Komai: TO SHAKESPEARE, THE GREATEST CONQUEROR OF THEM ALL Liu Po Tuan: CHINESE HOMAGE Ahmad Khan: PERSIAN HOMAGE K.H. Funduklian: ARMENIAN TRIBUTE Miss Zabelle C. Boyajian: ARMENIA'S LOVE TO SHAKESPEARE EPILOGUE LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

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Sir Israel Gollanz was a literary scholar and chair of English language and literature at King's College, London from 1903 until 1930. He was also one of the founders and original fellows of the British Academy. Gollancz was the general editor of the Temple Shakespeare, the Temple Classics, the King's Library, the King's Novels, the Medieval Library, and the Shakespeare Survey. Gollancz won wide recognition for his scholarship both at home and abroad, and was knighted in 1919. He died at his home in June 1930.Gordon McMullan is Professor of English at King's College London and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre. He is a critic and an editor with a focus on Shakespeare and early modern drama. He is a general editor of the Arden Early Modern Drama series and author of Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing: Authorship in the Proximity of Death.

• Gordon McMullan: Introduction to the 2016 edition Thomas Hardy, O.M.: TO SHAKESPEARE AFTER 300 YEARS M. H. Spielman, F.S.A.: 'THIS FIGURE, THAT THOU HERE SEEST PUT' Austin Dobson: THE RIDDLE Frederic Harrison, D.C.L., Litt.D., LL.D.: A DREAM OF PARNASSUS Laurence Binyon: ENGLAND'S POET The Rt. Hon. Viscount Bryce, O.M., President of the British Academy: SOME STRAY THOUGHTS His Eminence Cardinal Gasquet: SHAKESPEARE John Drinkwater: FOR APRIL 23, 161-1916 Rev. William Barry, D.D. (Rome): THE CATHOLIC STRAIN IN SHAKESPEARE Mrs Alice Meynell: HEROINES John Galsworthy: THE GREAT TREE F. R. Benson, LL. D.: A STRATFORDIAN'S HOMAGE H. B. Irving, M.A. (Oxford): THE HOMAGE OF THE ACTORS Gordon Bottomley: ON PEACEFUL PENETRATION Alfred Perceval Graves: THE FAIRIES' HOMAGE Professor W. P. Ker LL.D. , F. B.A.: CERVANTES, SHAKESPEARE, AND PASTORAL IDEA Edmund Gosse. C. B., LL.D.: THE SONGS OF SHAKESPEARE Evelyn Underhill: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE John Burnet, LL. D.: SHAKESPEARE AND GREEK PHILOSOPHY W. Macneile Dixon, Litt.D: IN REMEMBERANCE OF OUR WORTHY MASTER SHAKESPEARE W. H. Hadow, D.Mus: SHAKESPEARE AND MUSIC J. A. Fuller-Maitland: BIANCA'S MUSIC LESSON William Barclay Squire: SHAKESPEARAN OPERAS Reginald Blomfield, R.A.: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sir Sidney Colvin, Hon. D.Litt.: THE SACK OF TROY IN SHAKESPEARE'S 'LUCRECE' AND IN SOME FIFTEENTH CENTURY DRAWINGS AND TAPESTRIES Lionel Cust, C.V.O., Litt.D., F.S.A.: SHAKESPEARE Lieut.-Col. Sir Ronald Ross, K.C.B., F.R.S., Nobel Laureate: SHAKESPEARE, 1916 W. H. Davies: SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS Henry Bradley, Hon. D.Litt., F.B.A.: SHAKESPEARE AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Sir Sidney Lee, Litt.D., F.B.A.: SHAKESPEARE INVENTOR OF LANGUAGE Herbert Trench: SHAKESPEARE Alfred Noyes, Hon. D.Litt: THE SHADOW OF THE MASTER Mrs C.C. Stopes: THE MAKING OF SHAKESPEARE The Very Rev. H.C. Beeching, D.D.: THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT A. Clutton-Brock: THE UNWORLDLINESS OF SHAKESPEARE Morton Luce: THE CHARACTER OF SHAKESPEARE W.F. Trench, M.A., D. Litt: SHAKESPEARE: THE NEED FOR MEDITATION George Saintsbury, D.Litt, F.B.A.: SHAKESPEARE AS TOUCHSTONE Rt. Hon. J.M. Robertson, M.P.: THE PARADOX OF SHAKESPEARE W.J. Courthope, C.B., Litt.D., F.B.A.: THE TERCENTENARY OF SHAKESPEARE'S DEATH - 1916 Rt. Hon. Sir J. Rennell Rodd, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O.: A THOUGHT FROM ITALY John Bailey: A NOTE ON FALSTAFF E.K. Chambers, C.B.: THE OCCASION OF 'A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM' Oliver Elton: HELENA W.L. Courtney, LL.D.: ORSINO TO OLIVIA A.C. Bradley, L.L.D., F.B.A.: FESTE THE JESTER Israel Gollancz, Litt.D., F.B.A.: BITS OF TIMBER: SOME OBSERVATIONS ON SHAKESPERIAN NAMES - 'SHYLOCK', 'POLONIUS', 'MALVOLIO' W.W. Greg, Litt.D.: A CRITICAL MOUSETRAP R. Warwick Bond: 1600 Sir Henry Newbolt: A NOTE ON 'ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA' M.W. MacCallum: THE CAWDOR PROBLEM Hugh Walker, LL.D.: THE KNOCKING AT THE GATE ONCE MORE J.W. Mackail, L.L.D., F.B.A.: MOTHER AND SON IN 'CYMBELINE' A.C. Benson, C.V.O., LL.D.: ARIEL Rudyard Kipling: THE VISION OF THE ENCHANTED ISLAND J. Le Gay Brereton: DE WITT AT THE SWAN W.J. Lawrence: A FORGOTTEN PLAYHOUSE CUSTOM OF SHAKESPEARE'S DAY Rt. Hon. W.J.M. Starkie, LL.D., Litt.D.: WIT AND HUMOUR IN SHAKESPEARE A.R. Skemp: SHAKESPEARE R.G. Moulton, M.A.: SHAKESPEARE AS THE CENTRAL POINT IN WORLD LITERATURE C.H. Hereford, Litt.D.: THE GERMAN CONTRIBUTION TO SHAKESPEARE CRITICISM G.C. Moore Smith, Litt.D.: SONNETS, 1616 : 1916 A.W. Pollard: A BIBLIOGRAPHER'S PRAISE Sir A.W. Ward: 1616 AND ITS CENTENARIES Israel Zangwill: THE TWO EMPIRES H.B. Wheatley, D.C.L.: LONDON'S HOMAGE TO SHAKESPEARE Miss Mabel E. Wotton: A MEETING-PLACE FOR SHAKESPEARE AND DRAYTON IN THE CITY OF LONDON Frederick S. Boas, LL.D.: OXFORD AND SHAKESPEARE Arthur Gray: SHAKESPEARE AND CAMBRIDGE Miss M. Dormer Harris: SHAKESPEARE AND WARWICKSHIRE H.J.C. Grierson, LL.D.: SHAKESPEARE AND SCOTLAND Rt. Hon Mr Justice Madden, LL.D., Litt.D.: SHAKESPEARE AND IRELAND Douglas Hyde, Litt.D., LL.D.: AN RUD THÁRLA DO GHAEDHEAL AG STRATFORD AR AN ABHAINN (HOW IT FARED WITH A GAEL AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON) John Edward Lloyd: SHAKESPEARE'S WELSHMEN J. Morris Jones: I GOFF BARDD AVON (TO THE MEMORY OF THE BARD OF AVON) Rev. J.O. Williams: Y BARDD A GANODD I'R BYD J.W.H. Atkins: SHAKESPEARE AND KING ARTHUR Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., F.B.A.: A GREEK EPIGRAM ON THE TOMB OF SHAKESPEARE Alexander W. Mair, Litt.D.: GREEK DIALOGUE IN PRAISE OF SHAKESPEARE Sir Herbert Warren, K.C.V.O.: COMMEMORATIO DORYSSOI Rev. H. Gollancz, D.Litt.: HEBREW ODE A.A. Macdonell, Ph.D., F.B.A.: A SANSKRIT PANEGYRIC The Hon. William Pember Reeves, Ph.D.: THE DREAM IMPERIAL Wilfred Campbell, LL.D.: SHAKESPEARE Captain Charles G.D. Roberts, LL.D.: TO SHAKESPEARE, 1916 Canon F.G. Scott, C.M.G., D.C.L: 'SHAKESPEARE' Ananda Coomaraswamy: INTELLECTUAL FRATERNITY Sir Rabindranath Tagore, D.Litt.: SHAKESPEARE Mohammed Igval and Sardar Jogundra Singh: TO SHAKESPEARE: A TRIBUTE FROM THE EAST S.Z. Aung: FROM THE BURMESE BUDDHISTS Maung Tin, M.A.: SHAKESPEARE: A BURMAN'S APPRECIATION His Excellency Waliy Ad-Din Yeyen Bey: TO THE MEMORY OF SHAKESPEARE William Tsikinya-Chaka: A SOUTH AFRICAN'S HOMAGE Charles Mills Gayley, Litt.D., LL.D.: HEART OF THE RACE Horace Howard Furness, Jr.: THE HOMAGE OF THE SHAKESPERE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA Clayton Hamilton: THE PARADOX OF SHAKESPEARE John Grier Hibben, Ph.D., LL.D.: SHAKESPEARE Robert Underwood Johnson, Litt.D., LL.D.: SHAKESPEARE John Matthews Manly, LL.D.: TWO NEGLECTED TASKS Brander Matthews, Litt.D.: IF SHAKESPERE SHOULD COME BACK? Frederick Morgan Padelford, Ph.D.: SONNETS: I. SHAKESPEARE Frederick Morgan Padelford, Ph.D.: II. THE FOREST OF ARDEN William Lyon Phelps: A PLEA FOR CHARLES THE WRESTLER Felix E. Schelling: THE COMMON FOLK OF SHAKESPEARE Owen Wister, M.A.: FROM A LOVER OF SHAKESPEARE AND OF ENGLAND George Santayana, Litt.D., Ph.D.: SONNET Henri Chantavoine: A SHAKESPEARE Henri Bergson: HOMMAGE A SHAKESPEARE Maurice Bouchor: SHAKESPEARE Émile Boutroux: L'ART ET LA NATURE, DANS SHAKESPEARE ET DANS BACON Albert Feuillerat: SIMPLE NOTES Émile Hovelaque: COMMENT FAIRE CONNAITRE SHAKESPEARE AUX PETITS FRANCAIS His Excellency J.-J. Jusserand: FRAGMENTS SUR SHAKESPEARE Émile Legouis: CA ET LA Romain Rolland: A MON MEILLEUR AMI - SHAKESPEARE Pierre Villey: MONTAIGNE ET SHAKESPEARE Henri De Regnier: A SHAKESPEARE His Excellency Joannes Gennadius, D.C.L., Litt.D., LL.D.: MEMORY OF THE RENOWNED AND GENTLE SHAKESPEARE ISIDORO DEL LUNGO: DANTE E SHAKESPEARE Luigi Luzzatti: PRO SHAKESPEARE! Cavaliere Adolfo De Bosis: SHAKESPEARE Cino Chiarini: SHAKESPEARE Paolo Orano: 'HAMLET È GIORDANO BRUNO?' José De Armas: CONVERSACIÓN DE DOS ALMAS His Excellency Senor Don Alfonso Merry Del Val: TO SHAKESPEARE, FROM A SPANIARD A. Maura: SHAKESPEARE Armando Palacio Valdés: EL CIELO DE SHAKSPEARE C. Silva Vildosóla: SHAKESPEARE Y LAS LITERATURAS HISPANO-AMERICANAS His Excellency M. Texeira-Gomes: PORTUGUESE TRIBUTE George Young, M.V.O.: PORTUGAL AND THE SHAKESPEARE TERCENTENARY His Excellency Nicolas Misu: ROUMANIA'S HOMAGE Louis Frédéric Choisy: L'IMPERSONNALITE DE SHAKESPEARE René Morax: SHAKESPEARE Émile Verhaeren: SHAKESPEARE VU DE PROFIL Maurice Maeterlinck: SHAKESPEARE Paul Hamelius: SHAKESPEARE AND BELGIUM René de Clercq: ALS DEEZ TIJDEN GROOT (GREAT LIKE THESE TIMES) Cyriel Buysse: IN GEDACHTE MET SHAKESPEARE Albert Verwey: GRATO M' E 'L SONNO W.G.C. Byvanck: READING SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS B.A.P. Van Dam, M.D.: ARE THESE INTERPOLATIONS IN THE TEXT OF 'HAMLET'? Otto Jerspersen: A MARGINAL NOTE ON SHAKESPEARE'S LANGUAGE AND A TEXTUAL CRUX IN KING LEAR Jón Stefánson: AN EDDIC HOMAGE TO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Niels Møller: PAA VEJ TIL SHAKESPEARE (ON THE WAY TO SHAKESPEARE) George Brandes, LL.D.: SHAKESPEARE Karl Mantzius: DENMARK AND SHAKESPEARE Vald. Vedel: 'PERSONALITY' ELLER 'IMPERSONALITY' Karl Warburg: HAMLET I SVERIGE C. Collin: SHAKESPEARE AND THE NORWEGIAN DRAMA K. Balmont: I. THE GENIUS OF SHAKESPEARE K. Balmont: II. ON THE SHOAL OF TIME K. Balmont: III. THE ALL-EMBRACING Maximillian Voloshin: PORTIA 'Amari': ANOTHER RUSSIAN HOMAGE Father Nicholas Velimirovic: SHAKESPEARE - THE PANANTHROPOS Pavle Popovic: SHAKESPEARE IN SIBERIA Srgjan Tusic: THE HOMAGE OF THE JUGOSLAVS Henryk Sienkiewicz: DLACZEGO MOGLEM CYZTAC SZEKSPIRA (WHY I WAS ABLE TO READ SHAKESPEARE) Eino Leino: SHAKESPEARE-TUNNELMA (WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION) Yrgo Hirn: SHAKESPEARE IN FINLAND Juhani Aho: ENSIMÄINEN SUOMALAINEN SHAKESPEAREN ENSI-ILTA SUOMESSA Yuzo Tsubouchi: SHAKESPEARE AND CHIKAMATSU Gonnoské Komai: TO SHAKESPEARE, THE GREATEST CONQUEROR OF THEM ALL Liu Po Tuan: CHINESE HOMAGE Ahmad Khan: PERSIAN HOMAGE K.H. Funduklian: ARMENIAN TRIBUTE Miss Zabelle C. Boyajian: ARMENIA'S LOVE TO SHAKESPEARE EPILOGUE LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

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