"... Shakespeare conquered Germany with his word and thought: then England, for the first time, had a voice on the Rhine and by the Danube, and became a force in the growth of German culture. The man who was chiefly instrumental in bringing this about was Lessing. Many educated Germans felt about Shakespeare as he felt, and some of our literary men were working in the same direction in which he worked; but Lessing produced the strongest argument."
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Alois Brandl (Annual Shakespeare Lecture, 1914): (quote on p. 250)
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
1729 – 1781
deutscher Dichter
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