11. Heine and Shakespeare

Fig. 14. Anna Jameson, Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical. With Fifty Vignette Etchings, second edition (London: Saunders & Otley, 1833), volume 1, p. 1. The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. William Shakespeare is a major figure of bearing, reference and identification in Heinrich Heine’s oeuvre and also the subject of a whole work, Shakespeares Mädchen und Frauen/Shakespeare’s Girls and Women (1838). The experts cannot agree whether it.