Shakespeare is German

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, October 2010

Germans speak of “unser” (our) Shakespeare. He remains the most played author on the German stage where more Shakespeare plays are performed than in England. His work has been translated and admired through the centuries by German greats, Christoph Martin Wieland, Herder, Goethe, Hegel, Heine and Nietzsche.

Much German vocabulary comes from Shakespeare and he is so revered in Germany that he has been adopted by the German people as one of their own national heroes. This autumn’s season, Shakespeare is German, at Shakespeare’s Globe, celebrates Germany’s special affinity with Shakespeare.

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