A collection of papers presented at a conference on Shakespeare translations of the 18th and 19th centuries. Coverage ranges from the discovery of Shakespeare in Scandinavia and the first Portuguese version of "Othello", to various German versions of "Macbeth" and "Hamlet" in the Netherlands.

1. Acknowledgments; 2. Editorial Note; 3. Introduction; 4. 1. Translations and national literatures; 5. Shakespeare en France au tournant du XVIIIe siecle. Un dossier europeen (by Lambert, Jose); 6. The Romanticism of the Schlegel-Tieck Shakespeare and the History of Nineteenth-Century German Shakespeare Translation (by Habicht, Werner); 7. Shakespeare's Way into the West Slavic Literatures and Cultures (by Schultze, Brigitte); 8. Russian Shakespeare Translations in the Romantic Era (by Levin, Yuri D.); 9. The Discovery of Shakespeare in Scandinavia (by Smidt, Kristian); 10. Report (by Van den Broeck, Raymond); 11. 2. Literary, cultural, and theatrical traditions taking shape; 12. An Unpublished Pre-Romantic Hamlet in Eighteenth-Century Italy (by Fresco, Gaby Petrone); 13. Simao de Melo Brandao and the First Portuguese Version of Othello (by Afonso, Maria Joao da Rocha); 14. Providing Texts for a Literary Cult. Early Translations of Shakespeare in Hungary (by Davidhazi, Peter); 15. Shakespeare Translations for Eighteenth-Century Stage Productions in Germany: Different Versions of Macbeth (by Ranke, Wolfgang); 16. Report (by Hermans, Theo); 17. 3. Shifting poetics of translation; 18. Heurs et malheurs de Romeo et Juliette en France a l'epoque romantique (by Gury, Jacques); 19. The Comic Matric of Early German Shakespeare Translation (by Greiner, Norbert); 20. Hamlet in the Netherlands in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. The Complexities of the History of Shakespeare's Reception (by Delabastita, Dirk); 21. Report (by D'haen, Theo); 22. Round Table; 23. Contributors; 24. Index