Note 347 — XX—POSTHUMOUS REPUTATION

The exact statistics for 1896 and 1897 were: ‘Othello,’ acted 135 and 121 times for the respective years; ‘Hamlet,’ 102 and 91; ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ 95 and 118; ‘Taming of the Shrew,’ 91 and 92; ‘The Merchant of Venice,’ 84 and 62; ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ 68 and 92; ‘A Winter’s Tale,’ 49 and 65; ‘Much Ado about Nothing,’ 47 and 32; ‘Lear,’ 41 and 34; ‘As You Like It,’ 37 and 29; ‘Comedy of Errors,’ 29 and 43; ‘Julius Cæsar,’ 27 and 29; ‘Macbeth,’ 10 and 12; ‘Timon of Athens,’ 7 and 0; ‘The Tempest,’ 5 and 1; ‘Antony and Cleopatra,’ 2 and 4; ‘Coriolanus,’ 0 and 20; ‘Cymbeline,’ 0 and 4; ‘Richard II,’ 15 and 5; ‘Henry IV,’ Part I, 26 and 23, Part II, 6 and 13; ‘Henry V,’ 4 and 7; ‘Henry VI,’ Part I, 3 and 5, Part II, 2 and 2; ‘Richard III,’ 25 and 26 (Jahrbuch der Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft for 1897, pp. 306 seq., and for 1898, pp. 440 seq.)