Note footnote I.7 — Front matter
Reading edition
I.7.
* By way of background, a bare enumeration of the early Danish translations of Shakespeare is here given.
1777. Hamlet. Translated by Johannes Boye.
1790. Macbeth. Translated by Nils Rosenfeldt. Othello. Translated by Nils Rosenfeldt. All's Well that Ends Well. Translated by Nils Rosenfeldt.
1792. King Lear. Translated by Nils Rosenfeldt. Cymbeline. Translated by Nils Rosenfeldt. The Merchant of Venice. Translated by Nils Rosenfeldt.
1794. King Lear. Nahum Tate's stage version. Translated by Hans Wilhelm Riber.
1796. Two Speeches.—To be or not to be—(Hamlet.) Is this a dagger—(Macbeth.) Translated by Malthe Conrad Brun in Svada.
1800. Act III, Sc. 2 of Julius Caesar. Translated by Knut Lyhne Rahbek in Minerva.
1801. Macbeth. Translated by Levin Sander and K.L. Rahbek. Not published till 1804.
1804. Act V of Julius Caesar. Translated by P.F. Foersom in Minerva.
1805. Act IV Sc. 3 of Love's Labour Lost. Translated by P.F. Foersom in Nytaarsgave for Skuespilyndere.
1807. Hamlet's speech to the players. Translated by P.F. Foersom in Nytaarsgave for Skuespilyndere.
It may be added that in 1807 appeared the first volume of Foersom's translation of Shakespeare's tragedies, and after 1807 the history of Shakespeare in
Denmark
is more complicated. With these matters I shall deal at length in another study.