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Excerpt from An Essay Toward a History, of Shakespeare in Norway a Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty, of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature, in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Germanics and English
A little provincial scientific body! Of what moment is it? But in those days it was Of moment. Norway was then and long afterwards the political and intellectual dependency of Denmark. For three hundred years she had been governed more or less efiec tively from Copenhagen, and for two hundred years Danish had supplanted Norwegian as the language of church and state, of trade, and Of higher social intercourse. The country had 'no university; Norwegians were compelled to go to Copenhagen for their degrees and there loaf about in the anterooms Of ministers waiting for preferment. Videnskabsselskabet was the first tangible evidence of awakened national life, and we are not sur prised to find that it was in this circle that the demand for a. Separate Norwegian university was first authoritatively presented. Again, a little group of periodicals sprang 'up in which were dis cussed, learnedly and pedantically, to be sure, but with keen intelligence, the questions that were interesting the great world outside. It is dreary business ploughing through these solemn, badly printed octavos and quartos. Of a sudden, however, onecomes upon the first, and for thirty-six years the only Norwegian translation of Shakespeare.
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