The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare


Geijer, Erik Gustaf

Geijer, Erik Gustaf (1783–1847),
Swedish historian and poet. His Macbeth (1813), modelled on Schiller's version, was the first Swedish translation of a Shakespeare play; it was written after a stay in England where Geijer saw Kemble in Hamlet and Cooke as Shylock.

Inga-Stina Ewbank

Bibliography

Geijer, E. G., Impressions of England (1932)

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