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Austria

The second volume of Richard Flatter's translations (see Shakespeare Survey, 7, p. 107) appeared in 1953. The third and last volume is promised for 1954. Parts of another translation finished byTheodor von Zeyneck before his death in 1948 have been published in the series Stifterbibliothek (München, Salzburg and Vienna). It professes to be more faithful to the original than Schlegel-Tieck, but in many respects the old translation is to be preferred.

Austrian productions of Shakespeare between 1945 and 1951 are faithfully recorded by Doris Eisner in Shakespeare-Jahrbuch (1951/2, lxxxvii/lxxxviii, 180-97

Of productions in 1953-4 it is worth mentioning that Julius Caesar was included among the plays given at the Salzburg Festival in the summer 1953, played by a cast from the Vienna Burgtheater on the large stage in the Felsenreitschule. It was later taken into the repertory of the Vienna Burgtheater itself, which, in the spring of 1953, presented also a production of Antony and Cleopatra. Several private theatres in Vienna tried their hands with King Lear, Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew, while the Stadttheater in Klagenfurt opened its 1953-4 season with a good performance of Twelfth Night.

KARL BRUNNER