9. “In the cult of Shakespeare Göttingen was only a pace behind Strassburg and Frankfurt … The Göttingen students imitated the quips, phrases, and mannerisms of Shakespeare in 1772–1778 just as their contemporaries two years before had done in Strassburg,” writes Lawrence Marsden Price, The Reception of English Literature in Germany (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1932; reprint New York and London: Benjamin Blom, 1968), 34. On the complex topic of Shakespeare reception in Germany among Lessing’s contemporaries, see ibid., 269–308. The topic has been addressed more recently in Elaine Sisman, “Haydn, Shakespeare, and the Rules of Originality,” in Haydn and His World, ed. Elaine Sisman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), esp. 11–19.