10. Beethoven’s library, as it was inventoried at his death, contained four volumes of Shakespeare, in the Eschenburg translation. The volume containing Othello and Romeo und Julia dates from 1779, although there is some reason to believe that Beethoven did not acquire it before 1804. See Eve-line Bartlitz, Die Beethoven-Sammlung in der Musikabteilung der Deutschen Staatsbibliothek: Verzeichnis (Berlin: Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, [1970]), 210–211.