 In effect, Heine, criticized Schlegel’s translations for “polishing his words ever so sweetly and fastidiously” (Heine [1833] 1985: 25), Voss argued that Schlegel’s Shakespeare “was not Shakespeare but Schlegel” (quoted in Larson 1989, 124) and there is an ongoing debate as to the extent to which Schlegel romanticizes Shakespeare (Bernofsky 1997: 180f.). And yet, there also seems to be a consensus regarding the fact that his translations into German of the works of Shakespeare are still and by far the best.