William Shakespeare: A Critical Study - Paperbackby George Brandes (Author) Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1842 1927) was a Danish critic and scholar who had great influence on Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century. The most important of his later works was this study of William Shakespeare, which was highly acclaimed. It was, perhaps, the most authoritative work on Shakespeare, not principally intended for an English speaking audience, which had been