Euphrosine paraphrase of Iago's speech: 'Beware of jealousy, it is the green-eyed monster,' in the "Othello" of Shakespeare" and recounted the anecdote that when Grétry heard the piece at the dress rehearsal he exclaimed: "It's enough to break open the roof of the house with the skulls of the audience." David Charlton comments that the duet "established a new standard of psychological realism for the post-Gluckian age." Berlioz regarded "Euphrosine" as Méhul's masterpiece: "It has grace, delicacy, dash, plenty of dramatic movement, and passionate outbursts of terrific violence and veracity. The character of Euphrosine is delightful, that of the physician Alibour
Shakespeare Fellowship 74-4 vote for unification, the new "Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship" was created later in the year. John Hamill was appointed president of the merged organisation. The Shakespeare Fellowship published "Brief Chronicles", an annual journal. As the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship it publishes both "The Oxfordian" and "Brief Chronicles". The editor-in-chief, Roger Stritmatter, and the managing editor, Gary Goldstein, describe the latter journal as "a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of Shakespearean authorship studies." It was established in 2009 and is included in the MLA International Bibliography and World Shakespeare Bibliography databases. The journal's name refers to a quotation from "Hamlet" in which Hamlet tells