in the
preface to the second edition of his essay he wrote:
"Shakspere wanted not the stilts of languages to raise him
above all other men."

[113] Ch. iv, of vol. cited.

[114] _The Influence of Seneca on Elizabethan Tragedy_, pp.
66-67.

[115] _Hercules Furens_, ad fin. (1324-1329.).

[116] _Hippolytus_, Act. II, 715-718 (723-726.)

[117] _Choephori_, 63-65.

[118] Carm. lxxxviii, _In Gellium_. See the note in
Doering's edition.

[119] _Gerusalemme_, xviii, 8.

[120] _The Insatiate Countess_, published in 1613.

[121] _Hamlet_, Act iv, sc. 3.

[122] _Agamemnon_, 152-153.

[123] ii, 3 (near beginning.)

[124] _Hercules Furens_, Act. V. 1261-2.

[125] Act iv, Sc. 3.

[126] _Hercules Furens_, 1258-61.

[127] _Macbeth_, Act v, Sc. 2.

[128] _Ibid._ Act iv, Sc. 2.

[129] _Ibid._ Act i, sc. 7.

[130] B. ii, ch. 10.

[131] Tschischwitz, _Shakspere-Forschungen_, i. 1868, S. 52.

[132] "Es ist ubrigens nicht zu bedauern dass Shakspere
Brunos Komodie nicht durchweg zum Muster genommen, den sie
enthaelt so masslose Obscoenitaten, dass Shakspere an seinen
staerksten Stellen daneben fast jungfraeulich erscheint" (Work
cited, S. 52).

[133] Work cited, S. 57. I follow Dr. Tschischwitz's
translation, so far as syntax permits.

[134] Act i, Sc. 4.

[135] Work cited, Sc. 59.

[136] See Frith's _Life of Giordano Bruno_, 1889, pp.
121-128.

[137] Act v. Sc. 1.

[138] Cited by Noack, art. _Bruno_, in
_Philosophie-geschichtliches Lexikon_.

[139] Act i, Sc. 2.

[140] Work cited, p. 90.

[141] It would be unjust to omit to acknowledge that Dr.
Furnivall seeks to frame an inductive notion of Shakspere,
even when rejecting good evidence and proceeding on
deductive lines; that in the works of Professor Dowden on
Shakspere there is always an effort towards a judicial
method, though he refuses to take some of the most necessary
steps; and that the work of Mr. Appleton Morgan, President
of the New York Shakspere Society, entitled _Shakspere in
Fact and Criticism_ (New York, 1888), is certainly not open
to the criticism I have passed. Mr. Morgan's essentially
rationalistic attitude is indicated in a sentence of his
preface: "My own idea has been that William Shakspere was a
man of like passions with ourselves, whose moods and veins
were influenced, just as are ours, by his surroundings,
emplo