ABSTRACT
In the Shakespearean Drama it is notable that the poet makes fun of Protestant eccentricities, but never once of the friars. Shakespeare at that time had been five years in London. Shakespeare’s classic plays are instinct of empire, of government by the sovereign or the oligarchy, and not by Parliament or the democracy. The drama of Shakespeare’s Life has never been written. The immortality of the man is none of our business. The immortality of his work is our very dear concern. Science was approaching its phase of stupendous discoveries, its mighty nineteenth century, when Darwin stood where Shakespeare had been standing as type and archetype of his age, protagonist of the Intellect as the almost forgotten dramatist had been of the Intuition. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when intuition was in eclipse, and intellect supreme, a mass of literature was written about Shakespeare.
