[Footnote 616:  Coleridge.  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an English poet, author of critical lectures and notes on Shakespeare.]

[Footnote 617:  Goethe. (See note 85.)]

[Footnote 618:  Blackfriar’s Theater.  A famous London theater in which nearly all the great dramas of the Elizabethan age were performed.]

[Footnote 619:  Stratford.  Stratford-on-Avon, a little town in Warwickshire, England, where Shakespeare was born and where he spent his last years.]

[Footnote 620:  Macbeth.  One of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, written about 1606.]

[Footnote 621:  Malone, Warburton, Dyce, and Collier.  English scholars of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who edited the works of Shakespeare.]

[Footnote 622:  Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Park, and Tremont:  The leading London theaters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.]

[Footnote 623:  Betterton, Garrick, Kemble, Kean, and Macready, famous British actors of the Shakespearian parts.]

[Footnote 624:  The Hamlet of a famed performer, etc.  Macready.  Emerson said to a friend:  “I see you are one of the happy mortals who are capable of being carried away by an actor of Shakespeare.  Now, whenever I visit the theater to witness the performance of one of his dramas, I am carried away by the poet.”]

[Footnote 625:  What may this mean, etc. Hamlet, I. 4.]

[Footnote 626:  Midsummer Night’s Dream.  One of Shakespeare’s plays.]

[Footnote 627:  The forest of Arden.  In which is laid, the scene of Shakespeare’s play, As You Like It.]

[Footnote 628:  The nimble air of Scone Castle.  It was of the air of Inverness, not of Scone, that “the air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle senses.”—­Macbeth, I. 6.]

[Footnote 629:  Portia’s villa.  See the moonlight scene, Merchant of Venice, V. 1.]

[Footnote 630:  The antres vost, etc.  See Othello, I. 3.  “Antres” is an old word, meaning caves, caverns.]

[Footnote 631:  Cyclopean architecture.  In Greek mythology, the Cyclops were a race of giants.  The term ‘Cyclopean’ is applied here to the architecture of Egypt and India, because of the majestic size of the buildings, and the immense size of the stones used, as if it would require giants to perform such works.]

[Footnote 632:  Phidian sculpture.  Phidias was a famous Greek sculptor who lived in the age of Pericles and beautified Athens with his works.]

[Footnote 633:  Gothic minsters.  Churches or cathedrals, built in the Gothic, or pointed, style of architecture which prevailed during the Middle Ages; it owed nothing to the Goths, and this term was originally used in reproach, in the sense of “barbarous.”]

[Footnote 634:  The Italian painting.  In Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries pictorial art was carried to a degree of perfection unknown in any other time or country.]