Note 27 — SHAKESPEARE—A THEORY

It is interesting to note in relation to Aristotle, who is cited again and again in both Advancement and Apologie, that the Apologie endorses his dramatic precept of “one place, one day.” Another of the Apologie’s references to Aristotle: “which reason of his, as all his, is most full of reason,” gives one to think. The Advancement disapproves, it may be added, of tying modern tongues to ancient measures: “In modern languages it seemeth to me as free to make new measures of verses as of dances.”