Note 87 — THE COMMON KNOWLEDGE OF SHAKESPEARE AND BACON

Sir Edward Sullivan, who appears to have been captivated by Signor Paolo Orano’s quite untenable theory that Hamlet is meant for Giordano-Bruno, makes a truly remarkable comment upon the second of the lines above-quoted, viz.: “Doubt that the sun doth move.” He says this line “is the Copernican System in little”! It is, of course, the very opposite. It is the Ptolemaic System in little! (See Sir E. Sullivan in The Nineteenth Century, February, 1918).