Chapter VI
Reading edition
1: In Shakespeare Studien, chap. 4, Hense treats Shakespeare's attitude towards Nature very suggestively; but I have gone my own way.
2: Hamlet, i. 3: 'The canker galls the infants of the spring too oft before their buttons be disclosed.' Comp. i. 1; Romeo and Juliet, i. 1; Henry VI., part 2, iii. 1; Tempest, i. 2.
3: Comp. Henkel, Das Goethe'sche Gleichnis; Henry IV., 2nd pt., iv. 4; Richard II., i. i; Othello, iii. 3, and v. 2; Cymbeline, ii. 4; King John, ii. 2; Hamlet, iii. 1; Tempest, iv. 2.
4: See Hense for bucolic idyllic traits.
5: Poetische Personifikation in griechischen Dichtungen.