But no one will seriously attribute this passage to the philosophical influence of Giordano Bruno. Hotspur was quite capable of hitting upon this image without any suggestion from Nola or Naples.
[5] This speech first occurs in the First Folio.
[6] This was first pointed out (about 1860) by Otto Ludwig. See his Shakespeare-Studien, p. 373. The relation between Shakespeare and Montaigne is dwelt upon in an ill-arranged book by G. F. Stedefeld: Hamlet, ein Tendenz-Drama (1871).
[7] Compare Jacob Feis, Shakespeare and Montaigne, pp. 64-130. Beyersdorff, Giordano Bruno und Shakespeare, p. 27 et seq.
[8] Beyersdorff, op. cit., p. 33. John Lyly, Evphves: The Anatomy of Wit, ed. Landmann, pp. 72, 75.
[9] New Shakspere Society's Transactions, 1874, p. 513. Compare Schück, "Englische Komödianten in Skandinavien," Skandinavisches Archiv.
[10] New Shakspere Society's Transactions, 1874, p. 512.