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ADDITIONA L NOTES 293

sponding with the inner stage of Shakespeare's theatre,
so that it cannot escape notice by the audience, as an
entry from the side, or from in front of the modern
proscenium, is likely to do.
p. he Cf. £mile Legouis, 'La reaction contre la
critique romantique de Shakespeare,' Essays and Studies,
English Association, vol. xm.
p. lxi (last line) This is disputable, it being one of the
moot points of scholastic theory whether 'angels and
separate souls have a natural power to understand
thoughts.' Donne was of opinion that they had not;
cf. his Dreame:
But when I saw them sawest my heart
And knew my thought, beyond an angel's art}
and H. J. C. Grierson's note in Poems of John Donne,
ii. 34-5. But it can hardly be disputed that the audience
was expected to 'take the Ghost's word' for it that his
'tardy son' was 'lapsed in time and passion' (cf. Travers,
note on 3. 4. 111).

THE STAGE-HISTORY
p. Ixxxii (1. 20) Garrick's version of Hamlet, 1772,
has at last come to light in the Folger Shakespeare
Library, and conjecture may now be set at rest. Full
particulars are given by Mr George Winchester Stone,
junior, in PMLA. xlix. 3, Sept. 1934.
p. xevi (1. 25) The Elizabethan Stage Society was
not founded by William Poel until 1895, and had no
part, therefore, in the production of 1881.

NOTE S
p. 140. Names of the Characters For 'perversions of
Danish names' v. Brandes, pp. 357-58.
p. 142. Rosencrantz and Gui/denstern v. letter in
T.L.S. Jan. 28,19 26 for reference to 'one Frederik Rosen-
krantz.. .a member of a Danish diplomatic mission sent