"..regarding the resemblance between the Eumenides of Eschylus and the Hamlet of Shakespeare: The plot is so similar that we should certainly have credited the English poet with copying it, if he could have read Greek…The common elements are indeed remarkable. Orestes and Hamlet have both......"
- pg. 3 in Ignatius Donnelly
F Bacon: "Though I profess not to be a poet...", yet also "... he should appear to have least opinion of himself in those things wherein he is really the best: just as we see it is the practice of poets."
In Archbishop Tenison's Baconiana or Certain Genuine Remains of Sr. Francis Bacon (1679), on p. 79, we read: "And those who have true skill in the works of the Lord Verulam, like great Masters in painting, can tell by the design, the Strength, the way of Coloring, whether he was the Author of this or the other Piece, though his Name be not to it."
"In both a similar combination of different mental powers was at work, and as Shakespeare was often involuntarily philosophical in his profoundness, Bacon was not seldom surprised into the imagination of the poet . . . In Bacon's works we find a multitude of moral sayings and maxims of experience from which the most striking mottoes might be drawn for every Shakespearean play, aye, for every one of his principle characters, testifying to a remarkable harmony in their mutual comprehension of human nature. In these maxims lie at once, as it were, the whole theory of Shakespeare's dramatic forms and of his moral philosophy."
- Georg Gottfried Gervinus, 1850.
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