[609] The following persons, etc. The persons enumerated were all people of note of the seventeenth century. Sir Philip Sidney, Earl of Essex, Lord Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Milton, Sir Henry Vane, Isaac Walton, Dr. John Donne, Abraham Cowley, Charles Cotton, John Pym, and John Hales were Englishmen, scholars, statesmen, and authors. Theodore Beza was a French theologian; Isaac Casaubon was a French-Swiss scholar; Roberto Berlarmine was an Italian cardinal; Johann Kepler was a German astronomer; Francis Vieta was a French mathematician; Albericus Gentilis was an Italian jurist; Paul Sarpi was an Italian historian; Arminius was a Dutch theologian. [610] Many others whom doubtless, etc. Emerson here enumerates some famous English authors of the same period, not mentioned in the preceeding list. [611] Pericles. See note on Heroism, 352. [612] Lessing. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, a German critic and poet of the eighteenth century. [613] Wieland. Christopher Martin Wieland was a German contemporary of Lessing's, who made a prose translation into German of Shakespeare's plays. [614] Schlegel. August Wilhelm von Schlegel, a German critic and poet, who about the first of the nineteenth century translated some of Shakespeare's plays into classical German. [615] Hamlet. The hero of Shakespeare's play of the same name. [616] Coleridge. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an English poet, author of critical lectures and notes on Shakespeare. [617] Goethe. (See note 85.) [618] Blackfriar's Theater. A famous London theater in which nearly all the great dramas of the Elizabethan age were performed. [619] Stratford. Stratford-on-Avon, a little town in Warwickshire, England, where Shakespeare was born and where he spent his last years. [620] Macbeth. One of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies, written about 1606. [621] Malone, Warburton, Dyce, and Collier. English scholars of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who edited the works of Shakespeare. [622] Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Park, and Tremont: The leading London theaters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. [623] Betterton, Garrick, Kemble, Kean, and Macready, famous British actors of the Shakespearian parts. [624] The Hamlet of a famed performer, etc. Macready. Emerson said to a friend: "I see you are one of the happy mortals who are capable of being carried away by an actor of Shakespeare. Now, whenever I visit the theater to witness the performance of one of his dramas, I am carried away by the poet." [625] What may this mean, etc. Hamlet, I. 4. [626] Midsummer Night's Dream. One of Shakespeare's plays. [627] The forest of Arden. In which is laid, the scene of Shakespeare's play, As You Like It. [628] The nimble air of Scone Castle. It was of the air of Inverness, not of Scone, that "the air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle senses."—Macbeth, i. 6. [629] Portia's villa. See the moonlight scene, Merchant of Venice, v. 1.