CHAPTER XI.

ffamUt—The Philosophy of History— Continued Action of Hamlet— The King the Personified Abstraction of Reigning Eril- Polonius as Tradi- tion, Infallibility, and Words— The Church and Criticism of Ophelia by Hamlet — ^The Reformation or Interlude— Rosencranz and Guildenstem the great Vested Interests of EyU and Abuses— The Play Anticipation of the Mind and History . .214