Some scholars surmise that the queen had a personal kinship with the playwright, who alludes to her (quite amorously) in the second act of A Midsummer Night’s Dream: That very time I saw, but thou ...

footnote 18 Conscience! is it possible that thou cannot be but a phantom of the imagination, or the fear of the punishment of men? I ask my own heart, I put to myself this question: ‘If thou couldst ...