Shakespearology

Now, to maintain that the poet evolved Italian local colour out of his inner consciousness is merely a piece of the supernaturalism which infects Shakespearology.

If there be any knowledge of sublunary things in “the beautiful veiled bright world where the glad ghosts meet,” the shade of Shakespeare must find matter for inextinguishable mirth in the developments of modern Shakespearology.

Shakespearology feeds not only on Shakespeare, but also on itself. There are over two thousand Shakespeare professorships in the United States alone, and nearly a thousand in the rest of the world.