Judging from that and the deep philosophy of the whole piece (always excepting the Shakespearian blot upon it), it must have been the creation of an educated man, which Shakespeare was not. It is probably a partnership concern. The only man of that day, of poetical power sufficient to write the higher parts of this tragedy, was ben jonson, the greatest Dramatic Poet England ever produced. Langhorne, in his preface to Plutarch, referring to the time of Shakespeare, says - The celebrated soliloquy 'to be, or not to be, ' is taken almost verbatim from that philosopher (plato); yet we have never found that Plato was translated in those times. Montaigne is the base of Hamlet.

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