1. William Shakespeare,Hamlet,II.2.269, ed. byAnn ThompsonandNeil Taylor,Arden Shakespeare, Third Series (London:Arden,2006). Further references to this edition are given in quotations after the text.
2. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola,Oration on the Dignity of Man, trans. byA. Robert Caponigri(Washington:Regnery Gateway,1956), pp.7–8.
3. Keith Thomas,Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500–1800(New York:Oxford University Press,1983), p.41.
4. Ovid,Metamorphoses,I.81–83, trans. byA. D. Melville(Oxford:Oxford University Press,1986; repr.2008).