... would have forestalled, and perhaps excelled, Jeremy Taylor as a sacred orator. If Bacon beJeremy's inferior in exuberant gorgeousness, he is very much his superior in order and proportion, ... andthroughout the play the allegorical or supernatural passages show the same character. Nor are the moreprosaic parts inferior, as, for instance, the pretty dialogue of Orleans and Galloway, cited ... whateverdifferences of detail there may be as to his work, it is becoming more and more the received, andcorrectly-received opinion, that, as his collaborator Webster came nearest to Shakespere in universalisingcertain...