Produced by Steven desJardins and Distributed Proofreaders SHAKESPEARE’S INSOMNIA _And the Causes Thereof_ BY FRANKLIN H. HEAD 1887 SHAKESPEARE’S INSOMNIA, AND THE CAUSES THEREOF. I. Insomnia, the lack of “tired Nature’s sweet restorer,” is rapidly becoming the chronic terror of all men of active life who have passed the age of thirty-five or forty years.