A.

Acolastus, 316
Actors, Nash on, 316;
as playwrights, 156-158
Addison, 25, 381, 396, 412
"Adventures of Covent Garden," 404-408;
412
"Alcida," Greene's, 112, 155
Alexander, poem imitated from the French romance, 39
Alfarache, Guzman d', 292, 293, 294
Alfred, literature under, 33
"Almahide," 370
"Almanzor and Almahide," 392
Amadis of Gaul, Munday's translation of, 349
Amourists, The, 245
"Anatomie of Absurditie," Nash's, 169 note, 279
Andrews, Dr., Sermons by, 382
"Andromaque," Racine's, English translation of, 395, 396
Angennes, Julie d', 352
Anglo-Saxons, songs and legends of the, 32;
gloom of the literature of the, 33, 34
"Apologie for Poetrie," Sidney's, 229-233; 235, 254, 255, 301
ApulÆus, 86
"Arbasto," 155; 175-178
"Arcadia," Sidney's, 226, 229;
account and criticism of, 234-262;
popularity, imitations and translations of, 262-283;
criticised in the eighteenth century by Addison, Cowper and Young, 270-272;
Milton's and Horace Walpole's criticism of, 272;
Niceron on, 283;
drawings from editions of, 16, 17, 273, 275, 277
"Arcadianism," Dekker and Ben Jonson on, 261
Arcady, land of, 218, 219
Architecture, Elizabethan, 12, 99, 100, 101, 102
Aretino, 298, 348
"Argalus and Parthenia," Quarles', 16, 264, 267;
as a chap-book, 271-275
D'Argenson's opinion of England, 24
"Ariosto," 43, 173, 237, 363;
Harington's translation of, 13, 76, 77, 79, 80, 366
"Arisbas," Dickenson's, 146
Arthur, the Celtic hero, 39;
and his knights, 35
Arundel, Earl of, 159
Ascham, Roger, denounces foreign travel and literature, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 79 note, 85, 318;
condemns Morte d'Arthur, 63, 74;
on the study of Greek and Latin, 87, 88;
his views on the old romances endorsed by Nash, 307, 308
"AstrÉe," d'UrfÉ's, 205, 247, 364, 365
"Astrophel and Stella," 229, 233, 234
D'AubignÉ, 398
"Aucassin and Nicolete," 36, 37, 59, 60, 353
B.
Bacon, Francis, 24, 43;
"New Atlantis," 50;
and English prose, 52;
essay on Gardens, 241; 300, 403, 413
Bacon, Friar, stories about, 28
Bandello, 81 note, 86, 147
"Baron de Foeneste," 398
Baudoin, translation of Sidney's "Arcadia" into French, 276-280
Baxter's "Sir Philip Sidney's Ourania," 262
Beattie, 26
Beckett, engraver, 19
Behn, Mrs., 414-417
Bell's "Theatre," engraving from, 14, 97
Belleforest's tales translated and imitated by Paynter, 86;
"Histoires tragiques," 147
"Bentivolio and Urania," Ingelow's, 413
"Beowulf," the oldest English romance, 11;
fac-simile of the beginning of the MS., 31; 33, 34;
want of tenderness in, 35
"BÉrÉnice," Racine's, translated by Otway, 397
"Berger extravagant," 21, 280, 398, 401
Bergerac, Cyrano de, his "Etats et empires de la lune et du soleil," 50;
his "PÉdant jouÉ," 128 note;
style of, 258;
humour of, 289, 290
Berners, Lord, 106-107
Bestiaries, 108, 111, 112, 115, 116, 119
Blount, Charles, Lord Mountjoy, Earl of Devonshire, 227
Blount, Edward, publisher of Lyly's comedies, 137, 138
Boccaccio, 43;
"Filocopo," "Amorous Fiammetta," "Decameron," English translations of, 75, 76; 86
Boileau, 258, 356 note, 363, 390
Borde, Dr. Andrew, 288, 289, 326
Bossuet, 387
Bovon of Hanstone, poem imitated from a French romance, 39
Boyle, Roger, Lord Broghill, 384-389
Bozon, Nicole, 111
Breton, Nicholas, 192, 198-202
Brunne, Robert Manning de, 38, 39
Bullen, 22
Bunyan, John, 159, 413
Burghley House, 12, 101, 102
Byron's "Don Juan," 409, 410
C.
CÆsarius, 48, 49
Callot, 317, 337
Camden Society, 18
"Campaspe," Lyly's, 138
Carey, 412
"Carte du Tendre," 19, 359, 361
"Cassandra," 396, 403, 412;
"Cassandre," 362, 364, 382, 383
Castiglione's "Courtier," 76
Caxton's woodcut of Chaucer's pilgrims, 12, 45;
his editions of Chaucer and work as a printer, 52-55; 60
"Cent Nouvelles," 47, 48
Cervantes, 43, 88, 399
Chappelain, Mdlle. G., translator of Sidney's "Arcadia," 277-280
Chapelain, Jean, author of "La Pucelle," 294, 350, 357
Characters, books of, 201-2 note
Charlemagne, poem imitated from French romance of, 39
Charles I., 84; 250, 252; 366, 382
Charles II., 381
Charles IX., 220
Chartley, 223
Chateaubriand, 231, 283
Chateaumorand, Diane de, 276
Chatterton, 26
Chaucer, Caxton's engraving of his pilgrims, 12, 45;
a story-teller, but with small influence on the Elizabethan novel, 43, 44;
homage of Pope and Dryden to, 44;
faculty of observation in, 49;
and mediÆval story-tellers, 89;
"Cooke's Tale," 204;
read by Nash, 296
Chesterfield, Lord, 414
Chettle's edition of "Groats-worth of Wit," 165 note, 321;
"Piers Plain," 328, 330, 331
"Chrononotontologos," 412
Cibber, Theophilus, 381
"Civile Conversation," Guazzo's, 72, 73, 76
"Clarissa Harlowe," 25, 26, 31
"ClÉlie," 361, 364, 370; frontispiece of "La Fausse," 20, 375
"Cleopatra," 412; Queen, as represented on the English stage, 14, 97;
"ClÉopatre," 364, 369;
frontispiece of, 20, 371
Clovis, 354
Colet, Dean of St. Paul's, 87
Comte, Auguste, 416
CondÉ, 352, 357
"Contes MoralisÉs," Bozon's, 111
Cooper, Fenimore, 415
Copland, 12
Corneille, 278, 282, 343, 355, 363, 373
Coryat, 302 note
Cotterel, Sir Charles, translator of "Cassandre," 373
"Cour BergÈre," play derived by Mareschal from Sidney's "Arcadia," 282
"Court Secret," 413
Cowper, on Sidney's "Arcadia," 271
Coxon (or Cockson), Thomas, engraver, portraits by, 13
CrÉbillon fils, 414
Cromwell, 84, 363, 381
Crowne's "Pandion and Amphigenia," 19, 389-391; 392, 395
D.
Davenport, 173
Davies, John, drawing from his translation of Sorel's "Berger extravagant," 21
Day, John, "Ile of Guls," 263;
collaborator of Dekker, 106, 107
Gomberville, 356
Gosse, 373
Gower, 296
"Grand Cyrus," romance of, 364, 383, 396
Green Knight, metrical romance from the French, 39
Greene, Robert, illustrations to his work, 11, 15;
stories of, translated into French, 27;
denounces foreign travel, 73 note;
natural history of, 112;
imitator of Lyly, 145, 146, 170, 171 note;

Warner on, 149, 150;
character, birth, and education, 152, 153, 154;
travels, 74, 154;
writings, 151, 155;
"Groats-worth of Wit," 156, 157, 158;
"Repentances," 158, 159, 162;
marriage, 159, 160, 166, 167;
Nash on, 160, 161;
complaint against plagiarists, 163;
abuse of Shakespeare, 164, 165;
illness and death, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167;
Ben Jonson on, 166;
contributions to the novel literature of Elizabethan times, 167-192;
Euphuism of, 170-173;
"Penelope," 174;
imitated by Breton, 198, 199, 201;
by Lodge, 202;
style of his novels, 290; 295, 296, 300, 418
Greville Fulke, Lord Brooke, 220, 226, 245
Grimestone's translation of tales by Goulart, 81
"Groats-worth of Wit," 156, 157, 165 note, 328
Grobianism, 339, 344, 345, 346
"Grobianus," 338, 339
Guazzo's "Civile Conversation," translation of, 76
Guevara, 86, 106
"Gulliver's Travels," 50, 51
"Guls Horne-booke," Dekker's, 28, 261, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343
"Gwydonius," Greene's, 155
H.
Hall, Joseph, bishop of Norwich, 73 note, 413
Hampole, Rolle de, story of a scholar of Paris, 48, 49
Harington's translation of "Ariosto," 13, 76, 77, 79, 80, 366
Harrington's "Oceana," 413
Harrison's "Description of Britaine," 101
Hartley, Mrs., as Cleopatra, 14, 97
Harvey, Gabriel, Nash and, 297, 298
Hastings, battle of, results of, 33
Hathaway, 331
Haughton, 331
Havelock the Dane, a metrical romance, 39
Head, Richard, writer of a picaresque novel, 294, 412, 413
Henri IV., 352
Henrietta of England, Duchess of Orleans, 386, 387
Henry VIII., learning of, 87
Henslowe, 328, 331
Hentzner on Elizabeth, 96
"Heptameron," Reine de Navarre's, 398
Herbert, William, Shakespeare's friend, 234
"Hercules of Greece," romance, 349
Heroical novels and plays in England and France, 347-397;
reaction against, 397-412
Heywood, T., 331
"History of the Ladye Lucres," 81;
drawing from German edition of, 14, 82
Hood, Robin, stories about, 28
Hooker, Richard, 382
Hurst, Richard, drawing from his version of Gombauld's "Endimion," 19
"Hystorie of Hamblet," 81
I.
"Ibrahim ou l'illustre Bassa," 364
"Ile of Guls," Day's, 263
Ingelow's "Bentivolio and Urania," 413
"Isle of Dogs," Nash's, 297, 298 note
J.
"Jack Wilton," Nash's novel of, 297;
account of, 308-321
Jessopp, Dr., 218
Johnson, Dr., 151, 413
Jones, Inigo, sketches by, 14, 100;
architecture of, 100, 101
Jonson, Ben, 151, 261, 270, 331, 341 note, 348, 404, 407
K.
Keats, 418
Kemp, the actor, 18, 287, 298
Kenilworth, festivities at, 223;
park of, 241, 242
King Horn, a metrical romance, 39
"Knight of the Swanne," frontispiece of, 12, 61, 64
L.
LabÉ, Louise, "DÉbat de Folie et d'Amour," 173
La CalprenÈde, 356, 369, 384, 398, 408;
Mme. de SÉvignÉ on, 353
"Lady of May," Sidney's masque of, 229, 289
La Fontaine, 232
Landmann, Dr., 106, 123 note
Laneham, Robert, account of the Kenilworth Festivities, 85
Languet, Hubert, the French Huguenot and friend of Sidney, on English manners, 136, 137;
correspondence with Sidney, 221, 223, 288;
poem on, in the "Arcadia," 222
"La Pucelle," 294, 350
Layamon, 39, 40
Lee, 392, 397
Leicester, Earl of, 91, 96, 159, 223
"Lenten Stuff," Nash's, 324, 325
Le Sage, style of, 47; "Gil Blas," 294
"Le Sopha," 24
"Lettre À l'AcadÉmie," FÉnelon's, 229
"Life and Death of Ned Browne," Greene's, 187, 188
Lindsey, Earl of, 382
Lodge, Thomas, imitator of Lyly, 145, 150, 151;
birth, education, travels, 202;
novels, 203;
"Rosalynde," 144, 204, 205, 206, 207-215; 290, 403
Longueville, Mme. de, 352, 357
"Looking Glasse for London and England," by Greene and Lodge, 215
Louis XIII., 354
Louis XIV., 352
Loveday, Robert, translator of La CalprenÈde's "ClÉopatre," 369;
frontispiece of, 20, 369, 371
Ludlow Castle, 219, 220
Lyly, John, editions of "Euphues," 27;
denounces foreign travel, 73 note;
writes for women, 104, 105;
his style, 107;
knowledge of plants and animals, 119, 120;
the moral teaching of Lyly's "Euphues," 126-135;
comedies by, 137-139;
imitators of, 145-215;
Sidney's style compared with, 255;
kind of novel, 290;
and the Martin Marprelate Controversy, 297;
an ancestor of Richardson, 317;
anticipates Rousseau, 131, 415
M.
Malory's "Morte d'Arthur," 54-57, 60-63
"Mamillia," Greene's, 154, 155, 168
Mandeville, 296
Map, Walter, 38;
68;
effects of the, 69, 70;
art of the, 79;
women at the time of the, 133;
costumes and furniture in Sidney's "Arcadia" pure, 244;
characteristics of, 303
"Returne from Parnassus," 140 note, 316 note, 326
Rich, "Farewell to militarie profession," 81;
imitator of Lyly, 145;
works of, 146, 147
Rich, Lord, husband of Sidney's "Stella," 223, 227
Richardson, 25, 26, 123, 124,

127, 131;
"Pamela" and "Clarissa Harlowe," 169, 202;
borrows from Sidney, 249, 250;
270, 317, 378, 417
Richelieu, 352
Rivers, Lord, 134
Robert the Devil, drawing of, 57
"Robinson Crusoe," 123, 124, 159
Robinson, Ralph, translator of More's "Utopia," 50, 51
Rogers, William, engraving by, 11, 256
"Roland," poem imitated from a French romance, 34, 39
"Roman bourgeois," 398
"Roman comique," 398
Romances, end of chivalrous, 25;
pastoral, 217-283;
heroical, reaction against, 397, 398, 411;
French, translated and read in
England, 363-384
Ronsard, 43, 88
"Rosalynde," Lodge's, compared with "As you like it," 202-213
Rousseau's "Emile," 130, 131;
"Social contract," 221;
and Mrs. Behn, 414-416
Rowley, 331
S.
Sainte More, Benoit de, poems by, 34, 35
Saint Dunstan, literature under, 33
Salisbury, John of, 38
"Sapho and Phao," Lyly's, 138
Sarasin, 350
Scarron, 398, 400 note, 404
"Scipion," 365
Scott, Sir Walter, 26, 36
ScudÉry, George de, 278, 348, 355, 356;
preface to "Ibrahim," 358, 408, 409, 415;
Madeleine de, "ClÉlie," 20; 355-357;
361, 384, 388, 396
Settle's "Empress of Morocco," 20, 21, 293;
392-395
SÉvignÉ, Mme. de, admirer of heroism in romances and plays, 352, 353, 357, 381
Shakespeare, interior view of a theatre in time of, 17, 18, 286;
24;
glory of, 26;
editions of the plays of, 27; 43;
his daily reading, 85;
outcome of his age, 88;
Cleopatra, 97, 99, 156;
source of "Twelfth Night," 147;
of "Winter's Tale," 155, 178-185;
"Parismus" compared with "Romeo and Juliet," 194-198;
of "As you like it," 202-213;
source of part of "Lear," 262;
source of "Two Gentlemen of Verona," 149, 150, 236 note;
little known in France, 279;
a copy of, in Louis XIV.'s library, 281;
earliest French criticism on, 282;
humour of, 289;
beginning of career of, 299, 300;
on music, 300, 301;
interposes himself in his plays, 314, 315;
and MoliÈre, 343;
style of, 403, 404
Shirley, 288
Sidney, Mary, Countess of Pembroke, portrait of, 16;
fame of, 234, 235;
works dedicated to, 263
Sidney, Sir Philip, 217-283;
miniature and portraits of, 221, 222;
"Arcadia," 16, 17, 226, 229, 234-283;
stories of, translated, 27;
birth, 219;
education and travels, 74, 220, 221;
love for "Stella," 222-225;
"Shepheardes Calender," dedicated to, 225;
at Wilton, 226;
Marriage and death, 226, 227;
literary work and style, 228-263;
"Apologie," 229-233, 235, 254, 255, 301;
Du Bartas on, 274;
known to Florian, 283;
humour of, 288-290;
Nash on, 299;
ancestor of Richardson, 317;
prose of, 403;
analysis of feeling by, 414
"Sir Charles Grandison," 31
Smith, Wentworth, 331
Smollett, 294
Smyth's "Straunge and tragicall histories," 81
"Sociable letters," Duchess of Newcastle's, 378
"Sopha," 414
Sorel, Charles, 280, 298
Spenser, Edmund, 43;
Nash on, 298, 299, 300
Steele, Richard, 25, 381
"Stella," books dedicated to, 227, 228
Sterne, 313
"Strange Fortunes," Breton's, 199, 200
Suckling, Sir John, 388
Surrey, Earl of, 74, 245;
Nash on, 300; 348
Swift, 345, 384, 413
Swinburne, 63
Sylvius, Æneas (Piccolomini), 81
T.
Tacitus' opinion of the English, 123
Tarleton, 298
Tasso, 43;
translations in English of, 76
"TÉlÉmaque," 50
Temple, Sir William, 382, 384, 387, 388
"Tendre" country, Map of, 19, 20, 359, 361
Teniers, 317
Tennyson, 63
Thackeray, 124;
"Vanity Fair," 291
Thorpe, John, architect, 12, 101
"Til Eulenspiegel," 292
Tintoretto, 244
Titian, 244
"Tom Thumb," Fielding's, 412
Tom-a-Lincoln, stories of, 28
"Tom Jones," 26
Topsell's Natural History, 14, 15, 103, 109, 111-113; 115-117; 119, 121, 125, 145, 171, 417
Tormes, Lazarillo de, 292-294
"Tragicall Discourses," 80, 81
Tristan, tales of, 25
"Trojan War," romance imitated from the French, 39
Turberville, drawings from his "Booke of Faulconrie," and "Noble Art of Venerie," 15
Turenne, 352
U.
Universities, Lyly's experience of, 153
D'UrfÉ, 247
"Utopia," More's, 50, 51
V.
Villemain's lectures on the eighteenth century, 31, 32
Vinci, 231
Virgil, 363, 398
Voiture, 409
Voltaire's prose tales, 47, 51
W.
Wace, 39
Walpole, Horace, 272
Walsingham, Si r Francis, 220, 226
Warner, imitator of Lyly, 145;
"Pan his Syrinx," and "Albion's England," 148, 149
Warwick, Guy of, metrical romance from the French, 19, 39, 67, 349-351
Watson, Thomas, 139, 245
Webster, heroines of, 249; 331
Wentworth, 331
Whetstone, collections of tales translated by, 28;
"Heptameron," 81
William the Silent, 226
Wilson, 331
Wilt, John O., drawing by, 17
Wireker, Nigel, 38, 49
Women, their learning and manners in Tudor times, 89, 90, 91;
Ascham and Harrison on, 90, 91;
Caxton on, 133, 134;
English and Italian compared, 133, 134;
Rich's stories for, 147;
excluded from the stage, 301, 302
"Wonderfull Yeare," 335-338
Worde, Wynkyn de, 12, 64
Wroth, Lady Mary, "Urania," 268-270;
Ben Jonson on, 270
Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 74, 245
Wycherley, 404
Wyle, Nicolaus von, 82
X.
Xenophon, 86
Y.
Young, on the "Arcadia," 271, 272
Z.
"Zelauto, the Fountain of Fame," Munday's, 146, 147, 148
"Zelinda," adaptation of Voiture's, 408-412
Zucchero's portrait of Elizabeth, 14, 329

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