  A Abbey, Mr. E. A., 342 Abbott, Dr. E. A., 364 Actor, Shakespeare as an, 43-45 Actors: entertained for the first time at Stratford-on-Avon, 10 Adam, in As You Like It, played by Shakespeare, 44 Adaptations by Shakespeare of old plays, 56 Adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays at the Restoration, 331 332 Adulation, extravagance of, in the days of Queen Elizabeth, 137 138 and n 2 Æschylus, Hamlet’s ‘sea of troubles’ paralleled in the PersÆ of, 13 n Æsthetic school of Shakespearean criticism, 333 Alexander, Sir William, sonnets by, 438 Alleyn, Edward, manages the amalgamated companies of the Admiral and Lord Strange, 37 Allot, Robert, 312 All’s Well that Ends Well: the sonnet form of a letter of Helen, 84 America, enthusiasm for Shakespeare in, 341 342 Amner, Rev. Richard, 321 ‘Amoretti,’ Spenser’s, 115 435 and n 5, 436 ‘Amours’ by ‘J. D.,’ 390 and n Amphitruo of Plautus, the, and a scene in The Comedy of Errors, 54 ‘Amyntas,’ complimentary title of, 385 n 2 Angelo, Michael, ‘dedicatory’ sonnets of, 138 n ‘Anthia and Abrocomas,’ by Xenophon Ephesius, and the story of Romeo and Juliet, 55 n Antony and Cleopatra: allusion to the part of Cleopatra being played by a boy, 39 n Apollonius and Silla, Historie of, 210 ‘Apologie for Poetrie,’ Sidney’s, allusion to the conceit of the immortalising power of verse in, 114 ‘Apology for Actors,’ Heywood’s, 182 Apsley, William, bookseller, 90 304 312 ‘Arcadia,’ Sidney’s, 88 n, 241 and n 2, 429 Arden family, of Warwickshire, 6 191 Arden family, of Alvanley, 192 Arden, Alice, 7 Arden, Edward, executed for complicity in a Popish plot, 6 Arden, Joan, 12 Arden, Mary. See Shakespeare, Mary Arden, Robert (1), sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire in 1438, 6 Arden, Robert (2), landlord at Snitterfield of Richard Shakespeare, 3 6 Arden, Thomas, grandfather of Shakespeare’s mother, 6 Arden of Feversham, a play of uncertain authorship, 71 Ariel, character of, 256 Ariodante and Ginevra, Historie of, 208 Ariosto, I Suppositi of, 164 Aristotle, quotation from, made by both Shakespeare and Bacon 370 n Armado, in Love’s Labour’s Lost 51 n, 62 Armenian language, translation of Shakespeare in the, 354 Arms, coat of, Shakespeare’s, 189 190 191 193 Arms, College of, applications of the poet’s father to, 2 10 n, 188-92 Arne, Dr., 334 Arnold, Matthew, 327 n 1 Art in England, its indebtedness to Shakespeare, 340 341 As You Like It: allusion to the part of Rosalind being played by a boy, 38 n 2 Asbies, the chief property of Robert Arden at Wilmcote, bequeathed to Shakespeare’s mother, 7 Ashbee, Mr. E. W., 302 n Assimilation, literary, Shakespeare’s power of, 61 109 seq. Aston Cantlowe, 6 ‘Astrophel,’ apostrophe to Sidney in Spenser’s, 143 n 2 ‘Astrophel and Stella,’ 83 Aubrey, John, the poet’s early biographer, on John Shakespeare’s trade, 4 ‘Aurora,’ title of Sir W. Alexander’s collection of sonnets, 438 Autobiographical features of Shakespeare’s plays, 164-7 168 248 Autographs of the poet, 284-6 ‘Avisa,’ heroine of Willobie’s poem, 155 seq Ayrer, Jacob, his Die schÖne Sidea, 253 and n 1 Ayscough, Samuel, 364 n B Bacon, Miss Delia, 371 Bacon Society, 372 Bacon-Shakespeare controversy, (Appendix II.), 370-73 Baddesley Clinton, the Shakespeares of, 3 BaÏf, De, plagiarised indirectly by Shakespeare, 111 and n Bandello, the story of Romeo and Juliet by, 55 n 1 Barante, recognition of the greatness of Shakespeare by, 350 Barnard, Sir John, second husband of the poet’s granddaughter Elizabeth, 282 Barnes, Barnabe, legal terminology in his Sonnets, 32 n 2 Barnfield, Richard, feigning old age in his ‘Affectionate Shepherd,’ 86 n Bartholomew Fair, 255 Bartlett, John, 364 Barton collection of Shakespeareana at Boston, Mass., 341 Barton-on-the-Heath, 12 Bathurst, Charles, on Shakespeare’s versification, 49 n Baynes, Thomas Spencer, 365 Beale, Francis, 389 ‘Bear Garden in Southwark, The,’ the poet’s lodgings near, 38 Bearley, 6 Beaumont, Francis, on ‘things done at the Mermaid,’ 177 Beaumont, Sir John, 388 Bedford, Edward Russell, third Earl of: his marriage to Lucy Harington, 161 Bedford, Lucy, Countess of, 138 n 2, 161 Beeston, William (a seventeenth-century actor), on the report that Shakespeare was a schoolmaster, 29 Bellay, Joachim du, Spenser’s translations of some of his sonnets, 101 105 n, 432 436 443 444 Belleau, Remy, poems and sonnets by, 441 n 1, 444 445 n Belleforest (Francois de), Shakespeare’s indebtedness to the ‘Histoires Tragiques’ of, 14 55 n 1, 208 222 Benda, J. W. 0., German translation of Shakespeare by, 344 Benedick and his ‘halting sonnet,’ 108 208 Benedix, J. R., opposition to Shakespearean worship by, 345 Bentley, R., 313 Berlioz, Hector, 351 Bermudas, the, and The Tempest, 252 Berners, Lord, translation of ‘Huon of Bordeaux’ by, 162 Bernhardt, Madame Sarah, 351 Bertaut, Jean, 443 Betterton, Mrs., 335 Betterton, Thomas, 33 332 334 335 362 Bianca and her lovers, story of, partly drawn from the ‘Supposes’ of George Gascoigne, 164 Bible, the, Shakespeare and, 16 17 and n 1 Bibliography of Shakespeare, 299-325 Bensley, Robert, actor, 338 Bidford, near Stratford, legend of a drinking bout at, 271 Biography of the poet, sources of (Appendix I.), 361-5 Birmingham, memorial Shakespeare library at, 298 Biron, in Love’s Labour’s Lost, 51 and n Birth of Merlin, 181 Birthplace, Shakespeare’s, 8 9 ‘Bisson,’ use of the word, 317 Blackfriars Shakespeare’s purchase of property in, 267 Blackfriars Theatre, built by James Burbage (1596), 38 200 ‘Blackness,’ Shakespeare’s praise of, 118-120 cf. 155 Blades, William, 364 Blind Beggar of Alexandria, Chapman’s, 51 n Blount, Edward, publisher, 92 135 n, 183 244 304 305 312 393 394 and n 1 Boaistuau de Launay (Pierre) translates Bandello’s story of Romeo and Juliet, 51 n Boaden, James, 406 n Boar’s Head Tavern, 170 Boas, Mr. F. S., 365 Boccaccio, Shakespeare’s indebtedness to, 163 249 251 and n 2 Bodenstedt, Friedrich von, German translator of Shakespeare, 344 Bohemia, allotted a seashore in Winter’s Tale, 251 Boiardo, 243 Bond against impediments respecting Shakespeare’s marriage, 20 21 Bonian, Richard, printer, 226 Booth, Barton, actor, 335 Booth, Edwin, 342 Booth, Junius Brutus, 342 Booth, Lionel, 311 Borck, Baron C. W. von, translation of Julius CÆsar into German by, 343 Boswell, James, 334 Boswell, James (the younger), 322 405 n Boswell-Stone, Mr. W. G. 364 BÖttger, A., German translation of Shakespeare by, 344 Boy-actors, 34 35 38 Boydell, John, his scheme for illustrating the work of the poet, 341 Bracebridge, C. H., 364 Brach, Pierre de, his sonnet on Sleep echoed in Daniel’s Sonnet xlix., 101 and n 1 431 445 n Brandes, Mr. Georg, 365 Brassington, Mr. W. Salt, 290 n Brathwaite, Richard, 269 n 1, 388 398 Breton, Nicholas, homage paid to the Countess of Pembroke in his poems, 138 n 2 Brewster, E., 313 Bridgeman, Mr. C. 0., 415 n Bright, James Heywood, 406 n Broken Heart, Ford’s, similarity of theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet cxxvi. to that of a song in, 97 n Brooke or Broke, Arthur, his translation of the story of Romeo and Juliet, 55 322 Brooke, Ralph, complains about Shakespeare’s coat-of-arms, 192 193 Brown, C. Armitage, 406 n Brown, John, obtains a writ of distraint against Shakespeare’s father, 12 Browne, William, love-sonnets by, 439 and n 2 Buc, Sir George, 245 Buckingham, John Sheffield, first Duke of, a letter from King James to the poet said to have been in his possession, 231 Bucknill, Dr. John Charles, on the poet’s medical knowledge, 364 Burbage, James, owner of The Theatre and keeper of a livery stable, 33 36 Burbage, Richard, erroneously assumed to have been a native of Stratford, 31 n Burgersdijk, Dr. L. A. J., translation in Dutch by, 352 Burton, Francis, bookseller, 399 n 2, 400 C ‘C., E.,’ sonnet by, on lust, 153 n 1 Caliban, the character of, 253 256 257 and notes Cambridge, Hamlet acted at, 224 Cambridge edition of Shakespeare, 324 Camden, William, 191 Campbell, Lord, on the poet’s legal acquirements, 364 Campion, Thomas, his opinion of Barnes’s verse, 133 Capell, Edward, reprint of Edward III in his ‘Prolusions,’ 71 224 Cardenio, the lost play of, 181 258 259 Carter, Rev. Thomas, on the alleged Puritan sympathies of Shakespeare’s father, 10 n Casteliones y Montisis, Lope de Vega’s, 55 n 1 Castille, Constable of, entertainments in his honour at Whitehall, 233 234 Castle, William, parish clerk of Stratford, 34 Catherine II of Russia, adaptations of the Merry Wives and King John by, 352 353 Cawood, Gabriel, publisher of ‘Mary Magdalene’s Funeral Tears,’ 88 n Cecil, Sir Robert, and the Earl of Southampton, 143 379 381 382 ‘Centurie of Spiritual Sonnets, A,’ Barnes’s, 132 ‘Certain Sonnets,’ Sidney’s, 153 n 1 Cervantes, his ‘Don Quixote,’ foundation of lost play of Cardenio, 258 Chamberlain, the Lord, his company of players. See Hunsdon, first Lord and second Lord Chapman, George, plays on Biron’s career by, 51 n, 395 n 1 Charlecote Park, probably the scene of the poaching episode, 27 28 Charles I and the poet’s plays, 329 Charles II, his copy of the Second Folio, 312 Chateaubriand, 349 ChÂtelain, Chevalier de, rendering of Hamlet by, 351 Chaucer, the story of ‘Lucrece’ in his ‘Legend of Good Women,’ 76 Chenier, Marie-Joseph, sides with Voltaire in the Shakespearean controversy in France, 349 Chester, Robert, his ‘Love’s Martyr,’ 183 184 n Chettle, Henry, the publisher, his description of Shakespeare as an actor, 43 48 n Chetwynde, Peter, publisher, 312 Chiswell, R., 313 ‘Chloris,’ title of William Smith’s collection of sonnets, 437 and n 4 Chronology of Shakespeare’s plays 48-57 59 63-72 Churchyard, Thomas, his Fantasticall Monarcho’s Epitaph, 51 n Cibber, Colley, 335 Cibber, Mrs., 336 Cibber, Theophilus, the reputed compiler of ‘Lives of the Poets,’ 32 and n 3, 33 Cinthio, the ‘Hecatommithi’ of, Shakespeare’s indebtedness to, 14 53 236 Clark, Mr. W. G., 325 Clement, Nicolas, criticism of the poet by, 347 348 Cleopatra: the poet’s allusion to her part being played by a boy, 38 n 2 Clive, Mrs., 336 Clopton, Sir Hugh, the former owner of New Place, 193 Clopton, Sir John, 283 Clytemnestra, resemblance between the characters of Lady Macbeth and, 13 n Cobham, Henry Brooke, eighth Lord, 169 ‘Coelia,’ love-sonnets by William Browne entitled, 439 and n 2 ‘Coelia,’ title of Percy’s collection of sonnets, 435 ‘Coelica,’ title of Fulke Greville’s collection of poems, 97 n Cokain, Sir Aston, lines on Shakespeare and Wincot ale by, 166 Coleridge, S. T., on the style of Antony and Cleopatra, 245 Collier, John Payne, includes Mucedorus in his edition of Shakespeare, 72 Collins, Mr. Churton, 317 n 1 Collins, Francis, Shakespeare’s solicitor, 271 273 Collins, Rev. John, 321 Colte, Sir Henry, 410 n Combe, John, bequest left to the poet by, 269 Combe, Thomas, legacy of the poet to, 276 Combe, William, his attempt to enclose common land at Stratford, 269 Comedy of Errors: the plot drawn from Plautus, 16 54 ‘Complainte of Rosamond,’ Daniel’s, parallelisms in Romeo and Juliet with, 56 Concordances to Shakespeare, 364 and n Condell, Henry, actor and a lifelong friend of Shakespeare, 36 202 203 264 Confessio Amantis, Gower’s, 244 Conspiracie of Duke Biron, The, 51 n Constable, Henry, piratical publication of the sonnets of, 88 n Contention betwixt the two famous houses of Yorke and Lancaster, first part of the, 59 ‘Contr Amours,’ Jodelle’s, parody of the vituperative sonnet in, 122 and n Cooke, Sir Anthony, 436 Cooke, George Frederick, actor, 338 Coral, comparison of lips with, 118 and n 2 Coriolanus: date of first publication, 246 ‘Coronet for his mistress Philosophy, A,’ by Chapman, 106 Coryat, ‘Odcombian Banquet’ by, 395 Cotes, Thomas, printer, 312 Cotswolds, the, Shakespeare’s allusion to, 168 Court, the, Shakespeare’s relations with, 81 83 230 232-4 Cowden-Clarke, Mrs., 364 Cowley, actor, 208 ‘Crabbed age and youth,’ etc. 182 Craig, Mr. W. J., 325 Creede, Thomas, draft of the Merry Wives of Windsor printed by, 172 Cromwell, History of Thomas, Lord, 313 ‘Cryptogram, The Great,’ 372 Cupid, Shakespeare’s addresses to, compared with the invocations of Sidney, Drayton, Lyly, and others, 97 n Curtain Theatre, Moorfields, one of the only two theatres existing in London at the period of Shakespeare’s arrival, 32 36 Cushman, Charlotte, 342 Cust, Mr. Lionel, 290 n Cymbeline: sources of plot, 249 ‘Cynthia,’ Barnfield’s, adulation of Queen Elizabeth in, 137 n, 435 ‘Cynthia,’ Ralegh’s, extravagant apostrophe to Queen Elizabeth in, 137 n Cynthia’s Revels, performed at Blackfriars Theatre, 215 Cyrano de Bergerac, plagiarisms of Shakespeare by, 347 D ‘Daiphantus,’ allusion to the poet in Scoloker’s, 277 Daniel, Samuel, parallelisms in Romeo and Juliet with his ‘Complainte of Rosamond,’ 56 61 Danish, translations of Shakespeare in, 354 Danter, John, prints surreptitiously Romeo and Juliet, 56 Daurat (formerly Dinemandy), Jean, one of ‘La Pleiade,’ 443 D’Avenant, John, keeps the Crown Inn, Oxford, 265 D’Avenant, Sir William, relates the story of Shakespeare holding horses outside playhouses, 33 Davies, Archdeacon, vicar of Saperton, on Shakespeare’s ‘unluckiness’ in poaching, 27 Davies, John, of Hereford, his allusion to the parts played by Shakespeare, 44 Davies, Sir John: his ‘gulling sonnets,’ a satire on conventional sonnetteering, 106 107 and n 1 128 n, 435 436 Davison, Francis, his translation of Petrarch’s sonnet, 102 n Death-mask, the Kesselstadt, 296 and n 1 ‘Decameron,’ the, indebtedness of Shakespeare to, 163 249 251 and n2 Dedications, 392-400 ‘Dedicatory’ sonnets, of Shakespeare, 125 seq. Defence of Cony-Catching, 47 n Dekker, Thomas, 48 n ‘Delia,’ title of Daniel’s collection of sonnets, 104 118 n 2, 130 430 434 ‘DÉlie,’ sonnets by SÈve entitled, 442 Delius, Nikolaus, edition of Shakespeare by, 324 Dennis, John, on the Merry Wives of Windsor, 171 172 Derby, Ferdinando Stanley, Earl of, his patronage of actors, 35 Derby, William Stanley, Earl of, 161 Desmond, Earl of, Ben Jonson’s apostrophe to the, 140 Desportes, Philippe, his sonnet on Sleep, 101 and 431 Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, 365 Devrient family, the, stage representation of Shakespeare by, 346 Diana, George de Montemayor’s, and Two Gentlemen of Verona, 53 ‘Diana’ the title of Constable’s collection of sonnets, 88 n 96 n 104 431 Diderot, opposition to Voltaire’s strictures by, 348 ‘Diella,’ sonnets by ‘R. L.’ [Richard Linche], 437 Digges, Leonard, on the superior popularity of Julius CÆsar to Jonson’s Catiline, 220 n ‘Don Quixote’ and the lost play Cardenio, 258 Doncaster, the name of Shakespeare at, 1 Donne Dr. John, his poetic addresses to the Countess of Bedford, 138 n 2 Donnelly, Mr. Ignatius, 372 Dorell, Hadrian, writer of the preface to the story of ‘Avisa,’ 157 Double Falsehood, or the Distrest Lovers, 258 259 and n 1 Douce, Francis, 364 Dowdall, John, 362 Dowden, Professor, 333 416 n 364 365 Drake, Nathan, 363 Drayton, Michael, 61 Droeshout, Martin, engraver of the portrait in the First Folio, 287-8 Droitwich, native place of John Heming, one of Shakespeare’s actor-friends, 31 n Drummond, William, of Hawthornden, his translations of Petrarch’s sonnets, 104 n 4 111 n Dryden, a criticism of the poet’s work by, 330 Ducis, Jean-FranÇois, adaptations of the poet for the French stage 349 352 Dugdale, Gilbert, 231 n Dulwich, manor of, purchased by Edward Alleyn, 204 233 n 1 Dumain, Lord, in Love’s Labour’s Lost, 51 n Dumas, Alexandre, adaptation of Hamlet by, 351 Duport, Paul, repeats Voltaire’s censure, 350 Dyce, Alexander, 259 n 1 E Ecclesiastes, Book of, poetical versions of, 441 and n 1 Eden, translation of Magellan’s ‘Voyage to the South Pole’ by, 253 Edgar, Eleazar, publisher, 390 Editions of Shakespeare’s works. Editors of Shakespeare, in the eighteenth century, 313-22 Education of Shakespeare: the poet’s masters at Stratford Grammar School, 13 Edward II, Marlowe’s, Richard II suggested by, 64 Edward III, a play of uncertain authorship, 71 Edwardes, Richard, author of the lost play PalÆmon and Arcyte, 260 Edwards, Thomas, ‘Canons of Criticism’ of, 319 Eld, George, printer, 90 180 399 n 2 401 402 Elizabeth, Princess, marriage of, performance of The Tempest, etc. at, 254 258 262 264 Elizabeth, Queen: her visit to Kenilworth, 17 Elizabethan Stage Society, 70 n 1 210 n 2 Elton, Mr. Charles, Q.C., on the dower of the poet’s widow, 274 n Elze, Friedrich Karl, ‘Life of Shakespeare’ by, 364 ‘Emaricdulfe,’ sonnets by ‘E.C.,’ 153 n 1 436 Endymion, Lyly’s, and Love’s Labour’s Lost, 62 Eschenburg, Johann Joachim, completes Wieland’s German prose translation of Shakespeare, 343 Error, Historie of, and Comedy of Errors, 54 Essex, Robert Devereux, second Earl of, company of actors under the patronage of, 33 Euphues, Lyly’s, Polonius’s advice to Laertes borrowed from, 62 n Euripides, Andromache of, 13 n Evans, Sir Hugh, quotes Latin phrases, 15 Evelyn, John, on the change of taste regarding the drama, 329 n 2 Every Man in his Humour, Shakespeare takes a part in the performance of, 44 176 F Faire Em, a play of doubtful authorship, 72 Falstaff, Queen Elizabeth’s enthusiasm for, 82 171 Farmer, Dr. Richard, on Shakespeare’s education, 14 15 363 Farmer, Mr. John S., 386 n 1 ‘Farmer MS., the Dr.,’ Davies’s ‘gulling sonnets’ in, 107 n 1 Fastolf, Sir John, 170 Faucit, Helen. See Martin, Lady Felix and Philomena, History of, 53 ‘Fidessa,’ Griffin’s, 182 n 431 437 Field, Henry, father of the London printer, 186 Field, Richard, a friend of Shakespeare, 32 Finnish, translations of Shakespeare in, 354 Fisher, Mr. Clement, 166 Fitton, Mary, and the ‘dark lady,’ 123 n 406 n 415 n Fleay, Mr. F. G., metrical tables by, 49 n Fletcher, Giles, on Time, 77 n 2 Fletcher, John, 181 184 258 Fletcher, Lawrence, actor, takes a theatrical company to Scotland, 41 and n 1 231 Florio, John, and Holofernes, 51 n 84 n Folio, the First, 1623: editor’s note as to the ease with which the poet wrote, 46 Folio, the Second, 312 Folio, the Fourth, 313 Ford, John, similarity of theme between a song in his Broken Heart and Shakespeare’s Sonnet cxxvi., 97 n Forgeries in the ‘Perkins’ Folio, 312 and n 2 Forgeries, Shakespearean (Appendix I.), 365-9 Forrest, Edwin, American actor, 342 France, versions and criticisms of Shakespeare in, 347-50 Fraunce, Abraham, 385 n 2 Freiligrath, Ferdinand von, German translation of Shakespeare by, 344 French, the poet’s acquaintance with, 14 15 French, George Russell, 363 ‘Freyndon’ (or Frittenden), 1 Friendship, sonnets of, Shakespeare’s, 136 138-47 Frittenden, Kent. See Freyndon Fulbroke Park and the poaching episode, 28 Fuller, Thomas, allusion in his ‘Worthies’ to Sir John Fastolf, 170 Fulman, Rev. W., 362 Furness, Mr. H. H., his ‘New Variorum’ edition of Shakespeare, 323 341 Furness, Mrs. H. H., 364 Furnivall, Dr. F. J., 49 n 302 n 325 334 364 G Gale, Dunstan, 397 Ganymede, Barnfield’s sonnets to, 435 and n 4 Garnett, Henry, the Jesuit, probably alluded to in Macbeth, 239 Gascoigne, George, his definition of a sonnet, 95 n 2 Gastrell, Rev, Francis, 283 Gates, Sir Thomas, 252 Germany, Shakespearean representations in, 340 346 Gervinus, ‘Commentaries’ by, 49 n 346 ‘Gesta Romanorum’ and the Merchant of Venice, 67 Ghost in Hamlet, the, played by Shakespeare, 44 Gilchrist, Octavius, 363 Gildon, Charles, on the rapid production of the Merry Wives of Windsor, 172 Giovanni (Fiorentino), Ser, Shakespeare’s indebtedness to his ‘Il Pecorone,’ 14 66 172 Giuletta, La, by Luigi da Porto, 55 n 1 ‘Globe’ edition of Shakespeare, 325 Globe Theatre: built in 1599, 37 196 Goethe, criticism and adaptation of Shakespeare by, 345 Golding, Arthur, his English version of the ‘Metamorphoses,’ 15 16 116 n 162 253 Gollancz, Mr. Israel, 222 n 325 Googe, Barnabe, his use of the word ‘sonnet,’ 427 n 2 Gosson, Stephen, his ‘Schoole of Abuse,’ 67 Gottsched, J. C., denunciation of Shakespeare by, 343 Gounod, opera of Romeo and Juliet by, 351 Gower, John, represented by the speaker of the prologues in Pericles, 244 Gower, Lord Ronald, 297 Grammaticus, Saxo, 222 Grave, Shakespeare’s, 272 Gray’s Inn Hall, performance of The Comedy of Errors in, 70 and n Greek, Shakespeare’s alleged acquaintance with, 13 and n 16 Green, C. F., 364 Greene, Robert, charged with selling the same play to two companies, 47 n Greene, Thomas, actor at the Red Bull Theatre, 31 n Greene, Thomas (‘alias Shakespeare’), a tenant of New Place, and Shakespeare’s legal adviser, 195 206 269 270 and n Greenwich Palace, Shakespeare and other actors play before Queen Elizabeth at, 43 44 n 1 70 81 82 Greet, hamlet in Gloucestershire, identical with the ‘Greece’ in the Taming of the Shrew, 167 Grendon, near Oxford, Shakespeare’s alleged sojourn there, 31 Greville, Sir Fulke, complains of the circulation of uncorrected manuscript copies of the ‘Arcadia,’ 88 n Griffin, Bartholomew, 182 n Griggs, Mr. W., 302 n Grimm, Baron, recognition of Shakespeare’s greatness by, 349 350 n 1 ‘Groats-worth of Wit,’ Greene’s pamphlet containing his attack on Shakespeare, 57 Guizot, FranÇois, revision of Le Tourneur’s translation by, 350 ‘Gulling sonnets,’ Sir John Davies’s, 106 107 435 436 H ‘H., Mr. W.,’ ‘patron’ of Thorpe’s pirated issue of the Sonnets, 92 Hacket, Marian and Cicely, in the Taming of the Shrew, 164-6 Hales, John (of Eton), on the superiority of Shakespeare to all other poets, 328 and n Hall, Elizabeth, the poet’s granddaughter, 192 266 275 Hall, Dr. John, the poet’s son-in-law, 266 268 273 281 Hall, Mrs. Susanna, the poet’s elder daughter, 192 205 266 Hall, William (1), on the inscription over the poet’s grave, 272 and n 2 362 Hall, William (2), see ‘H., Mr. W.’ Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard, the indenture of the poet’s property in Blackfriars in the collection of, 267 n Hamlet: parallelisms in the Electra of Sophocles, the Andromache of Euripides, and the PersÆ of Æschylus, 13 n Hanmer, Sir Thomas, 224 Harington, Sir John, translates Ariosto, 208 Harington, Lucy, her marriage to the third Earl of Bedford, 161 Harness, William, 324 Harrison, John, publisher of ‘Lucrece,’ 76 Harsnet, ‘Declaration of Popish Impostures’ by, 241 Hart family, the, and the poet’s reputed birthplace, 8 Hart, Joan, Shakespeare’s sister, 8 Hart, John, 283 Hart, Joseph. C., 371 Harvey, Gabriel, bestows on Spenser the title of ‘an English Petrarch,’ 101 Hathaway, Anne. See Shakespeare, Anne Hathaway, Catherine, sister of Anne Hathaway, 19 Hathaway, Joan, mother of Anne Hathaway, 19 Hathaway, Richard, marriage of his daughter Anne (or Agnes) to the poet, 18 19-22 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 371 Hazlitt, William, and Shakespearean criticism, 333 364 365 Healey, John, 400 403 n 2 408 409 ‘Hecatommithi,’ Cinthio’s, Shakespeare’s indebtedness to, 14 53 236 Heine, studies of Shakespeare’s heroines by, 345 Helena in All’s Well that Ends Well, 163 Heming, John (actor-friend of Shakespeare), wrongly claimed as a native of Stratford, 31 n 36 202 203 264 Henderson, John, actor, 337 Heneage, Sir Thomas, 375 n 3 Henley-in-Arden, 4 Henrietta Maria, Queen, billeted on Mrs. Hall (the poet’s daughter) at Stratford, 281 Henry IV (parts i. and ii.): passage ridiculing the affectations of Euphues, 62 n Henry V, The Famous Victories of, the groundwork of Henry V and of Henry V, 167 174 Henry V: French dialogues, 1 Henry VI (pt. i.): performed at the Rose Theatre in 1592, 56 Henry VI (pt. ii.): parallel in the Œdipus Coloneus of Sophocles with a passage in, 13 n Henry VI (pt. iii.): performed by a company other than the poet’s own, 36 Henry VIII, 174 Henryson, Robert, 227 Henslowe, Philip, erects the Rose Theatre, 36 ‘Heptameron of Civil Discources,’ Whetstone’s, 237 ‘Herbert, Mr. William,’ his alleged identity with ‘Mr. W. H.’ (Appendix VI.), 406-10 Herder, Johann Gottfried, 343 ‘Hero and Leander,’ Marlowe’s, quotation in As You Like It, from, 64 Herringman, H., 313 Hervey, Sir William, 375 n 3 Hess, J. R., 342 Heyse, Paul, German translation of Shakespeare by, 344 Heywood, Thomas, his allusion to the dislike of actors to the publication of plays, 48 n Hill, John, marriage of his widow, Agnes or Anne, to Robert Arden, 6 Holinshed’s ‘Chronicles,’ materials taken by Shakespeare from, 17 47 63 64 167 239 241 249 Holland, translations of Shakespeare in, 352 Holland, Hugh, 306 Holmes, Nathaniel, 372 Holmes, William, bookseller, 403 n 1 Holofernes, quotes Latin phrases from Lily’s grammar, 15 Horace, his claim for the immortality of verse, 114 and n 1 116 n Howard of Effingham, the Lord Admiral, Charles, Lord, his company of actors, 35 Hudson, Rev. H. N., 325 Hughes, Mrs. Margaret, plays female parts in the place of boys, 335 Hughes, William, and ‘Mr. W. H.,’ 93 n Hugo, Francois Victor, translation of Shakespeare by, 350 Hugo, Victor, 350 Humourous Day’s Mirth, An, 51 n Hungary, translations and performances of Shakespeare in, 353 Hunsdon (Lord Chamberlain), George Carey, second Lord, his company of players, 35 Hunsdon (Lord Chamberlain), Henry Carey, first Lord, his company of players, 35 Hunt, Thomas, master of Stratford Grammar School, 13 Hunter, Rev. Joseph, 333 363 406 ‘Huon of Bordeaux,’ hints for the story of Oberon from, 162 ‘Hymn,’ use of the word as the title of poems, 133 134 135 n ‘Hymnes of AstrÆa,’ Sir John Davies’s, 440 I ‘Idea’,’ title of Drayton’s collection of sonnets, 104 105 434 ‘Ignoto,’ 183 Immortality of verse, claimed by Shakespeare for his sonnets, 113 114 115 and n Imogen, the character of, 249 250 Income, Shakespeare’s, 196-204 Incomes of actors, 198 199 and n 2 India, translations and representations of Shakespeare in, 354 Ingannati, (Gl’), its resemblance to Twelfth Night, 210 Ingram, Dr., on the ‘weak endings’ in Shakespeare, 49 n Ireland forgeries, the (Appendix 1.), 366 Ireland, Samuel, on the poaching episode, 28 Irishman, the only, in Shakespeare’s dramatis personÆ, 173 Irving, Sir Henry, 339 Italian, the poet’s acquaintance with, 14-16 cf. 66 n 3 Italy, Shakespeare’s knowledge of, 43 Itinerary of Shakespeare’s company in the provinces between 1593 and 1614, 40 and n 1 J Jaggard, Isaac, 305 Jaggard, William, piratically inserts two of Shakespeare’s sonnets in his ‘Passionate Pilgrim,’ 89 182 299 390 396 James VI of Scotland and I of England, his favour bestowed on actors, 41 n 1 James, Sir Henry, 311 Jameson, Mrs., 365 Jansen, Cornelius, alleged portrait of Shakespeare by, 294 Jansen or Janssen, Gerard, 276 Jeronimo, resemblance between the stories of Hamlet and, 221 n Jew of Malta, Marlowe’s, 68 Jew . . . showne at the Bull, a lost play, 67 Jodelle, Estienne, resemblances in ‘Venus and Adonis’ to a poem by, 75 n 2 John, King, old play on, attributed to the poet, 181 John, King, Shakespeare’s play of, printed in 1623, 69 Johnson, Dr., his story of Shakespeare, 33 Johnson, Gerard, his monument to the poet in Stratford Church, 276 Johnson, Robert, lyrics set to music by, 255 and n Jones, Inigo, designs scenic decoration for masques, 38 n 2 Jonson, Ben, on Shakespeare’s lack of exact scholarship, 16 Jordan, John, forgeries of (Appendix 1.), 365 366 Jordan, Thomas, his lines on men playing female parts, 335 n Jourdain, Sylvester, 252 ‘Jubilee,’ Shakespeare’s, 334 Julius CÆsar: use of the word ‘lovers,’ 127 n Jusserand, M. J. J., 42 n 1 348 n 1 351 n 2 K Keller, A., German translation of Shakespeare by, 344 Kemble, Charles, 351 Kemble, John Philip, 337 Kemp, William, comedian, plays at Greenwich Palace, 43 208 219 Kenilworth, Elizabeth’s visit to, 17 cf. 162 Ketzcher, N., translation into Russian by, 353 Killigrew, Thomas, and the substitution of women for boys in female parts, 334 King’s players, the company of, 35 Kirkland, the name of Shakespeare at, 1 Kirkman, Francis, publisher, 181 Knight, Charles, 324 Knollys, Sir William, 415 n Kok, A. S., translation in Dutch by, 352 KÖrner, J., German translation of Shakespeare by, 345 Kraszewski, Polish translation edited by, 353 Kreyssig, Friedrich A. T., studies of the poet by, 345 Kyd, Thomas, influence of, on Shakespeare, 61 222 n L ‘L., H.,’ initials on seal attesting Shakespeare’s autograph. La Harpe and the Shakespearean controversy in France, 349 LabÉ, Louise, 445 n Lambarde, William, 175 Lambert, Edmund, mortgagee of the Asbies property, 12 26 164 Lambert, John, proposal to confer upon him an absolute title to the Asbies property, 26 Lane, Nicholas, a creditor of John Shakespeare, 186 Laroche, Benjamin, translation by, 350 Latin, the poet’s acquaintance with, 13 15 16 ‘Latten,’ use of the word in Shakespeare, 177 n ‘Laura,’ Shakespeare’s allusion to her as Petrarch’s heroine, 108 Law, the poet’s knowledge of, 32 and cf. n 2 and 107 Lawrence, Henry, his seal beneath Shakespeare’s autograph, 267 Lear, King: date of composition, 241 Legal terminology in plays and poems of the Shakespearean period, 32 n 2 430 cf. 107 Legge, Dr. Thomas, a Latin piece on Richard III by, 63 Leicester, Earl of, his entertainment of Queen Elizabeth at Kenilworth, 17 162 Leo, F. A. 346 Leoni, Michele, Italian translation of the poet issued by, 352 ‘Leopold’ Shakspere, the, 325 Lessing, defence of Shakespeare by, 343 L’Estrange, Sir Nicholas, 176 Le Tourneur, Pierre, French prose translation of Shakespeare by, 349 ‘Licia,’ Fletcher’s collection of sonnets called, 77 n 2 103 105 113 n 5 433 Linche, Richard, his sonnets entitled ‘Diella,’ 437 Lintot, Bernard, 231 Locke (or Lok), Henry, sonnets by, 388 441 Locrine, Tragedie of, 179 Lodge, Thomas, 57 61 Lope de Vega dramatises the story of Romeo and Juliet, 55 n 1 Lopez, Roderigo, Jewish physician, 68 and n Lorkin, Rev. Thomas, on the burning of the Globe Theatre, 261 n Love, treatment of, in Shakespeare’s sonnets, ‘Lover’ and ‘love’ synonymous with ‘friend’ and ‘friendship’ in Elizabethan English, 127 n ‘Lover’s Complaint, A,’ possibly written by Shakespeare, 91 Love’s Labour’s Lost: Latin phrases in, 15 Love’s Labour’s Won, attributed by Meres to Shakespeare, 162 ‘Love’s Martyr, or Rosalin’s Complaint,’ 183 184 n 304 Lowell, James Russell, 13 n 341 Lucian, the Timon of, 243 ‘Lucrece:’ published in 1594, 76 Lucy, Sir Thomas, his prosecution of Shakespeare for poaching, 27 28 Luddington, 20 Lydgate, ‘Troy Book’ of, drawn upon for Troilus and Cressida, 227 Lyly, John, 61 Lyrics in Shakespeare’s plays, 207 250 255 and n M ‘M. I.’ 306 See also ‘S., I. M.’ Macbeth: references to the climate of Inverness, 41 n 3 42 Macbeth, Lady, and Æschylus’s Clytemnestra, 13 n Mackay, Mr. Herbert, on the dower of the poet’s widow, 274 Macready, William Charles, 339 351 Madden, Rt. Hon. D. H., on Shakespeare’s knowledge of sport, 27 n 168 364 Magellan, ‘Voyage to the South Pole’ by, 253 Magny, Olivier de, 443 Malone, Edmund, on Shakespeare’s first employment in the theatre, 34 Malvolio, 211 Manners, Lady Bridget, 378 379 and n Manningham, John (diarist), a description of Twelfth Night by, 210 Manuscript, circulation of sonnets in, 88 and n Marino, vituperative sonnet by, 122 n 1 442 n 2 Markham, Gervase, his adulation of Southampton in his sonnets, 131 134 387 Marlowe, Christopher, 57 Marmontel and the Shakespearean controversy in France, 349 Marot, ClÉment, 442 Marriage, treatment of, in the Sonnets, 98 Marshall, Mr. F. A., 325 Marston, John, identified by some as the ‘rival poet,’ 136 183 Martin, one of the English actors who played in Scotland, 41 and n 1 Masks worn by men playing women’s parts, 38 n 2 Massey, Mr. Gerald, on the Sonnets, 91 n 1 Massinger, Philip, 258 ‘Mastic,’ use of the word, 228 n Masuccio, the story of Romeo and Juliet told in his Novellino, 55 Measure for Measure: the offence of Claudio, 23 n Melin de Saint-Gelais, 442 Memorials in sculpture to the poet, 297 MenÆchmi of Plautus, 54 Mendelssohn, setting of Shakespearean songs by, 347 Merchant of Venice: the influence of Marlowe, 63 68 Meres, Francis, recommends Shakespeare’s ‘sugred’ sonnets, 89 Merry Devill of Edmonton, 181 258 n 2 Merry Wives of Windsor: Latin phrases put into the mouth of Sir Hugh Evans, 15 Metre of Shakespeare’s plays a rough guide to the chronology, 48-50 MÉziÈres, Alfred, 350 Michel, Francisque, translation by, 350 Middle Temple Hall, performance of Twelfth Night at, 210 Middleton, Thomas, his allusion to Le Motte in Blurt, Master Constable, 51 n Midsummer Night’s Dream: references to the pageants at Kenilworth Park, 17 162 Milton, applies the epithet ‘sweetest’ to Shakespeare, 179 n Minto, Professor, claims Chapman as Shakespeare’s ‘rival’ poet, 135 n Miranda, character of, 256 ‘Mirror of Martyrs,’ 211 Miseries of Enforced Marriage, 243 ‘Monarcho, Fantasticall,’ 51 n Money, its purchasing power in the sixteenth century, 3 n 3 197 n Montagu, Mrs. Elizabeth, 348 Montaigne, ‘Essays’ of, 85 n 253 n MontÉgut, Emile, translation by, 350 Montemayor, George de, 53 Montgomery, Philip Herbert, Earl of, 306 381 410 Monument to Shakespeare in Stratford Church, 276 286 Morley, Lord, 410 n Moseley, Humphrey, publisher, 181 258 Moth, in Love’s Labour’s Lost, 51 n Moulton, Dr. Richard G. 365 Mucedorus, a play by an unknown author, 72 Much Ado about Nothing: a jesting allusion to sonnetteering, 108 Mulberry-tree at New Place, the, 194 and n Music at stage performances in Shakespeare’s day, 38 n 2 N Nash, Anthony, the poet’s legacy to, 276 Nash, John, the poet’s legacy to, 276 Nash, Thomas (1), marries Elizabeth Hall, Shakespeare’s granddaughter, 282 Nash, Thomas (2), on the performance of Henry VI. 56 57 Navarre, King of, in Love’s Labour’s Lost, 51 n Neil, Samuel, 364 Nekrasow and Gerbel, translation into Russian by, 353 New Place, Stratford, Shakespeare’s purchase of, 193 194 Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, criticism of the poet by, 331 Newington Butts Theatre, 37 Newman, Thomas, piratical publication of Sir Philip Sidney’s sonnets by, 88 n 429 and n 1 Nicolson, George, English agent in Scotland, 41 n 1 Nottingham, Earl of, his company of players, 225 O Oberon, vision of, 17 161 Oechelhaeuser, W., acting edition of the poet by, 346 Oldcastle, Sir John, play on his history, 170 313 ‘Oldcastle, Sir John,’ the original name of Falstaff in Henry IV, 169 Olney, Henry, publisher, 437 Ortlepp, E., German translation of Shakespeare by, 344 Othello: date of composition, 235 Ovid, influence on Shakespeare of his ‘Metamorphoses,’ 15 75 and n 1 76 162 253 Oxford, the poet’s visits to, 31 265 266 Oxford, Earl of, his company of actors, 35 ‘Oxford’ edition of Shakespeare, the, 325 P Painter, William, his ‘Palace of Pleasure’ and Romeo and Juliet, 55 PalÆmon and Arcyte, a lost play, 260 Palamon and Arsett, a lost play, 260 Palmer, John, actor, 337 ‘Palladis Tamia,’ eulogy on the poet in, 178 ‘Pandora,’ Soothern’s collection of love-sonnets, 138 n 2 Pandosto (afterwards called Dorastus and Fawnia), Shakespeare’s indebtedness to, 251 Parodies on sonnetteering, 106-8 122 and n ‘Parthenophil and Parthenophe,’ Barnes’s, 132 Pasquier, Estienne, 443 Passerat, Jean, 443 ‘Passionate Centurie of Love,’ Watson’s, the passage on Time in, 77 ‘Passionate Pilgrim,’ piratical insertion of two sonnets in, 98 182 437 Patrons of companies of players, 35 Pavier, Thomas, printer, 180 ‘Pecorone, Il,’ by Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, Shakespeare’s indebtedness to, 14 66 and n 3 172 Peele, George, 57 Pembroke, Countess of, dedication of Daniel’s ‘Delia’ to, 130 429 Pembroke, Henry, second Earl of, his company of players, perform Henry VI (part iii.), 36 59 Pembroke, William, third Earl of, the question of the identification of ‘Mr. W. H.’ with, 94 406-15 Penrith, Shakespeares at, 1 Pepys, his criticisms of The Tempest and Midsummer Night’s Dream, 329 Percy, William, his sonnets, entitled ‘Coelia,’ 435 Perez, Antonio, and Antonio in The Merchant of Venice, 68 n Pericles: date of composition, 242 Perkes (Clement), in Henry IV., member of a family at Stinchcombe Hill in the sixteenth century, 168 ‘Perkins Folio,’ forgeries in the, 312 317 n 2 367 and n Personalities on the stage, 215 n 1 PÉruse, Jean de la, 443 Petowe, Henry, elegy on Queen Elizabeth by, 148 Petrarch, emulated by Elizabethan sonnetteers, 84 85 86 n Phillips, Augustine, actor, friend of Shakespeare, 36 Phillips, Edward (Milton’s nephew), criticism of the poet by, 362 ‘Phillis,’ Lodge’s, 118 n 2 433 and n 3 Philosophy, Chapman’s sonnets in praise of, 441 ‘Phoenix and the Turtle, The,’ 183 184 304 Pichot, A., 350 ‘Pierce Pennilesse.’ See Nash, Thomas (2) ‘Pierces Supererogation,’ by Gabriel Harvey, 101 n 4 105 Pindar, his claim for the immortality of verse, 114 and n 1 Plague, the, in Stratford-on-Avon, 10 Plautus, the plot of the Comedy of Errors drawn from, 16 Plays, sale of, 47 and n ‘PlÉiade, La,’ title of the literary comrades of Ronsard, 442 ‘Plutarch,’ North’s translation of, Shakespeare’s indebtedness 10 47 162 211 243 245 and n 246 and n ‘Poetaster,’ Jonson’s, 217 218 and n Poland, translations and performances of Shakespeare in, 353 Pontoux, Claude de, name of his heroine copied by Drayton, 104 Pope, Alexander, 297 Porto, Luigi da, adapts the story of Romeo and Juliet, 55 n 1 Portraits of the poet, 286-93 296 n 2 Pott, Mrs. Henry, 372 PrÉvost, AbbÉ, 348 Pritchard, Mrs., 336 Procter, Bryan Waller (Barry Cornwall), 324 Promos and Cassandra, 237 Prospero, character of, 257 Provinces, the, practice of theatrical touring in, 39-42 65 Publication of dramas: deprecated by playhouse authorities, 48 n Puritaine, or the Widdow of Watling-streete, The, 180 313 Puritanism, alleged prevalence in Stratford-on-Avon of, 10 n 268 n 2 ‘Pyramus and Thisbe,’ 397 Q Quarles, John, ‘Banishment of Tarquin’ of, 300 Quarto editions of the plays, in the poet’s lifetime, 301 302 ‘Quatorzain,’ term applied to the Sonnet, 427 n 2 cf. 429 n 1 ‘Queen’s Children of the Chapel,’ the, 34 35 38 213-17 Queen’s Company of Actors, the, welcomed to Stratford-on-Avon by John Shakespeare, 10 Quiney, Thomas, marries Judith Shakespeare, 271 Quinton, baptism of one of the Hacket family at, 165 R Rapp, M., German translation of Shakespeare by, 344 Ralegh, Sir Walter, extravagant apostrophe to Queen Elizabeth by, 137 n 1 182 n ‘Ratseis Ghost,’ and Ratsey’s address to the players, 185 199 Ravenscroft, Edward, on Titus Andronicus, 65 332 Reformation, the, at Stratford-on-Avon, 10 n Rehan, Miss Ada, 342 Religion and Philosophy, sonnets on, 440 441 Return from Parnassus, The, 198 199 n 1 218-20 277 Revision of plays, the poet’s, 47 48 Reynoldes, William, the poet’s legacy to, 276 Rich, Barnabe, story of ‘Apollonius and Silla’ by, 53 210 Rich, Penelope, Lady, Sidney’s passion for, 428 Richard II: the influence of Marlowe, 63 64 Richard III: the influence of Marlowe, 63 Richardson, John, one of the sureties for the bond against impediments respecting Shakespeare’s marriage, 20 22 Richmond Palace, performances at, 82 230 Ristori, Madame, 352 Roberts, James, printer, 225 226 303 431 Robinson, Clement, use of the word ‘sonnet’ by, 427 n 2 Roche, Walter, master of Stratford Grammar School, 13 RÔles, Shakespeare’s: at Greenwich Palace, 43 44 n 1 Rolfe, Mr. W. J, 325 Romeo and Juliet, 54 Romeus and Juliet, Arthur Brooke’s, 55 322 Ronsard, plagiarised by English sonnetteers, 102 103 n 3 432 seq. Rosalind, played by a boy, 38 n 2 Rosaline, praised for her ‘blackness,’ 118 119 ‘Rosalynde, Euphues Golden Legacie,’ Lodge’s, 209 Rose Theatre, Bankside: erected by Philip Henslowe, 36 Rossi, representation of Shakespeare by, 352 Roussillon, Countess of, 163 Rowe, Nicholas, on the parentage of Shakespeare’s wife, 18 Rowington, the Richard and William Shakespeares of, 2 Rowlands, Samuel, 397 Roydon, Matthew, poem on Sir Philip Sidney, 140 184 n RÜmelin, Gustav, 345 Rupert, Prince, at Stratford-on-Avon, 281 Rusconi, Carlo, Italian prose version of Shakespeare issued by, 352 Russia, translations and performances of Shakespeare in, 352 353 Rymer, Thomas, his censure of the poet, 329 S S., M. I., tribute to the poet thus headed, 327 and n 328 S., W., initials in Willobie’s book, 156 157 Sackville, Thomas, 408 n Sadler, Hamlett, the poet’s legacy to, 276 Saint-SaËns, M., opera of Henry VIII by, 351 St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate, a William Shakespeare in 1598 living in, 38 and n 1 Sainte-Marthe, ScÉvole de, 443 Salvini, representation of Othello by, 352 Sand, George, translation of As You Like It by, 351 Sandells, Fulk, one of the sureties for the bond against impediments with respect to Shakespeare’s marriage, 20 22 ‘Sapho and Phao,’ address to Cupid in, 97 n Satiro-Mastix, a retort to Jonson’s Cynthia’s Revels, 215 Savage, Mr. Richard, 165 n 363 ‘Saviolo’s Practise,’ 209 Scenery unknown in Shakespeare’s day, 38 and n 2 Schiller, adaptation of Macbeth for the stage by, 345 Schlegel, A. W. von, 180 Schmidt, Alexander, 364 ‘Schoole of Abuse,’ 67 Schroeder, F. U. L., German actor of Shakespeare, 346 Schubert, Franz, setting of Shakepearean songs by, 347 Schumann, setting of Shakespearean songs by, 347 ‘Scillaes Metamorphosis,’ Lodge’s, drawn upon by Shakespeare for ‘Venus and Adonis,’ 75 and n 2 Scoloker, Anthony, in ‘Daiphantus,’ 277 Scotland, Shakespeare’s alleged travels in, 40-42 Scott, Reginald, allusion to Monarcho in ‘The Discoverie of Witchcraft’ of, 51 n Scott, Sir Walter, at Charlecote, 28 Scourge of Folly, 44 n 2 Sedley, Sir Charles, apostrophe to the poet, 331 Sejanus, Shakespeare takes part in the performance of, 44 401 Selimus, 179 Serafino dell’ Aquila, Watson’s indebtedness to, 77 n 2 102 103 n 1 442 n SÈve, Maurice, 104 and n 430 442 445 n 1 Sewell, Dr. George, 315 ‘Shadow of the Night, The,’ Chapman’s, 135 n Shakespeare, the surname of, 1 2 cf. 24 n Shakespeare, Adam, 1 Shakespeare, Ann, a sister of the poet, 11 Shakespeare, Anne (or Agnes): her parentage, 18 19 Shakespeare, Edmund, a brother of the poet, is ‘a player,’ 283 Shakespeare, Gilbert, a brother of the poet, 11 Shakespeare, Hamnet, son of the poet, 26 187 Shakespeare, Henry, one of the poet’s uncles, 3 4 186 Shakespeare, Joan (1), 7 Shakespeare, Joan (2), see Hart, Joan Shakespeare, John (1), the first recorded holder of this surname (thirteenth century), 1 Shakespeare, John (2), the poet’s father, administrator of Richard Shakespeare’s estate, 3 4 Shakespeare or Shakspere, John (a shoemaker), another resident at Stratford, 12 n 3 Shakespeare, Judith, the poet’s second daughter, 26 205 Shakespeare, Margaret, 7 Shakespeare, Mary, the poet’s mother: her marriage, 6 7 Shakespeare, Richard, a brother of the poet, 11 266 Shakespeare, Richard, of Rowington, 2 Shakespeare, Richard, of Snitterfield, probably the poet’s grandfather, 3 Shakespeare, Richard, of Wroxhall, 3 Shakespeare, Susanna, a daughter of the poet, 22 Shakespeare, Thomas, probably one of the poet’s uncles, 3 4 Shakespeare, William: parentage and birthplace, 1-9 Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, 341 ‘Shakespeare Society,’ the, 333 365 Shallow, Justice, Sir Thomas Lucy caricatured as, 29 Sheldon copy of the First Folio, the, 309 310 Shelton, Thomas, translator of ‘Don Quixote,’ 258 Shiels, Robert, compiler of ‘Lives of the Poets,’ 32 n 3 Shottery, Anne Hathaway’s Cottage at, 19 Shylock, sources of the portrait of, 67 68 and n Sidney, Sir Philip: on the absence of scenery in a theatre, 38 n 2 Sidney, Sir Robert, 382 Singer, Samuel Weller, 324 Sly, Christopher, probably drawn from life, 164 165 166 167 221 n Smethwick, John, bookseller, 304 Smith, Richard, publisher, 431 Smith, Wentworth, 157 n Smith, William, sonnets of, 138 n 2 157 n 390 437 Smith, Mr. W. H., and the Baconian hypothesis, 372 Smithson, Miss, actress, 351 Snitterfield, Richard Shakespeare rents land of Robert Arden at, 3 6 Snodham, Thomas, printer, 180 Somers, Sir George, wrecked off the Bermudas, 252 Somerset House, Shakespeare and his company at, 233 and n 2 Sonnet in France (1550-1600), the, bibliographical note on (Appendix X.), 442-5 Sonnets, Shakespeare’s: the poet’s first attempts, 84 Sonnets, quoted with explanatory comments: Soothern, John, sonnets to the Earl of Oxford, 138 n 2 Sophocles, parallelisms with the works of Shakespeare, 13 n Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of, 53 Southwell, Robert, circulation of incorrect copies of ‘Mary Magdalene’s Tears’ by, 88 n Southwell, Father Thomas, 371 Spanish, translation of Shakespeare’s plays into, 354 Spanish Tragedy, Kyd’s, popularity of, 65 221 Spedding, James, 262 Spelling of the poet’s name, 284-6 Spenser, Edmund: probably attracted to Shakespeare by the poems ‘Venus and Adonis’ and ‘Lucrece,’ 79 ‘Spirituall Sonnettes’ by Constable, 440 Sport, Shakespeare’s knowledge of, 26 27 and n 173 StaËl, Madame de, Stafford, Lord, his company of actors, 33 Stage, conditions of, in Shakespeare’s day: absence of scenery and scenic costume, 38 and n 2 Stanhope of Harrington, Lord, 234 n ‘Staple of News, The,’ Jonson’s quotations from Julius CÆsar in, 220 n Staunton, Howard, 311 Steele, Richard, on Betterton’s rendering of Othello, 334 Steevens, George: his edition of Shakespeare, 320 Stinchcombe Hill referred to as ‘the Hill’ in Henry IV, 168 Stopes, Mrs. C. C., 363 Strange, Lord. See Derby, Earl of Straparola, ‘Notti’ of, and the Merry Wives of Windsor, 172 Stratford-on-Avon, settlement of John Shakespeare, the poet’s father, at, 4 Suckling, Sir John, 328 ‘Sugred,’ an epithet applied to the poet’s work, 179 and n 390 Sullivan, Barry, 298 Sully, M. Mounet, 351 and n 1 Sumarakow, translation into Russian by, 352 Supposes, the, of George Gascoigne, 164 Surrey, Earl of, sonnets of, 83 95 101 n 4 427 428 Sussex, Earl of, his company of actors, 35 Swedish, translations of Shakespeare in, 354 ‘Sweet,’ epithet applied to Shakespeare, 277 Swinburne, Mr. A. C., 63 71 72 n 333 365 Sylvester, Joshua, sonnets to patrons by, 388 440 and n T Taille, Jean de la, 445 n Tamburlaine, Marlowe’s, 63 Taming of A Shrew, 163 Taming of The Shrew: probable period of production, 163 Tarleton, Richard, 81 Tasso, similarity of sentiment with that of Shakespeare’s sonnets, 152 n ‘Teares of Fancy,’ Watson’s, 428 433 ‘Teares of the Isle of Wight,’ elegies on Southampton, 389 ‘Teares of the Muses,’ Spenser’s, referred to in Midsummer Night’s Dream, 80 Tempest, The: traces of the influence of Ovid, 15 25 n 43 ‘Temple Shakespeare, The,’ 325 Tercentenary festival, the Shakespeare, 334 ‘Terrors of the Night,’ piracy of, 88 n Terry, Miss Ellen, 339 Theatre, The, at Shoreditch, 32 Theatres in London: Blackfriars (q.v.) Theobald, Lewis, his emendations of Hamlet, 224 Thomas, Ambroise, opera of Hamlet by, 351 Thoms, W. J., 363 Thornbury, G. W., 363 Thorpe, Thomas, the piratical publisher of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 89-95 Three Ladies of London, The, some of the scenes in the Merchant of Venice anticipated in, 67 Thyard, Ponthus de, a member of ‘La PlÉiade’ 443 444 Tieck, Ludwig, theory respecting The Tempest of, 254 333 344 Tilney, Edmund, master of the revels, 233 n 2 Timon of Athens: date of composition, 242 Timon, Lucian’s, 243 Titus Andronicus: one of the only two plays of the poet’s performed by a company other than his own, 36 Titus and Vespasian, Titus Andronicus suggested by, 65 Tofte, Robert, sonnets by, 438 and n 2 Topics of the day, Shakespeare’s treatment of, 51 n, 52 Tottel’s ‘Miscellany,’ 427 428 Tours of English actors: in foreign countries between 1580 and 1630, 42 and see n 1 Translations of the poet’s works, 342 seq. Travel, foreign, Shakespeare’s ridicule of, 42 and n ‘Troilus and Cresseid,’ 227 Troilus and Cressida: allusion to the strife between adult and boy actors, 217 ‘Troy Book,’ Lydgate’s, 227 True Tragedie of Richard III, The, an anonymous play, 63 301 True Tragedie of Richard, Duke of Yorke, and the death of good King Henry the Sixt, as it was sundrie times acted by the Earl of Pembroke his servants, The, 59 Turbervile, George, use of the word ‘sonnet’ by, 427 n 2 Twelfth Night: description of a betrothal, 23 n Twiss, F., 364 n Two Gentlemen of Verona: allusion to Valentine travelling from Verona to Milan by sea, 43 Two Noble Kinsmen, The: attributed to Fletcher and Shakespeare, 259 and n Twyne, Lawrence, the story of Pericles in the ‘Patterne of Painfull Adventures’ by, 244 Tyler, Mr. Thomas, on the sonnets, 129 n 406 n 415 n U Ulrici, ‘Shakespeare’s Dramatic Art’ by, 345 V Variorum editions of Shakespeare, 322 323 362 Vautrollier, Thomas, the London printer, 32 Venesyon Comedy, The, produced by Henslowe at the Rose, 69 ‘Venus and Adonis:’ published in 1593, 74 Verdi, operas by, 352 Vere, Lady Elizabeth, 378 Vernon, Mistress Elizabeth, 379 Versification, Shakespeare’s, 49 and n 50 Vigny, Alfred de, version of Othello by, 351 Villemain, recognition of the poet’s greatness by, 350 Virginia Company, 381 Visor, William, in Henry IV, member of a family at Woodmancote, 168 Voltaire, strictures on the poet by, 348 349 Voss, J. H., German translation of Shakespeare by, 344 W Walden, Lord, Campion’s sonnet to, 140 Wales, Henry, Prince of, the Earl of Nottingham’s company of players taken into the patronage of, 231 n Walker, William, the poet’s godson, 276 Walker, W. Sidney, on Shakespeare’s versification, 49 n Walley, Henry, printer, 226 Warburton, Bishop, revised version of Pope’s edition of Shakespeare by, 318 319 Ward, Dr. A. W., 365 Ward, Rev. John, on the poet’s annual expenditure, 203 Warner, Richard, 364 Warner, William, the probable translator of the MenÆchmi, 54 Warren, John, 300 Warwickshire: prevalence of the surname Shakespeare, 1 2 Watchmen in the poet’s plays, 31 62 Watkins, Richard, printer, 393 Watson, Thomas, 61 ‘Weak endings’ in Shakespeare, 49 n Webbe, Alexander, makes John Shakespeare overseer of his will, 11 Webbe, Robert, buys the Snitterfield property from Shakespeare’s mother, 12 and n Webster, John, alludes in the White Divel to Shakespeare’s industry, 278 n Weelkes, Thomas, 182 n Weever, Thomas: his eulogy of the poet, 179 n Welcombe, enclosure of common fields at, 269 270 and n ‘Westward for Smelts’ and the Merry Wives of Windsor, 172 and n 3 Whateley, Anne, the assumed identification of her with Anne Hathaway, 23 24 and n Wheler, R. B., 363 Whetstone, George, his Promos and Cassandra, 237 White, Mr. Richard Grant, 325 Whitehall, performances at, 81 82 234 235 and n 241 254 n 264 Wieland, Christopher Martin: his translation of Shakespeare, 343 Wilkins, George, his collaboration with Shakespeare in Timon of Athens and Pericles, 242 243 Wilks, Robert, actor, 335 Will, Shakespeare’s, 203 271 273-276 ‘Will’ sonnets, the, 117 ‘Willobie his Avisa,’ 155-158 Wilmcote, house of Shakespeare’s mother, 6 7 Wilnecote. See under Wincot Wilson, Robert, author of The Three Ladies of London, 67 Wilson, Thomas, his manuscript version of ‘Diana,’ 53 Wilton, Shakespeare and his company at, 231 232 411 and n ‘Wilton, Life of Jack,’ by Nash, 385 and n 1 Wincot (in The Taming of the Shrew), its identification, 165 166 ‘Windsucker,’ Chapman’s, 135 n Winter’s Tale, A: at the Globe in 1611, 251 ‘Wire,’ use of the word, for women’s hair, 118 and n 2 Wise, J. R., 363 ‘Wittes Pilgrimage,’ Davies’s, 441 n 2 Women, excluded from Elizabethan stage, 38 and n 2 Women, addresses to, in sonnets, 92 117-20 122 n 123 124 154 Woncot in Henry IV identical with Woodmancote, 168 Wood, Anthony À, on the Earl of Pembroke, 414 Woodmancote. See Woncot Worcester, Earl of, his company of actors at Stratford, 10 35 Worcester, registry of the diocese of, 3 20 Wordsworth, Bishop Charles, on Shakespeare and the Bible, 17 n 1 Wordsworth, William, the poet, on German and French Æsthetic criticism, 344 349 Wotton, Sir Henry, on the burning of the Globe Theatre, 260 261 n Wright, John, bookseller, 90 Wriothesley, Lord, 381 Wroxhall, the Shakespeares of, 3 Wyatt, Sir Thomas, sonnetteering of, 83 95 101 n 4 427 Wyman, W. H., 372 Wyndham, Mr. George, on the sonnets, 91 n 110 n Y Yonge, Bartholomew, translation of ‘Diana’ by, 53 Yorkshire Tragedy, The, 180 243 313 Z Zepheria, a collection of sonnets called, 435 |
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