INDEX

sonnet form of a letter of Helen,
53; date of production, etc., 77-
78. For editions see Section xvii.
(Bibliography), 163-82

America, enthusiasm for Shakespeare
in, 192; copies of the First Folio
in, 170

ABBEY, Mr. E. A., 192
Abbott, Dr. E. A., 206
Actor, Shakespeare as an, 26-7
Actors: entertained for the first time
at Stratford-on-Avon, 6; return of
the two chief companies to London
in 1587, 20; the players' licensing
Act of Queen Elizabeth, 21; com- Amner, Rev. Richard, 179
panies of boy-actors, 21, 24, 109-Amoretti,' Spenser's, 57
IIO; companies of adult actors in
1587, 21; the patronage of the
company which was joined by
Shakespeare, 21, 22; women's
parts played by men or boys, 23-
24; tours in the provinces, 24-5;
foreign tours, 25-6; Shakespeare's
alleged scorn of their calling, 27;
'advice' to actors in Hamlet, 27;
their incomes, 99-102; the strife
between adult actors and boy-
actors, 9-13; patronage of actors
by King James, 118-20; substitu-
tion of women for boys in female
parts, 187-8

Amphitruo of Plautus, the, and a
scene in The Comedy of Errors, 32
Anthia and Abrocomas,' by Xeno-
phon Ephesius, and the story of
Romeo and Juliet, 33

Adam, in As You Like It, played by
Shakespeare, 26

Adaptations by Shakespeare of old
plays, 32-3

Adaptations of Shakespeare's plays
at the Restoration, 186
Adulation, extravagance of, in the
days of Queen Elizabeth, 66
Esthetic school of Shakespearean
criticism, 187

Alleyn, Edward, manages the amal-
gamated companies of the Admiral
and Lord Strange, 22-3; his large
savings, 103

Allot, Robert, 173

All's Well that Ends Well: the

Antony and Cleopatra: allusion to
the part of Cleopatra being played
by a boy, 24; date of entry in the
'Stationers' Registers,' 128; date
of publication, 128; the story
derived from Plutarch, 128; the
'happy valiancy' of the style, 128.
For editions see Section xvii. (Bib-
liography), 163-82

Apollonius and Silla, Historie of, 107
'Apologie for Poetrie,' Sidney's,

allusion to the conceit of the im-
mortalising power of verse in, 57;
on the adulation of patrons, 66
'Apology for Actors,' Heywood's,

90

Arcadia,' Sidney's, 125

Arden family, of Warwickshire, 4,
94-5

Arden family, of Alvanley, 96
Arden, Alice, 4

Arden, Edward, executed for com-
plicity in a Popish plot, 4
Arden, Joan, 7
Arden, Mary.
Mary

See Shakespeare,

Arden, Robert(1), sheriff of Warwick-

shire and Leicestershire in 1438, 4
Arden, Robert (2), landlord at Snit-
terfield of Richard Shakespeare, 2,
4; marriage of his daughter Mary
to John Shakespeare, 4, 5; his
family and second marriage, 4; his
property and will, 4-5

Arden, Thomas, grandfather of
Shakespeare's mother, 4

relations with the trade of butcher,
Io; on the poet at Grendon, 19;
lines quoted by him on John
Combe, 142; on Shakespeare's
genial disposition, 148; value of
his biography of the poet, 203
Autobiographical features of Shake-
speare's plays, 78-80, 202; of
Shakespeare's sonnets, the ques-
tion of, 55, 56, 59, 60, 62

Arden of Feversham, a play of un-Autographs of the poet, 231-4
certain authorship, 44
Ariel, character of, 135

Ariodante and Ginevra, Historie of,

106

Ariosto, I Suppositi of, 78; Orlando
Furioso of, and Much Ado about
Nothing, 106

Aristotle, quotation from, made by
both Shakespeare and Bacon, 208
Armado, in Love's Labour's Lost,
31, 38

Armenian language, translation of
Shakespeare in the, 199

Arms, coat of, Shakespeare's, 93-7
Arms, College of, applications of the
poet's father to, 2, 93-7
Arne, Dr., 187

Art in England, its indebtedness to
Shakespeare, 191-2

As You Like It: allusion to the
part of Rosalind being played by
a boy, 24; acknowledgments to
Marlowe (III. v. 80), 39; adapted
from Lodge's 'Rosalynde,' 106;
hints taken from 'Saviolo's Prac-
tise,' 106; its pastoral character,
106. For editions see Section xvii.
(Bibliography), 163-82

'Avisa,' heroine of Willobie's poem,
59 seq.

Ayrer, Jacob, his Die schöne Sidea,
133

BACON, Miss Delia, 210
Bacon Society, 210
Bacon-Shakespeare controversy (Ap-
pendix II.), 208-11

Baddesley Clinton, the Shakespeares
of, 2

Bandello, the story of Romeo and
Juliet by, 33; the story of Hero
and Claudio by, 106; the story of
Twelfth Night by, 107

'Bankside' edition of Shakespeare,
181

Barante, recognition of the greatness
of Shakespeare by, 197
Barnard, Sir John, second husband
of the poet's granddaughter Eliza-
beth, 150

Barnay, Ludwig, 195

Barnes, Barnabe, the probable rival
of Shakespeare for Southampton's
favour, 65; his sonnets, 65
Barnfield, Richard, his adulation of
Queen Elizabeth in 'Cynthia,' 69;
chief author of the Passionate
Pilgrim,' 90

Asbies, the chief property of Robert
Arden at Wilmcote, bequeathed to
Shakespeare's mother, 4; mort-Bartholomew Fair, 34
gaged to Edmund Lambert, 7; Bartlett, John, 207
proposal to confer on John Lam-
bert an absolute title to the prop-
erty, 15; Shakespeare's endeavour
to recover, 97-8
Ashbee, Mr. E. W., 165
Aspley, William, bookseller, 71, 105,
166, 173
Assimilation, literary, Shakespeare's
power of, 37, 56 seq.
Aston Cantlowe, 4; place of the mar-
riage of Shakespeare's parents, 5
'Astrophel and Stella,' 52; the praise
of 'blackness' in, 58-9
Aubrey, John, the poet's early bio-
grapher, on John Shakespeare's
trade, 3; on the poet's knowledge
of Latin, 9; on John Shakespeare's

Barton collection of Shakespeareana
at Boston, Mass., 192
Barton-on-the-Heath, 7; identical
with the 'Burton' in the Taming
of The Shrew, 78

Baynes, Thomas Spencer, 207
'Bear Garden in Southwark, The,'
the poet's lodgings near, 23
Bearley, 4

Beaumont, Francis, on 'things done
at the Mermaid,' 87
Bedford, Edward Russell, third Earl
of: his marriage to Lucy Harington,
76

Bedford, Lucy, Countess of, 76
Beeston, William (a seventeenth-
century actor), on the report that

Shakespeare was a schoolmaster, | Bohemia, allotted a seashore in
17; on the poet's acting, 26
Belleforest (François de), Shake-
speare's indebtedness to the 'His-
toires Tragiques' of, 8, 33, 106, 114
Benda, J. W. O., German transla-
tion of Shakespeare by, 194
Benedix, J. R., opposition to Shake-
spearean worship by, 194
Bensley, Robert, actor, 190
Bentley, R., 174
Berlioz, Hector, 198

in, 199

Danter, John, prints surreptitiously
Romeo and Juliet, 34; Titus
Andronicus entered at Stationers'
Hall by, 40

enclose common land at Stratford, | Danish, translations of Shakespeare
143
Comedy of Errors: 9, 32; performed
in the hall of Gray's Inn, 1594, 43.
For editions see Section xvii.
(Bibliography), 163-82
'Complainte of Rosamond,' Daniel's,
parallelisms in Romeo and Juliet
with, 33; its topic and metre re-
flected in 'Lucrece,' 47
Concordances to Shakespeare, 207
Condell, Henry, actor, 22, IOI, 103,
130; the poet's bequest to him,
146; signs dedication of First Folio,
166, 167-8

Confessio Amantis, Gower's, 127
Contention betwixt the two famous
houses of Yorke and Lancaster, first
part of the, 36

Cooke, George Frederick, actor, 190
Coriolanus: 128-9. For editions see
Section xvii. (Bibliography), 163–

182

Cotes, Thomas, printer, 173
Cotswolds, the, Shakespeare's allu-
sion to, 81

Court, the, Shakespeare's relations
with, 50, 52, 118-20, cf. 131-2, 138'
Cowden-Clarke, Mrs., 207
Cowley, actor, 106
Craig, Mr. W. J., 182

Creede, Thomas, 36, draft of the
Merry Wives of Windsor printed
by, 84; draft of Henry V printed
by, 84; fraudulently assigns plays
to Shakespeare, 88

Cromwell, History of Thomas, Lord,

D'Avenant, John, keeps the Crown
Inn, Oxford, 140
D'Avenant, Sir William, relates the
story of Shakespeare holding horses
outside playhouses, 20; on the
story of Southampton's gift to
Shakespeare, 63; a letter of King
James to the poet once in his
possession, 119; Shakespeare's
alleged paternity of, 139-40; 184
Davies, Archdeacon, vicar of Saper-
ton, Shakespeare's poaching, 16;
on Justice Clodpate' (Justice
Shallow), 17; 203

Davies, John, of Hereford, his allu-
sion to the parts played by Shake-
speare, 26; celebrates in verse
Southampton's release from prison,
69; his 'Wittes Pilgrimage
Davies, Sir John, 145
Death-mask, the Kesselstadt, 160
Decameron,' the, indebtedness of
Shakespeare to, 77, 131, 132
'Dedicatory' sonnets of Shake-
speare, 62 seq.
Dekker, Thomas, the quarrel with

Ben Jonson, 109-12; 116; on King
James's entry into London, 119
Delius, Nikolaus, edition of Shake-
speare by, 180; studies of the text
and metre of the poet by, 195
Dennis, John, on the Merry Wives of
Windsor, 83; his tribute to the
poet, 186

Derby, Ferdinando Stanley (Lord
Strange), Earl of, his patronage of
actors, 21-2; performances by his
company, 34, 36, 40, 45

Derby, William Stanley, Earl of,
76

Desportes, Philippe, his claim for the
immortality of verse, 57
Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft,

207
Devrient family, the, stage represen-
tation of Shakespeare by, 195
Diana, George de Montemayor's,
and Two Gentlemen of Verona, 32;
translations of, 32

Diderot, opposition to Voltaire's
strictures by, 196

Digges, Leonard, on the superior
popularity of Julius Cæsar to
Jonson's Catiline, 113; commenda-