Fourefould Meditation' by, 72 Southwell, Father Thomas, 209 Spanish, translation of Shakespeare's plays into, 199

Spanish Tragedy, Kyd's, popularity of, 40, 114

Spelling of the poet's name, 153-4
Spenser, Edmund: and Shakespeare,
49-50; on the immortalising power
of verse, 57; his 'Amoretti, 57
Sport, Shakespeare's knowledge of,
16, 84

Staël, Madame de, 197
Stafford, Lord, his company of
actors, 20

rents land of Robert Arden at, 2, | Southwell, Robert, publication of 'A 4; departure of John Shakespeare, the poet's father, from, 2; the Arden property at, 4-5; sale of Mary Shakespeare's property at, 7 Snodham, Thomas, printer, 89 Somers, Sir George, wrecked off the Bermudas, 132 Somerset House, Shakespeare and his company at, 119-20 Sonnets, Shakespeare's: the poet's first attempts, 52; the majority probably composed in 1594, 53; few written between 1594 and 1603, 53; their literary value, 53; circulation in manuscript, 70; commended by Meres, 70; their piratical publication in 1609, 70; their form, 54; want of continuity, 54, 55; autobiographical only in a limited sense, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60; their borrowed conceits, 56-9; indebtedness to Drayton, Petrarch, Ronsard, Desportes, and others, 56, 57; the poet's claim of immortality for his sonnets, 57, 96; vituperation, 58; dedicatory' sonnets, 62 seq.; the 'rival poet,' 64-6; sonnets of friendship, 66-8; the supposed story of intrigue, 59; summary of conclusions respecting the 'Sonnets,' 75-6; edition of 1640, 163

Sonnets, quoted with explanatory comments: xxvi., 63; lv., 58; lxxviii., 62, 65; lxxx., 65; lxxxvi., 65; xciv. (line 14), 44, 70; c., 62; ciii., 62; cvii., 53, 68, 69; cx., 27; cxi., 27; cxxxviii., 70; cxliv., 59, 70, 164

- the vogue of the Elizabethan : 52-3; conventional device of sonnetteers of feigning old age, 53; lack of genuine sentiment, 55; French and Italian models, 55; censure of false sentiment in sonnets, 55; Shakespeare's scornful allusions to sonnets in his plays, 55; vituperative sonnets, 58 Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of, 32; the dedications to him of 'Venus and Adonis' and 'Lucrece,' 46, 48; his patronage of Shakespeare, 62-70; his gift to the poet, 63, 100; his youthful appearance, 67; his identity with the youth of Shakespeare's sonnets of 'friendship' evidenced by his portraits, 68; imprisonment, 69; as a literary patron, 168

Stage, conditions of, in Shakespeare's day, 24

Staple of News, The,' Jonson's quo-
tations from Julius Cæsar in, 113
Staunton, Howard, 173; his edition
of the poet, 180
Steele, Richard, on Betterton's
rendering of Othello, 187
Steevens, George: his edition of
Shakespeare, 178; his revision of
Johnson's edition, 178; his criti-
cisms, 178, 179

Stinchcombe Hill referred to as 'the
Hill' in Henry IV, 81
Stopes, Mrs. C. C., 205
Strange, Lord. See Derby, Earl of
Straparola, 'Notti' of, and the
Merry Wives of Windsor, 84
Stratford-on-Avon, settlement of
John Shakespeare, the poet's father,
at, 2; property owned by John
Shakespeare in, 3, 5; the poet's
birthplace at, 5; the Shakespeare
Museum at, 5, 161; the plague in
1564 at, 6; actors for the first
time at, 6; the grammar school, 7;
Shakespeare's departure from, 16,
17, 19; native place of Richard
Field, 19; allusions in the Taming
of The Shrew to, 79; the poet's
return in 1596 to, 93; the poet's
purchase of New Place, 97; appeals
from townsmen to the poet for
aid, 98; the poet's purchase of
land at, 103, 104; the poet's last
years at, 140-2; attempt to en-
close common lands and Shake-
speare's interest in it, 143; the
poet's death and burial at, 144;
Shakespeare memorial building
at, 161; the 'Jubilee' and the
tercentenary, 187
Sturley, Abraham, 98
Suckling, Sir John, 184

Two Noble Kinsmen. The attributed
to Fletcher and Shakespeare, 136;
Massinger's aged stare in its
production 136-7 plot drawn from
Chaucer's Knight's Tale,' 137
Twyne, Lawrence, the story of Peri-
ces in the Patterne of Painful,
Adventures by, 127

ULRICI, 'Shakespeare's Dramatic
Art by, 195

VARIORUM editions of Shakespeare,
178, 179, 204

Vautro er, Thomas, the London
printer, 20

Venezyon Comedy, The, produced by
Henslowe at the Rose, 42
'Venus and Adonis; published in
1593. 46; dedicated to the Earl of
Southampton, 45, 63; its imagery
and general tone, 46-7; eulogies
bestowed upon it, 48, 49; early
editions, 49, 163
Verdi, operas by, 199

Verplanck, Gulian Crommelin, 181
Versification, Shakespeare's, 29-30
Vigny, Alfred de, version of Othello
by, 198

Villemain, recognition of the poet's
greatness by, 197

Vincent, Augustine, relations with
Jaggard, 171-2

Visor, William, in Henry IV, member
of a family at Woodmancote, 81
Voltaire, strictures on the poet by,
196, 197

Voss, J. H., German translation of
Shakespeare by, 194

WALKER, Sir Edward, 151
Walker, William, the poet's godson,
146

Walker, W. Sidney, on Shakespeare's
versification, 206

Walley, Henry, printer, 116
Warburton, Bishop, revised version
of Pope's edition of Shakespeare
by, 177

Ward, Dr. A. W., 207
Ward, Rev. John, on the poet's
annual expenditure, 102; on the
visits of Drayton and Jonson to
New Place before the poet's death,
144; his account of the poet, 203
Warner, Mrs., 191
Warner, Richard, 207

Warner, William, the probable trans-
lator of the Menæchmi, 32
Warren, John, 164

Warwickshire: prevalence of the surname Shakespeare, 1; position of the Arden famly. 4: Queen Elizabeth's progress on the way to Kenil|worth, 10

Watchmen in the poet's plays, 19, 38
Watson, Thomas, 37: the passage on
Time in his Passionate Centurie of
Love' elaborated in Venus and
Adonis, 48; his sonnets, 52
Webbe, Alexander, makes John
Shakespeare overseer of his will, 6
Weobe, Robert, buys the Snitterfield
property from Shakespeare's
mother, 7

Weever, Thomas: allusion in his

Mirror of Martyrs' to Antony's speech at Cæsar's funeral, 108 Westward for Smelts' and the Merry Wives of Windsor, 84; story of Ginevra in, 131

Whateley, Anne, the assumed identification of her with Anne Hathaway, 13-4

Wheler, R. B., 205

Whetstone, George, his Promos and
Cassandra, 122

White, Mr. Richard Grant, 181-2
Whitehall, performances at, 50–1, 120,
121, 124, 139

Wieland, Christopher Martin: his
translation of Shakespeare, 193
Wilkins, George, his collaboration
with Shakespeare in Timon of
Athens and Pericles, 126; his novel
founded on the play of Pericles, 127
Wilks, Robert, actor, 188
Will, Shakespeare's, 102, 143, 145-6
'Willobie his Avisa,' 59-61
Wilmcote, house of Shakespeare's
mother, 4, 5; bequest to Mary
Arden of the Asbies property
at, 4; mortgage of the Asbies
property at, 7, 15; and Wincot'
in The Taming of The Shrew, 79,

80

Wilnecote. See under Wincot
Wilson, Robert, author of The Three
Ladies of London, 41

Wilson, Thomas, his manuscript
version of 'Diana,' 32
Wilton, Shakespeare and his com-
pany at, 119

Wincot (in The Taming of The
Shrew), its identification, 79
Winter's Tale, A, 131-2. For editions
see Section xvii. (Bibliography),
163-82

Wise, Andrew, 39, 105
Wise, J. R., 205