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ing with a player, 99; A Winter's
Tale founded on his Pandosto, 132
Greene, Thomas, actor at the Red
Bull Theatre, 19

Greene, Thomas (alias Shake-
speare'), a tenant of New Place,
and Shakespeare's legal adviser,
97, 104, 143
Greenwich Palace, Shakespeare and
other actors play before Queen
Elizabeth at, 26, 44, 51
Greet, hamlet in Gloucestershire,
identical with the 'Greece' in the
Taming of The Shrew, 80
Grendon, near Oxford, Shakespeare's
alleged sojourn there, 19
Griggs, Mr. W., 165

Grimm, Baron, recognition of Shake-
speare's greatness by, 197
'Groats-worth of Wit, Greene's
pamphlet, 35

Guizot, François, revision of Le
Tourneur's translation by, 197

'H., MR. W.,' 74-5; 'W. H.'s' true
relations with Thomas Thorpe, 206
Hacket, Marian and Cicely, in the
Taming of The Shrew, 78-9
Hal, Prince, 81, 84

Hales, John (of Eton), on the superi-
ority of Shakespeare to all other
poets, 184

Hall, Elizabeth, the poet's grand-
daughter, 96, 140, 146, 150, 151
Hall, Dr. John, the poet's son-in-law,
140, 145, 150
Hall, Mrs. Susanna, the poet's elder
daughter, 96, 140, 146, 149-59
Hall, William (1), on the inscription

over the poet's grave, 144, 203
Hall, William (2). See 'H., Mr. W.'
Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard,
his edition of Shakespeare, 173, 181;
his great labours on Shakespeare's
biography, 187, 204, 207
Hamlet: Polonius's advice to Laertes
borrowed from Lyly's 'Euphues,'
37; allusion to boy-actors, 109-10;
date of production, &c., 113-6. For
editions see Section xvii. (Biblio-
graphy), 163-82
Hanmer, Sir Thomas, 115; his edi-
tion of Shakespeare, 176
Harington, Sir
Ariosto, 106

John, translates

Harington, Lucy, her marriage to the
third Earl of Bedford, 76

Harness, William, 181

Harrison, John, publisher of 'Lu-
crece,' 47


Harsnet, 'Declaration of Popish Im-
postures' by, 125

Hart family, the, and the poet's
reputed birthplace, 5

Hart, Joan, Shakespeare's sister, 5;
his bequest to her, 146; her three
sons, 146, 151

Hart, John, 151
Hart, Joseph C., 209

Hathaway, Anne. See Shakespeare,
Anne

Hathaway, Catherine, sister of Anne
Hathaway, II

Hathaway, Joan, mother of Anne
Hathaway, II

Hathaway, Richard, marriage of his
daughter Anne (or Agnes) to the
poet, 10-12

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 210
Hazlitt, William, and Shakespearean
criticism, 187, 205

Hecatommithi,' Cinthio's, Shake-
speare's indebtedness to, 8, 32, 121
Heine, studies of Shakespeare's
heroines by, 194

Helena in All's Well that Ends
Well, 78

Heming, John (actor-friend of Shake-
speare), 19, 22, 102, 103, 139; the
poet's bequest to, 146; signs dedi-
cation of First Folio, 166, 167-8
Henderson, John, actor, 189
Henley-in-Arden, 3

Henrietta Maria, Queen, billeted on
Mrs. Hall (the poet's daughter) at
Stratford, 150

Henry IV (parts i. and ii.): Justice
Shallow, 26; its publication, 80-1;
its characters, 81-4. For editions
see Section xvii. (Bibliography),
163-82

Henry V, The Famous Victories of
the groundwork of Henry IV and
of Henry V, 80, 86

Henry V French dialogues, 8; date
of production, &c., 84-6. For edi-
tions see Section xvii. (Bibliogra-
phy), 163-82

Henry VI (pt. i.), 34-7.
Henry VI (pt. ii.): publication, &c.,
36-7

Henry VI (pt. iii.), production, 22,
36; publication, &c., 36-7. For
editions see Section xvii. (Biblio-
graphy), 163-82

Henry VIII, 85; publication, author-
ship, &c., 137-8. For editions see
Section xvii. (Bibliography), 163–

182
Henryson, Robert, 117

Henslowe, Philip, erects the Rose | India, translations and representa-
Theatre, 22, 116, 137
'Heptameron of Civil Discources,'
Whetstone's, 122

Herder, Johann Gottfried, 193
Herford, Professor C. H., 182
'Hero and Leander,' Marlowe's, quo-
tation in As You Like It from, 39
Herringman, H., 174
Hess, J. R., 193

Heyse, Paul, German translation of
Shakespeare by, 194

Heywood, Thomas, his poems pirated
in the Passionate Pilgrim,' 91, 164,
184

Hill, John, marriage of his widow,
Agnes or Anne, to Robert Arden, 4
Holinshed's 'Chronicles,' materials
taken by Shakespeare from, 9, 28,
38, 39, 80, 123, 125, 130
Holland, translations of Shakespeare
in, 199

Holland, Hugh, 167
Holmes, Nathaniel, 210

Holofernes, quotes Latin phrases
from Lily's grammar, 8
Horace, his claim for the immortal-
ity of verse, 57
Hotspur, 81

Howard of Effingham, the Lord
Admiral, Charles, Lord, his com-
pany of actors, 21; its short alli-
ance with Shakespeare's company,

22

Hudson, Rev. H. N., 182

Hughes, Mrs. Margaret, plays female
parts in the place of boys, 188
Hugo, François Victor, translation
of Shakespeare by, 197
Hugo, Victor, 197-8

Hungary, translations and perform-
ances of Shakespeare in, 199
Hunsdon (Lord Chamberlain),
George Carey, second Lord, his
company of players, 22
Hunsdon (Lord Chamberlain),
Henry Carey, first Lord, his com-
pany of players, 22

Hunt, Thomas, master of Stratford
Grammar School, 7
Hunter, Rev. Joseph, 187, 204
'Huon of Bordeaux,' hints for the
story of Oberon from, 77

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tions of Shakespeare in, 200
Ingannati (Gl), its resemblance to
Twelfth Night, 107

Ireland, Samuel, on the poaching
episode, 16-7

Irishman, the only, in Shakespeare's
dramatis persona, 85

Irving, Sir Henry, 191

Italian, the poet's acquaintance with,
8

Italy, Shakespeare's knowledge of,
25-6; translations and perform-
ances of Shakespeare in, 198
Itinerary of Shakespeare's company
in the provinces between 1593 and
1614, 24-5

JAGGARD, Isaac, 166, 167
Jaggard, William, piratically inserts
two of Shakespeare's sonnets in
his 'Passionate Pilgrim,' 70, 90,
163; prints the First Folio, 166,
167

James VI of Scotland and I of Eng-
land, his appreciation of Shake-
speare, 51; his accession to the
English throne, 69; his patronage
of Shakespeare and his company,
118-20; performances of A Win-
ter's Tale and The Tempest before
him, 131-2, 133
James, Sir Henry, 173
Jameson, Mrs., 207
Jansen, Cornelius, alleged portrait of
Shakespeare by, 159
Few of Malta, Marlowe's, 42
Jew... showne at the Bull, a lost
play, 41

John, King, old play on, attributed
to the poet, 89

John, King, Shakespeare's play of,
43. For editions see Section xvii.
(Bibliography), 163-82

Johnson, Dr., his story of Shake-
speare, 20; his edition of Shake-
speare, 177, 178, 179; his reply to
Voltaire, 196

Johnson, Gerard, his monument to
the poet in Stratford Church, 146
Johnson, Robert, lyrics set to music
by, 134

Jonson, Ben, on Shakespeare's lack
of exact scholarship, 9; Shake-
speare takes part in the performance
of Every Man in his Humour and
in Sejanus, 26; on Titus Androni-
cus, 40; on the appreciation of
Shakespeare shown by Elizabeth
and James I, 51; relations with

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controversy in France, 197
Lamb, Charles, 136, 190
Lambarde, William, 87
Lambert, Edmund, mortgagee of the
Asbies property, 7, 15, 129
Lambert, John, proposal to confer
upon him an absolute title to the
Asbies property, 15; John Shake-
speare's lawsuit against, 97-8
Lane, Nicholas, a creditor of John
Shakespeare, 92

Shakespeare, 86-7; share in the | La Harpe and the Shakespearean
appendix to Love's Martyr,' 90;
quarrel with Marston and Dekker,
109-13; his Poetaster,' III; allu-
sions to him in the Return from
Parnassus, 112; his scornful criti-
cism of Julius Caesar, 113; satiric
allusion to A Winter's Tale, 132;
his sneering reference to The
Tempest in Bartholomew Fair, 134;
entertained by Shakespeare at New
Place, Stratford, 144; testimony
to Shakespeare's character, 147;
his tribute to Shakespeare in the
First Folio, 167, 172, 183
Jordan, Mrs., 190

Jordan, Thomas, his lines on men
playing female parts, 188
Jourdain, Sylvester, 132
Jubilee,' Shakespeare's, 187
Julius Caesar, 107-8; Jonson's hostile
criticism, 113.
For editions see
Section xvii. (Bibliography), 163-

182

KEAN, Edmund, 190, 198

Langbaine, Gerard, 40, 203
Laroche, Benjamin, translation by,

197

Latin, the poet's acquaintance with,
8-9

'Latten,' use of the word in Shake-
speare, 87

Law, the poet's knowledge of, 20
Lawrence, Henry, his seal beneath
Shakespeare's autograph, 141
Lear, King, date of composition, &c.,
124-6. For editions see Section xvii.
(Bibliography), 163-82
Leblanc, The Abbé, 196

Keller, A., German translation of Legge, Dr. Thomas, a Latin piece

Shakespeare by, 194

Kemble, Charles, 198
Kemble, John Philip, 189

Kemp, William, comedian, plays
at Greenwich Palace, 26; 106,

112

Kenilworth, Elizabeth's visit to, 10,
cf. 76

Ketzcher, N., translation into Russian
by, 199

Killigrew, Thomas, and the substitu-
tion of women for boys in female
parts, 188

King's players, the company of, 22-
25; 118-20

Kirkland, the name of Shakespeare
at, I

Kirkman, Francis, publisher, 90
Knight, Charles, 181

Kok, A. S., translation into Dutch
by, 199

Körner, J., German translation of
Shakespeare by, 194
Kraszewski, Polish translation edited
by, 199

Kreyssig, Friedrich A. T., studies of
the poet by, 195
Kyd, Thomas, influence of, on Shake-
speare, 37, 40, 114

'L., H.,' initials on seal attesting
Shakespeare's autograph. See
Lawrence, Henry


on Richard III by, 38

Leicester, Earl of, his entertainment
of Queen Elizabeth at Kenilworth,
10, 76; his regiment of Warwick-
shire youths for service in the Low
Countries, 17; his company of
players, 20, 21

Leo, F. A., 195

Leoni, Michele, Italian translation
of the poet issued by, 198
Leopold' Shakspere, the, 182
Lessing, defence of Shakespeare by,
193

L'Estrange, Sir Nicholas, 86

Le Tourneur, Pierre, French prose
translation of Shakespeare by, 197
Lintot, Bernard, 119

Locrine, Tragedie of, 88, 174
Lodge, Thomas, 35, 37; his 'Scillaes
Metamorphosis,' 47;

his 'Rosa-
lynde' the foundation of As You
Like It, 106

London Prodigall, 89, 174
Lopez, Roderigo, Jewish physician,

Love, treatment of, in sonnets, 55
'Lover' and 'love' synonymous with

'friend' and 'friendship' in Eliza-
bethan English, 63, 66
'Lover's Complaint, A,' possibly
written by Shakespeare, 71
Love's Labour's Lost: Latin phrases
in, 8; publication, &c., 30; influ-

ence of Lyly, 37; performed at
Whitehall, 50; examples of the
poet's first attempts at sonnetteer-
ing, 52; scornful allusion to sonnet-
teering, 55. For editions see Sec-
tion xvii. (Bibliography), 163-82
Love's Labour's Won, attributed by
Meres to Shakespeare, 77. See

All's Well
'Love's Martyr, or Rosalin's Com-
plaint,' 91, 166

Lowell, James Russell, 192
Lucian, the Timon of, 126
'Lucrece': publication, &c., 47-8;
dedicated to the Earl of Southamp-
ton, 48, 63; quarto editions in the
poet's lifetime, 163; posthumous
editions, 163

Lucy, Sir Thomas, his prosecution of

Shakespeare for poaching, 16, 17;
caricatured in Justice Shallow, 17,
85
Luddington, II
Ludwig, Otto, 195

Lydgate, 'Troy Book' of, drawn
upon for Troilus and Cressida, 117
Lyly, John, 37; his influence on
Midsummer Night's Dream, 77
Lyrics in Shakespeare's plays, 105,
131, 134

'M. I.,' 167. See also 'S., I. M.'
Macbeth: references to the climate
of Inverness, 25; date of composi-
tion, &c., 123-4. For editions see
Section xvii. (Bibliography), 163-82
Macklin, Charles, 189

Macready, William Charles, 190, 198
Madden, Rt. Hon. D. H., on Shake-
speare's knowledge of sport, 205
Magellan, 'Voyage to the South Pole'
by, 133

Malone, Edmund, on Shakespeare's
first employment in the theatre, 21;
on the poet's residence, 23; on the
date of The Tempest, 134; 186; his
writings on the poet, 179, 180, 204
Manningham, John (diarist), a de-
scription of Twelfth Night by, 107
Manuscript, circulation of sonnets in,
70

Markham, Gervase, 64

Marlowe, Christopher, 35; his share
in the revision of Henry VI, 37;
his influence on Shakespeare, 38-
39
Marmontel and the Shakespearean
controversy in France, 197
Marshall, Mr. F. A., 182
Marston, John, his share in the

appendix to 'Love's Martyr,' 91;
his quarrel with Jonson, 109-13
Martin, one of the English actors
who played in Scotland, 25
Martin, Lady, 161, 190, 207
Masks worn by men playing women's
parts, 23-4

Massey, Mr. Gerald, on the 'Sonnets,'
207

Massinger, Philip, 135-6; portions
of The Two Noble Kinsmen and
Henry VIII, assigned to, 137-8
Masuccio, the story of Romeo and
Juliet told in his Novellino, 33
Matthew, Sir Toby, 210
McCullough, John Edward, 192
Measure for Measure: date of com-
position, &c., 121-3. For editions
see Section xvii. (Bibliography),
163-82

Memorials in sculpture to the poet,

161

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Meres, Francis, attributes Love's
Labour's Won to Shakespeare, 77;
testimony to the poet's reputation,
88

Mermaid Tavern, 88

Merry Devill of Edmonton, 90
Merry Wives of Windsor: Latin
phrases put into the mouth of Sir
Hugh Evans, 8; Sir Thomas Lucy
caricatured in Justice Shallow, 17;
lines from Marlowe sung by Sir
Hugh Evans, 39; production, &c.,
84-5. For editions see Section xvii.
(Bibliography), 163-82

Metre of Shakespeare's plays a rough
guide to the chronology, 29-30; of
Shakespeare's poems, 47-8; of
Shakespeare's sonnets, 54
Mézières, Alfred, 198

Michel, Francisque, translation by,
197
Middle Temple Hall, performance of
Twelfth Night at, 107

Middleton, Thomas, his plagiarisms
of Macbeth in The Witch, 124
Midsummer Night's Dream: refer-
ences to the pageants at Kenilworth
Park, 10,76; reference to Spenser's
'Teares of the Muses,' 49; pro-
duction, &c., 76. For editions see

Section xvii. (Bibliography), 163-| Oldcastle, Sir John, 81-2, 174

182

Millington, Thomas, 36

Milton, his epitaph on Shakespeare,
184

Miranda, character of, 133
'Mirror of Martyrs,' 108

Miseries of Enforced Marriage, 126
'Monarcho, Fantastical,' 31

Money, its purchasing power in the
sixteenth century, 2, 98
Montagu, Mrs. Elizabeth, 196
Montaigne, Essays' of, 133
Montégut, Emil, translation by, 197
Montemayor, George de, 32
Montgomery, Philip Herbert, Earl
of, 167

Monument to Shakespeare in Strat-
ford Church, 147, 154
Moseley, Humphrey, publisher, 90,
136

Moth, in Love's Labour's Lost, 31
Moulton, Dr. Richard G., 207
Mucedorus, a play by an unknown
author, 45

Much Ado about Nothing: date of
composition, &c., 105-6. For edi-
tions see Section xvii. (Bibliogra-
phy), 163-82

NASH, Anthony, the poet's legacy
to, 146

Nash, John, the poet's legacy to, 146
Nash, Thomas (1), marries Elizabeth

Hall, Shakespeare's granddaugh-
ter, 150

Nash, Thomas (2), on the perform-
ance of Henry VI, 34; on the im-
mortalising power of verse, 57;
his appeals to Southampton, 64
Navarre, King of, in Love's Labour's
Lost, 31

Neil, Samuel, 205
Nekrasow and Gerbel, translation
into Russian by, 199
New Place, Stratford, Shakespeare's
purchase of, 97; the poet's death
at, 144; sold to Sir Edward
Walker, 151; pulled down, 151
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish,
Duchess of, criticism of the poet
by, 185

Newington Butts Theatre, 23
Nottingham, Earl of, his company of
players, 116

OBERON, vision of, 10, 77; in 'Huon
of Bordeaux,' 77
Oechelhaeuser, W., acting edition of
the poet by, 195

Oldys, William, 204
Orlando Furioso, 106

Ortlepp, E., German translation of
Shakespeare by, 194

Othello: date of composition, &c.,

121-3. For editions see Section xvii.
(Bibliography), 163-82

Ovid, influence on Shakespeare of
his Metamorphoses,' 8, 47, 128,
133; claims immortality for his
verse, 57; the poet's alleged signa-
ture on the title-page of a copy
of the 'Metamorphoses' in the
Bodleian Library, 9

Oxford, the poet's visits to, 19, 140;
Hamlet acted at, 114

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Oxford, Earl of, his company of
actors, 21

'Oxford' edition of Shakespeare, the,

182

PAINTER, William, his 'Palace of
Pleasure,' and Romeo and Juliet,
33, All's Well that Ends Well, 77,
Timon of Athens, 126, and Corio-
lanus, 128

Palemon and Arcyte, a lost play,

137

Palamon and Arsett, a lost play,
137

Palmer, John, actor, 189

Palladis Tamia,' eulogy on the poet
in, 88

Parthenophe,'

Pandosto (afterwards called Dorastus
and Fawnia), Shakespeare's in-
debtedness to, 132
Parthenophil and
Barnes's, 65
'Passionate Pilgrim,' 90, 163; printed
with Shakespeare's poems, 163
Patrons of companies of players, 21
Pavier, Thomas, printer, 83
'Pecorone, Il,' by Ser Giovanni

Fiorentino, Shakespeare's indebt-
edness to, 8, 41, 84

Peele, George, 35; his share in the
original draft of Henry VI, 37
Pembroke, Henry, second Earl of,
his company of players, perform
Henry VI (part iii.), 22, 36; and
Titus Andronicus, 40

Pembroke, William, third Earl of, the
question of the identification of 'Mr.
W. H.' with, 74, 206; dedication of
the First Folio to, 167; the iden-
tification of the 'dark lady' with
his mistress, Mary Fitton, 206
Penrith, Shakespeares at, I
Pepys, his criticisms of The Tempest

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