Chapter C

'C., E.,' sonnet by, on lust, 153 _n_ 1
his collection of sonnets, 'Emaricdulfe,' 436

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
his sonnet to Lord Walden, 140
sonnets in Harleian MS., 437 and _n_ 3

Capell, Edward, reprint of _Edward III_ in his 'Prolusions,' 71 224
his edition of Shakespeare, 319
his works on the poet, 320

_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
death of, 272 _n_ 1

Chamberlain, the Lord, his company of players. _See_ Hunsdon, first Lord and second Lord

Chamberlain, John, 149 261 _n_

Chapman, George, plays on Biron's career by, 51 _n_, 395 _n_ 1
his _An Humourous Day's Mirth_, 51 _n_
his _Blind Beggar of Alexandria_, 51 _n_
his censure of sonnetteermg, 106
his alleged rivalry with Shakespeare for Southampton's favour, 134
135 _n_, 183
his translation of the 'Iliad,' 227
his sonnets to patrons, 388 440 _n_
sonnets in praise of philosophy, 441

Charlecote Park, probably the scene of the poaching episode, 27 28

Charles I and the poet's plays, 329
his copy of the Second Folio, 312

Charles II, his copy of the Second Folio, 312

Chateaubriand, 349

Chatelain, Chevalier de, rendering of _Hamlet_ by, 351

Chaucer, the story of 'Lucrece' in his 'Legend of Good Women,' 76
hints in his 'Knight's Tale' for _Midsummer Night's Dream_, 162
the plot of _Troilus and Cressida_ taken from his 'Troilus and
Cresseid,' 227
plot of _The Two Noble Kinsmen_ drawn from his 'Knight's Tale,' 260

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_
his apology for Greene's attack on Shakespeare, 58 277 225
appeals to Shakespeare to write an elegy on Queen Elizabeth, 230

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 partly determined by subject-matter and metre, 48-50 161 _seq._, 207 _seq._, 235 _seq._, 248 _seq._

Churchyard, Thomas, his _Fantasticall Monarcho's Epitaph_, 51 _n_
calls Barnes 'Petrarch's scholar,' 133

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
his tragedy, _Epitia_, 237

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
compared with the 'dark lady' of the sonnets 123 124
her character, 245

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
on _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, 259
representative of the aesthetic school, 333
on Edmund Kean, 338 365

Collier, John Payne, includes _Mucedorus_ in his edition of Shakespeare,
72
his reprint of Drayton's sonnets, 110 _n_
his forgeries in the 'Perkins Folio,' 312 and _n_ 2, 317 _n_ 2 324
333 362
his other forgeries (Appendix I.), 367-9

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
lines written upon his money-lending, 269 _n_

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
date of publication, 53
allusion to the civil war in France, 53
possibly founded on _The Historie of Error_, 54
performed in the hall of Gray's Inn 1594, 70
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

'Complainte of Rosamond,' Daniel's, parallelisms in _Romeo and Juliet_ with, 56 its topic and metre reflected in 'Lucrece,' 76 77 and _n_ 431

Concordances to Shakespeare, 364 and _n_

Condell, Henry, actor and a lifelong friend of Shakespeare, 36 202 203
264
the poet's bequest to him, 276
signs dedication of First Folio, 303 306

_Confessio Amantis_, Gower's, 244

_Conspiracie of Duke Biron_, _The_, 51 _n_

Constable, Henry, piratical publication of the sonnets of, 88 _n_
followed Desportes in naming his collection of sonnets 'Diana,' 104
431
dedicatory sonnets, 440
religious sonnets, 440

_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
derived from North's 'Plutarch,' 246
literal reproduction of the text of Plutarch, 246 and _n_
originality of the humorous scenes, 246
date of composition, 246 247
general characteristics, 247
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

'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
cf. 251 _n_, 254 _n_, 256 _n_ 1, 264

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
draft of _Henry V_ printed by, 173
fraudulently assigns plays to Shakespeare, 179 180

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
the scene of some of the poet's performances, 37
closed at the period of the Civil War, 37 233 _n_ 1

Cushman, Charlotte, 342

Cust, Mr. Lionel, 290 _n_

_Cymbeline_: sources of plot, 249
introduction of Calvinistic terms, 250 and _n_
Imogen, 250
comparison with _As You Like It_, 250
Dr. Forman's note on its performance, 250
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography) 301-25

'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