Chapter 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_
a common theme with classical and French writers, 114 and _n_ 1
treated by Drayton and Daniel, 115

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 personae_, 173

Irving, Sir Henry, 339

Italian, the poet's acquaintance with, 14-16 cf. 66 _n_ 3

Italy, Shakespeare's knowledge of, 43
translations and performances of Shakespeare in, 352
the original home of the sonnet, 442 _n_ 2
list of sonnetteers of the sixteenth century in, 442 _n_ 2

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 prints the First Folio, 303 304

James VI of Scotland and I of England, his favour bestowed on actors, 41
_n_ 1
sonnets to, 440
his appreciation of Shakespeare, 82
his accession to the English throne, 147 148 149
grants a license to the poet and his company, 230
his patronage of Shakespeare and his company 232-4 411
performances of _A Winter's Tale_ and _The Tempest_ before him, 251
and _n_ 254 255 256 _n_

James, Sir Henry, 311

Jameson, Mrs., 365

Jamyn, Amadis, 432 443 444 455 _n_

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
his parody of the vituperative sonnet, 121 122 and _n_
and 'La Pleiade,' 443

John, King, old play on, attributed to the poet, 181

_John_, _King_, Shakespeare's play of, printed in 1623, 69
the originality and strength of the three chief characters in, 69 70
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography) 301-325

Johnson, Dr., his story of Shakespeare, 33
his edition of Shakespeare, 319 320 321
his reply to Voltaire, 348

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
Shakespeare takes part in the performance of _Every Man in his
Humour_ and in _Sejanus_, 44
on _Titus Andronicus_, 65
on the appreciation of Shakespeare shown by Elizabeth and James I,
82
on metrical artifice in sonnets, 106 _n_ 1
use of the word 'lover,' 127 _n_
identified by some as the 'rival poet,' 136
his 'dedicatory' sonnets, 138 _n_ 2
his apostrophe of the Earl of Desmond, 140
relations with Shakespeare, 176 177
gift of Shakespeare to his son, 177
share in the appendix to 'Love's' Martyr,' 183
quarrel with Marston and Dekker, 214-20
his 'Poetaster,' 217 218 and _n_
allusions to him in the _Return from Parnassus_, 219
his scornful criticism of _Julius Caesar_, 220 _n_
satiric allusion to _A Winters Tale_, 251
his sneering reference to _The Tempest_ in _Bartholomew Fair_, 255
entertained by Shakespeare at New Place, Stratford, 271
testimony to Shakespeare's character, 277
his tribute to Shakespeare in the First Folio, 306 311 327
his _Hue and Cry after Cupid_, 432 _n_ 2
Thorpe's publication of some of his works, 395 _n_ 3 401

Jordan, John, forgeries of (Appendix 1.), 365 366

Jordan, Mrs., 338 339

Jordan, Thomas, his lines on men playing female parts, 335 _n_

Jourdain, Sylvester, 252

'Jubilee,' Shakespeare's, 334

_Julius Caesar_: use of the word 'lovers,' 127 _n_
plot drawn from Plutarch, 211
date of production, 211
a play of the same title acted in 1594, 211
general features of the play 211 212
Jonson's hostile criticism, 220 _n_
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

Jusserand, M. J. J., 42 _n_ 1 348 _n_ 1 351 _n_ 2

K

Kean, Edmund, 338 351

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
Shakespeare one of its members, 36
the poet's plays performed almost exclusively by, 36
theatres at which it performed, 36 37
provincial towns which it visited between 1594 and 1614, 40 and _n_
1
King James's license to, 230 231

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

Korner, 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_
and _Titus Andronicus_, 65
his _Spanish Tragedy_, 65 221
and the story of Hamlet, 221 and _n_
Shakespeare's acquaintance with his work, 222 _n_