Chapter L

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

La Harpe and the Shakespearean controversy in France, 349

Labe, Louise, 445 _n_

Lamb, Charles, 259 338

Lambarde, William, 175

Lambert, Edmund, mortgagee of the Asbies property, 12 26 164

Lambert, John, proposal to confer upon him an absolute title to the Asbies property, 26 John Shakespeare's lawsuit against, 195

Lane, Nicholas, a creditor of John Shakespeare, 186

Langbaine, Gerard, 66 362

Laroche, Benjamin, translation by, 350

Latin, the poet's acquaintance with, 13 15 16

'Latten,' use of the word in Shakespeare, 177 _n_

'Laura,' Shakespeare's allusion to her as Petrarch's heroine, 108
title of Tofte's collection of sonnets, 438

Law, the poet's knowledge of, 32 and cf. _n_ 2 and 107

Lawrence, Henry, his seal beneath Shakespeare's autograph, 267

_Lear_, _King_: date of composition, 241
produced at Whitehall, 241
Butter's imperfect editions, 241
sources of story, 241
the character of the King, 242
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography) 301-25

Legal terminology in plays and poems of the Shakespearean period, 32 _n_ 2 430 cf. 107

Legge, Dr. Thomas, a Latin piece on Richard III by, 63

Leicester, Earl of, his entertainment of Queen Elizabeth at Kenilworth, 17 162 his regiment of Warwickshire youths for service in the Low Countries, 30 his company of players, 33 35

Leo, F. A. 346

Leoni, Michele, Italian translation of the poet issued by, 352

'Leopold' Shakspere, the, 325

Lessing, defence of Shakespeare by, 343

L'Estrange, Sir Nicholas, 176

Le Tourneur, Pierre, French prose translation of Shakespeare by, 349

'Licia,' Fletcher's collection of sonnets called, 77 _n_ 2 103 105 113 _n_ 5 433

Linche, Richard, his sonnets entitled 'Diella,' 437

Lintot, Bernard, 231

Locke (or Lok), Henry, sonnets by, 388 441

_Locrine_, _Tragedie of_, 179

Lodge, Thomas, 57 61
his 'Scillaes Metamorphosis' drawn upon by Shakespeare for 'Venus
and Adonis,' 75 and _n_ 2
his plagiarisms, 103 and _n_ 3 433
comparison of lips with coral in 'Phillis,' 118 _n_ 2
his 'Rosalynde' the foundation of _As You Like It_, 209
his 'Phillis,' 417 433

_London Prodigall_, 180 313

Lope de Vega dramatises the story of Romeo and Juliet, 55 _n_ 1

Lopez, Roderigo, Jewish physician, 68 and _n_

Lorkin, Rev. Thomas, on the burning of the Globe Theatre, 261 _n_

Love, treatment of, in Shakespeare's sonnets,
97 and _n_ 98 112 113 and _n_ 2
in the sonnets of other writers, 104-6 113 _n_ 2

'Lover' and 'love' synonymous with 'friend' and 'friendship' in Elizabethan English, 127 _n_

'Lover's Complaint, A,' possibly written by Shakespeare, 91

_Love's Labour's Lost_: Latin phrases in, 15
probably the poet's first dramatic production, 50
its plot not borrowed, 51
its characters, 51 and _n_ 52
its revision in 1597, 52
date of publication, 52
influence of Lyly, 62
performed at Whitehall, 81
examples of the poet's first attempts at sonnetteering, 84
scornful allusion to sonnetteering, 107
the praise of 'blackness,' 118 119 and _n_ 2
performed before Anne of Denmark at Southampton's house in the
Strand, 384
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

_Love's Labour's Won_, attributed by Meres to Shakespeare, 162
See _All's Well_

'Love's Martyr, or Rosalin's Complaint,' 183 184 _n_ 304

Lowell, James Russell, 13 _n_ 341

Lucian, the _Timon_ of, 243

'Lucrece:' published in 1594, 76
Daniel's 'Complainte of Rosamond' reflected, 76 77 and _n_ 1
the passage on Time elaborated from Watson, 77 and _n_ 2
dedicated to the Earl of Southampton, 77 78 126 127
enthusiastic reception of, 78-9
quarto editions in the poet's lifetime, 299
posthumous editions, 300

Lucy, Sir Thomas, his prosecution of Shakespeare for poaching, 27 28
caricatured in Justice Shallow, 29 173

Luddington, 20

Lydgate, 'Troy Book' of, drawn upon for _Troilus and Cressida_, 227

Lyly, John, 61
followed by Shakespeare in his comedies, 61 62
his addresses to Cupid, 97 _n_
his influence on _Midsummer Night's Dream_, 162

Lyrics in Shakespeare's plays, 207 250 255 and _n_