Chapter M: 'M. I.' 306 See also 'S., I. M.'

Macbeth: references to the climate of Inverness, 41 _n_ 3 42
date of composition, 239
the story drawn from Holinshed, 239
points of difference from other plays of the same class, 240
Middleton's plagiarisms, 240
not printed until 1623, 239
the shortest of the poet's tragedies, 239
performance at the Globe, 239
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

Macbeth, Lady, and AEschylus's Clytemnestra, 13 _n_

Mackay, Mr. Herbert, on the dower of the poet's widow, 274

Macklin, Charles, 336 337

Macready, William Charles, 339 351

Madden, Rt. Hon. D. H., on Shakespeare's knowledge of sport, 27 _n_ 168 364

Magellan, 'Voyage to the South Pole' by, 253

Magny, Olivier de, 443

Malone, Edmund, on Shakespeare's first employment in the theatre, 34
on the poet's residence, 38
on the date of _The Tempest_, 254 332 333
his writings on the poet, 321 322 362

Malvolio, 211

Manners, Lady Bridget, 378 379 and _n_

Manningham, John (diarist), a description of _Twelfth Night_ by, 210

Manuscript, circulation of sonnets in, 88 and _n_
(Appendix ix.), 391 396

Marino, vituperative sonnet by, 122 _n_ 1 442 _n_ 2

Markham, Gervase, his adulation of Southampton in his sonnets, 131 134 387

Marlowe, Christopher, 57
his share in the revision of _Henry VI_, 60
his influence on Shakespeare, 61 63-4
Shakespeare's acknowledgments, 64
his translation of Lucan, 90 393 399

Marmontel and the Shakespearean controversy in France, 349

Marot, Clement, 442

Marriage, treatment of, in the Sonnets, 98

Marshall, Mr. F. A., 325

Marston, John, identified by some as the 'rival poet,' 136 183
his quarrel with Jonson, 214-20

Martin, one of the English actors who played in Scotland, 41 and _n_ 1

Martin, Lady, 298 339 365

Masks worn by men playing women's parts, 38 _n_ 2

Massey, Mr. Gerald, on the Sonnets, 91 _n_ 1

Massinger, Philip, 258
portions of _The Two Noble Kinsmen_ assigned to, 259
and _Henry VIII_, 263 and _n_ 2

'Mastic,' use of the word, 228 _n_

Masuccio, the story of Romeo and Juliet told in his _Novellino_, 55

Matthew, Sir Toby, 375 383

_Measure for Measure_: the offence of Claudio, 23 _n_
date of composition, 235
produced at Whitehall, 235
not printed in the poet's lifetime, 235
source of plot, 236
deviations from the old story, 237 238
creation of the character of Mariana, 238
the philosophic subtlety of the poet's argument, 238
references to a ruler's dislike of mobs, 238
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-325

Melin de Saint-Gelais, 442

Memorials in sculpture to the poet, 297

_Menaechmi_ of Plautus, 54

Mendelssohn, setting of Shakespearean songs by, 347

_Merchant of Venice_: the influence of Marlowe, 63 68
sources of the plot, 66 67
the last act, 69
date of, 69
use of the word 'lover,' 127 _n_
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-325

Meres, Francis, recommends Shakespeare's 'sugred' sonnets, 89
his quotations from Horace and Ovid on the immortalising power of
verse, 116 _n_
attributes _Love's Labour's Won_ to Shakespeare, 162
testimony to the poet's reputation, 178 179 390

Mermaid Tavern, 177 178

_Merry Devill of Edmonton_, 181 258 _n_ 2

_Merry Wives of Windsor_: Latin phrases put into the mouth of Sir Hugh
Evans, 15
Sir Thomas Lucy caricatured in Justice Shallow, 29
lines from Marlowe sung by Sir Hugh Evans, 64 65
period of production, 171
publication of, 172
source of the plot, 172
chief characteristics, 173
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-325

Metre of Shakespeare's plays a rough guide to the chronology, 48-50
of Shakespeare's poems, 75-77
of Shakespeare's sonnets, 95 and _n_ 2

Mezieres, Alfred, 350

Michel, Francisque, translation by, 350

Middle Temple Hall, performance of _Twelfth Night_ at, 210

Middleton, Thomas, his allusion to Le Motte in _Blurt_, _Master Constable_, 51 _n_ his plagiarisms of _Macbeth_ in _The Witch_, 240

_Midsummer Night's Dream_: references to the pageants at Kenilworth Park,
17 162
reference to Spenser's 'Teares of the Muses,' 80
date of production, 161
sources of the story, 162
the final scheme, 162
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-325

Milton, applies the epithet 'sweetest' to Shakespeare, 179 _n_
his epitaph on Shakespeare, 327

Minto, Professor, claims Chapman as Shakespeare's 'rival' poet, 135 _n_

Miranda, character of, 256

'Mirror of Martyrs,' 211

_Miseries of Enforced Marriage_, 243

'Monarcho, Fantasticall,' 51 _n_

Money, its purchasing power in the sixteenth century, 3 _n_ 3 197 _n_

Montagu, Mrs. Elizabeth, 348

Montaigne, 'Essays' of, 85 _n_ 253 _n_

Montegut, Emile, translation by, 350

Montemayor, George de, 53

Montgomery, Philip Herbert, Earl of, 306 381 410

Monument to Shakespeare in Stratford Church, 276 286

Morley, Lord, 410 _n_

Moseley, Humphrey, publisher, 181 258

Moth, in _Love's Labour's Lost_, 51 _n_

Moulton, Dr. Richard G. 365

_Mucedorus_, a play by an unknown author, 72

_Much Ado about Nothing_: a jesting allusion to sonnetteering, 108
its publication, 207 208
date of composition, 208
the comic characters, 208
Italian origin of Hero and Claudio, 208
parts taken by William Kemp and Cowley, 208
quotation from the _Spanish Tragedy_, 221 _n_
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

Mulberry-tree at New Place, the, 194 and _n_

Music at stage performances in Shakespeare's day, 38 _n_ 2
its indebtedness to the poet, 340

N

Nash, Anthony, the poet's legacy to, 276

Nash, John, the poet's legacy to, 276

Nash, Thomas (1), marries Elizabeth Hall, Shakespeare's granddaughter, 282

Nash, Thomas (2), on the performance of _Henry VI_. 56 57
piracy of his 'Terrors of the Night,' 88 _n_
on the immortalising power of verse, 114
use of the word 'lover,' 127 _n_
his appeals to Southampton, 131 134 135 _n_ 385 386 221 _n_ 427
_n_ 2
his preface to 'Astrophel and Stella,' 429 _n_ 1

Navarre, King of, in _Love's Labour's Lost_, 51 _n_

Neil, Samuel, 364

Nekrasow and Gerbel, translation into Russian by, 353

New Place, Stratford, Shakespeare's purchase of, 193 194
entertainment of Jonson and Drayton at, 271
the poet's death at, 272
sold on the death of Lady Barnard (the poet's granddaughter) to Sir
Edward Walker, 283
pulled down, 283

Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, criticism of the poet by, 331

Newdegate, Lady, 406 _n_ 415

Newington Butts Theatre, 37

Newman, Thomas, piratical publication of Sir Philip Sidney's sonnets by, 88 _n_ 429 and _n_ 1

Nicolson, George, English agent in Scotland, 41 _n_ 1

Nottingham, Earl of, his company of players, 225
taken into the patronage of Henry, Prince of Wales, 231 _n_

O

Oberon, vision of, 17 161
in 'Huon of Bordeaux,' 162

Oechelhaeuser, W., acting edition of the poet by, 346

Oldcastle, Sir John, play on his history, 170 313

'Oldcastle, Sir John,' the original name of Falstaff in _Henry IV_, 169

Oldys, William, 231 362

Olney, Henry, publisher, 437

_Orlando Furioso_, 47 _n_ 208

Ortlepp, E., German translation of Shakespeare by, 344

_Othello_: date of composition, 235
not printed in the poet's lifetime, 235
plot drawn from Cinthio's 'Hecatommithi,' 236
new characters and features introduced into the story, 236
exhibits the poet's fully matured powers, 236
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

Ovid, influence on Shakespeare of his 'Metamorphoses,' 15 75 and _n_ 1 76 162 253 claims immortality for his verse, 114 and _n_ 1 116 _n_ the poet's alleged signature on the title-page of a copy of the 'Metamorphoses' in the Bodleian Library, 15

Oxford, the poet's visits to, 31 265 266
_Hamlet_ acted at, 224

Oxford, Earl of, his company of actors, 35

'Oxford' edition of Shakespeare, the, 325

P

Painter, William, his 'Palace of Pleasure' and _Romeo and Juliet_, 55
_All's Well that Ends Well_, 163
_Timon of Athens_, 243
and _Coriolanus_, 246

_Palaemon and Arcyte_, a lost play, 260

_Palamon and Arsett_, a lost play, 260

Palmer, John, actor, 337

'Palladis Tamia,' eulogy on the poet in, 178

'Pandora,' Soothern's collection of love-sonnets, 138 _n_ 2

_Pandosto_ (afterwards called _Dorastus and Fawnia_), Shakespeare's indebtedness to, 251

Parodies on sonnetteering, 106-8 122 and _n_

'Parthenophil and Parthenophe,' Barnes's, 132

Pasquier, Estienne, 443

Passerat, Jean, 443

'Passionate Centurie of Love,' Watson's, the passage on Time in, 77
plagiarisation of Petrarch in, 101 _n_ 4 102 427 _n_ 2 428

'Passionate Pilgrim,' piratical insertion of two sonnets in, 98 182 437
the contents of, 182 _n_ 299
printed with Shakespeare's poems, 300

Patrons of companies of players, 35
adulation offered to, 138 and _n_ 2 140 141 440 and _n_

Pavier, Thomas, printer, 180

'Pecorone, Il,' by Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, Shakespeare's indebtedness to, 14 66 and _n_ 3 172 W. G. Waters's translation of, 66 _n_ 3

Peele, George, 57
his share in the original draft of _Henry VI_, 60

Pembroke, Countess of, dedication of Daniel's 'Delia' to, 130 429
homage paid to, by Nicholas Breton, 138 _n_ 2

Pembroke, Henry, second Earl of, his company of players, perform _Henry VI_ (part iii.), 36 59 and _Titus Andronicus_, 66

Pembroke, William, third Earl of, the question of the identification of
'Mr. W. H.' with, 94 406-15
performance at his Wilton residence, 231 232 _n_ 1 411
dedication of the First Folio to, 306
his alleged relations with Shakespeare, 411-15
the identification of the 'dark lady' with his mistress, Mary
Fitton, 123 _n_ 409
the mistaken notion that Shakespeare was his _protege_, 123 _n_
dedications by Thorpe to, 399 and _n_ 1 403 _n_ 2

Penrith, Shakespeares at, 1

Pepys, his criticisms of _The Tempest_ and _Midsummer Night's Dream_, 329

Percy, William, his sonnets, entitled 'Coelia,' 435

Perez, Antonio, and Antonio in _The Merchant of Venice_, 68 _n_

_Pericles_: date of composition, 242
a work of collaboration, 242
the poet's contributions, 244
dates of the various editions, 244
not included in the First Folio, 305
included in Third Folio, 313
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

Perkes (Clement), in _Henry IV._, member of a family at Stinchcombe Hill in the sixteenth century, 168

'Perkins Folio,' forgeries in the, 312 317 _n_ 2 367 and _n_

Personalities on the stage, 215 _n_ 1

Peruse, Jean de la, 443

Petowe, Henry, elegy on Queen Elizabeth by, 148

Petrarch, emulated by Elizabethan sonnetteers, 84 85 86 _n_
feigns old age in his sonnets, 86 _n_
his metre, 95
Spenser's translations from, 101
imitation of his sonnets justified by Gabriel Harvey, 101 _n_ 4
plagiarisms of, admitted by sonnetteers, 101 _n_ 4
Wyatt's translations of two of his sonnets, 101 _n_ 4 427
plagiarised indirectly by Shakespeare, 101 111 and _n_ 113 _n_ 1
the melancholy of his sonnets, 152 _n_
imitated in France, 443

Phelps, Samuel, 325 339

Phillips, Augustine, actor, friend of Shakespeare, 36
induced to revive _Richard II_ at the Globe in 1601, 175
his death, 264

Phillips, Edward (Milton's nephew), criticism of the poet by, 362
editor of Drummond's Sonnets, 439 _n_ 1

'Phillis,' Lodge's, 118 _n_ 2 433 and _n_ 3

Philosophy, Chapman's sonnets in praise of, 441

'Phoenix and the Turtle, The,' 183 184 304

Pichot, A., 350

'Pierce Pennilesse.' See Nash, Thomas (2)

'Pierces Supererogation,' by Gabriel Harvey, 101 _n_ 4 105

Pindar, his claim for the immortality of verse, 114 and _n_ 1

Plague, the, in Stratford-on-Avon, 10
in London, 65 231

Plautus, the plot of the _Comedy of Errors_ drawn from, 16
translation of, 54

Plays, sale of, 47 and _n_
revision of, 47
their publication deprecated by playhouse authorities, 48 _n_
only a small proportion printed, 48 _n_
prices paid for, 202 _n_

'Pleiade, La,' title of the literary comrades of Ronsard, 442
list of, 443

'Plutarch,' North's translation of, Shakespeare's indebtedness 10 47 162 211 243 245 and _n_ 246 and _n_

Poaching episode, the, 27 28

'Poetaster,' Jonson's, 217 218 and _n_

Poland, translations and performances of Shakespeare in, 353

Pontoux, Claude de, name of his heroine copied by Drayton, 104

Pope, Alexander, 297
edition of Shakespeare by, 315

Porto, Luigi da, adapts the story of Romeo and Juliet, 55 _n_ 1

Portraits of the poet, 286-93 296 _n_ 2
the 'Stratford' portrait, 287
Droeshout's engraving, 287 288 300 306
the 'Droeshout' painting, 288-91
portrait in the Clarendon gallery, 291
'Ely House' portrait, 290 291
Chandos portrait, 292 293
'Jansen' portrait, 293 294
'Felton' and 'Soest' portraits, 294
miniatures, 295

Pott, Mrs. Henry, 372

Prevost, Abbe, 348

Pritchard, Mrs., 336

Procter, Bryan Waller (Barry Cornwall), 324

_Promos and Cassandra_, 237

Prospero, character of, 257

Provinces, the, practice of theatrical touring in, 39-42 65

Publication of dramas: deprecated by playhouse authorities, 48 _n_
only a small proportion of the dramas of the period printed, 48 _n_
sixteen of Shakespeare's plays published in his lifetime, 48

Punning, 418 419 _n_

_Puritaine_, _or the Widdow of Watling-streete_, _The_, 180 313

Puritanism, alleged prevalence in Stratford-on-Avon of, 10 _n_ 268 _n_ 2
its hostility to dramatic representations, 10 _n_ 212 213 _n_ 1
the poet's references to, 268 _n_

'Pyramus and Thisbe,' 397

Q

Quarles, John, 'Banishment of Tarquin' of, 300

Quarto editions of the plays, in the poet's lifetime, 301 302
posthumous, 302 303
of the poems in the poet's lifetime, 299
posthumous, 300

'Quatorzain,' term applied to the Sonnet, 427 _n_ 2 cf. 429 _n_ 1

'Queen's Children of the Chapel,' the, 34 35 38 213-17

Queen's Company of Actors, the, welcomed to Stratford-on-Avon by John Shakespeare, 10 its return to London, 33 35 231 _n_

Quiney, Thomas, marries Judith Shakespeare, 271
his residence and trade in Stratford, 280
his children, 281

Quinton, baptism of one of the Hacket family at, 165

R

Rapp, M., German translation of Shakespeare by, 344

Ralegh, Sir Walter, extravagant apostrophe to Queen Elizabeth by, 137 _n_ 1 182 _n_

'Ratseis Ghost,' and Ratsey's address to the players, 185 199

Ravenscroft, Edward, on _Titus Andronicus_, 65 332

Reed, Isaac, 321 322

Reformation, the, at Stratford-on-Avon, 10 _n_

Rehan, Miss Ada, 342

Religion and Philosophy, sonnets on, 440 441

_Return from Parnassus_, _The_, 198 199 _n_ 1 218-20 277

Revision of plays, the poet's, 47 48

Reynoldes, William, the poet's legacy to, 276

Rich, Barnabe, story of 'Apollonius and Silla' by, 53 210

Rich, Penelope, Lady, Sidney's passion for, 428

_Richard II_: the influence of Marlowe, 63 64
published anonymously, 63
the deposition scene, 64
the facts drawn from Holinshed, 64
its revival on the eve of the rising of the Earl of Essex, 175 383
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

_Richard III_: the influence of Marlowe, 63
materials drawn from Holinshed, 63
Mr. Swinburne's criticism, 63
Burbage's impersonation of the hero, 63
published anonymously, 63
Colley Cibber's adaptation, 335
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

Richardson, John, one of the sureties for the bond against impediments respecting Shakespeare's marriage, 20 22

Richmond Palace, performances at, 82 230

Ristori, Madame, 352

Roberts, James, printer, 225 226 303 431

Robinson, Clement, use of the word 'sonnet' by, 427 _n_ 2

Roche, Walter, master of Stratford Grammar School, 13

_Roles_, Shakespeare's: at Greenwich Palace, 43 44 _n_ 1
in _Every Man in his Humour_, 44
in _Sejanus_, 44
the Ghost in _Hamlet_, 44
'played some kingly parts in sport,' 44
Adam in _As You Like It_, 44

Rolfe, Mr. W. J, 325

_Romeo and Juliet_, 54
plot drawn from the Italian, 55
date of composition, 56
first printed, 56
authentic and revised version of 1599, 56
two choruses in the sonnet form, 84
satirical allusion to sonnetteering, 108
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-35

_Romeus and Juliet_, Arthur Brooke's, 55 322

Ronsard, plagiarised by English sonnetteers, 102 103 _n_ 3 432 _seq._
by Shakespeare, 111 112 and _n_ 1
his claim for the immortality of verse, 114 and _n_ 1 116 _n_
his sonnets of vituperation, 121
first gave the sonnet a literary vogue in France, 442
and 'La Pleiade,' 442
modern reprint of his works, 445 _n_

Rosalind, played by a boy, 38 _n_ 2

Rosaline, praised for her 'blackness,' 118 119

'Rosalynde, Euphues Golden Legacie,' Lodge's, 209

Rose Theatre, Bankside: erected by Philip Henslowe, 36
opened by Lord Strange's company, 36
the scene of the poet's first successes, 37
performance of _Henry VI_, 56
production of the _Venesyon Comedy_, 69

Rossi, representation of Shakespeare by, 352

Roussillon, Countess of, 163

Rowe, Nicholas, on the parentage of Shakespeare's wife, 18
on Shakespeare's poaching escapade, 27
on Shakespeare's performance of the Ghost in _Hamlet_, 44
on the story of Southampton's gift to Shakespeare, 126
on Queen Elizabeth's enthusiasm for the character of Falstaff, 171
on the poet's last years at Stratford, 266
on John Combe's epitaph, 269 _n_
his edition of the poet's plays, 314 362

Rowington, the Richard and William Shakespeares of, 2

Rowlands, Samuel, 397

Rowley, William, 181 243

Roydon, Matthew, poem on Sir Philip Sidney, 140 184 _n_

Rumelin, Gustav, 345

Rupert, Prince, at Stratford-on-Avon, 281

Rusconi, Carlo, Italian prose version of Shakespeare issued by, 352

Russia, translations and performances of Shakespeare in, 352 353

Rymer, Thomas, his censure of the poet, 329

S

S., M. I., tribute to the poet thus headed, 327 and _n_ 328

S., W., initials in Willobie's book, 156 157
commonness of the initials, 157 _n_
use of the initials on works fraudulently attributed to the poet,
179 180

Sackville, Thomas, 408 _n_

Sadler, Hamlett, the poet's legacy to, 276

Saint-Saens, M., opera of _Henry VIII_ by, 351

St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, a William Shakespeare in 1598 living in, 38 and _n_ 1

Sainte-Marthe, Scevole de, 443

Salvini, representation of _Othello_ by, 352

Sand, George, translation of _As You Like It_ by, 351

Sandells, Fulk, one of the sureties for the bond against impediments with respect to Shakespeare's marriage, 20 22 supervisor of Richard Hathaway's will, 22

Saperton, 27 29

'Sapho and Phao,' address to Cupid in, 97 _n_

_Satiro-Mastix_, a retort to Jonson's _Cynthia's Revels_, 215

Savage, Mr. Richard, 165 _n_ 363

'Saviolo's Practise,' 209

Scenery unknown in Shakespeare's day, 38 and _n_ 2
designed by Inigo Jones for masques, 38 _n_ 2
Sir Philip Sidney on difficulties arising from its absence, 38 _n_ 2

Schiller, adaptation of _Macbeth_ for the stage by, 345

Schlegel, A. W. von, 180
German translation of Shakespeare by, 343
lectures on Shakespeare by, 344

Schmidt, Alexander, 364

'Schoole of Abuse,' 67

Schroeder, F. U. L., German actor of Shakespeare, 346

Schubert, Franz, setting of Shakepearean songs by, 347

Schumann, setting of Shakespearean songs by, 347

'Scillaes Metamorphosis,' Lodge's, drawn upon by Shakespeare for 'Venus and Adonis,' 75 and _n_ 2

Scoloker, Anthony, in 'Daiphantus,' 277

Scotland, Shakespeare's alleged travels in, 40-42
visits of actors to, 41

Scott, Reginald, allusion to Monarcho in 'The Discoverie of Witchcraft' of, 51 _n_

Scott, Sir Walter, at Charlecote, 28

_Scourge of Folly_, 44 _n_ 2

Sedley, Sir Charles, apostrophe to the poet, 331

_Sejanus_, Shakespeare takes part in the performance of, 44 401

_Selimus_, 179

Serafino dell' Aquila, Watson's indebtedness to, 77 _n_ 2 102 103 _n_ 1 442 _n_

Seve, Maurice, 104 and _n_ 430 442 445 _n_ 1

Sewell, Dr. George, 315

'Shadow of the Night, The,' Chapman's, 135 _n_

Shakespeare, the surname of, 1 2 cf. 24 _n_

Shakespeare, Adam, 1

Shakespeare, Ann, a sister of the poet, 11

Shakespeare, Anne (or Agnes): her parentage, 18 19
her marriage to the poet, 18 19-22
assumed identification of her with Anne Whateley, 23 24 and _n_
her debt, 187
her husband's bequest to her, 273
her widow's dower barred, 274 and _n_
her wish to be buried in her husband's grave, 274
committed by her husband to the care of the elder daughter, 275
her death, 280 and _n_

Shakespeare, Edmund, a brother of the poet, is 'a player,' 283
death, 283

Shakespeare, Gilbert, a brother of the poet, 11
witnesses his brother's performance of Adam in _As You Like It_, 44
apparently had a son named Gilbert, 283
his death not recorded, 283

Shakespeare, Hamnet, son of the poet, 26 187

Shakespeare, Henry, one of the poet's uncles, 3 4 186

Shakespeare, Joan (1), 7

Shakespeare, Joan (2), see Hart, Joan

Shakespeare, John (1), the first recorded holder of this surname (thirteenth century), 1

Shakespeare, John (2), the poet's father, administrator of Richard
Shakespeare's estate, 3 4
claims that his grandfather received a grant of land from Henry VII,
2 189
leaves Snitterfield for Stratford-on-Avon, 4
his business, 4
his property in Stratford and his municipal offices, 5
marries Mary Arden, 6 7
his children, 7
his house in Henley Street, Stratford, 8 11
appointed alderman and bailiff, 10
welcomes actors at Stratford, 10
his alleged sympathies with puritanism, 10 _n_
his application for a grant of arms, 2 10 _n_ 188-92
his financial difficulties, 11 12
his younger children, 11
writ of distraint issued against him, 12
deprived of his alderman's gown, 12
his trade of butcher, 18
increase of pecuniary difficulties, 186
relieved by the poet, 187
his death, 204

Shakespeare or Shakspere, John (a shoemaker), another resident at Stratford, 12 _n_ 3

Shakespeare, Judith, the poet's second daughter, 26 205
her marriage to Thomas Quiney, 271
her father's bequest to her, 275
her children, 280 281
her death, 281

Shakespeare, Margaret, 7

Shakespeare, Mary, the poet's mother: her marriage, 6 7
her ancestry and parentage, 6 7
her property, 7
her title to bear the arms of the Arden family, 191
her death, 266

Shakespeare, Richard, a brother of the poet, 11 266
his death, 283

Shakespeare, Richard, of Rowington, 2

Shakespeare, Richard, of Snitterfield, probably the poet's grandfather, 3
his family, 3 4
letters of administration of his estate, 3 and _n_ 3

Shakespeare, Richard, of Wroxhall, 3

Shakespeare, Susanna, a daughter of the poet, 22
_See also_ Hall, Mrs. Susanna

Shakespeare, Thomas, probably one of the poet's uncles, 3 4

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM: parentage and birthplace, 1-9
childhood, education, and marriage, 10-24
(_see also_ Education of Shakespeare; Poaching; Shakespeare,
Anne)
departure from Stratford, 27-31
theatrical employment, 32-4
joins the Lord Chamberlain's company, 36
his _roles_, 43
his first plays, 50-73
publication of his poems, 74 76 _seq._
his Sonnets, 83-124 151-6
patronage of the Earl of Southampton, 125-50 374
plays composed between 1595 and 1598, 161-73
his popularity and influence, 176-79
returns to Stratford, 187
buys New Place, 193
financial position before 1599, 196 _seq._
financial position after 1599, 200 _seq._
formation of his estate at Stratford, 204 _seq._
plays written between 1599 and 1609, 207-47
the latest plays, 248 _seq._
performance of his plays at Court, 264
(_see also_ Court; Whitehall; Elizabeth, Queen; James I)
final settlement in Stratford (1611), 266 _seq._
death (1616), 272
his will, 273 _seq._
monument at Stratford, 276
personal character, 277-9
his survivors and descendants, 280 _seq._
autographs, portraits, and memorials, 284-98
bibliography, 299-325
his posthumous reputation in England and abroad, 326-54
general estimate of his work, 355-7
biographical sources, 361-5
alleged relation between him and the Earl of Pembroke, 411-15

Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, 341

'Shakespeare Society,' the, 333 365

Shallow, Justice, Sir Thomas Lucy caricatured as, 29
his house in Gloucestershire, 167 168 173

Sheldon copy of the First Folio, the, 309 310

Shelton, Thomas, translator of 'Don Quixote,' 258

Shiels, Robert, compiler of 'Lives of the Poets,' 32 _n_ 3

Shottery, Anne Hathaway's Cottage at, 19

Shylock, sources of the portrait of, 67 68 and _n_

Siddons, Mrs. Sarah, 337 338

Sidney, Sir Philip: on the absence of scenery in a theatre, 38 _n_ 2
translation of verses from 'Diana,' 53
Shakespeare's indebtedness to him, 61
addressed as 'Willy' by some of his eulogists, 81
his 'Astrophel and Stella,' brings the sonnet into vogue, 83
piracy of his sonnets, 88 _n_ 432
circulation of manuscript copies of his 'Arcadia,' 88 _n_
his addresses to Cupid in his 'Astrophel,' 97 _n_
warns the public against the insincerity of sonnetteers, 104
on the conceit of the immortalising power of verse, 114
his praise of 'blackness,' 119 and _n_ 1
sonnet on 'Desire,' 153
use of the word 'will,' 417
editions of 'Astrophel and Stella,' 428 429
popularity of his works, 429

Sidney, Sir Robert, 382

Singer, Samuel Weller, 324

Sly, Christopher, probably drawn from life, 164 165 166 167 221 _n_

Smethwick, John, bookseller, 304

Smith, Richard, publisher, 431

Smith, Wentworth, 157 _n_
plays produced by, 180 _n_

Smith, William, sonnets of, 138 _n_ 2 157 _n_ 390 437

Smith, Mr. W. H., and the Baconian hypothesis, 372

Smithson, Miss, actress, 351

Snitterfield, Richard Shakespeare rents land of Robert Arden at, 3 6
departure of John Shakespeare, the poet's father, from, 4
the Arden property at, 7
sale of Mary Shakespeare's property at, 12 and _n_ 1 186

Snodham, Thomas, printer, 180

Somers, Sir George, wrecked off the Bermudas, 252

Somerset House, Shakespeare and his company at, 233 and _n_ 2

Sonnet in France (1550-1600), the, bibliographical note on (Appendix X.), 442-5

Sonnets, Shakespeare's: the poet's first attempts, 84
the majority probably composed in 1594, 85
a few written between 1594 and 1603 (e.g. cvii.)
their literary value, 87 88
circulation in manuscript, 88 396
commended by Meres, 89
their piratical publication in 1609, 89-94 390
their form, 95 96
want of continuity, 96 100
the two 'groups,' 96 97
main topics of the first 'group,' 98 99
main topics of the second 'group,' 99 100
rearrangement in the edition of 1640, 100
autobiographical only in a limited sense, 100 109 125 152 160
censure of them by Sir John Davies, 107
their borrowed conceits, 109-24
indebtedness to Drayton, Petrarch, Ronsard, De Baif, Desportes, and
others, 110-12
the poet's claim of immortality for his sonnets, 113-16 cf. 114 _n_
1
the 'Will Sonnets,' 117 (and Appendix VIII)
praise of 'blackness,' 118
vituperation, 120-4
'dedicatory' sonnets, 125 _seq._
the 'rival poet,' 130-6
sonnets of friendship, 136 138-47
the supposed story of intrigue 153-8
summary of conclusions respecting the sonnets, 158-60
edition of 1640, 300

Sonnets, quoted with explanatory comments:
xx. 93 _n_ : xxvi. 128 _n_ : xxxii. 128 129 _n_ : xxxvii. 130
xxxviii. 129 : xxxix. 130 : xlvi.-xlvii. 112 113 _n_ 1
lv. 115 116 : lxxiv. 130 (_quot._) : lxxviii. 125
lxxx. 134 : lxxxv. 133 : lxxxvi. 132 : lxxxviii. 133
lxxxix. 133 : xciv. 1 14 72 89 : c. 126
ciii. 126 : cvii. 13 _n_ 87 147 149 380
cviii. 130 : cx. 44 130 : cxi. 45 : cxix. 152 and _n_
cxxiv. 425 : cxxvi. 97 and _n_ : cxxvii. 118
cxxix. 152 153 and _n_ 1 : cxxxii. 118
cxxxv.-cxxxvi. 420-424 : cxxxviii. 89
cxliii. 93 _n_ 425 426 and _n_ : cxliv. 89 153 301
cliii.-cliv. 113 and _n_ 2
the vogue of the Elizabethan: English sonnettering inaugurated by
Wyatt and Surrey, 83 427 428
followed by Thomas Watson, 83 428
Sidney's 'Astrophel and Stella,' 83 428 429 and _n_
poets celebrate patrons' virtues in sonnets, 84
conventional device of sonnetteers of feigning old age, 85 86 _n_
lack of genuine sentiment, 100
French and Italian models, 101 and _n_ 1 102-5 Appendices IX. and
X.
translations from Du Bellay, Desportes, and Petrarch, 101 and _n_ 4
102 103
admissions of insincerity, 105
censure of false sentiment in sonnets, 106
Shakespeare's scornful allusions to sonnets in his plays, 107 108
vituperative sonnets, 120-24
the word 'sonnet' often used for 'song' or 'poem,' 427 _n_ 2
I. Collected sonnets of feigned love, 1591-7, 429-40
II. Sonnets to patrons, 440
III. Sonnets on philosophy and religion, 440 441
number of sonnets published between 1591 and 1597, 439-41
various poems in other stanzas practically belonging to the sonnet
category, 438 _n_ 2

Soothern, John, sonnets to the Earl of Oxford, 138 _n_ 2

Sophocles, parallelisms with the works of Shakespeare, 13 _n_

Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of, 53
the dedications to him of 'Venus and Adonis' and 'Lucrece,' 74 77
his patronage of Florio, 84 _n_
his patronage of Shakespeare, 126-50
his gift to the poet, 126 200
his youthful appearance, 143
his identity with the youth of Shakespeare's sonnets of 'friendship'
evidenced by his portraits, 144 and _n_ 145 146
imprisonment, 146 147 380
his long hair, 146 _n_ 2
his beauty, 377
his youthful career, 374-381
as a literary patron, 382-9

Southwell, Robert, circulation of incorrect copies of 'Mary Magdalene's
Tears' by, 88 _n_
publication of "A Foure-fould Meditation' by, 92 400 and _n_ 401 _n_
dedication of his 'Short Rule of Life,' 397

Southwell, Father Thomas, 371

Spanish, translation of Shakespeare's plays into, 354

_Spanish Tragedy_, Kyd's, popularity of, 65 221
quoted in the _Taming of the Shrew_, 221 _n_

Spedding, James, 262

Spelling of the poet's name, 284-6

Spenser, Edmund: probably attracted to Shakespeare by the poems 'Venus
and Adonis' and 'Lucrece,' 79
his description of Shakespeare in 'Colin Clouts come home againe,'
79
Shakespeare's reference to Spenser's work in _Midsummer Night's
Dream_, 80
Spenser's allusion to 'our pleasant Willy' not a reference to the
poet, 80 and _n_
his description of the 'gentle spirit' no description of
Shakespeare, 81 and _n_ 2
translation of sonnets from Du Bellay and Petrarch, 101
called by Gabriel Harvey 'an English Petrarch,' 101 and cf. _n_ 4
on the immortalising power of verse, 115
his apostrophe to Admiral Lord Charles Howard, 140
his 'Amoretti,' 115 435 and _n_ 5 436
dedication of his 'Faerie Queene,' 398

'Spirituall Sonnettes' by Constable, 440

Sport, Shakespeare's knowledge of, 26 27 and _n_ 173

Stael, Madame de, 449

Stafford, Lord, his company of actors, 33

Stage, conditions of, in Shakespeare's day: absence of scenery and scenic
costume, 38 and _n_ 2
the performance of female parts by men or boys, 38 and _n_ 2
the curtain and balcony of the stage, 38 _n_ 2

Stanhope of Harrington, Lord, 234 _n_

'Staple of News, The,' Jonson's quotations from _Julius Caesar_ in, 220 _n_

Staunton, Howard, 311
his edition of the poet, 323 324

Steele, Richard, on Betterton's rendering of Othello, 334

Steevens, George: his edition of Shakespeare, 320
his revision of Johnson's edition, 320 321
his criticisms, 320 321
the 'Puck of commentators,' 321

Stinchcombe Hill referred to as 'the Hill' in _Henry IV_, 168

Stopes, Mrs. C. C., 363

Strange, Lord. _See_ Derby, Earl of

Straparola, 'Notti' of, and the _Merry Wives of Windsor_, 172

Stratford-on-Avon, settlement of John Shakespeare, the poet's father, at,
4
property owned by John Shakespeare in, 5 8
the poet's birthplace at, 8 9
the Shakespeare Museum at, 8 297
the plague in 1564 at, 10
actors for the first time at, 10
and the Reformation, 10 _n_
the Shoemakers' Company and its Master, 12 _n_ 3
the grammar school, 13
Shakespeare's departure from, 27 29 31
native place of Richard Field, 32
allusions in the _Taming of the Shrew_ to, 164
the poet's return in 1596 to, 187
the poet's purchase of New Place, 193
appeals from townsmen to the poet for aid, 195 196
the poet's purchase of land at, 203 204-6
the poet's last years at, 264 266
attempt to enclose common lands and Shakespeare's interest in it,
269 270
the poet's death and burial at, 272
Shakespeare memorial building at, 298
the 'Jubilee' and the tercentenary, 334

Suckling, Sir John, 328

'Sugred,' an epithet applied to the poet's work, 179 and _n_ 390

Sullivan, Barry, 298

Sully, M. Mounet, 351 and _n_ 1

Sumarakow, translation into Russian by, 352

_Supposes_, the, of George Gascoigne, 164

Surrey, Earl of, sonnets of, 83 95 101 _n_ 4 427 428

Sussex, Earl of, his company of actors, 35
_Titus Andronicus_ performed by, 36 66

Swedish, translations of Shakespeare in, 354

'Sweet,' epithet applied to Shakespeare, 277

Swinburne, Mr. A. C., 63 71 72 _n_ 333 365

Sylvester, Joshua, sonnets to patrons by, 388 440 and _n_

T

Taille, Jean de la, 445 _n_

_Tamburlaine_, Marlowe's, 63

_Taming of A Shrew_, 163

_Taming of The Shrew_: probable period of production, 163
identical with _Love's Labour's Won_, 163
and _The Taming of A Shrew_, 163 164
the story of Bianca and her lovers and the _Supposes_ of George
Gascoigne, 164
biographical bearing of the Induction, 164
quotation from the _Spanish Tragedy_, 221 _n_
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 305-25

Tarleton, Richard, 81
his 'Newes out of Purgatorie' and the _Merry Wives of Windsor_, 172

Tasso, similarity of sentiment with that of Shakespeare's sonnets, 152 _n_

'Teares of Fancy,' Watson's, 428 433

'Teares of the Isle of Wight,' elegies on Southampton, 389

'Teares of the Muses,' Spenser's, referred to in _Midsummer Night's Dream_, 80

_Tempest_, _The_: traces of the influence of Ovid, 15 25 _n_ 43
the shipwreck akin to a similar scene in _Pericles_, 244
probably the latest drama completed by the poet, 251
and the shipwreck of Sir George Somers's fleet on the Bermudas, 252
the source for the plot, 253
performed at the Princess Elizabeth's nuptial festivities, 254
the date of composition, 254 and _n_
its performance at Whitehall in 1611, 254 _n_
its lyrics, 255 and _n_
Ben Jonson's scornful allusion to, 255
reflects the poet's highest imaginative powers, 256
fanciful interpretations of, 256 257
chief characters of, 256 257 and _notes_ 1 and 2.
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-325

Temple Grafton, 23 24 and _n_

'Temple Shakespeare, The,' 325

Tercentenary festival, the Shakespeare, 334

'Terrors of the Night,' piracy of, 88 _n_
nocturnal habits of 'familiars' described in, 135 _n_

Terry, Miss Ellen, 339

Theatre, The, at Shoreditch, 32
owned by James Burbage, 33 36
Shakespeare at, between 1595 and 1599, 37
demolished, and the Globe Theatre built with the materials, 37

Theatres in London: Blackfriars (_q.v._)
Curtain (_q.v._)
Duke's, 295
Fortune, 212 233 _n_ 1
Globe (_q.v._)
Newington Butts, 37
Red Bull, 31 _n_ 2
Rose (_q.v._)
Swan, 38 _n_ 2
The Theatre, Shoreditch (_q.v._)

Theobald, Lewis, his emendations of _Hamlet_, 224
publishes a play alleged to be by Shakespeare, 258
his criticism of Pope, 316
his edition of the poet's works, 316 317

Thomas, Ambroise, opera of _Hamlet_ by, 351

Thoms, W. J., 363

Thornbury, G. W., 363

Thorpe, Thomas, the piratical publisher of Shakespeare's Sonnets, 89-95
his relations with Marlowe, 90 135 _n_
adds 'A Lover's Complaint' to the collection of Sonnets, 91
his bombastic dedication to 'Mr. W. H.', 92-5
the true history of 'Mr. W. H.' and, (Appendix V.) 390-405

_Three Ladies of London_, _The_, some of the scenes in the _Merchant of Venice_ anticipated in, 67

Thyard, Ponthus de, a member of 'La Pleiade' 443 444

Tieck, Ludwig, theory respecting _The Tempest_ of, 254 333 344

Tilney, Edmund, master of the revels, 233 _n_ 2

_Timon of Athens_: date of composition, 242
written in collaboration, 242
a previous play on the same subject, 242
its sources, 243
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 305-25

_Timon_, Lucian's, 243

_Titus Andronicus_: one of the only two plays of the poet's performed by
a company other than his own, 36
doubts of its authenticity, 65
internal evidence of Kyd's authorship, 65
suggested by _Titus and Vespasian_, 65
played by various companies, 66
entered on the 'Stationers' Register' in 1594, 66
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

_Titus and Vespasian_, _Titus Andronicus_ suggested by, 65

Tofte, Robert, sonnets by, 438 and _n_ 2

Topics of the day, Shakespeare's treatment of, 51 _n_, 52

Tottel's 'Miscellany,' 427 428

Tours of English actors: in foreign countries between 1580 and 1630, 42
and _see_ _n_ 1
in provincial towns, 39 40-42 65 214
itinerary from 1593 to 1614, 40 _n_ 1 231

Translations of the poet's works, 342 _seq._

Travel, foreign, Shakespeare's ridicule of, 42 and _n_

'Troilus and Cresseid,' 227

_Troilus and Cressida_: allusion to the strife between adult and boy
actors, 217
date of production, 217 225
the quarto and folio editions, 226 227
treatment of the theme, 227 228
the endeavour to treat the play as the poet's contribution to
controversy between Jonson and Marston and Dekker, 228 _n_
plot drawn from Chaucer's 'Troilus and Cresseid and Lydgate's 'Troy
Book,' 227
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

'Troy Book,' Lydgate's, 227

_True Tragedie of Richard III_, _The_, an anonymous play, 63 301

_True Tragedie of Richard_, _Duke of Yorke_, _and the death of good King Henry the Sixt_, _as it was sundrie times acted by the Earl of Pembroke his servants_, _The_, 59

Turbervile, George, use of the word 'sonnet' by, 427 _n_ 2

_Twelfth Night_: description of a betrothal, 23 _n_
indebtedness to the story of 'Apollonius and Silla,' 53
date of production, 209
allusion to the 'new map,' 209 210 _n_ 1
produced at Middle Temple Hall, 210
Manningham's description of, 210
probable source of the story, 210
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

Twiss, F., 364 _n_

_Two Gentlemen of Verona_: allusion to Valentine travelling from Verona
to Milan by sea, 43
date of production, 52
probably an adaptation, 53
source of the story, 53
farcical drollery, 53
first publication, 53
influence of Lyly, 62
satirical allusion to sonnetteering, 107 108
resemblance of it to _All's Well that Ends Well_, 163
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

_Two Noble Kinsmen_, _The_: attributed to Fletcher and Shakespeare, 259
and _n_
Massinger's alleged share in its production, 259
plot drawn from Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale,' 260

Twyne, Lawrence, the story of Pericles in the 'Patterne of Painfull Adventures' by, 244

Tyler, Mr. Thomas, on the sonnets, 129 _n_ 406 _n_ 415 _n_

U

Ulrici, 'Shakespeare's Dramatic Art' by, 345