Chapter XXXII: Part 32

SHAKESPEARE, patronized by James I., 679; indebted to Sidney's Arcadia
for some poetic passages,452; his early dramas, 518--523; his
predecessors and contemporaries, 514--528; vicissitudes of his fame,
529; his use of the plots, &c., of predecessors, 530--532; incidents
of his early life, 533, 534; his dramatic career, 534--538; his poems,
539--540; his treatment by contemporaries, 541; popularity with the
public, 542; careless of his own fame, 543; first edition of his
works, 545; editions by Rowe, 557; Pope, 558; Theobald, 559; Sir T.
Hanmer, 561; Warburton, 563; Johnson, _ib._; the _Variorum_ edition,
567; annotations by Rymer, 553; Farmer, 567; Reed, Steevens, Malone,
568; Warton, 569; Voltaire, 566.

SHIP, the, of Fools, 285--288.

SIDNEY, Sir P., and his Arcadia, 451--453; his chivalric manners, 454;
his appreciation of the female character, 455; his great work
published by his sister, 458; the general regret at his death, 459;
critical injustice to Sidney from Horace Walpole, 451--458.

SKELTON the poet, 276--284.

SKULLS as drinking cups, 32, _n._

SMITH, Sir T., attempts to correct orthography, 383.

SONGS, Ancient, 256--259.

SORCERY, and its believers, 414.

SPANISH Dramatic History, 526.

SPELLING, and its difficulties, 389--391.

SPENSER, incidents of his life little known, 460; his introduction to
Sir P. Sidney, _ib._; his Shepherd's Calendar, 461; his mode of Life,
462; his Irish adventures, 464--467; his death, 473; his Faery Queen,
475--486; its allegorical character, 492.

SPIRITUAL visions of Dr. Dee, 628--636.

SPOLIATION of the monasteries, 316--321.

STAR CHAMBER decrees against books, 751.

STATIONERS, their origin, 744.

STEEVENS, edition of Shakespeare, 568.

STILL, Bishop, the Author of an Early Comedy, 508.

STONEHENGE, 10, _n._

SURREY, the poetical Earl of, 303--315.

SYMPATHETIC POWDER, for magical cures, 616.

TALES, popular, their origin, 261.

TARLTON'S jest against Sir W. Rawleigh, 595.

TASSO, explains the "Gierusalemme Liberata," by allegory, 490.

TECHNICAL terms of Rhetoric, 408.

TELESCOPE, invention of, 207.

THEATRES, ancient, in London, 515, 516.

THEOBALD'S edition of Shakespeare, 559, 560.

THOMASON'S remarkable collection of political phamphlets, 687--691.

THORKELIN, the Danish Scholar, 57.

TINDAL'S Testament, curious narrative concerning, 743.

TOLAND dishonestly inserts a political libel in Harrington's works,
708.

TOWER OF LONDON, scientific men imprisoned in, 610.

TRAGEDY, the first English, 503--506.

TRAVELLERS satirized by Bishop Hall, 378.

TRAVERS, and his controversy with Hooker, 442, 443.

TRIADS, Welsh, 22, 23, _n._

TROYNOVANT founded, 2.

TYRWHIT, editor of Chaucer, 175.

UDALL, N., author of the first English comedy, 513.

UNIVERSE, Cudworth's system of the, 714--723.

UPTON'S edition of Spenser, 495--500.

UTOPIA, Sir T. More's, 299.

VARIORUM EDITION of Shakespeare, 567.

VENICE, its government extolled, 693; fallacy of such praise, 702.

VENTRILOQUISM practised by Magicians, 626.

VERNACULAR dialects of Europe, 96--110; of England, 124.

VERSE, Anglo-Saxon, 32.

VICISSITUDES of the English language, 128--141; of the French, 130; of
the Latin, 131.

VIRGINIA, named by Queen Elizabeth, 593.

VOLTAIRE criticises Shakespeare, 570--572.

WAR against books, 738--756.

WARBURTON'S edition of Shakespeare, 562, 563.

WARTON, T., comments on Shakespeare, 569.

WEAPON-SALVE, for magical cures, 646.

WEBSTER, J., his elaborate treatise on witchcraft, 418.

WELSH memorials of early Britain, 20.

WICKLIFFE'S translation of the Bible, 123.

WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY, the Monkish historian, 237.

WILLIAM I. invades England, 59.

WILSON, Thos., endangered at Rome for his writings on rhetoric, 106;
his translation of Demosthenes, 374.

WITCHCRAFT, early belief in, 413.

WITCH-FINDERS, 417.

WOLSEY'S war against the press, 740.

WOMEN, satires on, 265.

WYATT, Sir T., the poet, 312--315.

YARRINGTON and his tragedies, 518, _n._

BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

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Transcriber's note:

The following typographical errors have been corrected:

Page 248: "Three 248 trentballs--that is, thirty masses thrice
told--were to be chorused by the Grey Friars; six priests were to
perform the high mass, chant the requiem, ..." 'were' amended from
'swere'.

Page 337: "Thus they were buried and coupled together; and a
scholar, whether a divine or a philosopher his ambiguous style will
not assure us, inscribed this epitaph:--" 'philosopher' amended
from 'philosoper'.

Page 375: "The spirits of that age seemed busied with day-dreams,
of discovering a new people, or founding a new kingdom. Shakespeare
alludes to this passion of the times:" 'Shakespeare' amended from
'Shakspeare'.

Page 624: "[An account of its use at Freiburg in discovering silver
mines, and a picture of its form, may be seen in Dr. Brown's
'Travels in Germany,' 4to, 1677, p. 136.]" 'mines' amended from
'imines'.

Page 687: "The age of Charles the First may be characterised as the
age of pamphlets." 'characterised' amended from 'charactersied'.

Page 744: "But the craft did not flourish, when the craftsmen had
become numerous." 'craftsmen' amended from 'craftmen'.

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