Chapter XII: Letter CLXII: CCXI Sociable Letters written by the (2)

This extract is taken from an account of an imaginary suit in
connection with the administration of Shakespeare’s estate,
to determine whether the testator was the author of the plays
published under the name of William Shakespeare in the folio
volume of 1623.

* * * * *

The _Dictionary of National Biography_ states that Edward
Blount (_fl._ 1588-1632), the stationer, has been credited
on doubtful grounds with the authorship of the very curious
_Hospitall of Incvrable Fooles: Erected in English, as neer the
first Italian Modell and platforme as the vnskilful hand of an
ignorant Architect could deuise. Printed by Edm. Bollifant for
Edward Blount_, 1600.

_TO MY VERY GOOD FRIEND, MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE_

_It’s not because I know that you
Are really what the World has found you,
That I collect and tell anew
The tributes that have gathered round you.
Not moved to tread the lofty ways
Of those great souls who turned their powers,
As duty-bounden, to your praise,
Weave I this little wreath of flowers._

_You have, I know, a “myriad mind,”
A “honey tongue” to tell a story;
You left poor “panting Time” behind,
(See Johnson) in the race for glory—
’Tis true. But when all’s said and done,
With thought and rhetoric impassioned,
You’ve been, and are, a Friend to one
Whose mind is not supremely fashioned._

INDEX

Addison, Joseph. _Cato_, 18, 23.
Compared with Shakespeare, 18.
His contemporary fame, 22.
_Lines_ to. By William Somervile, and by John Hughes, 23.
_The Spectator_ (No. 45), 278;
(No. 592), 84.
Voltaire’s opinion of, 18.

Akenside, Mark. _An Inscription_, 105.
_The Remonstrance of Shakespeare_, 284.

_Among My Books._ By James Russell Lowell, 174, 266.

_Appreciations, with an Essay on Style._ By Walter Pater, 193.

_Argalus and Parthenia._ By Francis Quarles. Possible allusion
to Shakespeare in, 5 _n._

Armstrong, John. _Of the Versification of English Tragedy_, 100.
_Of the Dramatic Unities_, 100.

Arnold, Matthew. _Essays in Criticism_, 195.
_Heine’s Grave_, 265.
His Sonnet on Shakespeare, 29, 169.
His edition of Wordsworth’s _Poems_, 195.

_Art of English Poetry._ By Edward Bysshe, 26 _n._

_At the Mermaid._ By Robert Browning, 31.

_Autumn Vision, An._ By A. C. Swinburne, 201.

B., A. _Covent Garden Drollery_, 69.

_Bab Ballads._ By W. S. Gilbert, 318.

Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam, 145.
Compared with Shakespeare, 168, 316.
His supposed authorship of Shakespeare’s _Works_, v, 326.

Bancroft, Thomas. _To Shakespeare_, from _Two Bookes of
Epigrammes and Epitaphs_, 57.

Barnfield, Richard. _A Remembrance of some English Poets_, from
_Poems in Divers Humors_, 36.

Basse, William. _On Mr. William Shakespeare_, 40.

_Battaile of Agincourt, The._ By Michael Drayton, 48.

Baynes, Thomas Spencer. Article on “Shakespeare” in
_Encyclopædia Britannica_, 207.

Beaumont, Francis, 40, 42, 80.

Beddoes, T. L. _Lines written in Switzerland_, 258.

Betterton, Thomas, seen by Samuel Pepys as Macbeth, 63.

Bickerstaff, Isaac. _Queen Mab_, 299.

_Biographia Literaria._ By S. T. Coleridge, 130, 232.

Blackmore, Sir Richard. His _Creation_, Johnson’s criticism of, 21.

Blind, Mathilde. _Shakespeare_, from _Shakespeare Sonnets_, 213.

Blount, Edward, 326-8.

_Blue-stocking Revels._ By Leigh Hunt, 247.

Boileau and Pope, 292.

Boston, Shakespeare Jubilee at, 1824. Prize Ode by Charles Sprague,
142.

Boswell, James, the elder. _Life of Dr. Johnson_, 94, 107.

Boswell, James, the younger. His edition of Shakespeare’s _Works_,
20.

Bowle, John. _Miscellaneous Pieces of Ancient English Poetry_, 26
_n._

Bowles, William Lisle. _Monody on the Death of Dr. Warton_, 228.
_On Shakespeare_, from _Sonnets, with other Poems_, 124.

Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery, 148.

Braybrooke, Lord. Samuel Pepys’ _Diary and Correspondence_, 62.

Brooke, Stopford A. _Life and Letters of Frederick William
Robertson_, 164.

Browne, Felicia Dorothea, afterwards Mrs. Hemans. _England and
Spain_, 229.
_Shakespeare_, 128.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. _A Vision of Poets_, 252.

Browning, Robert. _At the Mermaid_, 31.
_Christmas Eve and Christmas Day_, 255.
_The Names_, 204.

Burlington, Lord, 225.

Butler, Samuel. _The Court Burlesqu’d._ Possible allusion to
Shakespeare in, 5.

Byron, Lord. Letter to Murray, 239.

Bysshe, Edward. _Art of English Poetry_, 26 _n._

_Caius Marius, a Tragedy._ Otway’s _Prologue_ to, 72.

_Canons of Criticism._ By Thomas Edwards, 281, 303, 304 _n._

Capell, Edward. His edition of Shakespeare’s _Works_, 20, 107, 303,
304 _n._
Johnson’s criticism of, 304 _n._

_Caractacus._ By William Mason, 101.

Carlyle, Thomas. _Chartism_, 249.
_Critical and Miscellaneous Essays_, 242, 249.
_Essay on Corn Law Rhymes_ in _Edinburgh Review_, 158.
_Goethe_, 242.
_The Hero as Poet_, from _On Heroes and Hero Worship_, 157.
_Shooting Niagara: and After?_ 264.

_Catalogue of Printed Books collected by Frederick Locker-Lampson_,
198.

_Characteristics of English Poets._ By William Minto, 189.

_Charge to the Poets, A._ By William Whitehead, 109.

Charles I. His influence on literature, 12.
His knowledge of Shakespeare, 7.

Charles II. His influence on literature, 12.

_Chartism._ By Thomas Carlyle, 249.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 40, 42.

_Christmas at the Mermaid._ By Theodore Watts-Dunton, 325.

_Christmas Eve and Christmas Day._ By Robert Browning, 255.

Churchill, Charles. _The Rosciad_, 108.

_Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare._ By W. S. Landor,
30.

Coleridge, Hartley. _To Shakespeare_, 148.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, ix.
His achievement as an æsthetic critic, 28.
_Biographia Literaria_, 130, 232.
His general dislike of “Selections,” 131.
His influence on the poetry of the nineteenth century, 27.
_Letters_, 246.
_Literary Remains_, 28, 131.
His notes on _The Tempest_, 132 _n._
_Outline of an Introductory Lecture on Shakespeare_, 232.
_Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton_, 232.
_Table Talk_, 240, 243, 246.

Collier, John Payne, 162.

Collins, William. _Verses_ addressed to Sir Thomas Hanmer, 92.

Colman, George, 224.
_Prose on several Occasions_, 224.
His translation of Terence, 224.

Combe, William. _The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the
Picturesque_, 308.

_Coming of Love, The._ By Theodore Watts-Dunton, 325.

Condell, Henrie, and John Heminge. _To the Great Variety of
Readers_, from the Shakespeare First Folio, 46.

_Conduct of Life._ By Ralph Waldo Emerson, 251.

Congreve, William, 12, 114.

_Conjectures on Original Composition._ By Edward Young, 104, 224.

_Connoisseur, The._ Its attitude towards Shakespeare, 21.

Cook, A. S. Leigh Hunt’s _Imagination and Fancy_, 250.

_Court Burlesqu’d, The._ By Samuel Butler. Possible allusion to
Shakespeare in, 5 _n._

_Covent Garden Drollery._ Collected by A. B., 69.

Covent Garden Theatre, Dr. Syntax in the pit of, 308.

_Creation, The._ By Sir Richard Blackmore, 21.

Crowne, John. _Prologue_ to _Henry the Sixth_, 220.

Cunningham, Peter. _Letters_ of Horace Walpole, 99, 226, 305.

_Cymbeline_, 148.

Daniel, George. _Vindication of Poesie_, 58.

D’Avenant, Sir William, 53.
His adaptations of Shakespeare’s Plays, 10.
_Ode. In Remembrance of Master William Shakespeare_, from
_Madagascar_, 54.
His version of _The Tempest_, 67.

Davies, John. “_To our English Terence, Mr. Will Shakespeare_,” from
_The Scourge of Folly_, 38.

Dennis, John. _An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespeare_,
82.

De Quincey, Thomas. His article on “Pope” in the _Encyclopædia
Britannica_, 248.
His article on “Shakespeare” in the _Encyclopædia Britannica_,
150, 248.
His criticism of Pope’s _Preface_, 87 _n._
His misinterpretation of the allusion to Shakespeare in Milton’s
_Eikonoklastes_, 8.
On the knocking at the gate in _Macbeth_, 30, 152 _n._
_Schlosser’s Literary History_, 254.

_Dialogues of the Dead._ By Lord Lyttelton, 292.

_Diary and Correspondence_ of Samuel Pepys, 62.

Dibdin, J. B. Letter to, from Charles Lamb, 313.

Digges, Leonard. _To the Memory of the deceased Author, Maister W.
Shakespeare_: from the Shakespeare First Folio, 47.

Dodsley, J. His _Collection of Poems by Several Hands_, 26 _n._,
123.

Dowden, Edward. _Shakespeare, his Mind and Art_, 28, 190, 267.

_Dramatic Poesie, An Essay._ By John Dryden, 67.

_Dramatic Poetry, An Essay on._ By a Person of Honour, 74.

_Dramatic Race, The_, 298.

_Dramatic Unities, Of the._ By John Armstrong, 100.

Drayton, Michael. _To my most dearly-beloved friend Henery
Reynolds_, from _The Battaile of Agincourt_, 48.

Dryden, John, 3, 10, 114.
His contemporary fame, 22.
_Defence of the Epilogue_, 68.
The first skilled critic of Shakespeare, 11.
His influence on eighteenth century literature, 13.
_Of Dramatic Poesie_, 66.
_Prologue_ to _The Tempest_, 66.
_Prologue_ to _Troilus and Cressida_, 67.

Dyce, Alexander, 162.

Dyer, George. _Poetics_, 231.

_Earth’s Holocaust._ By Nathaniel Hawthorne, 314.

_Edinburgh Review._ Article by Carlyle in, 158.
Articles by Jeffrey in, 133, 230.
Articles by Macaulay in, 160, 245.

Edwards, Thomas, 303, 304 _n._
_Canons of Criticism_, 281.

_Edwin and Emma._ By David Mallet, 24.

_Eikonoklastes._ By John Milton. Allusion to Shakespeare in, 7.

_Elegie on the Death of the famous Writer and Actor, Mr. William
Shakespeare_, from Shakespeare’s _Poems_, 55.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. _Conduct of Life_, 262.
_Representative Men_, 162, 251.
_Shakespeare, or the Poet_, 162.

_Encyclopædia Britannica_, 150, 208, 248.

_England and Spain._ By Felicia Dorothea Hemans, 229.

_Enthusiast, The._ By Joseph Warton, 91.

_Epigrammes and Epitaphs._ By Thomas Bancroft, 57.

_Epigrammes in the Oldest Cut and Newest Fashion._ By John Weever,
37.

_Epigrams._ By Samuel Sheppard, 59.

_Epigrams of Art, Life, and Nature._ By William Watson, 270.

_Epitaph_ on a Tombstone of Shakespeare, 223.

_Essays, Critical and Imaginative._ By John Wilson, 140.

_Essays in Criticism._ By Matthew Arnold, 195.

_Euphrosyne._ By Richard Graves, 225.

Falstaff, 308.

Farmer, Richard, 304 and _n._
_Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare_, 224.

_Fennell’s Shakespeare Repository_, 40.

Fenton, Elijah. _An Epistle to Mr. Southerne_, 80.

_Ferney: An Epistle to Monsr. De Voltaire._ By George Keate, 112.

Fielding, Henry. _A Journey from this World to the Next_, 279.

First Folio Edition of Shakespeare’s _Works_, 6, 42, 45, 46, 47.

_Five Books of Song._ By Richard Watson Gilder, 212.

Fletcher, John, compared with Shakespeare, 66, 80, 92.
His “solecism of speech,” 68.

Forman, H. Buxton. _Works_ of John Keats, 138.

_Fors Clavigera._ By John Ruskin, 273.

Freeman, Thomas. _To Master W. Shakespeare_, from _Runne, and a
Great Caste_, 39.

Froude, James Anthony. _Short Studies on Great Subjects_, 167.

Fuller, Thomas. _The History of the Worthies of England_, 61.

Furnivall, Dr. Frederick James. _The Leopold Shakspere_, 192.
_Some 300 Fresh Allusions to Shakspere from 1594 to 1694_, viii,
5.

Fuseli, John Henry, 148.

_Garden Inscriptions._ By William Thomson, 110.

Garrick, David, 144.
His criticism of Johnson’s praise of Shakespeare, 94.
_Epistle_ to. By Robert Lloyd, 106.
Shakespeare’s debt to, 106.
His connection with the Shakespeare Jubilee at Stratford-on-Avon,
25.
His Shakespeare temple at Hampton, 26, 306-7.
Verses addressed to, 25.
_Warwickshire: A Song_, from _Shakespeare’s Garland_, 113.

Gastrell, Rev. Dr. F., and Shakespeare’s mulberry tree, 10, 185.

_Genius and Writings on Shakespeare, An Essay on the._ By John
Dennis, 82.

_Genius of Shakespeare, To the._ By James Hogg, 146.

_Gentleman’s Magazine_, 223, 301.

Gilbert, William Schwenck. _An Unfortunate Likeness_, from _More Bab
Ballads_, 318.

Gilder, Richard Watson. _The Twenty-third of April_, from _Five
Books of Song_, 212.

Goethe, Carlyle’s Essay on, 242.
Compared with Shakespeare, 158, 159.

_Goethe reviewed after Sixty Years._ By J. R. Seeley, 272.

Goldsmith, Oliver. _A Reverie at the Boar’s Head Inn_, 291.

Graves, Richard. _On Erecting a Monument to Shakespeare_, from
_Euphrosyne_, 225.

Gray, Thomas. _The Progress of Poesy_, 102.

_Guardian, The._ Its attitude towards Shakespeare, 20.

_Guesses at Truth._ By Julius Charles Hare, 145.

Hales, John. Quoted in Rowe’s edition of Shakespeare’s _Works_, 53.

Hallam, Henry. _Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the
Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries_, 155.

Hamilton, William. _A Soliloquy in Imitation of Hamlet_, 24.

_Hamlet_, 323.
Early æsthetic criticism of, 27.

Hanmer, Sir Thomas. His edition of Shakespeare’s _Works_, 16, 93.
Verses addressed to. By William Collins, 92.

Hare, Julius Charles. _Guesses at Truth_, 145.

Hawkins, Sir John, 303, 304 _n._

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. _Earth’s Holocaust_, from _Mosses from an Old
Manse_, 314.
_Our Old Home_, 175.
On visiting Shakespeare’s house, 175.

Hayley, William. _A Poetical Epistle to an Eminent Painter_ [_George
Romney_], 120.

Hazlitt, William, ix, 28.
_Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays_, Jeffrey’s review of, 134.
_On Dryden and Pope_, 136.
_Lectures on the English Poets_, 135-7, 189, 234.
_Round Table, The_, 137.
_On Shakespeare and Milton_, 135, 234.
_Table Talk_, 237.

Headley, Henry. _Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry_, 26 _n._

_Heine’s Grave._ By Matthew Arnold, 265.

Hemans, Felicia Dorothea. _England and Spain_, 229.
_Shakespeare_, 128.

Heminge, John, and Henrie Condell. _To the great Variety of
Readers_, from the Shakespeare First Folio, 46.

_Henry V._ Performance of, witnessed by Samuel Pepys, 62.

_Henry VI., part I._ John Crowne’s adaptation of, 220.

_Heroes and Hero Worship, On._ By Thomas Carlyle, 157.

Higden, Henry. _The Wary Widdow, or Sir Noisy Parrat_, 75.

_History of England._ By David Hume, 97.

Hogg, James. _To the Genius of Shakespeare_, from _Songs by the
Ettrick Shepherd_, 146.

Holland, Hugh. _Upon the Lines and Life of the Famous Scenick Poet,
Master William Shakespeare_, from the Shakespeare First Folio,
45.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell. _The Poet at the Breakfast Table_, 323.
_Shakespeare Tercentennial Celebration_, from _Songs of Many
Seasons_, 177.

Hood, Thomas. _The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies_, 241.

_Hospitall of Incurable Fooles_, 328 and _n._

Hughes, John. _Verses to Mr. Addison_, 23.

Hugo, Victor. _Shakespeare_, 10, 28.
On Shakespeare’s posthumous fame, 10.

Hume, David. _History of England_, 97.

Hunt, Leigh. _Associations with Shakespeare_ from _Table Talk_, 166.
_Blue-Stocking Revels_, 247.
_Thoughts on the Avon_, 233.
_What is Poetry?_ from _Imagination and Fancy_, 250.

_Hymn to the Moon._ By D. M. Moir, 257.

_Hymn to the Nymph of Bristol._ By William Whitehead, 24.

_Idea of a University, The._ By John Henry Newman, 171.

_Idea of Comedy, On the._ By George Meredith, 191.

_Imaginary Conversations._ By Walter Savage Landor, 253, 316.

_Imagination and Fancy._ By Leigh Hunt, 247.

_Imitations of Horace._ By Alexander Pope, 221.

_Immortal Memory of Shakespeare, To the_, 116.

I. M. S. _On Worthy Master Shakespeare and his Poems_, from the
Shakespeare Second Folio, 50.
Coleridge’s conjecture as to the identity of, 7, 52 _n._

Ingleby, Dr. _Shakespeare’s Centurie of Prayse_, vii, 4.

_Inscription, An._ By Mark Akenside, 105.

_In Shakespeare’s Walk._ By William Thompson, 110.

_Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth,
Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries._ _By Henry Hallam_, 155.

James I. His influence on literature, 12, 13.

Jeffrey, Francis, Lord, 230.
His article on Hazlitt’s _Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays_ in
the _Edinburgh Review_, 133.

Jennens, Charles, 303, 304 _n._

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, his attitude towards Shakespeare, 16.
His criticism of Capell’s _Preface_, 107.
His edition of Shakespeare’s _Works_, 17-18, 111.
His edition of _British Poets_, 21-22.
The effect of his judgment on contemporary thought, 19-20.
His indictment and defence of Shakespeare, 17-18.
His connection with the Shakespeare Jubilee at Stratford-on-Avon,
25.
His _Life_. By James Boswell, 94, 107.
His position as a literary censor, 14.
His _Prologue_ at the opening of Drury Lane Theatre, 1747, 94.
_The Rambler_, 111.

Jonson, Ben, 74.
Compared with Shakespeare, 15, 53, 66, 69, 80, 92, 98, 104.
_To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author_, from the Shakespeare
First Folio, 42.

Johnstone, ——. _The Table Talker_, 156.

_Journey from this World to the Next, A._ By Henry Fielding, 279.

Keate, George, _Ferney: an Epistle to Monsr. De Voltaire_, 112.

Keats, John. Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 236.
_Notes on Troilus and Cressida_, 138.
_Sonnet on sitting down to read “King Lear” once again_, 138.

Kemble, Frances Anne. _To Shakespeare_, 183.

Kid, Thomas, 43.

_King Lear_, 145, 148, 214.
Nahum Tate’s “borrowings” from, 10.
Sonnet on sitting down to read it once again. By John Keats, 138.

Knight, Charles. His history of opinion respecting Shakespeare, vii.
_Studies of Shakespeare_, vii.

Lamb, Charles, ix.
Epilogue to an amateur performance of “Richard II.,” 144.
Letter to J. B. Dibdin, 313.
Letter to Samuel Rogers on portraits of Shakespeare, 148.
_Works._ Edited by E. V. Lucas, 144, 148, 313.

Landor, Walter Savage.
_Citation and Examination_ of William Shakespeare, 30.
_Imaginary Conversations_, 253, 316.
_On Shakespeare_, 253.
Comparison between Shakespeare and Bacon, 316.
_Shakespeare and Milton_, from _The lost Fruit off an old Tree_,
170.

Lansdowne, Lord, _Epistle_ to. By Edward Young, 83.

_Learning of Shakespeare, Essay on the._ By Richard Farmer, 224.

_Lectures on the English Poets._ By William Hazlitt, 135-7.

Lee, Sidney, and the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, v.
_Life of William Shakespeare_, 215.
_Shakespeare in Oral Tradition_, 5.

_Leopold Shakspere, The._ Edited by F. J. Furnivall, 192.

_Library of Old Authors._ By James Russell Lowell, 173.

Lily, William, 43.

Lincoln, Abraham, 261.

_Lines written among the Euganean Hills._ By P. B. Shelley, 235.

_Lines written in Switzerland._ By T. L. Beddoes, 258.

_Literary Amusements._ By Daniel Webb, 227.

Lloyd, David. _State Worthies_, 13.

Lloyd, Robert. _The Progress of Envy_, 288.
_Shakespeare, an Epistle to Mr. Garrick_, 25, 106.

Locker-Lampson, Frederick. His copy of the 1602 Quarto of _The Merry
Wives of Windsor_, 198.

_London Cuckolds, The._ By Edward Ravenscroft. A performance of,
criticised by Steele, 76.

_Lost Fruit off an old Tree, The._ By Walter Savage Landor, 170.

_Love’s Labour’s Lost_, 194.
Dryden’s criticism of, 68.

Lowell, James Russell. _Among My Books_, 174, 266.
_Library of Old Authors_, 173.
On Shakespeare’s “artistic discretion” and the “impersonality” of
his writings, 174.

Lucas, E. V. _Works of Charles and Mary Lamb_, 144, 148, 313.

_Lusiad, The._ By William Julius Mickle, 119.

_Lyrical Ballads._ By Wordsworth and Coleridge, 27.

Lyttelton, George, Lord. _Dialogues of the Dead_, 292.

Lytton, Edward Bulwer, Lord. _The Souls of Books_, 259.

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord, 295.
Essay on _The Diary and Letters of Madame D’Arblay_ in the
_Edinburgh Review_, 160.

_Macbeth_, 145.
D’Avenant’s adaptation of, 10.
De Quincey on the knocking at the gate in, 30.
Performance of, described by Addison, 278.
Performances of, witnessed by Samuel Pepys, 62, 63.

Mackay, Charles. _Mist_, from _Under Green Leaves_, 260.

_Madagascar._ By Sir William D’Avenant, 54.

Malone, Edmund. His edition of Shakespeare’s _Works_, 20.

Mallet, David. _Edwin and Emma_, 24.
_Of Verbal Criticism_, 103.

Mann, Sir Horace. Letter to, from Horace Walpole, 226.

Marlowe, Christopher, 43.

Mason, William. _Caractacus_, 101.

Massey, Gerald. _The Secret Drama of Shakespeare’s Sonnets_, 209.

Masson, David. _Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and other Essays_, 168.

_Merchant of Venice, The._ The _Connoisseur’s_ criticism of, 20.

Meredith, George. _On the Idea of Comedy_, 191.
_The Spirit of Shakespeare_, from _Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of
Earth_, 202.

Meres, Francis. _Palladis Tamia_, 35.

_Merry Wives of Windsor._ Manuscript note in 1602 Quarto of, 189.

Mickle, William Julius. _The Lusiad_, 119.

_Midsummer Night’s Dream._ Performance of, witnessed by Samuel
Pepys, 62.

_Mighty Makers, The._ By William Wetmore Story, 205.

Milnes, Richard Monckton. _Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of
John Keats_, 138.

Milton, John, 127.
Compared with Shakespeare, 131, 170.
Credited with authorship of verses signed I. M. S., 52.
_Eikonoklastes_, 7, 9.
_An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare_, from
the Shakespeare Second Folio, 49.
_L’Allegro_, 9.
Mistaken conception of his attitude towards Shakespeare, 7-10.
His tributes to Shakespeare, 9-10.

Minto, William. _Characteristics of English Poets_, 189.

_Miscellaneous Pieces of Ancient English Poetry._ Collected by John
Bowle, 26 _n._

Moir, D. M. _Hymn to the Moon_, 257.
_Stanzas on an Infant_, 257.

_Monody written near Stratford-upon-Avon._ By Thomas Warton, 121.

Montagu, George. Letter to, from Horace Walpole, 99.

Moore, Thomas. _Life of Byron_, 239.

_Mosses from an Old Manse._ By Nathaniel Hawthorne, 314.

Moulton, G. _Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist_, 271.

_Much Ado About Nothing_, 295.

_Mystery of Life and its Arts, The._ By John Ruskin, 184.

_Names, The._ By Robert Browning, 204.

Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of. _CCXI Sociable Letters_,
64, 277.

Newman, John Henry. _The Idea of a University_, 171.

_New Shakspere Society_, 4.

Northcote, James, 148.

Opie, John, 148.

Ossory, Countess of. Letter to, from Horace Walpole, 305.

_Othello_, Disputed line in, 279.
Christopher Smart’s _Prologue_ to, 96.

Otway, Thomas, 114.
_Prologue_ to _The History and Fall of Caius Marius_, 72.

_Our Old Home._ By Nathaniel Hawthorne, 175.

Palgrave, Francis Turner. _Songs and Sonnets of William
Shakespeare_, 181.

_Palladis Tamia._ By Francis Meres, 35.

Pater, Walter Horatio. _Appreciations, with an Essay on Style_, 193.

Pattison, William. His verses _To Mr. John Saunders_, 23.

Pearch, G. His _Supplement_ to Dodsley’s _Collection of Poems by
Several Hands_, 26 _n._

Pepys, Samuel. _Diary and Correspondence_, edited by Lord
Braybrooke, 62.

Percy, Bishop, 304 and _n._

_Pericles._ Dryden’s criticism of, 68.

Phillips, Edward. _Theatrum Poetarum_, 10, 71.

_Philosophical Analysis of some of Shakespeare’s Remarkable
Characters._ By William Richardson, 117.

_Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, The._ By Thomas Hood, 241.

_Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth._ By George Meredith, 202.

_Poems by Several Hands._ Collected by J. Dodsley, 26 _n._
Pearch’s _Supplement_ to, 26 _n._

_Poems Collected and Arranged anew._ By Archbishop Trench, 180.

_Poems in Divers Humors._ By Richard Barnfield, 36.

_Poems on Various Subjects._ Collected by Thomas Tomkins, 26 _n._

_Poet at the Breakfast Table, The._ By Oliver Wendell Holmes, 323.

_Poetical Portraits._ By “A Modern Pythagorean,” 244.

_Poetics._ By George Dyer, 231.

Pope, Alexander, 225.
And Boileau, 292.
His contemporary fame, 22.
His criticism and defence of Shakespeare, 14-16.
De Quincey’s criticism of, 87 _n._
His edition of Shakespeare’s _Works_, 15, 16, 85, 292.
_Imitations of Horace_, 221.
On Shakespeare’s learning, 15.

Porson, Richard, and Robert Southey. Imaginary conversation. By
W. S. Landor, 316.

Porter, Endymion, 53.

_Progress of Envy, The._ By Robert Lloyd, 288.

_Progress of Poesy, The._ By Thomas Gray, 102.

_Prose on Several Occasions._ By George Colman, 224.

Quarles, Francis. _Argalus and Parthenia_, 5 _n._

_Queen Mab._ By Isaac Bickerstaff, 299.

Quin, James, 308.

_Rambler, The._ By Dr. Johnson, 111.

_Rape of Lucrece._ Edward Phillips’ criticism of, 71.

Raphael. His picture, _The Transfiguration_, 112.

Ravenscroft, Edward. _The London Cuckolds_, A performance of,
criticised by Steele, 76.

_Reflector, The_, 231.

_Remonstrance of Shakespeare, The._ By Mark Akenside, 284.

_Representative Men._ By Ralph Waldo Emerson, 162, 251.

Restoration adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays, 10-12.

_Reverie at the Boar’s Head Inn, A._ By Oliver Goldsmith, 291.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 148.

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_Romeo and Juliet_, 145, 148.
Performance of, witnessed by Samuel Pepys, 62.

Romney, George, 148.
_Poetical Epistle_ to. By William Hayley, 120.

_Rosciad, The._ By Charles Churchill, 108.

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_Round Table, The._ By William Hazlitt, 137.

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Shakespeare’s first editor, 16.
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_Runne, and a Great Caste._ By Thomas Freeman, 39.

Rupert, Prince. His knowledge of Shakespeare, 7.

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_The Mystery of Life and its Arts_, 184.

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_Schoolmistress, The._ By William Shenstone, 24.

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_Scourge of Folly, The._ By John Davies, 38.

_Seasons, The._ By James Thomson, 88.

Second Folio edition of Shakespeare’s _Works_, 7, 10, 49, 50.

_Secret Drama of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, The._ By Gerald Massey, 209.

Sedley, Sir Charles. _Prologue_ to _The Wary Widdow, or Sir Noisy
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Seeley, J. R. _Goethe reviewed after Sixty Years_, 217.

_Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry._ Collected by Henry
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Seward, Anna. _On Shakespeare’s Monument at Stratford-upon-Avon_,
123.

Shaftesbury, Lord. His estimate of Shakespeare, 10.

Shakespeare, William. His “artistic discretion,” 174.
His knowledge and use of the Bible, 176.
Compared with Addison, 18, 91.
Compared with Bacon, 168, 316.
Compared with Fletcher, 92.
Compared with Goethe, 158, 159.
Compared with Homer, 82.
Compared with Ben Jonson, 15, 53, 61, 69, 80, 92, 98, 104, 114.
Compared with Milton, 131, 170.
His creation of the fairy world, 83.
Debased by interpolations, 15, 103.
The effect of his genius on the taste of the nation, 129.
His epitaph in Stratford-on-Avon Church, viii, 41.
First Folio edition of his _Works_, 6, 42, 45, 46, 47.
History of opinion of, its division into periods, 3.
The “impersonality” of his writings, 155, 174.
Influence of eighteenth century research on his reputation, ix.
Jubilee celebration at Boston, 1824, 142.
His learning, 79, 224.
_Life._ By Sidney Lee, 216.
_Life._ By Nicholas Rowe, 78.
His monument in Westminster Abbey, 225.
As a “philosophical aristocrat,” 132 _n._
Presentation of his plays on the stage, 10-12.
His _Poems_, 55.
Popular fallacies relating to his reputation, 6-12.
Was he influenced by posthumous fame? 137.
His use of prose, 195.
His reputation in the seventeenth century, 4-12;
in the eighteenth century, 12-26;
in the nineteenth century, 27-30.
Second Folio edition of his _Works_, 7, 10, 49, 50.
The “Shakespearean Show,” 1884, 204 _n._
His “solecism of speech,” 68.
His statue in Central Park, New York, 186.
The Stratford-on-Avon Jubilee, 25.
Tercentennial celebration, 177.
His time compared with that of Augustus, 72.
His neglect of the unities, 17, 18.

_Shakespeare, an Epistle to Mr. Garrick._ By Robert Lloyd, 25.

_Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist._ By G. Moulton, 271.

_Shakespeare-Bacon Controversy, The._ By Judge Willis, 326.

_Shakespeare in oral Tradition._ By Sidney Lee, 5.

_Shakespeare’s Bedside_, 301.

_Shakespeare’s Centurie of Prayse._ By Dr. Ingleby, vii, 4.
Edited by L. Toulmin Smith, viii, 5.

_Shakespeare’s Garland_, 113, 116, 298, 299, 301.

_Shakespeare’s Knowledge and Use of the Bible._ By Bishop Charles
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_Shakespeare Sonnets._ By Mathilde Blind, 213.

_Shakspere: A Critical Study of his Mind and Art._ By Edward Dowden,
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. _Lines written among the Euganean Hills_,
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Shenstone, William. _The Schoolmistress_, 24.

Sheppard, Samuel. _In Memory of our Famous Shakespeare_, from
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_Shooting Niagara: and After?_ By Thomas Carlyle, 264.

_Short Studies on Great Subjects._ By James Anthony Froude, 167.

Sloane Manuscripts, Allusions to Shakespeare in, 5.

Smart, Christopher. _Prologue to Othello_, 96.

Smith, L. Toulmin. Her edition of Ingleby’s _Shakespeare’s Centurie
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_Sociable Letters. By the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle_, 64, 277.

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_Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark_, 27.

Somervile, William. _Lines to Mr. Addison_, 23.

_Some 300 Fresh Allusions to Shakspere from 1594 to 1694._ Edited by
Dr. Furnivall, viii, 5.

_Songs and Sonnets of William Shakespeare._ Edited by Francis Turner
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_Songs of many Seasons._ By Oliver Wendell Holmes, 177.

Sonnets. By Matthew Arnold, 29, 169.
By Mathilde Blind, 213.
By Robert Browning, 204.
By Hartley Coleridge, 148.
By Richard Watson Gilder, 212.
By Thomas Freeman, 39.
By Hugh Holland, 45.
By John Keats, 138.
By George Meredith, 202.
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 185.
By Algernon Charles Swinburne, 29, 201.
By Archbishop Trench, 180.
By John Weever, 37.
By William Wordsworth, 127.

_Sonnets, with other Poems._ By William Lisle Bowles, 124.

_Sonnets dedicated to Liberty._ By William Wordsworth, 127.

_Souls of Books, The._ By Lord Lytton, 259.

_Southerne, Mr., An Epistle to._ By Elijah Fenton, 80.

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_A Vision of Judgment_, 238.

_Spectator, The_, No. 45. By Joseph Addison, 278.
No. 592. By Joseph Addison, 84.

Spenser, Edmund, 40, 42.

Sprague, Charles. Prize Ode recited at the representation of the
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_Spirit of Shakespeare, The._ By George Meredith, 202.

_Stanzas on an Infant._ By D. M. Moir, 257.

_State Worthies._ By David Lloyd, 13.

Steele, Sir Richard. _The Tatler_, No. 8, 76.

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Sterling, John. _Shakespeare_, 153.

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Story, William Wetmore. _The Mighty Makers_, 205.

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_Monody_ written near. By Thomas Warton, 121.
Shakespeare’s epitaph in the church at, viii, 41.

_Study of Shakespeare, A._ By A. C. Swinburne, 28, 199, 201.

Suckling, Sir John, 53.

Swinburne, Algernon Charles. _An Autumn Vision_, 201 _n._
_A Study of Shakespeare_, 28, 199, 201.
_William Shakespeare_, from _Tristram of Lyonesse and other
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Symons, Arthur. _Poetical Works_ of Mathilde Blind, 213.

_Table Talk._ By S. T. Coleridge, 240, 243, 246.

_Table Talk._ By William Hazlitt, 237.

_Table Talk._ By Leigh Hunt, 166.

_Table Talker, The._ By —— Johnstone, 156.

_Tancred and Sigismunda._ James Thomson’s _Prologue_ to, 222.

Tate, Nahum. His “borrowings” from _King Lear_, 10.

_Tatler, The_, No. 8. By Richard Steele, 76.

Taylor, Bayard. _Shakespeare’s Statue, Central Park, New York_, 186.

_Tempest, The_, 145.
Coleridge’s _Note_ on, 132 _n._
Dryden’s _Prologue_ to, 66.

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, on _King Lear, The Winter’s Tale, and
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_Life and Works._ Edited by Hallam, Lord Tennyson, 214.

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Terence, George Colman’s translation of, 224.

_Theatrum Poetarum._ By Edward Phillips, 10, 71.

Theobald, Lewis. His edition of Shakespeare’s _Works_, 16, 89.

Thomson, James. _Prologue to Tancred and Sigismunda_, 222.
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Thomson, William. _In Shakespeare’s Walk_, from _Garden
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_Thoughts on the Avon._ By Leigh Hunt, 233.

Tomkins, Thomas. _Poems on Various Subjects_, 26 _n._

_Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, The._ By William
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_Tristram of Lyonesse and other Poems._ By A. C. Swinburne, 201.

_Troilus and Cressida_, Dryden’s _Prologue_ to, 67.

_Twenty-third of April, The._ By Richard Watson Gilder, 212.

_Two Worlds, The._ By Richard Watson Gilder, 212.

_Under Green Leaves._ By Charles Mackay, 260.

_Unfortunate Likeness, An._ By W. S. Gilbert, 318.

“Variorum” editions of Shakespeare’s _Works_, 20.

_Venus and Adonis._ Edward Phillips’ criticism of, 71.

_Verbal Criticism, Of._ By David Mallet, 103.

_Versification of English Tragedy, Of the._ By John Armstrong, 100.

_Vindication of Poesie._ By George Daniel, 58.

_Vision of Judgment, A._ By Robert Southey, 238.

_Vision of Poets, A._ By Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 252.

Voltaire. His comparison of Shakespeare with Addison, 18.
_An Epistle to._ By George Keate, 112.

Walpole, Horace, Earl of Orford, 13.
_Letters_, 99, 226, 305.

Warburton, Bishop William. His edition of Shakespeare’s _Works_, 95,
283.
On Shakespeare’s knowledge of the Ancients, 79.

Warner, Richard, 303, 304 _n._

Warton, Joseph, 303, 304 _n._
_The Enthusiast_, 91.
_Monody_ on the Death of. By W. L. Bowles, 228.

Warton, Thomas. His misinterpretation of the Shakespeare allusion in
Milton’s _Eikonoklastes_, 8.
_Monody written near Stratford-upon-Avon_, 121.

_Wary Widdow, or Sir Noisy Parrat, The._ By Henry Higden, 75.
Sir Charles Sedley’s _Prologue_ to, 75.

Watson, William. _Epigrams of Art, Life, and Nature_, 270.

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West, Benjamin, 148.

Westminster Abbey, Shakespeare’s Monument in, 225.

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Whitehead, William. His Appreciation of Shakespeare, 24.
_A Charge to the Poets_, 109.
_An Hymn to the Nymph of Bristol_, 24.

Whitman, Walt. On Shakespeare’s unacceptability to America and
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_Poetry to-day in America_, 211.

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_Winter’s Tale, The_, 145, 214.
Dryden’s criticism of, 68.

Wiseman, Cardinal. _William Shakespeare_, 179, 263.

_Witt’s Recreations_, 219.

Wordsworth, Bishop Charles. _On Shakespeare’s Knowledge and Use of
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Wordsworth, Christopher. _Memoirs of William Wordsworth_, 159, 256.

Wordsworth, William. His influence on the poetry of the nineteenth
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_Memoirs._ By Christopher Wordsworth, 159, 256.
_Poems._ Edited by Matthew Arnold, 196.
On Shakespeare and Goethe, 159.
His Sonnet, “It is not to be thought of,” 29, 127.

_Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and other Essays._ By David Masson,
168.

_Worthies of England._ By Thomas Fuller, 61.

Wycherley, William, 12.

Young, Edward. _Conjectures on Original Composition_, 104, 224.
_Epistle to Lord Lansdowne_, 83.

_Yorick’s Sentimental Journey through France and Italy._ By Laurence
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

The following corrections have been made to the original text:

Page vii: but he pays scant attention[original has “attentien”]
to the nineteenth

Page 25: his paper kite to fly.”[quotation mark missing in
original]

Page 36: RICHARD BARNFIELD[original has “BARNFEILD”], 1598

Page 78: p. iii.[period missing in original] prefixed to _Works
of Shakespeare_

Page 105: Which his own genius only could acquire.”[quotation
mark missing in original]

Page 109: dead letter Shakespeare’s noblest scene.[original has
a comma]

Page 112: adulatory verses written on the same
occasion.[letters “sion.” missing in original]—KEATE.

Page 117: He ceases to be Euripides; he is Medea[original has
“Meda”]

Page 123: “[original has a single quote]The British Eagle,”
_i.e._ Milton.

Page 129: mistaken the form for the essence[original has
“esssence”]

Page 129: as comprehensive and versatile,[comma missing in
original] as intense

Page 151: the emblazonries upon Shakespeare’s[original has
“Shakepeare’s”] shield.

Page 151: seems the mere rebound of the previous[original has
“precious”] speech

Page 206: _Poems._ 1886, vol. ii. pp. 273-4.[period missing in
original]

Page 218: _Henry V._[original has “v.”] V. prol. 23.

Page 300: And men shall give us honour for his sake.”[quotation
mark missing in original]

Page 321: Should say such un-Shakespearean things!’[quotation
mark missing in original]

Page 331: _Art of English Poetry._[original has a comma] By
Edward Bysshe

Page 331: Barnfield[original has “Barnfeild”], Richard.

Page 331: Bowle, John.[original has a comma] _Miscellaneous
Pieces of Ancient English Poetry_

Page 333: under “Dodsley,” 26 _n._[period missing in original],
123.

Page 333: Elegie[original has “Elgie”] on the Death of the
famous Writer

Page 334: Hanmer[original has “Hamner”], Sir Thomas.

Page 335: under “Headley, Henry,” 26 _n._[italics added to
match pattern of Index entries]

Page 336: Johnstone, ——.[period missing in original] _The Table
Talker_, 156.

Page 336: performance of “Richard II.,”[comma missing
in original] 144

Page 338: _Poems in Divers Humors._ By Richard
Barnfield[original has “Barnfeild”], 36.

Page 340: _Shakespeare’s Centurie of Prayse._ By Dr. Ingleby,
vii,[original has a period] 4.

Page 341: under “Stratford-on-Avon,” _Monody_ written near. By
Thomas Warton, 121.[original has a period after “Warton” and
“121.” is missing]