Chapter XXXIV: Part 34

The next peculiarity is that Shakespeare never refers to his position as a dramatic writer, nor makes any allusion to books, manuscripts, or papers of any kind, as forming part of his property. This absence of all concern for his poetical reputation is in complete accord with the sovereign contempt for posthumous fame which we have already observed in him.

Finally, it is not without significance that there was neither poet nor author mentioned among those to whom Shakespeare left money for the purchase of that ordinary token of friendship, a ring to be worn as a memento. It would seem as though he felt himself under no obligation to any of his fellow-authors, and had nothing to thank them for. This neglect is quite in harmony with the contempt he always displayed for his brother craftsmen when he had occasion to represent them upon the stage. He may have been willing enough to drink in company with Ben Jonson, the honest and envious friend of so many years' standing, but he had no more depth of affection for him than for any other of the dramatists and lyric poets among whom his lot had been cast. As Byron says of Childe Harold--he was one among them, not of them.

He lingered on for four weeks, and then he died.

He had probably completed his fifty-second year the day before, thus dying at the same age as Molière and Napoleon. He had lived long enough to finish his work, and the mighty turbulent river of his life came to an end among the sands, in the daily drop, drop, drop.[2]

A monument was erected by his family in Stratford church before the year 1623. Below the bust is an inscription, probably of Dr. Hall's composition. The first two lines liken him, in badly constructed Latin, to a Nestor for judgment, a Socrates for genius, and a Virgil for art.[3]

We could imagine a more appropriate epitaph.

[1] The passage runs: "My cosen Shakespeare comyng yesterday to town, I went to See him, how he did. He told me that they assured him they ment to inclose no further than to Gospell Bush, and so upp straight (leavyng out part of the dyngles to the ffield) to the gate in Clopton hedg, and take in Salisburyes peece; and that they mean in Aprill to survey the land, and then to give satisfaccion, and not before; and he and Mr. Hall say they think ther will be nothyng done at all.

Also C. M. Ingleby: _Shakespeare and the Welcombe Enclosures_, 1883.

[2] It is not altogether correct to say that Shakespeare died on the same day as Cervantes. True, they both died on the 23rd of April 1616, but the Gregorian calendar was then in use in Spain, while England was still reckoning by the Julian; there is an actual difference of ten days therefore.

[3]

"Judicio Pylium, genio Socratem arte Maronem,
Terra tegit, populus moeret, Olympus habet."

XXVII

_CONCLUSION_

Even a long human life is so brief and fugitive that it seems little short of a miracle that it can leave traces behind which endure through centuries. The millions die and sink into oblivion and their deeds die with them. A few thousands so far conquer death as to leave their names to be a burden to the memories of school-children, but convey little else to posterity. But some few master-minds remain, and among them Shakespeare ranks with Leonardo and Michael Angelo. He was hardly laid in his grave than he rose from it again. Of all the great names of this earth, none is more certain of immortality than that of Shakespeare.

An English poet of this century has written:

"Revolving years have flitted on,
Corroding Time has done its worst,
Pilgrim and worshipper have gone
From Avon's shrine to shrines of dust;
But Shakespeare lives unrivall'd still
And unapproached by mortal mind,
The giant of Parnassus' hill,
The pride, the monarch of mankind."

The monarch of mankind! they are proud words those, but they do not altogether over-estimate the truth. He is by no means the only king in the intellectual world, but his power is unlimited by time or space. From the moment; his life's history ceases his far greater history begins. We find its first records in Great Britain, and consequently in North America; then it spread among the German-speaking peoples and the whole Teutonic race, on through the Scandinavian countries to the Finns and the Sclavonic races. We find his influence in France, Spain, and Italy; and now, in the nineteenth century, it may be traced over the whole civilised world.

His writings are translated into every tongue and all the languages of the earth do him honour.

Not only have his works influenced the minds of readers in every country, but they have moulded the spiritual lives of thinkers, writers and poets; no mortal man, from the time of the Renaissance to our own day, has caused such upheavals and revivals in the literatures of different nations. Intellectual revolutions have emanated from his outspoken boldness and his eternal youth, and have been quelled again by his sanity, his moderation, and his eternal wisdom.

It would be far easier to enumerate the great men who have known him and owed him nothing than to reckon up the names of those who are far more indebted to him than they can say. All the real intellectual life of England since his day has been stamped by his genius, all her creative spirits have imbibed their life's nourishment from his works. Modern German intellectual life is based, through Lessing, upon him. Goethe and Schiller are unimaginable without him. His influence is felt in France through Voltaire, Victor Hugo, and Alfred de Vigny. Ludovic Vitet and Alfred de Musset were from the very first inspired by him. Not only the drama in Russia and Poland felt his influence, but the inmost spiritual life of the Sclavonic story-tellers and brooders is fashioned after the pattern of his imperishable creations. From the moment of the regeneration of poetry in the North he was reverenced by Ewald, Oehlenschläger, Bredahl, and Hauch, and he is not without his influence upon Björnson and Ibsen.

This book was not written with the intention of describing Shakespeare's triumphant progress through the world, nor of telling the tale of his world-wide dominion. Its purpose was to declare and prove that Shakespeare is not thirty-six plays and a few poems jumbled together and read _pêle-mêle,_ but a man who felt and thought, rejoiced and suffered, brooded, dreamed, and created.

Far too long has it been the custom to say, "We know nothing about Shakespeare;" or, "An octavo page would contain all our knowledge of him." Even Swinburne has written of the intangibility of his personality in his works. Such assertions have been carried so far that a wretched group of _dilettanti_ has been bold enough, in Europe and America, to deny William Shakespeare the right to his own life-work, to give to another the honour due to his genius, and to bespatter him and his invulnerable name with an insane abuse which has re-echoed through every land.

It is to refute this idea of Shakespeare's impersonality, and to indignantly repel an ignorant and arrogant attack upon one of the greatest benefactors of the human race, that the present attempt has been made.

It is the author's opinion that, given the possession of forty-five important works by any man, it is entirely our own fault if we know nothing whatever about him. The poet has incorporated his whole individuality in these writings, and there, if we can read aright, we shall find him.

The William Shakespeare who was born at Stratford-on-Avon in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, who lived and wrote in London in her reign and that of James, who ascended into heaven in his comedies and descended into hell in his tragedies, and died at the age of fifty-two in his native town, rises a wonderful personality in grand and distinct outlines, with all the vivid colouring of life from the pages of his books, before the eyes of all who read them with an open, receptive mind, with sanity of judgment and simple susceptibility to the power of genius.

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INDEX

AARON the Moor in 'Titus Andronicus'
Abbess in 'Comedy of Errors'
Abbot, Archbishop
Achilles in 'Troilus and Cressida'
'Ad Gulielmum Shakespeare,' by John Weever (1595)
Adam in 'As You Like It'
Adriana in 'Comedy of Errors'
'Æneid'
Æschylus
'Æsthetiske Studier,' by George Brandes
'Agamemnon,' by Seneca
Agamemnon in 'Troilus and Cressida'
Agincourt, Battle of, in 'Henry V.'
Ajax in 'Troilus and Cressida'
Albius in 'The Poetaster'
'Alceste,' Molière's
Alcibiades in 'Timon of Athens'
'Alexander and Campaspe', by Lyly
'All's Well that Ends Well,' or 'Love's Labour's Won' (1602-1603),
chief characters in--Attack on Puritanism in,
Alonso in the 'Tempest'
'Alphonsus, King of Arragon,' by Robert Greene
Ambrogiuolo in Boccaccio's 'Decameron'
Amintor in 'Maid's Tragedy,' by Beaumont and Fletcher
Amleth in 'Saxo Grammaticus'
'Amores,' by Ovid
'Amoretti,' by Spenser
'Amphitruo,' by Plautus
Amyot, Jacques
Andersen, Hans Christian
Andromache in 'Troilus and Cressida'
Angelo in 'Measure for Measure'
Angiers in 'King John'
Anne Boleyn in 'Henry VIII.'
Anne in 'Richard III.'
Anne, James I.'s queen
Antenor in 'Troilus and Cressida'
Antigonus in 'Winter's Tale'
Antiochus in 'Pericles'
Antipholus of Syracuse in 'Comedy of Errors'
Antonio in--
'Merchant of Venice'
'Tempest'
'Twelfth Night'
Antony, Mark, in 'Julius Cæsar'
'Antony and Cleopatra'
Attractions for Shakespeare in--
Sources of
'Dark Lady,' as model in--Fall of the Republic as a world-catastrophe
Apemantus in 'Timon of Athens'
'Apology, The,' by Socrates
Apothecary in 'Romeo and Juliet'
Appleton, Morgan's 'Shakespearean Myth'
Arbaces in 'King and No King,' by Beaumont and Fletcher
Arbury, Mary Fitton's portrait at
'Arcadia,' by Philip Sidney
Archbishop of Canterbury in 'Henry V.'
Archidamus in 'Winter's Tale,
Arden, Edward
----Mary, mother of William Shakespeare
----Robert, grandfather of Shakespeare
'Arden of Feversham'
Arethusa in 'Philaster,' by Beaumont and Fletcher
Ariel in the 'Tempest'
Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso'
Aristotle
Armada, Spanish
Armado in 'Love's Labour's Lost'
Armitage, Charles
Artemidorus in 'Julius Cæsar'
Arthur in 'King John'
Arviragus in 'Cymbeline'
'As You Like It' (1600), Shakespeare's roving spirit and longing
for nature--Wit and chief characters in
Asbies at Wilmecote
Aspasia in 'Maid's Tragedy,' by Beaumont and Fletcher
'Athelie,' Racine's
Aubrey
Audrey in 'As You Like It'
Aufidius in 'Coriolanus'
Augustus in Ben Jonson's 'Poetaster'
Aumerle in 'Richard II.'
Autolycus in 'Winter's Tale'
'Axel and Valborg,' by Oehlenschläger
Ayrer's, Jacob, 'Comedia von der schönen Sidea'

BACON, Anthony, patronised by Essex
----Delia, Miss, supporting the Baconian Theory (1856)
----Francis
Baconian Theory concerning Shakespeare's plays
Baif, De
Balthasar in
Merchant of Venice
Romeo and Juliet
Bandello
Banquo's ghost in 'Macbeth'
Barabas in C. Marlowe's 'Jew of Malta'
Bardolph in--
'Henry IV.'
'Merry Wives of Windsor'
Barnabe Richs translation of Cinthios
'Hecatomithi' (1581)
Barnadine in 'Measure for Measure'
Barnes, Barnabe
Barnfield, Richard
Barnstorff
'Bartholomew Fair,' by Ben Jonson (1614)
Basianus in 'Titus Andronicus'
Bassanio in 'Merchant of Venice'
Bates in 'Henry V.'
'Battle of Alcazar,' by George Peele
Baynard's Castle
Bear Garden
Beards 'Theatre of God's Judgements' (1597)
Beatrice in 'Much Ado About Nothing'
Beaumont's, Francis, plays and career
Belarius in 'Cymbeline'
Bellay, Joachim du
Belleforest's 'Histoires Tragiques'
'Ben Jonson,' by Symonds
Benedick in 'Much Ado About Nothing'
Benoit de St. Maures 'Histoire de la Guerre de Troie' (1160)
Benvolio in 'Romeo and Juliet'
Bermudas
Bernabo in Boccaccio's 'Decameron'
Berni's 'Orlando Innamorato'
Bertram in 'All's Well that Ends Well'
Beyersdorff's, Robert, 'Giordano Bruno und Shakespeare'
Bianca in Othello
Bierfreund, Theodor
Biron in 'Love's Labour's Lost'
Bishop of Ely in 'Henry V.'
Blackfriars Theatre
Blade's 'Shakespeare and Typography'
Blanch in 'King John'
Blount, Edward
Boaden
Boccaccio's plays
Boece's, Hector, 'Scotorum Historiæ'
Boétie, Estienne de la, Montaigne's friendship for
Bolingbroke in 'Richard II.'
'Book of Martyrs, Foxe's
'Book of Troy,' Lydgate's
'Booke of Ayres' (1601)
'Booke of Plaies, and Notes thereon,' by Dr. Simon Forman
Börne
Bosworth Field in 'Richard III.'
Bothwell, Earl of
Bottom in 'Midsummer Night's Dream'
Boyet in 'Love's Labour's Lost'
Brabantio in 'Othello'
Brandes, George
Bright, James Heywood, 267
Briseida in Benoit's 'Histoire de la Guerre de Troie' (1160)
Brown, Henry
Browning, Robert
Browne's, Sir Thomas, 'Religio Medici' (1642)
Brown's, C. A., 'Shakespeare's Autobiographical Poems'
Brunnhofer, 350
Bruno's, Giordano, supposed influence over Shakespeare
'Brut,' by Layamon (1205)
Brutus, Junius, in 'Coriolanus'
----Marcus, in 'Julius Cæsar'
Bryan, George
Buckingham, Duke of, in 'Richard III.'
Bucknill, Dr., on Shakespeare's Medical Knowledge
Burbage, James
----Richard, actor
Burghley, Lord
Butler, Samuel
Byron

CADE, Jack, in 'Henry VI.'
'Cæsar's Fall' (1602)
Caius Lucius in 'Cymbeline'
Calchas in 'Troilus and Cressida'
Calderon
Calianax in 'Maid's Tragedy,' by Beaumont and Fletcher
Caliban in the 'Tempest'
Calphurnia in 'Julius Cæsar'
Cambyses
Camden, William
Camillo in 'Winter's Tale'
Campbell's, Lord, Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements
'Candelajo,' by Giordano Bruno
'Candide,' by Voltaire
Caphis in 'Timon of Athens'
Capulet in 'Romeo and Juliet'
Carleton, Sir Dudley
'Carmosine,' by De Musset
Carr, Robert, Viscount Rochester and Earl of Somerset,
James I.'s favourite--Lady Essex's marriage with--
Crime and fall of
Casca in 'Julius Cæsar'
Cassio in 'Othello'
Cassius in 'Cæsar'
Catesby, Sir William, in 'Richard III.'
'Catiline,' by Ben Jonson
Cato
Cavalieri, Tommaso de'
Cavendishs, George, 'Relics of Cardinal Wolsey'
Cecil, Sir Robert
Celia in 'As You Like It'
Ceres in the 'Tempest'
Cerimon in 'Pericles'
Cervantes 'Don Quixote'
Chalmers, Alexander
Chamberlain, John
Chapman
Charlcote
Charmian in 'Antony and Cleopatra'
Chaucer
Chettle, Henry
Chief-justice in 'Henry IV.'
Christian IV. of Denmark
Christopher Sly in 'Taming of the Shrew'
'Chronicle History of King Leir'
Cicero
Cinna in 'Julius Cæsar'
Cinthio
'Clärchen,' Goethe's
Clarence, George, Duke of, in 'Richard III.'
Clarendon's estimate of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke
Claudio in--
'Measure for Measure'
'Much Ado About Nothing'
'Clavigo,' by Goethe
Cleopatra, in 'Antony and Cleopatra'
'Cleopatra,' by Daniel (1594)
Clifford, Lord, in 'Henry VI.'
'Cloaca Maxima,' 181
Cloten in 'Cymbeline'
Clown in--
'All's Well that Ends Well, or 'Love's Labour's Won'
'Othello'
'Twelfth Night'
Cobham, Lord
Cobweb in 'Midsummer Night's Dream'
Coleridge
'Colin Clouts come Home Again,' by Spenser
Colliers 'Shakespeare's Library'
'Comedia von der shönen Sidea,' by Jacob Ayrer
'Comedy of Errors' (1589-1591)
Cominius in 'Coriolanus'
Commedia dell' Arte
'Comus,' by Milton
Condell
'Confessio Amantis,' by John Gower
'Confessions d'un Enfant du Siècle, by Alfred de Musset
Conrad, Hermann
'Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron,' by Chapman
Constable, Henry
Constance in 'King John'
'Contemporary History,' Wilson's
Copernicus
Cordelia in 'King Lear'
Corin in 'As You Like It'
'Coriolanus'
---- Date of production--Shakespeare's hatred of the masses
---- Dramatic power of--Inconsistencies in
Corneille
Coryat
Costard in 'Love's Labour's Lost,'
Countess in 'Alls Well that Ends Well,'
Cranmer in 'Henry VIII.,'
Cressida in 'Troilus and Cressida,'
Crispinus in 'Poetaster,' by Ben Jonson,
Curius in Jonson's 'Catiline'
'Cymbeline' (1610), Shakespeare's country idyll and conception of
morality in--Dual contrast and chief characters in
Cynthia in Lyly's 'Endymion'
'Cynthia's Revels,' by Jonson

'DÆMONOLOGIE,' by James I.
Dame Quickly in--
'Henry IV.'
'Merry Wives of Windsor'
Damon and Pythias in the Hero and Leander puppet-show in Jonson's
'Bartholomew Fair'
Daniel, Samuel
Danvers, Sir Charles
Dares Phrygius, 'De Bello Trojano'
'Darius,' Count Stirling's
'Dark Lady,' or Mary Fitton (see that title)
Darley, George
Darnley, Lord
Daudet's 'Sappho'
'Daughter of the Air' (1664)
Dauphin in--
'Henry V.'
'King John'
Davenant, Mrs., courted by Shakespeare
---- Sir William, probable son of W. Shakespeare
Davison's 'Poetical Rhapsody,'
'Day of the Seven Sleepers,' by T. L. Heiberg
'De Amicitia,' by Cicero
'De Analogia,' by Julius Cæsar
'De Bello Trojano,' by Dares Phrygius
'De Bello Trojano,' by Dictys Cretensis
'De la Causa' by Giordano Bruno
'Decameron,' by Boccaccio
Decius in 'Julius Cæsar'
'Declaration of Popish Impostures,' by Harsnet
'Defence of Poesy,' by Sir Philip Sidney (1583)
Dekker
"Delia," by Daniel
Delius, Nikolaus
Demetrius in 'Midsummer Dream'
'Der bestrafte Brudermord'
'Der junge Tischermeister,' by Tieck
'Der Kinder Sünde der Vater Fluck,' by Paul Heyse
Desdemona in 'Othello'
Desportes, Philippe
'Dial of Princes,' by Guevara
'Diana,' by Montemayor (1520-1562)
Diana in 'Pericles'
Dick in 'Henry VI.' (2nd Part)
'Dictionary of National Biography,' by Robert Devereux
Dictys Cretensis' 'De Bello Trojano'
'Die Räuber,' by Schiller
Digges, Leonard
Diomedes in Benoit's 'Histoire de la Guerre de Troie'
'Troilus and Cressida'
Dionyza in 'Pericles'
'Discour sur la Tragédie,' by Voltaire
'Discoveries,' by Ben Jonson
'Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire
of Guiana' (1596)
Doctor Caius in 'Merry Wives of Windsor'
'Dr. Faustus,' by Marlowe
Dogberry in 'Much Ado About Nothing'
Dolabella in 'Antony and Cleopatra'
Doll Tearsheet in 'Henry IV.'
'Doll's House'
Don John, in 'Much Ado About Nothing'
'Don Juan,' by Byron
----Mozart's
Don Pedro in 'Much Ado About Nothing'
'Don Quixote,' by Cervantes
Donne, Dr. John
Douglas in 'Henry IV.'
Dowden
Drake, Sir Francis
Drayton
Droeshout's engraving of Shakespeare
Dromio of Syracuse in 'Comedy of Errors'
Drummond, William
Dryden
Duke in--
'As You Like It'
'Measure for Measure'
'Othello'
'Twelfth Night'
Dumain in 'Love's Labour's Lost'
Dürer's, Albert, 'Melancholia'

EAST India Company
'Eastward Ho!' by Chapman
Eden's 'Historye of Travaile in East and West Indies' (1577)
Edgar in 'King Lear'
Edmund in 'King Lear'
'Edward II.,' by C. Marlowe
'Edward III.,' authorship of
Edward IV. in--
'Henry VI.'
'Richard III.'
Edward V., son of Edward IV., in 'Richard III.'
Edward, Prince of Wales, in 'Henry VI.'
'El Principe Constante'
'El Secreto a Voces'
Elizabeth, Princess, her marriage with the Elector Palatine,
Tempest written for
---- Queen
Elizabeth, Queen of Edward IV., in 'Richard III.'
'Elves,' by J. L. Heiberg
Elze, Karl
Emerson's 'Representative Men'
Emilia in--
'Othello,'
'Two Noble Kinsmen'
'Endymion,' by John Lyly
Enobarbus in 'Antony and Cleopatra,'
Escalus in 'Measure for Measure,'
'Essay of Dramatic Poesy,' by Dryden
Essex, Earl of
---- Lady Frances, afterwards Lady Somerset
---- Lettice, Countess of
Eudemus in 'Sejanus'
Euphrasea or Bellario in 'Philaster,' by Beaumont and Fletcher
'Euphues,' by Lyly
Evadne in 'Maid's Tragedy,' by Beaumont and Fletcher
Evans, Sir Hugh, in 'Merry Wives of Windsor'
'Every Man in His Humour' (1595), by Ben Jonson
'Every Man out of His Humour' (1599), by Ben Jonson

FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS, by Fletcher
Falstaff in--
'Henry IV.'
'Merry Wives of Windsor
'Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, containing the Honorable Battell
of Agin-court
Farmer, Dr.
'Fasti,' by Ovid
Faulconbridge in King John
Faust
Feis', Jacob, 'Shakespeare and Montaigne'
Fenton in 'Merry Wives of Windsor'
Ferdinand in 'Tempest'
Fiammetta, Maria
'Filostrato,' by Boccaccio
Fiorentino's, Sir Giovanni, 'Il Pecorone' (1558)
Fitton's, Mary, relations with Shakespeare and Earl of Pembroke--
Addressed in the Sonnets as the Dark Lady
Fitton, Anne, elder sister of Mary Fitton
Flaubert
Flavina in 'Two Noble Kinsmen'
Flavius in--
'Julius Cæsar'
'Timon of Athens'
Fleance in 'Macbeth'
Fleay
Fletcher's, John, plays and career
Florio
Florizel in 'Winter's Tale'
Fluellen in 'Henry V.'
Fool in 'King Lear'
Ford, Master and Mistress, in 'Merry Wives of Windsor'
Forest of Arden in 'As You Like It'
Forman, Dr.
Fortinbras, Prince of Norway, in 'Hamlet'
Fortunate Shipwreck
Frampton's translation of 'Marco Polo' (1579)
Frederick in 'As You Like It'
Frederick the Great and Voltaire
Freiligrath
Friar Bacon, by Greene
Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet
Friesen, Herr von
Fuller
Fulvia, wife of Mark Antony, 465, 468, 473
Fulvia in Jonson's Catiline, 337
Furnivall, 334, 578, 600, 608-610

'GALLIC WAR,' Cæsar's
Gallus in Ben Jonsons 'Poetaster'
'Gammer Gurton's Needle'
Gardiner
Garnett, Richard
Garnier's 'Henriade'
Gaveston in C. Marlowe's 'Edward II.'
Gawsworth Church, in 'Cheshire'
Gerutha in 'Saxo Grammaticus'
Gervinus
'Gesta Romanorum'
Ghost in 'Hamlet'
'Gilette of Narbonne,' Boccaccio's story of
Giordano Bruno. _See_ Bruno
Glendower in 'Henry IV.'
Globe Theatre
Gloucester, Duke of, in--
'Henry VI.'
'King Lear,'
Gloucester, Richard, Earl of, in 'Henry VI.,' afterwards 'Richard III.'
Gobbo in 'Merchant of Venice'
Goethe
Gogol's 'Revisor'
Golding's, Arthur, translation of Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
Gondomar, Count of
Goneril in 'King Lear'
Gontscharoff
Gonzago in 'Hamlet'
Gonzalo in the 'Tempest'
Gosse
'Gossip from a Muniment-Room, being Passages in the lives of Anne
and Mary Fitton,' published by Lady Newdigate-Newdegate
Gosson, Stephen
Gower, John
Gracioso
Gravedigger in 'Hamlet'
Green, Robert, plays of
Shakespeare attacked by
---- Thomas, Shakespeare's cousin
Gremio in 'Taming of the Shrew'
Gretchen in Goethe's 'Faust'
Greville, Fulk
Griseida or Cryseida in Boccaccio's 'Filostrato'
'Groat's Worth of Wit bought with a Million of Repentance'
by Greene (1592)
Guarini's 'Pastor Fido'
Guiderius in 'Cymbeline'
Guido delle Columne
Guildenstern in 'Hamlet'
Gull's Hornebooke' (1609), by Dekker, 539
Gunpowder Plot

HALL, Elizabeth, Shakespeare's grand-daughter
---- John, Dr., husband of Susanna Shakespeare
Hall, William
Hallan, Brown
Halliwell-Phillips
Hamlet
Antecedents in fiction, history, and drama--Parallels
to circumstances in
Criticism on dramatic art in--Shakespeare's attack on Kemp and
eulogy of Tarlton--Danish March played in
Dramatic features of
Influence of 'Hamlet' on foreign literature
Local colour in
Montaigne's and Giordano Bruno's influence over Shakespeare--
Parallels in Lyly's 'Euphues' to 'Hamlet'
Ophelia's relations with Hamlet compared with 'Faust'
Personal element in
Psychology of
Hansen, Adolf
Harington, Sir John
Lord
Harrison, Rev. W. A.
Harsnet's 'Declaration of Popish Impostures'
Hart, Joan, Shakespeare's sister
---- William, Shakespeare's nephew
Hart's attack on Shakespeare in 1848
Harvey
Hastings, Lord, in 'Richard III.'
Hathaway, Anne, her marriage with Shakespeare--Children of
William
Hecate in 'Macbeth'
'Hecatomithi,' by Giraldi Cinthio (1565)
Hector
Hector in 'Troilus and Cressida'
Heiberg, J. L.
Heine, Heinrich
Helen in 'Troilus and Cressida'
Helena in--
'All's Well that Ends Well'
'Midsummer Night's Dream'
Helwys, Sir Gervase
Heminge
'Henriade,' by Garnier
'Henry IV.' (1597), chief characters and scenes in--Freshness
and perfection of the play
'Henry IV.':--
First Part
Second Part
'Henry V.,' or Prince of Wales in 'Henry IV.' (1599), as a national
drama--Patriotism and Chauvinism of--Vision of a greater England
in--'Henry V.' as typical English hero
'Henry VI.':--
First Part
Second Part
Third Part
Trilogy--Greene attacking Shakespeare on Shakespeare's authorship
of
'Henry VIII.,' Shakespeare's part in
Henry, Prince, son of James I.
Henslow
'Heptameron of Civil Discourses,' by George Whetstone (1582)
Herbert William. _See_ Earl of Pembroke
Hericault, C. d'
Hermann, Conrad
Hermia in 'Midsummer Night's Dream'
Hermione in 'Winter's Tale'
Hermogenes in 'Poetaster,' by Jonson
'Hero and Leander,' by C. Marlowe (1598)
'Hero and Leander,' or 'Touchstone of True Love,' by Ben Jonson
Hero in 'Much Ado About Nothing'
Hertzberg, W.
Heyse's, Paul, 'Der Kinder Sünde der Vater Fluch'
Hieronimo in Kyd's 'Spanish Tragedy'
Hippolyta in 'Midsummer Night's Dream'
'Histoire de la Guerre de Troie' (1160), by Benoit de St. Maure
'Histoires Tragiques,' by Belleforest
'Historia Trojana,' by Guido delle Columne
'History of the Rebellion,' by Clarendon
'Historye of Travaile in East and West Indies' (1577), by Eden
'Histriomastix', by Prynne
Hogarth
Holberg
Holinshed's Chronicle
Holofernes in 'Love's Labour's Lost'
Homer's 'Iliad' compared with 'Troilus and Cressida'

Horace
Horatio in 'Hamlet'
Hotspur or Henry Percy in 'Henry IV.'
--Mastery of the character-drawing
--Achilles compared with
'House of Fame,' by Chaucer
Hubert de Burgh in 'King John,'
Hudson, H. N.
Hughes, William
Hunsdon, Lord
'Hystoria novellamente ritrovata di dui nobili Amanti,' by
Luigi da Porta

IACHIMO in 'Cymbeline'
Iago in 'Othello'
Iden in 'Henry VI.'
Ides of March in 'Julius Cæsar'
'Il Pecorone,' by Ser Giovanni Fiorentino (1558)
'Iliad'
Imogen in 'Cymbeline'
'Inganni'
Ingleby
Inigo Jones
'Iphigenia in Aulis,' by Racine
'Iphigenia in Tauris,' by Goethe
Iras in 'Antony and Cleopatra'
Iris in the 'Tempest'
Isaac, Hermann
Isabella in 'Measure for Measure'
Italy visited by Shakespeare

JAGGARD, bookseller
James I. of England and VI. of Scotland
Jameson, Mrs.
Jamy in 'Henry V.'
Jaques in 'As You Like It'
Jeanne d'Arc
'Jeppe pas Bjerget,' by Ludwig Holberg
Jessica in 'Merchant of Venice'
'Jew of Malta,' by C. Marlowe
Joan of Arc or La Pucelle in 'Henry VI.'
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, in 'Richard II.'
Jonson, Ben, his career, plays, and learning--Shakespeare compared
with
Julia in 'Two Gentlemen of Verona,'; in the 'Poetaster'
Juliet in--
'Measure for Measure'
Romeo and Juliet
'Julius Cæsar' (1601), Plutarch's Lives forming material for--
Defective representation of Cæsar's character--Characters of
Brutus and Portia--Antony's Oration
Juno in the 'Tempest'
Jupiter in 'Cymbeline'

'KABALE UND LIEBE,' by Schiller
Kalisch
'Käthchen von Heilbronn,' by Kleist
Katherine in--
'Henry V.'
'Henry VIII.'
'Taming of the Shrew'
Kemp, William, actor
Kent, Earl of, in 'King Lear'
'Kind-hart's Dreame'
King in 'Love's Labour's Lost'
'King and no King,' by Beaumont and Fletcher
King Claudius in 'Hamlet'
King Duncan in 'Macbeth'
'King John,' Shakespeare's sorrow at death of Hamnet
--Old play basis for--Patriotism and chief characters
in
'King Lear'
Ingratitude denounced by Shakespeare in--Sources of, 449-453
Titanic tragedy of human life--Construction of, 454-460
'King Leir'
King of France in--
'All's Well that Ends Well,' or 'Love's Labour's Won'
'King John'
'King Lear'
'Kitchen-Stuff Woman,' by W. Kemp
Kleist
Klinger, Max
Knight
'Knight's Conjuring' (1607), by Dekker
Knollys, Sir William, admirer of Mary Fitton
Kohélet
König
Krasinskis 'Undivine Comedy' and 'Temptation'
Kreyssig
Kronborg
Kyd

'LA CENA DE LE CENERI,' by Giordano Bruno
'La Dama Duende'
'La Gran Cenobia'
'La Hija del Ayre'
'La Princesse d'Elde,' by Molière
'La Puente de Mantible'
'La sfortunata morte di due infelicissimi amanti,' by Bandello
'La Teseide, by Boccaccio'
'La Tosca,' by Victorien Sardou
'La Vida es Sueño'
'Lady of the May,' by Sir Philip Sidney
Laertes in 'Hamlet'
Lafeu in 'All's Well that Ends Well,' or 'Love's Labour's Won'
Lambert, Edmund
---- John
Languet's tenderness for Philip Sidney
Launce in 'Two Gentlemen of Verona'
Launcelot in 'Merchant of Venice'
Lavinia in 'Titus Andronicus'
Layamons 'Brut' (1205)
Le Beau in 'As You Like It'
Leander in Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander'
Sidney, 'Life of Shakespeare'
Leicester, Earl of
Lennox in 'Macbeth'
Leonato in 'Much Ado About Nothing'
Leonine in 'Pericles'
Leontes in 'Winter's Tale'
Lepidus in 'Antony and Cleopatra'
'Life is a Dream,' by Calderon (1635)
Limoges in 'King John'
Lion in 'Midsummer Night's Dream'
Livia in 'Sejanus'
Livy
'Locrine'
Lodge, Thomas
'London Prodigal' (1605)
Longaville in 'Love's Labour's Lost'
'Lord Cromwell' (1613)
Lord Mayor of London in 'Richard III.'
Lorenzo in 'Merchant of Venice'
'Los Empeños de un Acaso'
Lougher, John, Mary Fitton's second husband
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1589), matter, style,
and motives of
'Love's Labour's Won,' or 'All's Well that Ends Well'
(_see_ that title)
'Lucan,' Marlowe's translation of
Lucentio in 'Taming of the Shrew'
Lucetta in 'Two Gentlemen of Verona
Luciana in 'Comedy of Errors'
Lucio in 'Measure for Measure'
Lucius in--
'Julius Cæsar'
'Timon of Athens'
'Titus Andronicus'
'Lucrece,' relation to painting in
Lucy, Sir Thomas, Shakespeare's relations with
Ludovico in 'Othello'
Ludwig, Otto
Lupercal Feast in 'Julius Cæsar'
Lychorida in 'Pericles'
Lydgate
Lyly, John
Lysander in 'Midsummer Night's Dream'
Lysimachus in Pericles

'MACBETH' (1604-1605), similarity between 'Hamlet' and 'Macbeth'
Belief in Witches--Defective text--Macbeth's children--Moral
lesson
---- Lady, in 'Macbeth'
Macduff in 'Macbeth'
---- Lady, in 'Macbeth'
Macmorris in 'Henry V.'
Magna Charta ignored by Shakespeare
'Maid's Tragedy,' by Beaumont and Fletcher
Malcolm in 'Macbeth'
'Malcontent,' by Marston
Malone, Edmund
Malvolio in 'Twelfth Night'
Mamillius in 'Winter's Tale'
'Manfred,' by Byron
Manningham, John
'Marco Polo,' Frampton's translation of (1579)
Mardian in 'Antony and Cleopatra'
Margaret in 'Much Ado About Nothing'
---- Henry VI.'s widow in 'Richard III.'
---- of Anjou in 'Henry VI.'
Maria in--
'Love's Labour's Lost'
'Twelfth Night'
Mariana in 'Measure for Measure'
Marianus, Byzantine scholar
Marina in 'Pericles'
Marlowe, Christopher, English tragedy created by Shakespeare influenced
by Marlowe
Marston, John
Marullus in 'Julius Cæsar'
'Masque of Blackness,' by Ben Jonson
'Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn,' by Beaumont
Massey
Massinger
Mauvissière, French ambassador
'Maydes Metamorphosis,' by Lyly
'Measure for Measure,' chief characters and scenes in--Pessimism
and monarchical tone of
Meissner, Johan
'Melancholia,' by Albert Dürer
Melantius in 'Maid's Tragedy,' by Beaumont and Fletcher
Menelaus in 'Troilus and Cressida'
Menenius in 'Coriolanus'
'Menœchmi' of Plautus
Mephistopheles in 'Faust'
'Merchant of Venice' (1596-1598), Shakespeare's craving for wealth
and position--Sources of--Chief characters in--Shakespeare's
love of music shown in
Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet'
Meres (1598)
'Mermaid' Tavern
'Merry Wives of Windsor' (1599), prosaic and bourgeois tone of--Fairy
scenes in
'Metamorphoses', Ovid's
Michael Angelo
Mickiewicz
Middleton
'Midsummer Night's Dream'
'Miles Gloriosus'
Milton
Minto, Professor
Miranda in the 'Tempest'
'Mirror of Martyrs, or The Life and Death of Sir Iohn Oldcastle Knight,
Lord Cobham,' by John Weever
'Mirrour of Policie' (1598)
'Miseries of Enforced Marriage', by George Wilkins
Mistress Overdone in 'Measure for Measure'
'Mitre' Tavern
Molière
Mommsen
Montague in 'Romeo and Juliet'
Montaigne
Montemayor's 'Diana'
Montgomery, Lord
Moonshine in 'Midsummer Night's Dream'
More's 'Utopia'
'Mort de César,' by Voltaire
Mortimer in 'Henry IV.'
Moth in 'Love's Labour's Lost'
'Much Ado About Nothing'
Muley Hamlet or Muley Mahomet in 'G. Peele's Battle of Alcazar'
Munday
Musset, Alfred de
Mustard-seed in 'Midsummer Nights Dream'
'Mydas,' by John Lyly

NASH, Thomas
'Natural History,' by Pliny
'Natural History of the Insects mentioned by Shakespeare,'
by R. Paterson (1841)
Navarre, King of, in 'Love's Labour's Lost'
Neile, Bishop
Nerissa in 'Merchant of Venice'
Nestor in 'Troilus and Cressida'
'New Inn,' by Ben Jonson
'New Shakspere Society's Transactions'
Newdigate-Newdegate, Lady
'News of Purgatory,' by Tarlton
Nicholson
Niels Steno on Geology
Nietzsche
'Night Raven,' by Samuel Rowland
'Nine Daies Wonder,' by Kemp
Norfolk, Duke of, in--
'Richard II.'
'Richard III.'
North
Northampton, Lord
Northumberland, Earl of, in--
'Henry IV.'
'Richard II.'
Nottingham, Lord
'Nouvelles Françaises du 14me Siècle'
'Nugæ Antiquæ,' by Rev. H. Harington (1779)
Nurse in 'Romeo and Juliet'
'Nutcrackers,' by J. L. Heiberg
Nym in 'Merry Wives of Windsor'

OBERON in 'Midsummer Night's Dream'
Octavia in 'Antony and Cleopatra'
Octavius Cæsar in 'Antony and Cleopatra'
'Odyssey'
Oehlenschläger
Oldcastle, Sir John. _See_ Falstaff
Oldys
Oliver in 'As You Like It'
Olivia in 'Twelfth Night'
'On Poet-Ape,' by Ben Jonson
Ophelia in 'Hamlet'
Orlando in 'As You Like It'
'Orlando Furioso,' Ariosto's
'Orlando Innamorato,' by Berni
Osrick in 'Hamlet'
'Othello' (1605)
Iago's character and significance
Theme and origin of--Othello as a monograph
Overbury, Sir Thomas
Ovid
Oxford
Oxford, Earl of

'PÆAN TRIUMPHALL,' by Drayton
Wage, Mr., Mrs., and Anne, in 'Merry Wives of Windsor'
'Palace of Pleasure,' by Paynter
Palamon in 'Two Noble Kinsmen'
Palatine Anthology, The
'Palladis Tamia,' by Francis (1598)
Pandarus in 'Troilus and Cressida'
Pandulph in 'King John,'
'Panegyrike Congratulatorie to the King's Majestie,' by Samuel Daniel
Panurge compared with Sir John Falstaff
Paris in--
'Romeo and Juliet'
'Troilus and Cressida'
Parolles in 'Love's Labour's Won,' or
'All's Well that Ends Well'
Pascal
'Passionate Pilgrim' (1599)
'Pastor Fido,' by Guarini
Patroclus in 'Troilus and Cressida'
'Patterne of Paynfull Adventures,' by Lawrence Twine
Patterson's, R., 'Natural History of the Insects mentioned
by Shakespeare' (1841)
Paulina in 'Winter's Tale'
Pavier
Paynter's 'Palace of Pleasure'
Pease-blossom in 'Midsummer Night's Dream'
Peele, George
Pembroke, Lady Mary
---- William Herbert, Earl of, passionately loved by Shakespeare
--Sonnets addressed to Mary Fitton's relations with--Career of
'Penates,' by Ben Jonson
'Pensées,' by Pascal
Percy, Henry. _See_ Hotspur Lady, wife of Hotspur,
in 'Henry IV.'
Perdita in 'Winter's Tale'
'Pericles,' Shakespeare's collaboration with Wilkins and Rowley
--Corneille compared with Shakespeare--Shakespeare's restoration
to happiness
'Persæ' of Æschylus
Peter in 'Romeo and Juliet'
Petrarch
Petruchio in 'Taming of the Shrew'
Phebe in 'As You Like It'
'Phèdre,' by Racine
'Philaster, or Love Lies Bleeding,' by Beaumont and Fletcher
Philippi, 307
Phrynia in 'Timon of Athens'
'Pimlyco, or Runne Redcap' (1609)
Pindar
Piombo, Sebastian del
Pisanio in 'Cymbeline'
Pistol in--
'Henry IV.'
'Henry V.'
'Merry Wives of Windsor'
Plato
Platonism in Shakespeare's Sonnets
Plautus
'Players, I love yee, and your Qualitie,' by John Davies
'Pleasant Comedie called Common Conditions'
Pliny's 'Natural History'
Plutarch
'Poetaster,' by Ben Jonson (1601)
'Poetical Rhapsody,' by Davison
'Poet's Vision and a Prince's Glorie,' by Thomas Greene
Poins in 'Henry IV.'
Polixenes in 'Winter's Tale'
Polonius in 'Hamlet'
Polwheele, William, Mary Fitton's first husband
Pompey in 'Measure for Measure'
Pompey the Great
Pope, Thomas
Porter in 'Macbeth'
Portia in--
'Julius Cæsar'
'Merchant of Venice'
Posthumus in 'Cymbeline'
'Précieuses Ridicules'
Priam in 'Troilus and Cressida'
Princess in 'Love's Labour's Lost'
Propertius
Prospero in the 'Tempest'
Proteus in 'Two Gentlemen of Verona'
Provost in 'Measure for Measure'
Prynne's 'Histriomastix'
'Psyché,' by Molière
Puck in 'Midsummer Night's Dream'
Puritanism hated and attacked by Shakespeare
Pushkin, influence of 'Hamlet' on
Pyramus in 'Midsummer Night's Dream'
Pyrgopolinices
Pythagoreans

QUEEN in--
'Cymbeline'
'Hamlet'
'Queen of Corinth'
Quince in 'Midsummer Night's Dream'
Quiney, Adrian
---- Richard
---- Thomas, husband of Judith Shakespeare

RABELAIS compared with Shakespeare
Racine
Raigne of King Edward Third (1596)
Raleigh, Sir Walter, career of--Accusations against--Fate of
'Ralph Roister Doister'
Raoul le Fevre's 'Recueil des Histoires de Troyes'
'Ratsey's Ghost'
Regan in 'King Lear'
'Relics of Cardinal Wolsey,' by George Cavendish
'Religio Medici,' by Sir Th. Browne
Renaissance
'Representative Men,' by Emerson
'Return from Parnassus' (1606), by Ben Jonson
'Revisor,' by Gogol
Rich, Lady Penelope
'Richard II.,' C. Marlowe's Edward II. used by Shakespeare
as model for
'Richard III.,' principal scenes and classic tendency of
Richard of York. _See_ York and Gloucester
Richter, Jean Paul
'Right Excellent and Famous History of Promos and Cassandra' (1578), by
George Whetstone
Rivers, Earl, in 'Richard III.'
Rizzio
Rochester, Viscount. _See_ Robert Carr
Roderigo in 'Othello'
Romano, Giulio, in 'Winter's Tale'
'Romeo and Juliet' (1591), Romanesque structure of
--Conception of love in
Ronsard
Rosalind in 'As You Like It'
Rosaline in--
'Love's Labour's Lost'
'Romeo and Juliet'
'Rosalynde,' by Lodge
Rosencrantz in 'Hamlet'
Rosse in 'Macbeth'
Rossetti, W. M.
Rowe, Shakespeare's first biographer
Rowland's, Samuel, 'Night Raven'
Rowley, William
Rushtons 'Shakespeare's Euphuism' (1871)
Russell, Mrs. Anne
Russell, Mrs. Bess
Rutland, Lord
Rutland's death in 'Henry VI.,

SACKVILLE, Thomas
'Sad Shepherd, The,' by Ben Jonson
Sadler, Hamlet, Shakespeare's friend
Sallust in 'Catiline,' by Ben Jonson
'Sappho,' by Daudet
Sardou's, Victorien, La Tosca
'Satiromastix,' by Marston and Dekker
Saturninus in 'Titus Andronicus'
Saxo Grammaticus
Scheffler, Ludwig von
Schiller
'School of Abuse,' by Stephen Gosson (1579)
Schopenhauer
Schück, Henry
'Scotorum Historiæ,' by Hector Boece
Seasons of Shakspeare's Plays
Sebastian in--
'Tempest'
'Twelfth Night,
Segar, Maister William, Garter King at Armes, notebook of
'Sejanus,' by Ben Jonson (1603)
Seneca, poet
'Sententiæ Pueriles'
Servilia, Brutus's mother
Servilius in Timon of Athens
Seven Ages of Man, Shakespeare's speech in 'As You Like It'
Sextus in 'Rape of Lucrece'
Sextus Pompeius in 'Antony and Cleopatra'
Seymour's, Lord William, marriage with Arabella Stuart
Shadow of the Night, by Chapman (1594)
Shakespeare, John, father of William Shakespeare
---- Richard, grandfather of William Shakespeare
---- William, Anne Hathaway's marriage with--Shakespeare's
conception of relation of the sexes
Aristocratic principles of--Shakespeare's hatred of the masses,
Associates of
Attacks upon--The Baconian Theory
Biographies of
Bohemian life and dissipation of
Brilliant and happiest period of--Feminine types belonging to it
Bruno's, Giordano, supposed influence over
Corneille, Pierre, compared with
Davenant, Mrs., courted by
Heath of
Diction of
Dramatic art, Shakespeare's conception of
Elizabeth, Queen, cause of Shakespeare's coolness towards
Elizabethan England in the youth of
Euphuism and pedantry ridiculed by--Traces of John Lyly's Euphues' in
'Hamlet'
Fitton, Mary, or the Dark Lady, loved by
Greene's, Robert, attack on
Hamnet, son of Shakespeare's sorrow at death of
Italy visited by--Discussion on
James I.'s patronage of--Relations between
Jonson, Ben, compared with--Relations between
Judith, daughter of
Kemp's, actor, relations with
Knowledge of physical and philosophical
London, Shakespeare's first arrival in--Buildings, costumes, manners
--Political and religious conditions of the period
Lucy's, Sir Thomas, relations with--Shakespeare's consequent
departure from Stratford
Marlowe's, C., influence on
Melancholy, pessimism, and misanthropy of causes of--Shakespeare's
restoration to happiness
Montaigne's influence over
Morality--Shakespeare's conception of true morality
Music, Shakespeare's love of
Nature and solitude, Shakespeare's love and longing for
Painting described by
Parentage and boyhood of Shakespeare at Stratford
Pembroke, William Herbert, Earl of, passionately loved by--
Shakespeare's Platonism and idolatry in friendship
Position of
Prosperity and wealth of--Shakespeare's purchase of New Place,
houses, and land--Money transactions and lawsuits
Puritanism hated and attacked by
Rabelais compared with
Return of Shakespeare to Stratford--Surroundings of--Visit of
Shakespeare to London--Last years of his life
Rivalry, Shakespeare's sense of
Self-transformation, Shakespeare's power of
Susannah, daughter of
Tarlton eulogised by
Tavern life of
Theatres in time of, situation and arrangements of--Costumes,
players and audiences
Will of
Womanhood, Shakespeare's ideal of
Women, Shakespeare's contempt for
'Shakespeare and Montaigne,' by Jacob Feis
'Shakespeare and Typography,' Blades
'Shakespeare's Autobiographical Poems,' by C. A. Brown
'Shakespeare's Centurie of Prayse,' by
Ingleby
'Shakespeare's Euphuism,' by Rushton (1871)
'Shakespeare's Knowledge and Use of the Bible,' by Bishop Charles
Wordsworth
'Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements,' by Lord Campbell
'Shakespeare's Library, Collier's'
'Shakespeare's Mulberry Tree,' sung by Garrick
'Shakespearean Myth,' by Appleton Morgan
Shallow in--
'Henry IV.'
'Merry Wives of Windsor'
Sheffield, Countess of
Shelley
'Shepheard's Spring Song for the Entertainment of King James,'
by Henry Chettle
'Shepherdess Felismena'
'Shepherd's Calendar,' by Spenser
Sheppard
Sherborne
'Shirley's Eulogy' of Beaumont and Fletcher
Shottery, Anne Hathaway's cottage at
Shrewsbury battlefield in 'Henry IV.'
Shylock in 'Merchant of Venice'
Sicinius in Coriolanus
Sidney, Sir Philip
Silence, Justice, in 'Henry IV.'
'Silent Woman, The,' by Ben Jonson (1609)
Silvayn's, Alexander, 'Orator'
Silvia in 'Two Gentlemen of Verona'
Simonides in 'Pericles'
Simpson, Mr. Richard
Sir Andrew Aguecheek in 'Twelfth Night,'
Sir John Oldcastle (1600)
Sir Tobby Belch in 'Twelfth Night'
Slender in 'Merry Wives of Windsor'
Slowacki
Smith in Henry VI.
Smith, William, founding the Baconian
Theory (1856)
Smith's, Thomas, 'Voiage and Entertainement in Rushia'
Snug in 'Midsummer Night's Dream'
Socrates 'Apology'
'Solyman and Perseda,' by Kyd
Somer, Sir George
Somerset, Earl of _See_ Robert Carr
Sonnets (1601), melancholy and sadness of--Date of Pembroke
and Mary Fitton addressed in Shakespeare's Platonism,
idolatry in friendship, and inner life shown in--Form and
poetic value of
Sören Kierkegaard
Southampton, Earl of, Shakespeare's patron--Conspiracy of
Southampton, Lady
Southwell, Elizabeth
---- Robert
Spaccio, by Giordano Bruno
Spanish Alliance
'Spanish Tragedy,' by Kyd
Spedding James
Speed in 'Two Gentlemen of Verona'
Spenser
Stanley, Lord, in Richard III.
Stationers' Register
Statius' 'Thebaide'
Stedefeld, G. F.
Stephano in the 'Tempest'
Stern, Alfred
Stirling's, Count, 'Darius'
Story of 'Troylus and Pandor' (1515)
Stows Summarie of the Chronicles of England, 111
Straparola's Two Lovers of Pisa
Stratford on Avon--
Birth of Shakespeare at--Description of town and Shakespeare's
boyhood at
Departure of Shakespeare from
Property bought by Shakespeare at Shakespeare restoring position
and prosperity of his family at
Return of Shakespeare to--Surroundings of--Visit of Shakespeare
to London--Last years of his life at
Stuart, Arabella
---- Mary, mother of James I.
Study of Shakespeare, by Swinburne
Sturley, Abraham
Suffolk, Duke of, in 'Henry VI.'
Sullivan, E.
Summarie of the Chronicles of England, by Stow
Surrey, Henry, Earl of
'Swan' Theatre
Swinburne
Sycorax in the Tempest
Sylvia in 'Two Gentlemen of Verona'
Symonds, John Addington
Symons, Arthur
Syren, literary club founded by Sir Walter Raleigh

TADEMA, ALMA--
Tagelied
Tailor's, Robert, 'Hog has Lost his Pearl' (1614)
Taine
Talbot, Lord
'Tamburlaine the Great,' by C. Marlowe
'Taming of the Shrew' (1596)
Tamora in 'Titus Andronicus'
'Tancred and Gismunda'
Tantalus in Seneca's 'Thyestes'
Tarlton, actor, Shakespeare's eulogy of
'Tarlton's Jests and News, &c.'
'Tartuffe,' by Molière
'Tears of Fancie,' by Watson
'Tears of the Muses,' by Spenser
'Tempest' (1612-1613)
Dramatic value of--Chief characters in--Shakespeare's farewell
to Art
Sources of
Wedding of Princess Elizabeth celebrated by
Temptation, by Krasinski
Thaisa in Pericles
'The Case is Altered,' by Ben Jonson
'The Hog has Lost His Pearl' (1614), by Robert Tailor
'The Orator,' by Alexander Silvayn
'The Prince,'
'The Puritan' (1607)
'The Supposes'
'The Theatre,' first play-house erected in London and owned by
James Burbage
'The Witch,' by Middleton
'Theatre of God's Judgements' (1597)
'Theatrum Licentia,' in Laquei Ridiculosi (1616)
'Thebaide,' by Statius
'Théodore, Vierge et Martyre,' by Pierre Corneille
Thersites in 'Troilus and Cressida'
Theseus in 'Midsummer Night's Dream'
'Two Noble Kinsmen'
'Third Blast of Retraite from Plaies' (1580)
Thisbe in 'Midsummer Night's Dream'
Thorpe, Thomas
Thorvaldsen
'Thyestes,' by Seneca
Thyreus in 'Antony and Cleopatra'
Tiberius in Sejanus, by Ben Jonson
Tibullus in Ben Jonson's 'Poetaster'
Tieck
Timandra in 'Timon of Athens'
'Timbreo of Candona,' Bandello's story of
'Times displayed in Six Sestyads,' by Sheppard
'Timon of Athens,' sources of--Shakespeare's part and purpose
in--Coriolanus compared with Timon--Non-Shakespearian
elements in--Shakespeare's bitterness and hatred of mankind,
Titania in 'Midsummer Night's Dream'
'Titus and Vespasian' (1592)
'Titus Andronicus,' Shakespeare's authorship of
Titus Lartius in "Coriolanus"
Tolstoi, influence of 'Hamlet' on
'To the Majestie of King James, a Gratulatorie Poem,' by
Michael Drayton
Tophas, Sir, in John Lyly's 'Endymion'
'Tottel's Miscellany' (1557)
'Totus Mundus Agit Histrionem,' motto on sign of Globe
Theatre, Shakespeare's allusion to
Touchstone in 'As You Like It'
Touchstone of True Love, or Hero and Leander, by Ben Jonson
(_see_ that title)
'Tragedie of Antonie'
'Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet,' etc., etc.
'Travels of Three English Brothers'
'Treatise on Education,' by Plutarch
'Triar Table of the Order of Shakespeare's Plays,' by
Furnival
Trinculo in the 'Tempest'
'Troilus and Cressida' (1609)
Contempt for women portrayed in Cressida's character
Historical material for
Homer's 'Iliad' compared with
Scorn of woman's guile and public stupidity in
'Troilus and Cressida,' by Chaucer, (1630)
'Troublesome Raigne of John, King of England, with the discouerie
of King Richard Cordelions Base sonne (vulgarly named the Bastard
Fawconbridge): also the death of King John at Swinstead Abbey'
Troy, destruction of
'True Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the Death of the good
King Henrie the Sixt'
'True Tragedy of Richard III.'
Tschischwitz
Tubal in 'Merchant of Venice'
Tucca in Dekker's 'Satiromastix'
Türck, Hermann
Turgueneff, influence of 'Hamlet' on
'Turkish Mahomet and Hyren the Fair
Greek,' by George Peele
Turner, Mrs.
'Twelfth Night' (1601), gibes at Puritanism and chief characters
in--Melancholy tone of
Twine's, Lawrence, 'Patterne of Paynfull Adventures'
'Two Gentlemen of Verona'
'Two Lovers of Pisa,' by Straparola
'Two Noble Kinsmen,' Shakespeare's and Fletcher's parts in
Tybalt in 'Romeo and Juliet'
Tycho Brahe
Tyler, Mr. Thomas
Tyrone's, O'Neil, Earl of, rebellion in
Ireland
Tyrwhitt, Thomas

ULYSSES in 'Troilus and Cressida'
'Ulysses von Ithacia,' by Holberg
'Undivine Comedy,' by Krasinski
'Utopia,' More's

VALENTINE in 'Two Gentlemen of Verona'
Venice
Ventidius in 'Antony and Cleopatra'
'Venus and Adonis' (1590-1591), descriptions of nature in
Vere, Bridget
Verges in 'Much Ado About Nothing'
Vernon, Lady Elizabeth, Earl of Southampton's marriage with
Sir Richard in 'Henry IV.'
Verona
Vespasian in 'Titus and Vespasian'
Victor Hugo
Vidushakus
Vigny, Alfred de
Villiers, Sir George, James I.'s favourite
Viola in 'Twelfth Night'
Virgil in 'Poetaster,' &c., by Ben Jonson
Virgilia in 'Coriolanus'
Virginia
'Vittoria Corombona,' by Webster
'Voiage and Entertainement in Rushia,' by Th. Smith
'Volpone,' by Jonson
Voltaire
Voltemand in 'Hamlet'
Volumnia in 'Coriolanus'
Vorstius, Conrad

WALKER, Henry
Wall in 'Midsummer Night's Dream'
Walsingham
Ward, John, Vicar of Stratford
Warner
Warwick, Earl of, in--
'Edward III.'
'Henry IV.'
'Henry VI.'
Watkins, Lloyd
Watson's 'Tears of Fancie,' sonnets
Webster, John
Weever, John
'Mirrors of Martyrs, or The Life and Death of Sir John Oldcastle
Knight, Lord Cobham'
Weldon, Sir Anthony
Werder, K.
Weston, Richard
Whetstone, George
'White Divel' (1612), by John Webster
Whyte, Rowland
Widow of Florence in 'Alls Well that Ends Well'
or 'Love's Labour's Won'
'Wild Goose Chase,' by Fletcher
'Wilhelm Meister,' by Goethe
Wilkins, George
William Rufus, King
William in
'As You Like It'
'Merry Wives of Windsor'
Williams in 'Henry V.'
Willoughby, Ambrose
Wilmecote
Wilson, Arthur
Wilton
Winstanley
Winter, Sir Edward
'Winter's Tale,' Greene supplying material for--Euphuism
ridiculed in--Chief characters in
Winwood, Lord
Witches in 'Macbeth'
'Wit's Miserie,' by Thomas Lodge
Witt, Jan de
Wittenberg
Wolsey in 'Henry VIII.'
'Woman-Hater,' by Fletcher
Worcester in 'Henry IV.'
Wordsworth
'Worthies,' by Fuller
Wotton, Sir Henry
Wrightman, Edward
Wriothesley, Henry, Earl of Southampton,
Wynkyn de Worde

YONG's, Bartholomew, translation of 'Diana'
York in 'Richard II.'
York, Duchess of, mother of Edward IV.
in 'Richard III.'
---- Duke of, father of Edward IV., in
'Henry VI.'
---- Edward of. _See_ Edward IV.
---- Edward of, son of Edward IV. _See_ 'Edward V.'
---- Richard of, afterwards Earl of Gloucester and Richard III.
_See_ Gloucester
Yorkshire Tragedy" (1608)

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