'Anthia and Abrocomas,' by Xenophon Ephesius, and the story of Romeo and
Juliet, 55 _n_
_Antony and Cleopatra_: allusion to the part of Cleopatra being played by
a boy, 39 _n_
the youthfulness of Octavius Caesar, 143 _n_ 2
the longest of the poet's plays, 224
date of entry in the 'Stationers' Registers,' 244
date of publication, 245
the story derived from Plutarch, 245
the 'happy valiancy' of the style, 245
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25
_Apollonius and Silla_, _Historie of_, 210
'Apologie for Poetrie,' Sidney's, allusion to the conceit of the
immortalising power of verse in, 114
on the adulation of patrons, 138
'Apology for Actors,' Heywood's, 182
Apsley, William, bookseller, 90 304 312
'Arcadia,' Sidney's, 88 _n_, 241 and _n_ 2, 429
Arden family, of Warwickshire, 6 191
Arden family, of Alvanley, 192
Arden, Alice, 7
Arden, Edward, executed for complicity in a Popish plot, 6
Arden, Joan, 12
Arden, Mary. See Shakespeare, Mary
Arden, Robert (1), sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire in 1438, 6
Arden, Robert (2), landlord at Snitterfield of Richard Shakespeare, 3 6
marriage of his daughter Mary to John Shakespeare, 6 7
his family and second marriage, 6
his property and will, 7
Arden, Thomas, grandfather of Shakespeare's mother, 6
_Arden of Feversham_, a play of uncertain authorship, 71
Ariel, character of, 256
_Ariodante and Ginevra_, _Historie of_, 208
Ariosto, _I Suppositi_ of, 164
_Orlando Furioso_ of, and _Much Ado about Nothing_, 208
Aristotle, quotation from, made by both Shakespeare and Bacon 370 _n_
Armado, in _Love's Labour's Lost_ 51 _n_, 62
Armenian language, translation of Shakespeare in the, 354
Arms, coat of, Shakespeare's, 189 190 191 193
Arms, College of, applications of the poet's father to, 2 10 _n_, 188-92
Arne, Dr., 334
Arnold, Matthew, 327 _n_ 1
Art in England, its indebtedness to Shakespeare, 340 341
_As You Like It_: allusion to the part of Rosalind being played by a boy,
38 _n_ 2
ridicule of foreign travel, 42 _n_ 2
acknowledgments to Marlowe (III. v. 8), 64
adapted from Lodge's 'Rosalynde,' 209
addition of three new characters, 209
hints taken from 'Saviolo's Practise,' 209
its pastoral character, 209
said to have been performed before King James at Wilton, 232 _n_ 1
411 _n_.
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25
Asbies, the chief property of Robert Arden at Wilmcote, bequeathed to
Shakespeare's mother, 7
mortgaged to Edmund Lambert, 12
proposal to confer on John Lambert an absolute title to the
property, 26
Shakespeare's endeavour to recover, 195
Ashbee, Mr. E. W., 302 _n_
Assimilation, literary, Shakespeare's power of, 61 109 _seq._
Aston Cantlowe, 6
place of the marriage of Shakespeare's parents, 7
'Astrophel,' apostrophe to Sidney in Spenser's, 143 _n_ 2
'Astrophel and Stella,' 83
the metre of, 95 _n_ 2
address to Cupid, 97 _n_
the praise of 'blackness' in, 119 and _n_ 153 _n_ 1
editions of, 428 429
Aubrey, John, the poet's early biographer, on John Shakespeare's trade, 4
on the poet's knowledge of Latin, 16
on John Shakespeare's relations with the trade of butcher, 18
on the poet at Grendon, 31
lines quoted by him on John Combe, 269 _n_
on Shakespeare's genial disposition, 278
value of his biography of the poet, 362
his ignorance of any relation between Shakespeare and the Earl of
Pembroke, 414 415
'Aurora,' title of Sir W. Alexander's collection of sonnets, 438
Autobiographical features of Shakespeare's plays, 164-7 168 248
of Shakespeare's sonnets, the question of, 100 109 125 152 160
Autographs of the poet, 284-6
'Avisa,' heroine of Willobie's poem, 155 _seq_
Ayrer, Jacob, his _Die schone Sidea_, 253 and _n_ 1
Ayscough, Samuel, 364 _n_
B
Bacon, Miss Delia, 371
Bacon Society, 372
Bacon-Shakespeare controversy, (Appendix II.), 370-73
Baddesley Clinton, the Shakespeares of, 3
Baif, De, plagiarised indirectly by Shakespeare, 111 and _n_
indebtedness of Daniel and others to, 431 432
one of 'La Pleiade,' 443 444
Bandello, the story of Romeo and Juliet by, 55 _n_ 1
the story of Hero and Claudio by, 208
the story of Twelfth Night by, 210
Barante, recognition of the greatness of Shakespeare by, 350
Barnard, Sir John, second husband of the poet's granddaughter Elizabeth,
282
Barnes, Barnabe, legal terminology in his Sonnets, 32 _n_ 2
and (Appendix IX.) 432
use of the word 'wire,' 118 _n_ 2
his sonnets of vituperation, 121
the probable rival of Shakespeare for Southampton's favour, 131 132
133 135 _n_
his sonnets, 132 133 432
called 'Petrarch's scholar' by Churchyard, 133
expressions in his sonnet (xlix.) adopted by Shakespeare, 152 _n_
sonnet to Lady Bridget Manners, 379 _n_
sonnet to Southampton's eyes, 384
compliment to Sidney in Sonnet xcv. 432
Sonnet lxvi. ('Ah, sweet Content') _quoted_, 432
his sonnets to patrons, 440
his religious sonnets, 441
Barnfield, Richard, feigning old age in his 'Affectionate Shepherd,' 86
_n_
his adulation of Queen Elizabeth in 'Cynthia,' 137 _n_, 435
sonnets addressed to 'Ganymede,' 138 _n_ 2, 435
predicts immortality for Shakespeare, 179
chief author of the 'Passionate Pilgrim,' 182 and _n_
_Bartholomew Fair_, 255
Bartlett, John, 364
Barton collection of Shakespeareana at Boston, Mass., 341
Barton-on-the-Heath, 12
identical with the 'Burton' in the _Taming of the Shrew_, 164
Bathurst, Charles, on Shakespeare's versification, 49 _n_
Baynes, Thomas Spencer, 365
Beale, Francis, 389
'Bear Garden in Southwark, The,' the poet's lodgings near, 38
Bearley, 6
Beaumont, Francis, on 'things done at the Mermaid,' 177
Beaumont, Sir John, 388
Bedford, Edward Russell, third Earl of: his marriage to Lucy Harington,
161
Bedford, Lucy, Countess of, 138 _n_ 2, 161
Beeston, William (a seventeenth-century actor), on the report that
Shakespeare was a schoolmaster, 29
on the poet's acting, 43
Bellay, Joachim du, Spenser's translations of some of his sonnets, 101
105 _n_, 432 436 443 444
Belleau, Remy, poems and sonnets by, 441 _n_ 1, 444 445 _n_
Belleforest (Francois de), Shakespeare's indebtedness to the 'Histoires
Tragiques' of, 14 55 _n_ 1, 208 222
Benda, J. W. 0., German translation of Shakespeare by, 344
Benedick and his 'halting sonnet,' 108 208
Benedix, J. R., opposition to Shakespearean worship by, 345
Bentley, R., 313
Berlioz, Hector, 351
Bermudas, the, and _The Tempest_, 252
Berners, Lord, translation of 'Huon of Bordeaux' by, 162
Bernhardt, Madame Sarah, 351
Bertaut, Jean, 443
Betterton, Mrs., 335
Betterton, Thomas, 33 332 334 335 362
Bianca and her lovers, story of, partly drawn from the 'Supposes' of
George Gascoigne, 164
Bible, the, Shakespeare and, 16 17 and _n_ 1
Bibliography of Shakespeare, 299-325
Bensley, Robert, actor, 338
Bidford, near Stratford, legend of a drinking bout at, 271
Biography of the poet, sources of (Appendix I.), 361-5
Birmingham, memorial Shakespeare library at, 298
Biron, in _Love's Labour's Lost_, 51 and _n_
_Birth of Merlin_, 181
Birthplace, Shakespeare's, 8 9
'Bisson,' use of the word, 317
Blackfriars Shakespeare's purchase of property in, 267
Blackfriars Theatre, built by James Burbage (1596), 38 200
leased to 'the Queen's Children of the Chapel,' 38 202 213
occupied by Shakespeare's company, 38
litigation of Burbage's heirs, 200
Shakespeare's interest in, 201 202
shareholders in, 202
Shakespeare's disposal of his shares in, 264
'Blackness,' Shakespeare's praise of, 118-120 cf. 155
Blades, William, 364
_Blind Beggar of Alexandria_, Chapman's, 51 _n_
Blount, Edward, publisher, 92 135 _n_, 183 244 304 305 312 393 394 and
_n_ 1
Boaistuau de Launay (Pierre) translates Bandello's story of _Romeo and
Juliet_, 51 _n_
Boaden, James, 406 _n_
Boar's Head Tavern, 170
Boas, Mr. F. S., 365
Boccaccio, Shakespeare's indebtedness to, 163 249 251 and _n_ 2
Bodenstedt, Friedrich von, German translator of Shakespeare, 344
Bohemia, allotted a seashore in _Winter's Tale_, 251
translations of Shakespeare in, 354
Boiardo, 243
Bond against impediments respecting Shakespeare's marriage, 20 21
Bonian, Richard, printer, 226
Booth, Barton, actor, 335
Booth, Edwin, 342
Booth, Junius Brutus, 342
Booth, Lionel, 311
Borck, Baron C. W. von, translation of _Julius Caesar_ into German by,
343
Boswell, James, 334
Boswell, James (the younger), 322 405 _n_
Boswell-Stone, Mr. W. G. 364
Bottger, A., German translation of Shakespeare by, 344
Boy-actors, 34 35 38
the strife between adult actors and, 213-217
Boydell, John, his scheme for illustrating the work of the poet, 341
Bracebridge, C. H., 364
Brach, Pierre de, his sonnet on Sleep echoed in Daniel's Sonnet xlix.,
101 and _n_ 1 431 445 _n_
Brandes, Mr. Georg, 365
Brassington, Mr. W. Salt, 290 _n_
Brathwaite, Richard, 269 _n_ 1, 388 398
Breton, Nicholas, homage paid to the Countess of Pembroke in his poems,
138 _n_ 2
his play on the words 'wit' and 'will,' 417
Brewster, E., 313
Bridgeman, Mr. C. 0., 415 _n_
Bright, James Heywood, 406 _n_
_Broken Heart_, Ford's, similarity of theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet
cxxvi. to that of a song in, 97 _n_
Brooke or Broke, Arthur, his translation of the story of Romeo and
Juliet, 55 322
Brooke, Ralph, complains about Shakespeare's coat-of-arms, 192 193
Brown, C. Armitage, 406 _n_
Brown, John, obtains a writ of distraint against Shakespeare's father, 12
Browne, William, love-sonnets by, 439 and _n_ 2
Buc, Sir George, 245
Buckingham, John Sheffield, first Duke of, a letter from King James to
the poet said to have been in his possession, 231
Bucknill, Dr. John Charles, on the poet's medical knowledge, 364
Burbage, Cuthbert, 37 200
Burbage, James, owner of The Theatre and keeper of a livery stable, 33 36
erects the Blackfriars Theatre, 38
Burbage, Richard, erroneously assumed to have been a native of Stratford,
31 _n_
a lifelong friend of Shakespeare's, 36
demolishes The Theatre and builds the Globe Theatre, 37 200
performs, with Shakespeare and Kemp, before Queen Elizabeth at
Greenwich Palace, 43
his impersonation of the King in _Richard III_, 63
litigation of his heirs respecting the Globe and the Blackfriars
Theatres, 200
his income, 203 219
creates the title-part in Hamlet, 222 231
his reputation made by creating the leading parts in the poet's
greatest tragedies, 264 265
anecdote of, 265
the poet's bequest to, 276
as a painter, 292
Burgersdijk, Dr. L. A. J., translation in Dutch by, 352
Burghley, Lord, 375 376 378
Burton, Francis, bookseller, 399 _n_ 2, 400
Butter, Nathaniel, 180 241
C
'C., E.,' sonnet by, on lust, 153 _n_ 1
his collection of sonnets, 'Emaricdulfe,' 436
Caliban, the character of, 253 256 257 and _notes_
Cambridge, _Hamlet_ acted at, 224
Cambridge edition of Shakespeare, 324
Camden, William, 191
Campbell, Lord, on the poet's legal acquirements, 364
Campion, Thomas, his opinion of Barnes's verse, 133
his sonnet to Lord Walden, 140
sonnets in Harleian MS., 437 and _n_ 3
Capell, Edward, reprint of _Edward III_ in his 'Prolusions,' 71 224
his edition of Shakespeare, 319
his works on the poet, 320
_Cardenio_, the lost play of, 181 258 259
Carter, Rev. Thomas, on the alleged Puritan sympathies of Shakespeare's
father, 10 _n_
_Casteliones y Montisis_, Lope de Vega's, 55 _n_ 1
Castille, Constable of, entertainments in his honour at Whitehall, 233
234
Castle, William, parish clerk of Stratford, 34
Catherine II of Russia, adaptations of the _Merry Wives_ and _King John_
by, 352 353
Cawood, Gabriel, publisher of 'Mary Magdalene's Funeral Tears,' 88 _n_
Cecil, Sir Robert, and the Earl of Southampton, 143 379 381 382
'Centurie of Spiritual Sonnets, A,' Barnes's, 132
'Certain Sonnets,' Sidney's, 153 _n_ 1
Cervantes, his 'Don Quixote,' foundation of lost play of _Cardenio_, 258
death of, 272 _n_ 1
Chamberlain, the Lord, his company of players. _See_ Hunsdon, first Lord
and second Lord
Chamberlain, John, 149 261 _n_
Chapman, George, plays on Biron's career by, 51 _n_, 395 _n_ 1
his _An Humourous Day's Mirth_, 51 _n_
his _Blind Beggar of Alexandria_, 51 _n_
his censure of sonnetteermg, 106
his alleged rivalry with Shakespeare for Southampton's favour, 134
135 _n_, 183
his translation of the 'Iliad,' 227
his sonnets to patrons, 388 440 _n_
sonnets in praise of philosophy, 441
Charlecote Park, probably the scene of the poaching episode, 27 28
Charles I and the poet's plays, 329
his copy of the Second Folio, 312
Charles II, his copy of the Second Folio, 312
Chateaubriand, 349
Chatelain, Chevalier de, rendering of _Hamlet_ by, 351
Chaucer, the story of 'Lucrece' in his 'Legend of Good Women,' 76
hints in his 'Knight's Tale' for _Midsummer Night's Dream_, 162
the plot of _Troilus and Cressida_ taken from his 'Troilus and
Cresseid,' 227
plot of _The Two Noble Kinsmen_ drawn from his 'Knight's Tale,' 260
Chenier, Marie-Joseph, sides with Voltaire in the Shakespearean
controversy in France, 349
Chester, Robert, his 'Love's Martyr,' 183 184 _n_
Chettle, Henry, the publisher, his description of Shakespeare as an
actor, 43 48 _n_
his apology for Greene's attack on Shakespeare, 58 277 225
appeals to Shakespeare to write an elegy on Queen Elizabeth, 230
Chetwynde, Peter, publisher, 312
Chiswell, R., 313
'Chloris,' title of William Smith's collection of sonnets, 437 and _n_ 4
Chronology of Shakespeare's plays 48-57 59 63-72
partly determined by subject-matter and metre, 48-50 161 _seq._,
207 _seq._, 235 _seq._, 248 _seq._
Churchyard, Thomas, his _Fantasticall Monarcho's Epitaph_, 51 _n_
calls Barnes 'Petrarch's scholar,' 133
Cibber, Colley, 335
Cibber, Mrs., 336
Cibber, Theophilus, the reputed compiler of 'Lives of the Poets,' 32 and
_n_ 3, 33
Cinthio, the 'Hecatommithi' of, Shakespeare's indebtedness to, 14 53 236
his tragedy, _Epitia_, 237
Clark, Mr. W. G., 325
Clement, Nicolas, criticism of the poet by, 347 348
Cleopatra: the poet's allusion to her part being played by a boy, 38 _n_
2
compared with the 'dark lady' of the sonnets 123 124
her character, 245
Clive, Mrs., 336
Clopton, Sir Hugh, the former owner of New Place, 193
Clopton, Sir John, 283
Clytemnestra, resemblance between the characters of Lady Macbeth and, 13
_n_
Cobham, Henry Brooke, eighth Lord, 169
'Coelia,' love-sonnets by William Browne entitled, 439 and _n_ 2
'Coelia,' title of Percy's collection of sonnets, 435
'Coelica,' title of Fulke Greville's collection of poems, 97 _n_
Cokain, Sir Aston, lines on Shakespeare and Wincot ale by, 166
Coleridge, S. T., on the style of _Antony and Cleopatra_, 245
on _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, 259
representative of the aesthetic school, 333
on Edmund Kean, 338 365
Collier, John Payne, includes _Mucedorus_ in his edition of Shakespeare,
72
his reprint of Drayton's sonnets, 110 _n_
his forgeries in the 'Perkins Folio,' 312 and _n_ 2, 317 _n_ 2 324
333 362
his other forgeries (Appendix I.), 367-9
Collins, Mr. Churton, 317 _n_ 1
Collins, Francis, Shakespeare's solicitor, 271 273
Collins, Rev. John, 321
Colte, Sir Henry, 410 _n_
Combe, John, bequest left to the poet by, 269
lines written upon his money-lending, 269 _n_
Combe, Thomas, legacy of the poet to, 276
Combe, William, his attempt to enclose common land at Stratford, 269
_Comedy of Errors_: the plot drawn from Plautus, 16 54
date of publication, 53
allusion to the civil war in France, 53
possibly founded on _The Historie of Error_, 54
performed in the hall of Gray's Inn 1594, 70
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25
'Complainte of Rosamond,' Daniel's, parallelisms in _Romeo and Juliet_
with, 56
its topic and metre reflected in 'Lucrece,' 76 77 and _n_ 431
Concordances to Shakespeare, 364 and _n_
Condell, Henry, actor and a lifelong friend of Shakespeare, 36 202 203
264
the poet's bequest to him, 276
signs dedication of First Folio, 303 306
_Confessio Amantis_, Gower's, 244
_Conspiracie of Duke Biron_, _The_, 51 _n_
Constable, Henry, piratical publication of the sonnets of, 88 _n_
followed Desportes in naming his collection of sonnets 'Diana,' 104
431
dedicatory sonnets, 440
religious sonnets, 440
_Contention betwixt the two famous houses of Yorke and Lancaster_, _first
part of the_, 59
'Contr Amours,' Jodelle's, parody of the vituperative sonnet in, 122 and
_n_
Cooke, Sir Anthony, 436
Cooke, George Frederick, actor, 338
Coral, comparison of lips with, 118 and _n_ 2
_Coriolanus_: date of first publication, 246
derived from North's 'Plutarch,' 246
literal reproduction of the text of Plutarch, 246 and _n_
originality of the humorous scenes, 246
date of composition, 246 247
general characteristics, 247
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25
'Coronet for his mistress Philosophy, A,' by Chapman, 106
Coryat, 'Odcombian Banquet' by, 395
Cotes, Thomas, printer, 312
Cotswolds, the, Shakespeare's allusion to, 168
Court, the, Shakespeare's relations with, 81 83 230 232-4
cf. 251 _n_, 254 _n_, 256 _n_ 1, 264
Cowden-Clarke, Mrs., 364
Cowley, actor, 208
'Crabbed age and youth,' etc. 182
Craig, Mr. W. J., 325
Creede, Thomas, draft of the _Merry Wives of Windsor_ printed by, 172
draft of _Henry V_ printed by, 173
fraudulently assigns plays to Shakespeare, 179 180
Cromwell, History of Thomas, Lord, 313
'Cryptogram, The Great,' 372
Cupid, Shakespeare's addresses to, compared with the invocations of
Sidney, Drayton, Lyly, and others, 97 _n_
Curtain Theatre, Moorfields, one of the only two theatres existing in
London at the period of Shakespeare's arrival, 32 36
the scene of some of the poet's performances, 37
closed at the period of the Civil War, 37 233 _n_ 1
Cushman, Charlotte, 342
Cust, Mr. Lionel, 290 _n_
_Cymbeline_: sources of plot, 249
introduction of Calvinistic terms, 250 and _n_
Imogen, 250
comparison with _As You Like It_, 250
Dr. Forman's note on its performance, 250
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography) 301-25
'Cynthia,' Barnfield's, adulation of Queen Elizabeth in, 137 _n_, 435
'Cynthia,' Ralegh's, extravagant apostrophe to Queen Elizabeth in, 137
_n_
_Cynthia's Revels_, performed at Blackfriars Theatre, 215
Cyrano de Bergerac, plagiarisms of Shakespeare by, 347
D
'Daiphantus,' allusion to the poet in Scoloker's, 277
Daniel, Samuel, parallelisms in _Romeo and Juliet_ with his 'Complainte
of Rosamond,' 56 61
the topic and metre of the 'Complainte of Rosamond' reflected in
'Lucrece,' 76 77 and _n_ 1
feigning old age, 86 _n_
his sonnet (xlix.) on Sleep, 101
admits plagiarism of Petrarch in his 'Delia,' 101 _n_ 4
followed Maurice Seve in naming his collection of sonnets, 104 430
claims immortality for his sonnets, 115
his prefatory sonnet in 'Delia,' 130 429
celebrates in verse Southampton's release from prison, 149 388
his indebtedness to Desportes, 430
and to De Balt and Pierre de Brach, 431
popularity of his sonnets, 431
Danish, translations of Shakespeare in, 354
Danter, John, prints surreptitiously _Romeo and Juliet_, 56
_Titus Andronicus_ entered at Stationers' Hall by, 66
Daurat (formerly Dinemandy), Jean, one of 'La Pleiade,' 443
D'Avenant, John, keeps the Crown Inn, Oxford, 265
D'Avenant, Sir William, relates the story of Shakespeare holding horses
outside playhouses, 33
on the story of Southampton's gift to Shakespeare, 126 374
a letter of King James to the poet once in his possession, 231
Shakespeare's alleged paternity of, 265 328
Davies, Archdeacon, vicar of Saperton, on Shakespeare's 'unluckiness' in
poaching, 27
on 'Justice Clodpate' (Justice Shallow), 29 362
Davies, John, of Hereford, his allusion to the parts played by
Shakespeare, 44
celebrates in verse Southampton's release from prison, 149 388
his 'Wittes Pilgrimage,' 439
sonnets to patrons, 440 _n_
Davies, Sir John: his 'gulling sonnets,' a satire on conventional
sonnetteering, 106 107 and _n_ 1 128 _n_, 435 436
his apostrophe to Queen Elizabeth, 137 _n_ 273
Davison, Francis, his translation of Petrarch's sonnet, 102 _n_
dedication of his 'Poetical Rhapsody' to the Earl of Pembroke, 414
Death-mask, the Kesselstadt, 296 and _n_ 1
'Decameron,' the, indebtedness of Shakespeare to, 163 249 251 and n2
Dedications, 392-400
'Dedicatory' sonnets, of Shakespeare, 125 _seq._
of other Elizabethan poets, 138 _n_ 2 140 141
_Defence of Cony-Catching_, 47 _n_
Dekker, Thomas, 48 _n_
the quarrel with Ben Jonson, 214-20 228 _n_ 225
on King James's entry into London, 232
his song 'Oh, sweet content' an echo of Barnes's 'Ah, sweet
Content,' 433 _n_ 1
'Delia,' title of Daniel's collection of sonnets, 104 118 _n_ 2, 130 430
434
_See also under_ Daniel, Samuel
'Delie,' sonnets by Seve entitled, 442
Delius, Nikolaus, edition of Shakespeare by, 324
studies of the text and metre of the poet by, 345
Dennis, John, on the _Merry Wives of Windsor_, 171 172
his tribute to the poet, 332
Derby, Ferdinando Stanley, Earl of, his patronage of actors, 35
performances by his company, 56 59 66 73
Spenser's bestowal of the title of 'Amyntas' on, 385 _n_ 2
Derby, William Stanley, Earl of, 161
Desmond, Earl of, Ben Jonson's apostrophe to the, 140
Desportes, Philippe, his sonnet on Sleep, 101 and 431
plagiarised by Drayton and others, 103 and _n_ 3, 430 _seq._
plagiarised indirectly by Shakespeare, 110 111
his claim for the immortality of verse, 114 and _n_ 1
Daniel's indebtedness to him, 430 431 443 444 445 _n_
Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, 365
Devrient family, the, stage representation of Shakespeare by, 346
_Diana_, George de Montemayor's, and _Two Gentlemen of Verona_, 53
translations of, 53
'Diana' the title of Constable's collection of sonnets, 88 _n_ 96 _n_ 104
431
Diderot, opposition to Voltaire's strictures by, 348
'Diella,' sonnets by 'R. L.' [Richard Linche], 437
Digges, Leonard, on the superior popularity of _Julius Caesar_ to
Jonson's _Catiline_, 220 _n_
commendatory verses on the poet, 276 _n_ 1 300 306
on the poet's popularity, 329
'Don Quixote' and the lost play _Cardenio_, 258
Doncaster, the name of Shakespeare at, 1
Donne Dr. John, his poetic addresses to the Countess of Bedford, 138 _n_
2
expression of 'love' in his 'Verse Letters,' 141
his anecdote about Shakespeare and Jonson, 177
Donnelly, Mr. Ignatius, 372
Dorell, Hadrian, writer of the preface to the story of 'Avisa,' 157
_Double Falsehood_, _or the Distrest Lovers_, 258 259 and _n_ 1
Douce, Francis, 364
Dowdall, John, 362
Dowden, Professor, 333 416 _n_ 364 365
Drake, Nathan, 363
Drayton, Michael, 61
feigning old age in his sonnets, 86 _n_
his invocations to Cupid, 97 _n_
plagiarisms in his sonnets, 103 and _n_ 2 434
follows Claude de Pontoux in naming his heroine 'Idea,' 104 105 _n_
1
his admission of insincerity in his sonnets, 105
Shakespeare's indebtedness to his sonnets, 110 _n_
claims immortality for his sonnets, 115
use of the word 'love,' 127 _n_
title of 'Hymn' given to some of his poems, 135 _n_
identified by some as the 'rival poet,' 135
adulation in his sonnets, 138 _n_ 2
Shakespeare's Sonnet cxliv. adapted from, 153 _n_ 2
entertained by Shakespeare at New Place, Stratford, 271 427 _n_ 2
greetings to his patron in his works, 398
Droeshout, Martin, engraver of the portrait in the First Folio, 287-8
his uncle of the same name, a painter, 290
Droitwich, native place of John Heming, one of Shakespeare's
actor-friends, 31 _n_
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden, his translations of Petrarch's
sonnets, 104 _n_ 4 111 _n_
Italian origin of many of his love-sonnets, 104 and _n_
translation of a vituperative sonnet from Marino, 122 _n_ 1
translation of a sonnet by Tasso, 152 _n_
two self-reproachful sonnets by him, 152 _n_
_See also_ (Appendix) 439 and _n_ 1
Dryden, a criticism of the poet's work by, 330
presented with a copy of the Chandos portrait of the poet, 330 361
Ducis, Jean-Francois, adaptations of the poet for the French stage 349
352
Dugdale, Gilbert, 231 _n_
Dulwich, manor of, purchased by Edward Alleyn, 204 233 _n_ 1
Dumain, Lord, in _Love's Labour's Lost_, 51 _n_
Dumas, Alexandre, adaptation of _Hamlet_ by, 351
Duport, Paul, repeats Voltaire's censure, 350
Dyce, Alexander, 259 _n_ 1
on _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, 259
his edition of Shakespeare, 323
E
Ecclesiastes, Book of, poetical versions of, 441 and _n_ 1
Eden, translation of Magellan's 'Voyage to the South Pole' by, 253