Editions of Shakespeare's works.
_See under_ Quarto and Folio
Editors of Shakespeare, in the eighteenth century, 313-22
in the nineteenth century, 323-5
of variorum editions, 322 323
Education of Shakespeare: the poet's masters at Stratford Grammar School,
13
his instruction in Latin, 13
no proof that he studied the Greek tragedians, 13 _n_
alleged knowledge of the classics and of Italian and French
literature, 13 14 15 16
study of the Bible in his schooldays, 16 17 and _n_ 1
removal from school, 18
_Edward II_, Marlowe's, _Richard II_ suggested by, 64
_Edward III_, a play of uncertain authorship, 71
quotation from one of Shakespeare's sonnets, 72 89 and _n_ 2
Edwardes, Richard, author of the lost play _Palaemon and Arcyte_, 260
Edwards, Thomas, 'Canons of Criticism' of, 319
Eld, George, printer, 90 180 399 _n_ 2 401 402
Elizabeth, Princess, marriage of, performance of _The Tempest_, etc. at,
254 258 262 264
Elizabeth, Queen: her visit to Kenilworth, 17
Shakespeare and other actors play before her, 43 70 81
shows the poet special favour, 81 82
her enthusiasm for Falstaff, 82
extravagant compliments to her, 137
called 'Cynthia' by the poets, 148
elegies on her, 147 148
compliment to her in _Midsummer Night's Dream_, 161
her objections to _Richard II_, 175
death, 230
her imprisonment of Southampton, 380
Elizabethan Stage Society, 70 _n_ 1 210 _n_ 2
Elton, Mr. Charles, Q.C., on the dower of the poet's widow, 274 _n_
Elze, Friedrich Karl, 'Life of Shakespeare' by, 364
Shakespeare studies of, 345
'Emaricdulfe,' sonnets by 'E.C.,' 153 _n_ 1 436
_Endymion_, Lyly's, and _Love's Labour's Lost_, 62
Eschenburg, Johann Joachim, completes Wieland's German prose translation
of Shakespeare, 343
_Error_, _Historie of_, and _Comedy of Errors_, 54
Essex, Robert Devereux, second Earl of, company of actors under the
patronage of, 33
an enthusiastic reception predicted for him in London in _Henry V_,
174
trial and execution, 175 176
his relations with the Earl of Southampton, 376 377 380 383
_Euphues_, Lyly's, Polonius's advice to Laertes borrowed from, 62 _n_
Euripides, _Andromache_ of, 13 _n_
Evans, Sir Hugh, quotes Latin phrases, 15
sings snatches of Marlowe's 'Come live with me and be my love,' 65
Evelyn, John, on the change of taste regarding the drama, 329 _n_ 2
_Every Man in his Humour_, Shakespeare takes a part in the performance
of, 44 176
prohibition on its publication, 208
F
_Faire Em_, a play of doubtful authorship, 72
Falstaff, Queen Elizabeth's enthusiasm for, 82 171
named originally 'Sir John Oldcastle,' 169
objections raised to the name, 170
the attraction of his personality, 170
his last moments, 173
letter from the Countess of Southampton on, 383 and _n_ 1
Farmer, Dr. Richard, on Shakespeare's education, 14 15 363
Farmer, Mr. John S., 386 _n_ 1
'Farmer MS., the Dr.,' Davies's 'gulling sonnets' in, 107 _n_ 1
Fastolf, Sir John, 170
Faucit, Helen. _See_ Martin, Lady
_Felix and Philomena_, _History of_, 53
'Fidessa,' Griffin's, 182 _n_ 431 437
Field, Henry, father of the London printer, 186
Field, Richard, a friend of Shakespeare, 32
apprenticed to the London printer, Thomas Vautrollier, 32
his association with the poet, 32
publishes 'Venus and Adonis,' 74 396
and 'Lucrece,' 76 396
Finnish, translations of Shakespeare in, 354
Fisher, Mr. Clement, 166
Fitton, Mary, and the 'dark lady,' 123 _n_ 406 _n_ 415 _n_
Fleay, Mr. F. G., metrical tables by, 49 _n_
on Shakespeare's and Drayton's sonnets, 110 _n_ 363
Fletcher, Giles, on Time, 77 _n_ 2
his 'imitation' of other poets, 103
admits insincerity in his sonnets, 105
his 'Licia,' 433
Fletcher, John, 181 184 258
collaborates with Shakespeare in _The Two Noble Kinsmen_ and _Henry
VIII_, 259 262
Fletcher, Lawrence, actor, takes a theatrical company to Scotland, 41 and
_n_ 1 231
Florio, John, and Holofernes, 51 _n_ 84 _n_
the sonnet prefixed to his 'Second Frutes,' 84 and _n_
Southampton's _protege_, 84 _n_
his translation of Montaigne's 'Essays,' 84 _n_ 253
his 'Worlde of Wordes,' 84 _n_ 387
his praise of Southampton, 131 (and Appendix IV.)
Southampton's Italian tutor, 376 384
Folio, the First, 1623: editor's note as to the ease with which the poet
wrote, 46
the syndicate for its production, 303 304
its contents, 305 306
prefatory matter, 306 307
value of the text, 307
order of the plays, 307 308
the typography, 308
unique copies, 308-10
the Sheldon copy, 309 and _n_ 310
number of extant copies, 311
reprints, 311
the 'Daniel' copy, 311
dedicated to the Earl of Pembroke, 412
Folio, the Second, 312
Folio, the Third, 312 313
Folio, the Fourth, 313
Ford, John, similarity of theme between a song in his _Broken Heart_ and
Shakespeare's Sonnet cxxvi., 97 _n_
Forgeries in the 'Perkins' Folio, 312 and _n_ 2
Forgeries, Shakespearean (Appendix I.), 365-9
of John Jordan, 365 366
of the Irelands, 366
promulgated by John Payne Collier and others, 367-369
Forman, Dr. Simon, 239 250
Forrest, Edwin, American actor, 342
Fortune Theatre, 212 233 _n_ 1
France, versions and criticisms of Shakespeare in, 347-50
stage representation of the poet in, 350 351
bibliographical note on the sonnet in (1550-1600)
(Appendix X.), 442-5
Fraunce, Abraham, 385 _n_ 2
Freiligrath, Ferdinand von, German translation of Shakespeare by, 344
French, the poet's acquaintance with, 14 15
French, George Russell, 363
'Freyndon' (or Frittenden), 1
Friendship, sonnets of, Shakespeare's, 136 138-47
Frittenden, Kent. _See_ Freyndon
Fulbroke Park and the poaching episode, 28
Fuller, Thomas, allusion in his 'Worthies' to Sir John Fastolf, 170
on the 'wit combats' between Shakespeare and Jonson, 178
the first biographer of the poet, 361
Fulman, Rev. W., 362
Furness, Mr. H. H., his 'New Variorum' edition of Shakespeare, 323 341
Furness, Mrs. H. H., 364
Furnivall, Dr. F. J., 49 _n_ 302 _n_ 325 334 364
G
Gale, Dunstan, 397
Ganymede, Barnfield's sonnets to, 435 and _n_ 4
Garnett, Henry, the Jesuit, probably alluded to in _Macbeth_, 239
Garrick, David, 315 334 335-7
Gascoigne, George, his definition of a sonnet, 95 _n_ 2
his _Supposes_, 164
Gastrell, Rev, Francis, 283
Gates, Sir Thomas, 252
Germany, Shakespearean representations in, 340 346
translations of the poet's works and criticisms in, 342-6
Shakespeare Society in, 346
Gervinus, 'Commentaries' by, 49 _n_ 346
'Gesta Romanorum' and the _Merchant of Venice_, 67
Ghost in _Hamlet_, the, played by Shakespeare, 44
Gilchrist, Octavius, 363
Gildon, Charles, on the rapid production of the _Merry Wives of Windsor_,
172
on the dispute at Eton as to the supremacy of Shakespeare as a poet,
328 _n_
Giovanni (Fiorentino), Ser, Shakespeare's indebtedness to his 'Il
Pecorone,' 14 66 172
_Giuletta_, _La_, by Luigi da Porto, 55 _n_ 1
'Globe' edition of Shakespeare, 325
Globe Theatre: built in 1599, 37 196
described by Shakespeare, 37 cf. 173
mainly occupied by the poet's company after 1599, 37
profits shared by Shakespeare, 37 196 200 201
the leading London theatre, 37
revival of _Richard II_ at, 175
litigation of Burbage's heirs, 200
prices of admission, 201
annual receipts, 201
performance of _A Winter's Tale_, 251
its destruction by fire, 260 261 _n_
the new building, 260
Shakespeare's disposal of his shares, 264
Goethe, criticism and adaptation of Shakespeare by, 345
Golding, Arthur, his English version of the 'Metamorphoses,' 15 16 116
_n_ 162 253
Gollancz, Mr. Israel, 222 _n_ 325
Googe, Barnabe, his use of the word 'sonnet,' 427 _n_ 2
Gosson, Stephen, his 'Schoole of Abuse,' 67
Gottsched, J. C., denunciation of Shakespeare by, 343
Gounod, opera of _Romeo and Juliet_ by, 351
Gower, John, represented by the speaker of the prologues in _Pericles_,
244
his 'Confessio Amantis,' 244
Gower, Lord Ronald, 297
Grammaticus, Saxo, 222
Grave, Shakespeare's, 272
Gray's Inn Hall, performance of _The Comedy of Errors_ in, 70 and _n_
Greek, Shakespeare's alleged acquaintance with, 13 and _n_ 16
Green, C. F., 364
Greene, Robert, charged with selling the same play to two companies, 47
_n_
his attack on Shakespeare, 57
his publisher's apology, 58
his share in the original draft of _Henry VI_, 60
his influence on Shakespeare, 61
describes a meeting with a player, 198
_A Winter's Tale_ founded on his _Pandosto_, 251
dedicatory greetings in his works, 398
Greene, Thomas, actor at the Red Bull Theatre, 31 _n_
Greene, Thomas ('_alias_ Shakespeare'), a tenant of New Place, and
Shakespeare's legal adviser, 195 206 269 270 and _n_
Greenwich Palace, Shakespeare and other actors play before Queen
Elizabeth at, 43 44 _n_ 1 70 81 82
Greet, hamlet in Gloucestershire, identical with the 'Greece' in the
_Taming of the Shrew_, 167
Grendon, near Oxford, Shakespeare's alleged sojourn there, 31
Greville, Sir Fulke, complains of the circulation of uncorrected
manuscript copies of the 'Arcadia,' 88 _n_
invocations to Cupid in his collection, 'Coelica,' 97 _n_
his 'Sonnets,' 438 439
Griffin, Bartholomew, 182 _n_
plagiarises Daniel, 431 437
Griggs, Mr. W., 302 _n_
Grimm, Baron, recognition of Shakespeare's greatness by, 349 350 _n_ 1
'Groats-worth of Wit,' Greene's pamphlet containing his attack on
Shakespeare, 57
Guizot, Francois, revision of Le Tourneur's translation by, 350
'Gulling sonnets,' Sir John Davies's, 106 107 435 436
Shakespeare's Sonnet xxvi. parodied in, 128 _n_
H
'H., Mr. W.,' 'patron' of Thorpe's pirated issue of the Sonnets, 92
identified with William Hall, 92 402 403
his publication of Southwell's 'A Foure-fould Meditation,' 92
erroneously said to indicate the Earl of Pembroke, 94 406-415
improbability of the suggestion that a William Hughes was indicated,
93 _n_
'W. H.'s' true relations with Thomas Thorpe, 390-405
Hacket, Marian and Cicely, in the _Taming of the Shrew_, 164-6
Hal, Prince, 169 173
Hales, John (of Eton), on the superiority of Shakespeare to all other
poets, 328 and _n_
Hall, Elizabeth, the poet's granddaughter, 192 266 275
her first marriage to Thomas Nash, and her second marriage to John
Barnard (or Bernard), 282
her death and will, 282 283
Hall, Dr. John, the poet's son-in-law, 266 268 273 281
Hall, Mrs. Susanna, the poet's elder daughter, 192 205 266
inherits the chief part of the poet's estate, 275 281
her death, her 'witty' disposition, 281
Hall, William (1), on the inscription over the poet's grave, 272 and _n_
2 362
Hall, William (2), see 'H., Mr. W.'
Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard, the indenture of the poet's property
in Blackfriars in the collection of, 267 _n_
his edition of Shakespeare, 325 312
his great labours on Shakespeare's biography, 333 363 364
_Hamlet_: parallelisms in the _Electra_ of Sophocles, the _Andromache_ of
Euripides, and the _Persae_ of AEschylus, 13 _n_
Polonius's advice to Laertes borrowed from Lyly's _Euphues_, 62 _n_
allusion to boy-actors, 213 _n_ 2 214 and _n_ 1 216
date of production, 221
previous popularity of the story on the stage, 221 and _n_
sources drawn upon by the poet, 221-2
success of Burbage in the title-part, 222
the problem of its publication, 222-4
the three versions, 222-4
Theobald's emendations, 224
its world-wide popularity, 224
the longest of all the poet's plays, 224
the humorous element, 224 225
its central interest, 225
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25
Hanmer, Sir Thomas, 224
his edition of Shakespeare, 318
Harington, Sir John, translates Ariosto, 208
Harington, Lucy, her marriage to the third Earl of Bedford, 161
Harness, William, 324
Harrison, John, publisher of 'Lucrece,' 76
Harsnet, 'Declaration of Popish Impostures' by, 241
Hart family, the, and the poet's reputed birthplace, 8
Hart, Joan, Shakespeare's sister, 8
his bequest to her, 276
her three sons, 276 283
Hart, John, 283
Hart, Joseph. C., 371
Harvey, Gabriel, bestows on Spenser the title of 'an English Petrarch,'
101
justifies the imitation of Petrarch, 101 _n_ 4
his parody of sonnetteering, 106 121 and _n_
his advice to Barnes, 133
his 'Four Letters and certain Sonnets,' 440
Hathaway, Anne. See Shakespeare, Anne
Hathaway, Catherine, sister of Anne Hathaway, 19
Hathaway, Joan, mother of Anne Hathaway, 19
Hathaway, Richard, marriage of his daughter Anne (or Agnes) to the poet,
18 19-22
his position as a yeoman, 18 19
his will, 19
Haughton, William, 48 _n_ 418
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 371
Hazlitt, William, and Shakespearean criticism, 333 364 365
Healey, John, 400 403 _n_ 2 408 409
'Hecatommithi,' Cinthio's, Shakespeare's indebtedness to, 14 53 236
Heine, studies of Shakespeare's heroines by, 345
Helena in _All's Well that Ends Well_, 163
Heming, John (actor-friend of Shakespeare), wrongly claimed as a native
of Stratford, 31 _n_ 36 202 203 264
the poet's bequest to, 276
signs dedication of First Folio, 303 306
Henderson, John, actor, 337
Heneage, Sir Thomas, 375 _n_ 3
Henley-in-Arden, 4
Henrietta Maria, Queen, billeted on Mrs. Hall (the poet's daughter) at
Stratford, 281
_Henry IV_ (parts i. and ii.): passage ridiculing the affectations of
_Euphues_, 62 _n_
sources drawn upon, 167
Justice Shallow, 29 168
references to persons and districts familiar to the poet, 167 168
the characters, 68 169 170
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-325
_Henry V_, _The Famous Victories of_, the groundwork of _Henry V_ and of
_Henry V_, 167 174
_Henry V_: French dialogues, 1
disdainful allusion to sonnetteering, 108
date of production 173
imperfect drafts of the play, 173
First Folio version of 1623, 173
the comic characters, 173
the victory of Agincourt, 174
the poet's final experiment in the dramatisation of English history,
174
the allusions to the Earl of Essex, 175
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25
_Henry VI_ (pt. i.): performed at the Rose Theatre in 1592, 56
Nash's remarks on, 56 57
first publication, 58
contains only a slight impress of the poet's style, 59
performed by Lord Strange's men, 59
_Henry VI_ (pt. ii.): parallel in the _OEdipus Coloneus_ of Sophocles
with a passage in, 13 _n_
publication of a first draft with the title of _The first part of
the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster_, 59
performed by Lord Strange's men, 59
revision of the play, 60
the poet's coadjutors in the revision, 60
_Henry VI_ (pt. iii.): performed by a company other than the poet's own,
36
performed in the autumn of 1592, 57
publication of a first draft of the play under the title of _The
True Tragedie of Richard_, _Duke of Yorke_, _&c._, 59
performed by Lord Pembroke's men, 36 59
partly remodelled, 60
the poet's coadjutors in the revision, 60
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25
_Henry VIII_, 174
attributed to Shakespeare and Fletcher, 259
noticed by Sir Henry Wotton, 260
first publication, 261
the portions that can confidently be assigned to Shakespeare, 262
uncertain authorship of Wolsey's farewell to Cromwell, 262
Fletcher's share, 262
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25
Henryson, Robert, 227
Henslowe, Philip, erects the Rose Theatre, 36
bribes a publisher to abandon the publication of _Patient Grissell_,
48 _n_ 180 _n_ 225 260
'Heptameron of Civil Discources,' Whetstone's, 237
'Herbert, Mr. William,' his alleged identity with 'Mr. W. H.' (Appendix
VI.), 406-10
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 343
'Hero and Leander,' Marlowe's, quotation in _As You Like It_, from, 64
Herringman, H., 313
Hervey, Sir William, 375 _n_ 3
Hess, J. R., 342
Heyse, Paul, German translation of Shakespeare by, 344
Heywood, Thomas, his allusion to the dislike of actors to the publication
of plays, 48 _n_
his poems pirated in the 'Passionate Pilgrim,' 182 301 328
Hill, John, marriage of his widow, Agnes or Anne, to Robert Arden, 6
Holinshed's 'Chronicles,' materials taken by Shakespeare from, 17 47 63
64 167 239 241 249
Holland, translations of Shakespeare in, 352
Holland, Hugh, 306
Holmes, Nathaniel, 372
Holmes, William, bookseller, 403 _n_ 1
Holofernes, quotes Latin phrases from Lily's grammar, 15
groundless assumption that he is a caricature of Florio, 51 _n_ 84
_n_
Horace, his claim for the immortality of verse, 114 and _n_ 1 116 _n_
Hotspur, 168 169
Howard of Effingham, the Lord Admiral, Charles, Lord, his company of
actors, 35
its short alliance with Shakespeare's company, 37
Spenser's sonnet to, 140
Hudson, Rev. H. N., 325
Hughes, Mrs. Margaret, plays female parts in the place of boys, 335
Hughes, William, and 'Mr. W. H.,' 93 _n_
Hugo, Francois Victor, translation of Shakespeare by, 350
Hugo, Victor, 350
_Humourous Day's Mirth_, _An_, 51 _n_
Hungary, translations and performances of Shakespeare in, 353
Hunsdon (Lord Chamberlain), George Carey, second Lord, his company of
players, 35
promotion of the company to be the King's players on the accession
of King James, 35
Hunsdon (Lord Chamberlain), Henry Carey, first Lord, his company of
players, 35
Shakespeare a member of this company, 36
Hunt, Thomas, master of Stratford Grammar School, 13
Hunter, Rev. Joseph, 333 363 406
'Huon of Bordeaux,' hints for the story of Oberon from, 162
'Hymn,' use of the word as the title of poems, 133 134 135 _n_
'Hymnes of Astraea,' Sir John Davies's, 440
I
'Idea',' title of Drayton's collection of sonnets, 104 105 434
'Ignoto,' 183
Immortality of verse, claimed by Shakespeare for his sonnets, 113 114 115
and _n_
a common theme with classical and French writers, 114 and _n_ 1
treated by Drayton and Daniel, 115
Imogen, the character of, 249 250
Income, Shakespeare's, 196-204
Incomes of actors, 198 199 and _n_ 2
India, translations and representations of Shakespeare in, 354
_Ingannati_, (_Gl'_), its resemblance to _Twelfth Night_, 210
Ingram, Dr., on the 'weak endings' in Shakespeare, 49 _n_
Ireland forgeries, the (Appendix 1.), 366
Ireland, Samuel, on the poaching episode, 28
Irishman, the only, in Shakespeare's _dramatis personae_, 173
Irving, Sir Henry, 339
Italian, the poet's acquaintance with, 14-16 cf. 66 _n_ 3
Italy, Shakespeare's knowledge of, 43
translations and performances of Shakespeare in, 352
the original home of the sonnet, 442 _n_ 2
list of sonnetteers of the sixteenth century in, 442 _n_ 2
Itinerary of Shakespeare's company in the provinces between 1593 and
1614, 40 and _n_ 1
J
Jaggard, Isaac, 305
Jaggard, William, piratically inserts two of Shakespeare's sonnets in his
'Passionate Pilgrim,' 89 182 299 390 396
prints the First Folio, 303 304
James VI of Scotland and I of England, his favour bestowed on actors, 41
_n_ 1
sonnets to, 440
his appreciation of Shakespeare, 82
his accession to the English throne, 147 148 149
grants a license to the poet and his company, 230
his patronage of Shakespeare and his company 232-4 411
performances of _A Winter's Tale_ and _The Tempest_ before him, 251
and _n_ 254 255 256 _n_
James, Sir Henry, 311
Jameson, Mrs., 365
Jamyn, Amadis, 432 443 444 455 _n_
Jansen, Cornelius, alleged portrait of Shakespeare by, 294
Jansen or Janssen, Gerard, 276
_Jeronimo_, resemblance between the stories of _Hamlet_ and, 221 _n_
_Jew of Malta_, Marlowe's, 68
_Jew . . . showne at the Bull_, a lost play, 67
Jodelle, Estienne, resemblances in 'Venus and Adonis' to a poem by, 75
_n_ 2
his parody of the vituperative sonnet, 121 122 and _n_
and 'La Pleiade,' 443
John, King, old play on, attributed to the poet, 181
_John_, _King_, Shakespeare's play of, printed in 1623, 69
the originality and strength of the three chief characters in, 69 70
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography) 301-325
Johnson, Dr., his story of Shakespeare, 33
his edition of Shakespeare, 319 320 321
his reply to Voltaire, 348
Johnson, Gerard, his monument to the poet in Stratford Church, 276
Johnson, Robert, lyrics set to music by, 255 and _n_
Jones, Inigo, designs scenic decoration for masques, 38 _n_ 2
Jonson, Ben, on Shakespeare's lack of exact scholarship, 16
Shakespeare takes part in the performance of _Every Man in his
Humour_ and in _Sejanus_, 44
on _Titus Andronicus_, 65
on the appreciation of Shakespeare shown by Elizabeth and James I,
82
on metrical artifice in sonnets, 106 _n_ 1
use of the word 'lover,' 127 _n_
identified by some as the 'rival poet,' 136
his 'dedicatory' sonnets, 138 _n_ 2
his apostrophe of the Earl of Desmond, 140
relations with Shakespeare, 176 177
gift of Shakespeare to his son, 177
share in the appendix to 'Love's' Martyr,' 183
quarrel with Marston and Dekker, 214-20
his 'Poetaster,' 217 218 and _n_
allusions to him in the _Return from Parnassus_, 219
his scornful criticism of _Julius Caesar_, 220 _n_
satiric allusion to _A Winters Tale_, 251
his sneering reference to _The Tempest_ in _Bartholomew Fair_, 255
entertained by Shakespeare at New Place, Stratford, 271
testimony to Shakespeare's character, 277
his tribute to Shakespeare in the First Folio, 306 311 327
his _Hue and Cry after Cupid_, 432 _n_ 2
Thorpe's publication of some of his works, 395 _n_ 3 401
Jordan, John, forgeries of (Appendix 1.), 365 366
Jordan, Mrs., 338 339
Jordan, Thomas, his lines on men playing female parts, 335 _n_
Jourdain, Sylvester, 252
'Jubilee,' Shakespeare's, 334
_Julius Caesar_: use of the word 'lovers,' 127 _n_
plot drawn from Plutarch, 211
date of production, 211
a play of the same title acted in 1594, 211
general features of the play 211 212
Jonson's hostile criticism, 220 _n_
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25
Jusserand, M. J. J., 42 _n_ 1 348 _n_ 1 351 _n_ 2
K
Kean, Edmund, 338 351
Keller, A., German translation of Shakespeare by, 344
Kemble, Charles, 351
Kemble, John Philip, 337
Kemp, William, comedian, plays at Greenwich Palace, 43 208 219
Kenilworth, Elizabeth's visit to, 17 cf. 162
Ketzcher, N., translation into Russian by, 353
Killigrew, Thomas, and the substitution of women for boys in female
parts, 334
King's players, the company of, 35
Shakespeare one of its members, 36
the poet's plays performed almost exclusively by, 36
theatres at which it performed, 36 37
provincial towns which it visited between 1594 and 1614, 40 and _n_
1
King James's license to, 230 231
Kirkland, the name of Shakespeare at, 1
Kirkman, Francis, publisher, 181
Knight, Charles, 324
Knollys, Sir William, 415 _n_
Kok, A. S., translation in Dutch by, 352
Korner, J., German translation of Shakespeare by, 345
Kraszewski, Polish translation edited by, 353
Kreyssig, Friedrich A. T., studies of the poet by, 345
Kyd, Thomas, influence of, on Shakespeare, 61 222 _n_
and _Titus Andronicus_, 65
his _Spanish Tragedy_, 65 221
and the story of Hamlet, 221 and _n_
Shakespeare's acquaintance with his work, 222 _n_
L
'L., H.,' initials on seal attesting Shakespeare's autograph.
_See_ Lawrence, Henry
La Harpe and the Shakespearean controversy in France, 349
Labe, Louise, 445 _n_
Lamb, Charles, 259 338
Lambarde, William, 175
Lambert, Edmund, mortgagee of the Asbies property, 12 26 164
Lambert, John, proposal to confer upon him an absolute title to the
Asbies property, 26
John Shakespeare's lawsuit against, 195
Lane, Nicholas, a creditor of John Shakespeare, 186
Langbaine, Gerard, 66 362
Laroche, Benjamin, translation by, 350
Latin, the poet's acquaintance with, 13 15 16
'Latten,' use of the word in Shakespeare, 177 _n_
'Laura,' Shakespeare's allusion to her as Petrarch's heroine, 108
title of Tofte's collection of sonnets, 438
Law, the poet's knowledge of, 32 and cf. _n_ 2 and 107
Lawrence, Henry, his seal beneath Shakespeare's autograph, 267
_Lear_, _King_: date of composition, 241
produced at Whitehall, 241
Butter's imperfect editions, 241
sources of story, 241
the character of the King, 242
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography) 301-25
Legal terminology in plays and poems of the Shakespearean period, 32 _n_
2 430 cf. 107
Legge, Dr. Thomas, a Latin piece on Richard III by, 63
Leicester, Earl of, his entertainment of Queen Elizabeth at Kenilworth,
17 162
his regiment of Warwickshire youths for service in the Low
Countries, 30
his company of players, 33 35
Leo, F. A. 346
Leoni, Michele, Italian translation of the poet issued by, 352
'Leopold' Shakspere, the, 325
Lessing, defence of Shakespeare by, 343
L'Estrange, Sir Nicholas, 176