Northcote, James, xxvii.
_Observer, The_, lxiii.
Oldcastle, Sir John, 5, 241, 305.
Oldmixon, John, 105, 319.
Ovid, xxii, 39, 53, 184, 190, 203, 249, 312, 328, 336.
Painter, William, 178, 199, 210, 331, 332, 342.
_Palace of Pleasure._ See Painter.
_Palmerin_, 133.
Pauw, J. C. De, 174, 330.
Peele, George, 206, 341.
Percy, Thomas, 177, 331.
Phaer, Thomas, 183.
Phillippes, Augustine, 68.
Phillips, Edward, xxxviii, 210, 343.
Philpot, John, 210, 342.
_Piers Plowman_, 193.
Plautus, xxii, xxv, 9, 11, 38, 41, 53, 136, 200, 306, 310, 312, 324, 328,
339.
Players, social position in Shakespeare’s time, 59, 313;
bad taste, 51;
“the very worst judges of Shakespeare,” 277.
Plutarch, xxv, 32, 53, 133, 170-174, 178, 307, 309.
_Poems on Affairs of State_, 308.
Pole, Reginald, 132.
Pope, Alexander, Edition of Shakespeare, xxviii, xl, xlv;
Preface, xviii, xxiii, xxxiv, xl, 47-62;
alterations in Rowe’s _Account of Shakespeare_, xiv, xxxviii;
attitude to the dramatic rules, xviii;
opinion on Shakespeare’s learning, xxiii, 52-55, 168;
debt to Betterton, 312;
error in Latin inscription, 70, 314;
relations with Theobald, xlii, etc., 78, 79;
attitude to Hanmer, liii;
criticised by Johnson, 143-145;
by Farmer, 172;
_Dunciad_, xviii, xl, etc., 184, 214, 316, 319, 320, 346;
_Homer_, xviii;
_Essay on Criticism_, 327;
_Temple of Fame_, 158, 326;
_Epistle to Augustus_, 311, 321, 324, 336;
“Scriblerus,” 179, 332.
Porter, Endymion, 8.
Prior, Matthew, 170, 327, 329.
Prynne, William, 183, 334.
Puttenham, Richard, 174, 330.
Quiney, Thomas (Shakespeare’s son-in-law), 21, 66.
Quintilian, 110, 320.
Rabelais, 212, 345.
_Rambler, The_, lix, 322, 325.
Rapin, René, 105, 319.
Ravenscroft, Edward, 202, 340.
Rawlinson, Tom, 199, 338.
Reed, Isaac, xxi, xxxviii, xli, 329.
_Reliques of Ancient English Poetry._ See Percy.
_Rex Platonicus._ See Wake.
Riccoboni, Luigi, 200, 339.
Rich, John, xliv, 318.
_Richard II._, old play, 346;
adaptation, see Theobald.
_Richard III._, Latin play by Dr. Legge, 346.
Richardson, Jonathan, 182, 334.
Richardson, William, xxi, xxxv, lxiii.
Roberts, John, _Answer to Mr. Pope’s Preface_, xli, 72, 314.
Rollin, Charles, 163.
_Romaunt of the Rose_, 183.
Ronsard, Pierre de, 175, 211, 330.
Roscommon, Earl of, 43, 310.
Rowe, Nicholas, Edition of Shakespeare, xi, xxviii, xxxviii;
_Account of Shakespeare_, xiv, etc., xxii, etc., xxxviii, xxxix, 1-23;
Pope’s version of the _Account of Shakespeare_, xiv, xxxviii;
attitude to the dramatic rules, xiv, etc., 10, 14, 16;
opinion on Shakespeare’s learning, xxii, 2;
allusions by later editors, 66, etc., 97, 137, 143;
by Farmer, 206;
_Jane Shore_, xiv;
his “delicacy,” 141.
Rowley, William, 308, 341.
Rymer, Thomas, xiv, etc., xl, 306, 308, 310;
criticised by Rowe, 9, 10, 20;
by Theobald, 78, 86;
by Warburton, 103, 105;
by Johnson, 117, 120;
by Morgann, 251;
_Foedera_, 69, 314.
Sachs, Hans, 200, 339.
Sallust, 34, 36.
Salmasius, 111, 159.
Saxo Grammaticus, 133, 197, 198, 338.
Scaliger, J. C., 190, 337.
Scaliger, J. J., 111;
quoted, 159.
Schlegel, A. W. von, x.
Selden, John, 14, 109, 307, 319.
Seneca, 73.
Serenus, Quintus, 79.
Seward, Thomas, 320, 327.
Sewell, George, xxiii, xxviii, xli, 168, 184, 305, 309, 310, 329, 334,
340.
Shaftesbury, Earl of, xxxiv, 90, 317.
Shakespeare, Rowe’s biography, 1-23;
Theobald’s account of his life, 65-72;
story of deer-stealing, 3, 67, 204, 304;
his father “a butcher,” 205;
said to have been a “schoolmaster,” 205, 207;
said to have “held horses,” 164, 327;
acted the Ghost in _Hamlet_, 4, 206;
acted in _Sejanus_, 68;
story of dispute with Alleyn, 341;
popularity in eighteenth century, ix-xiii;
adaptations of his plays, xii-xiii;
his neglect of the dramatic rules, xiv-xxi, 10, 14, 16, 118, etc., 126,
etc.;
his learning, xxi-xxvii, 2, 31-46, 52-55, 74-76, 135, etc., 162-215,
249;
eighteenth century editions, xxvii-xxxi, 143, etc.;
his characters, xxxii-xxxviii, 48, 64, 116, 117, 247;
his power over the passions, 48;
his sentiments, 49;
attention to prevailing taste, 49, 73, 103, 104;
plays upon words, 13, 73, 125, 126, 267;
bombast, 45, 124;
anachronisms, 32, 56, 87, 124, 316;
his “magic,” 14, 15, 252-254;
the “original of our English tragical harmony,” 25, 140;
spurious plays, 59, 308, 313;
corruption of text, 51, 93, 248, 343;
sonnets neglected during eighteenth century, 312;
glossary, 83, 315, 317;
compared with Jonson, 77;
with Addison, 134, 323;
statue, 95, 318.
“Shakespeare, William,” _Compendious or Briefe Examination_, (1751), 204,
340.
Sheares, William, 181.
Shelton, Thomas, 181.
Shiels, Robert, 335.
Shippen, Robert, liii.
Shirley, James, xlv, 181, 182, 333.
Sidney, Sir Philip, xvi, 124, 183, 186.
Skelton, John, 193, 337.
Smith, Adam, xxxv.
Smith, Joseph, liii, lvi.
Smith, Sir Thomas, 132.
Smith, William, 210.
Smith, William, “of Harlestone in Norfolk,” 317, 320.
Somers, Sir George, 69, 314.
Sophocles, 18, 40, 55, 176.
Southern, John, 330.
Spanheim, 111.
_Spectator, The_, xi, 105, 307, 308, 309, 313, 319;
Dennis’s Letters to, xxxix, xl, 309.
Speght, Thomas, 335.
Spence, Joseph, _Anecdotes_, 312, 322.
Spenser, Edmund, 6, 7, 68, 69, 110, 140, 175, 183, 186, 314, 331, 335,
340.
Stafford, William, 205, 340.
Stanyhurst, Richard, 183, 189.
Steele, Richard, x, xl.
Steevens, George, xxvii, xxxviii, 313, 326, 340.
Strype, John, 204.
Suckling, Sir John, 8, 167, 305, 328.
Summers. See Somers.
Surrey, Earl of, 183.
Sylvester, Joshua. See Du Bartas.
Tacitus, 54.
Tarlton, Richard, 212, 345.
_Tatler, The_, x, xi.
Taylor, Edward, xxi.
Taylor, John, the Water-Poet, 163, 184, 208, 212, 326, 334, 344, 345.
_Tempest_ (alteration by Dryden and Davenant), 14.
Terence, 11, 200, 201, 320, 338, 339.
_Testament of Creseide_, 186, 335.
Thackeray, W. M., x.
Theobald, Lewis, Edition of Shakespeare, xxix, xxx, xli-li;
Preface, xlvii, etc., 63-91;
account of his own edition, 80, etc.;
attitude to the dramatic rules, xvii;
views on Shakespeare’s learning, xxiii, 74-76, 168, 314, 315;
relations with Pope, xlii-xlvi;
connection with Warburton, xlv-l, 314-317;
acknowledgment of Warburton’s assistance, l, li;
debt to Warburton in Preface, xlvii-l;
criticised by Warburton, 98-101;
by Johnson, xxx, xliv, 145;
by Farmer, 171, 187, 201, 209, 213;
_Cave of Poverty_, xlii;
essays in _Censor_, xi, xvii;
_Richard II._, xviii, xxiv, xlii, 314, 330, 336;
_Shakespeare Restored_, xi, xxx, xlii-xliv, 314, 316, 327;
_Double Falshood_, xli, xlv, 179-181, 313;
proposed _Remarks on Shakespeare_, xlv;
proposed _Essay upon Mr. Pope’s Judgment_, xlvi;
_Miscellany on Taste_, xlvi;
proposed edition of Poems, 83;
proposed Glossary, 83;
edition of Beaumont and Fletcher, 320;
“a’ babbled of green fields,” xliii.
Thirlby, Styan, l.
Thomson, James, 183.
Thornton, Bonnell, 339.
Tiptoft, John, Earl of Worcester, 337.
Towers, William, 327.
Trapp, Joseph, xx.
_Tristram Shandy_, 214.
Turberville, George, 178, 183, 332.
_Two Noble Kinsmen_, 54, 211.
Twyne, Lawrence, 183.
Tyrwhitt, Thomas, lx, 332, 345.
Udall, Nicholas, 201.
Upton, John, xxiv, 149, 165, 167, 169, 170, 171, 175, 177, 178, 186, 188,
193, 194, 200, 318, 322, 324, 331.
Urry, John, 335.
Vaughan, Sir John, 14, 307.
Victor, Benjamin, 181, 333.
Virgil, 30, 54, 105, 184, 188, 189, 335.
Voltaire, xx, 117, 131, 134, 221, 248, 249, 321, 323.
Wagstaffe, William, 170, 329.
Wake, Sir Isaac, 196, 338.
Walkington, Thomas, 337.
Waller, Edmund, 53, 310.
Warburton, William, Edition of Shakespeare, xxix, liv-lix;
Preface, 96-111;
opinion on Shakespeare’s learning, xxiv, 168, 315;
connection with Theobald, xxiii, xxiv, xxx, xlv, etc., lv, lvi, 98-101;
connection with Hanmer, li, lvi, lvii, 98-101;
early attacks on Pope, xlix, lv, lvi;
friendship with Pope, lviii, 97, 98;
references to Johnson, 101, 325;
criticised by Johnson, 147-149;
by Farmer, 184, 190, 202, 208, 209, 213;
by Morgann, 248;
letter to Concanen, xlviii, lv.
Warner, William, 200, 306, 339.
Warton, Joseph, xix, xxxii, xxxiii, 325, 347.
Warton, Thomas, 205, 340.
Water-Poet. See Taylor.
Webb, Daniel, 185, 322, 335.
Whalley, Peter, xxv, xxxii, 169, 183, 184, 188, 197, 210, 314, 329, 336,
340.
Whately, Thomas, xxxvi.
Whetstone, George, 178, 332.
Whiston, William, 320.
White, James, lxiii.
Whytinton, Robert, 194.
Windham, William, _Diary of_, 321.
Winstanley, William, xxxviii, 206, 341, 343.
_Wits, Fits, and Fancies_, 207, 342.
Wood, Anthony, 205, 207, 340, 341.
Wooll, John, _Memoirs of Joseph Warton_, 325.
Worcester (or Botoner), William, 202, 337, 339.
Wordsworth, William, xxxv.
_Yorkshire Tragedy, The_, 181, 332.
See Shakespeare, spurious plays.
Young, Edward, 323, 328, 347.