Vanbrugh, Sir John, his character of 'Hoyden,' 531.
Vergerio, his _Paulus_, lxvii.
Versification, alleged irregularities in the, of _Friar Bacon_, a study
by C. M. Gayley, 503–513.
'Vice,' the rôle of the, in early plays, xlvi, xlviii–liv; lxxiii,
lxxvi, lxxxii, lxxxiii, lxxxvi, lxxxix; in Heywood, li and 10, etc.
('Mery Reporte'); Udall, 100; in Stevenson, 203; in Peele, 342; in
Greene, 393, 430.
_Viel Testament, le Mistère du_, xxxiv.
Vitalis of Blois, his dramatic poems, xvii.
Voragine, Jacobus de, his _Legenda Aurea_, xxx, xliv.
WADINGTON, William of, his _Manuel des Pechiez_, xix.
Wager, Lewis, his _Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene_, xxxi,
lxxxvi.
Wager, William, his _The Longer thou Livest_, etc., lxxxvi, 533.
Wagner, Professor W., on _Friar Bacon_, 440, 446, 459, 510.
_Wakefield Plays, The_ (ordinarily called, from the family owning
the MS., the Towneley), xxiii, xxiv; indebtedness to the York cycle,
xxv–xxvi.
Wakefield, the Playwright of, xxv–xxix; his peculiar stanza, xxv–xxvi;
his improvements upon the second and third York schools of dramatic
composition and his original productions, xxvii–xxix.
Wapull, Geo., _The Tyde Taryeth no Man_, lxxxvi.
Ward, Dr. A. W., his _History of English Dramatic Literature_, xviii,
xix, xlix, lxviii, lxxvi, lxxxviii, xc, 89, 101, 102, 103, 346, 397,
403, 405, 417, 419, 421, 422, 426, 430 _et passim_; his _Old English
Drama_, 353, 363, 413; his edition of _Friar Bacon_ (in _O.E.D._), 415,
426, 430, 439, 441, 442, _et passim_ in the notes to _Friar Bacon_.
Wardrobe Accounts of Richard II, xl.
Warner, Mr. G. F., his _Catalogue of the MSS. and Muniments of
Alleyn's College of God's Gift at Dulwich_, exposing some of Collier's
'emendations,' 515.
Warton, Dr. Joseph, _Biographical Memoir of the late_, on _Comus_ and
the _Old Wives' Tale_, 348.
Warton, Thomas, his _History of English Poetry_, xxi, xxiii, xl, xli,
xlii, 90, 346; his _Milton's Poems_, etc., on the names in _Comus_, 383.
Watson, Thomas, his _Passionate Centurie of Love_, 265.
Wedego, Bishop, against religious plays, xxxvi.
Weever, John, his verses _Ad Henricum Porter_, not intended for the
dramatist, 519.
_Well of the World's End, The_, a fairy tale, see note to _O.W.T._,
345, 359.
West, Richard, his _Court of Conscience_, 517.
_Westward Hoe_, by Dekker _et al._, a song in, 352.
_Wether, The Play of the_, by John Heywood, edited with critical essay
and notes by Mr. A. W. Pollard, 3–59; Other mention, xlix, li, lxvii.
Wever, R., his _Lusty Juventus_, xlvii, li, lxxii, lxxvi.
"What Thing is Love?" a song in Peele's _Hunting of Cupid_, and in
the play of _Doctor Doddipoll_, 336; paralleled in Greene's _Mourning
Garment_ and _James IV_, 415–416.
Wheatley, H. B., his book on John Payne Collier, 515.
'White Bear of England's Wood, The,' a character referred to in _O. W.
T._, 345, 356–357.
White, Edward, publisher of Greene's _Friar Bacon_, 411; copyright
owned by William White, 430.
Whitgift, Bishop, Injunctions at York, etc., 193.
_Wife of Usher's Well, The_, referred to, notes to _O. W. T._, 363.
'Wilful Wanton,' a character in George Wapull's _Tyde Taryeth no Man_,
531.
William of Blois, his _Alda_, xvii.
'Will Summer,' Henry VIII's jester impersonated in Nashe's _Summer's
Last Will_, etc., lii, lxxxii, lxxxix, 344.
Wilson, Dr. John, Professor of Music at Oxford, 518, 519.
Wilson, Robert, the author of _Three Ladies of London_, and of _Three
Lordes and Three Ladies_, lxxxviii–xc; probably also of _A Knack to
Know a Knave_, xc, xci, 425; colleague of Chettle in the non-extant
_Second Part of Black Battman_, 522; his _Sir John Oldcastell_
mentioned, 523.
Wilson, Thomas, his _Arte of Logique or Rule of Reason_, the "ambiguous
letter" in, 93, 95, 97.
_Wily Beguiled_, cited, 24, assigned to Peele, 336.
_Winchester Tropers_, the, xiii.
_Winter's Tale, The_, Shakespeare's, 644, 659, 660.
Wireker, Nigel, his _Brunellus (Speculum Stultorum)_, alluded to,
xviii, lii.
_Wisdom that is Christ_, the moral of, in Furnivall's _Digby Plays_,
xlviii, l, li, liii, lv, lvi, lviii.
_Wisdome of Doctor Doddipoll, The_, assigned to Peele, 336.
_Wit and Folly_, the dialogue of, by John Heywood, 8.
Wit plays: _Wyt and Science_, by John Redford, lxix, lxxii, lxxiii,
lxxxviii, 426; _The Contract of a Marrige between Wit and Wisdome_,
liii, lxxi, lxxiii, lxxvii, lxxxi; _The Marriage of Witte and Science_,
a revision of Redford's play, conjectured by Mr. Fleay to be the same
as _Wit and Will_, lxxiii, lxxiv, lxxvii.
Wolsey, Cardinal, perhaps referred to in _Play of the Wether_, 52.
_Woman Hard to Please_, a lost play, 521, 526.
Woman, in comedy, Meredith on, lxi.
_Woman in the Moone, The_, by Lyly, 266, 268, 272.
Woodberry, Professor G. E., monograph on _Greene's Place in Comedy_,
387–394.
Wood, Anthony à, on Udall, 89; on the Porters, 518, 519.
Woodes, Nathaniel, author of _The Conflict of Conscience_, lxxxvi.
_World and the Child, The_, or _Mundus et Infans_, a moral, l, lviii.
Worthies, the Nine, and _Love's Labour's Lost_, xl, 650.
Wright, Thomas, his _Early Mysteries, etc., of the 12th and 13th
Centuries_, xviii; (and J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps), _Reliquiæ Antiquæ_,
xix; reprint of the _Interludium de Clerico et Puella_ mentioned, xvii,
lxvi.
Wycliff, his attitude toward miracles, xix.
YORK PLAYS, The, date and composition, xxiii; periods of, comedy in the
second and third, xxiv–xxv; relation of Wakefield plays to, xxv–xxvii;
the romantic and melodramatic in, xxix.
'Young Juvenall.' not Lodge but Nashe, 337.
_Youthe, Ballad of_, by Robert Greene, 397.
_Youth, The Interlude of_, lxi, lxxi, lxxiv.
Youth, school plays of, lxxii, lxxiv.
Yvers, Jacques, his _Printemps d'Iver_, 411.
Printed in the United States of America.
Transcriber's Note.
Variable spelling and hyphenation have been retained. Minor
punctuation inconsistencies have been silently repaired. Footnotes
were sequentially numbered and placed at the end of each section. On
pages xlii and 434 footnote references are missing in the original.
Misnumbered footnotes in pp. xlvii, lxxvi, 124 were corrected.
Corrections.
The first line indicates the original, the second the correction.
p. 194:
COTGRAVE. A French and English Dictionary, ed. 1650 (with the addition
of Dictionaire Anglais & François, by Robert Sherwood.
COTGRAVE. A French and English Dictionary, ed. 1650 (with the addition
of Dictionaire Anglais & François, by Robert Sherwood).
p. 420:
2. _The Firt Part of the Tragicall Raigne of Selimus_ (Creede, 1594)
2. _The First Part of the Tragicall Raigne of Selimus_ (Creede, 1594)
p. 521:
we should not he justified in assuming
we should not be justified in assuming
p. 650:
But Shakepeare's imagination
But Shakespeare's imagination
p. 679:
in the miracle cyles,
in the miracle cycles,
p. 686:
colleague of Chettle in the non-extant _Second Part of Black Bateman_,
522;
colleague of Chettle in the non-extant _Second Part of Black Battman_,
522;
Errata.
The first line indicates the original, the second how it should read:
p. 663:
in churchyards, xii;
in churchyards, xiii;
p. 665:
Carpenter, Professor F. I., his edition of Wager's _Marie Magdalene_
(University of Chicago Press), xciv.
Carpenter, Professor F. I., his edition of Wager's _Marie Magdalene_
(University of Chicago Press), xxxi.
p. 667:
Congreve, William, the character of 'Prue' in his _Love for Love_, 536
Congreve, William, the character of 'Prue' in his _Love for Love_, 531
Council of Treves, The, xi.
Council of Treves, The, xix.
_Latin_, _Woman_, _Prose_, _Plot_,
There is no entry marked _Plot_ in the index.
p. 670:
Gayley, Professor C. M., Preface to this volume, iii;
Gayley, Professor C. M., Preface to this volume, v;
p. 671:
Other mention of H., xvii, xlix, lvi, lix, lxi, lxvl–xviii,
Other mention of H., xvii, xlix, lvi, lix, lxi, xviii–lxxxii,
p. 676:
Myth, classical, as material for plays, lxxxiv, lxxxvii, lxxxviii,
lxxxix, xcvi
Number xcvi is not a valid page number.
p. 677:
Appendix on Sources of Characters, and the Harvesters' Song, by the
same, 382–384
Appendix on Sources of Characters, and the Harvesters' Song, by the
same, 383–384
p. 679:
of Heywood's plays, 5, 8, 10, 13, 16, 17, 63;
of Heywood's plays, 5, 8, 10, 13, 16, 17, 61;
p. 683:
notes to _Roister Doister_, 288.
notes to _Roister Doister_, 98.
p. 684:
Appendix, 188–194;
Appendix, 187–194;
p. 686:
Yvers, Jacques, his _Printemps d'Iver_, 411.
Yvers, Jacques, his _Printemps d'Iver_, 412.