Burbage, Richard, erroneously assumed to have been a native of Stratford,31na lifelong friend of Shakespeare’s,36demolishes The Theatre and builds the Globe Theatre,37200performs, with Shakespeare and Kemp, before Queen Elizabeth at Greenwich Palace,43his impersonation of the King inRichard III,63litigation of his heirs respecting the Globe and the Blackfriars Theatres,200his income,203219creates the title-part in Hamlet,222231his reputation made by creating the leading parts in the poet’s greatest tragedies,264265anecdote of,265the poet’s bequest to,276as a painter,292
Burgersdijk, Dr. L. A. J., translation in Dutch by,352
Burghley, Lord,375376378
Burton, Francis, bookseller,399n2,400
Butter, Nathaniel,180241
C
‘C., E.,’ sonnet by, on lust,153n1his collection of sonnets, ‘Emaricdulfe,’436
Caliban, the character of,253256257andnotes
Cambridge,Hamletacted 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,133his sonnet to Lord Walden,140sonnets in Harleian MS.,437andn3
Capell, Edward, reprint ofEdward IIIin his ‘Prolusions,’71224his edition of Shakespeare,319his works on the poet,320
Cardenio, the lost play of,181258259
Carter, Rev. Thomas, on the alleged Puritan sympathies of Shakespeare’s father,10n
Casteliones y Montisis, Lope de Vega’s,55n1
Castille, Constable of, entertainments in his honour at Whitehall,233234
Castle, William, parish clerk of Stratford,34
Catherine II of Russia, adaptations of theMerry WivesandKing Johnby,352353
Cawood, Gabriel, publisher of ‘Mary Magdalene’s Funeral Tears,’88n
Cecil, Sir Robert, and the Earl of Southampton,143379381382
‘Centurie of Spiritual Sonnets, A,’ Barnes’s,132
‘Certain Sonnets,’ Sidney’s,153n1
Cervantes, his ‘Don Quixote,’ foundation of lost play ofCardenio,258death of,272n1
Chamberlain, the Lord, his company of players.SeeHunsdon, first Lord and second Lord
Chamberlain, John,149261n
Chapman, George, plays on Biron’s career by,51n,395n1hisAn Humourous Day’s Mirth,51nhisBlind Beggar of Alexandria,51nhis censure of sonnetteermg,106his alleged rivalry with Shakespeare for Southampton’s favour,134135n,183his translation of the ‘Iliad,’227his sonnets to patrons,388440nsonnets in praise of philosophy,441
Charlecote Park, probably the scene of the poaching episode,2728
Charles I and the poet’s plays,329his copy of the Second Folio,312
Charles II, his copy of the Second Folio,312
Chateaubriand,349
Châtelain, Chevalier de, rendering ofHamletby,351
Chaucer, the story of ‘Lucrece’ in his ‘Legend of Good Women,’76hints in his ‘Knight’s Tale’ forMidsummer Night’s Dream,162the plot ofTroilus and Cressidataken from his ‘Troilus and Cresseid,’227plot ofThe Two Noble Kinsmendrawn 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,’183184n
Chettle, Henry, the publisher, his description of Shakespeare as an actor,4348nhis apology for Greene’s attack on Shakespeare,58277225appeals 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,437andn4 Chronology of Shakespeare’s plays48-575963-72partly determined by subject-matter and metre,48-50161seq.,207seq.,235seq.,248seq.
Churchyard, Thomas, hisFantasticall Monarcho’s Epitaph,51ncalls Barnes ‘Petrarch’s scholar,’133
Cibber, Colley,335
Cibber, Mrs.,336
Cibber, Theophilus, the reputed compiler of ‘Lives of the Poets,’32andn3,33
Cinthio, the ‘Hecatommithi’ of, Shakespeare’s indebtedness to,1453236his tragedy,Epitia,237
Clark, Mr. W. G.,325
Clement, Nicolas, criticism of the poet by,347348
Cleopatra: the poet’s allusion to her part being played by a boy,38n2compared with the ‘dark lady’ of the sonnets123124her 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,13n
Cobham, Henry Brooke, eighth Lord,169
‘Cœlia,’ love-sonnets by William Browne entitled,439andn2
‘Cœlia,’ title of Percy’s collection of sonnets,435
‘Cœlica,’ title of Fulke Greville’s collection of poems,97n
Cokain, Sir Aston, lines on Shakespeare and Wincot ale by,166
Coleridge, S. T., on the style ofAntony and Cleopatra,245onThe Two Noble Kinsmen,259representative of the æsthetic school,333on Edmund Kean,338365
Collier, John Payne, includesMucedorusin his edition of Shakespeare,72his reprint of Drayton’s sonnets,110nhis forgeries in the ‘Perkins Folio,’312andn2,317n2324333362his other forgeries (Appendix I.),367-9
Collins, Mr. Churton,317n1
Collins, Francis, Shakespeare’s solicitor,271273
Collins, Rev. John,321
Colte, Sir Henry,410n
Combe, John, bequest left to the poet by,269lines written upon his money-lending,269n
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,1654date of publication,53allusion to the civil war in France,53possibly founded onThe Historie of Error,54performed in the hall of Gray’s Inn 1594,70ForeditionsseeSection xix. (Bibliography),301-25
‘Complainte of Rosamond,’ Daniel’s, parallelisms inRomeo and Julietwith,56its topic and metre reflected in ‘Lucrece,’7677andn431
Concordances to Shakespeare,364andn
Condell, Henry, actor and a lifelong friend of Shakespeare,36202203264the poet’s bequest to him,276signs dedication of First Folio,303306
Confessio Amantis, Gower’s,244
Conspiracie of Duke Biron,The,51n
Constable, Henry, piratical publication of the sonnets of,88nfollowed Desportes in naming his collection of sonnets ‘Diana,’104431dedicatory sonnets,440religious 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,122andn
Cooke, Sir Anthony,436
Cooke, George Frederick, actor,338
Coral, comparison of lips with,118andn2
Coriolanus: date of first publication,246derived from North’s ‘Plutarch,’246literal reproduction of the text of Plutarch,246andnoriginality of the humorous scenes,246date of composition,246247general characteristics,247ForeditionsseeSection 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,8183230232-4cf.251n,254n,256n1,264
Cowden-Clarke, Mrs.,364
Cowley, actor,208
‘Crabbed age and youth,’ etc.182
Craig, Mr. W. J.,325
Creede, Thomas, draft of theMerry Wives of Windsorprinted by,172draft ofHenry Vprinted by,173fraudulently assigns plays to Shakespeare,179180
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,97n
Curtain Theatre, Moorfields, one of the only two theatres existing in London at the period of Shakespeare’s arrival,3236the scene of some of the poet’s performances,37closed at the period of the Civil War,37233n1
Cushman, Charlotte,342
Cust, Mr. Lionel,290n
Cymbeline: sources of plot,249introduction of Calvinistic terms,250andnImogen,250comparison withAs You Like It,250Dr. Forman’s note on its performance,250ForeditionsseeSection xix. (Bibliography)301-25
‘Cynthia,’ Barnfield’s, adulation of Queen Elizabeth in,137n,435
‘Cynthia,’ Ralegh’s, extravagant apostrophe to Queen Elizabeth in,137n
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 inRomeo and Julietwith his ‘Complainte of Rosamond,’5661the topic and metre of the ‘Complainte of Rosamond’ reflected in ‘Lucrece,’7677andn1feigning old age,86nhis sonnet (xlix.) on Sleep,101admits plagiarism of Petrarch in his ‘Delia,’101n4followed Maurice Sève in naming his collection of sonnets,104430claims immortality for his sonnets,115his prefatory sonnet in ‘Delia,’130429celebrates in verse Southampton’s release from prison,149388his indebtedness to Desportes,430and to De Balt and Pierre de Brach,431popularity of his sonnets,431
Danish, translations of Shakespeare in,354
Danter, John, prints surreptitiouslyRomeo and Juliet,56Titus Andronicusentered 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,33on the story of Southampton’s gift to Shakespeare,126374a letter of King James to the poet once in his possession,231Shakespeare’s alleged paternity of,265328
Davies, Archdeacon, vicar of Saperton, on Shakespeare’s ‘unluckiness’ in poaching,27on ‘Justice Clodpate’ (Justice Shallow),29362
Davies, John, of Hereford, his allusion to the parts played by Shakespeare,44celebrates in verse Southampton’s release from prison,149388his ‘Wittes Pilgrimage,’439sonnets to patrons,440n
Davies, Sir John: his ‘gulling sonnets,’ a satire on conventional sonnetteering,106107andn1128n,435436his apostrophe to Queen Elizabeth,137n273
Davison, Francis, his translation of Petrarch’s sonnet,102ndedication of his ‘Poetical Rhapsody’ to the Earl of Pembroke,414
Death-mask, the Kesselstadt,296andn1
‘Decameron,’ the, indebtedness of Shakespeare to,163249251and n2
Dedications,392-400
‘Dedicatory’ sonnets, of Shakespeare,125seq.of other Elizabethan poets,138n2140141
Defence of Cony-Catching,47n
Dekker, Thomas,48nthe quarrel with Ben Jonson,214-20228n225on King James’s entry into London,232his song ‘Oh, sweet content’ an echo of Barnes’s ‘Ah, sweet Content,’433n1
‘Delia,’ title of Daniel’s collection of sonnets,104118n2,130430434See also underDaniel, Samuel
‘Délie,’ sonnets by Sève entitled,442
Delius, Nikolaus, edition of Shakespeare by,324studies of the text and metre of the poet by,345
Dennis, John, on theMerry Wives of Windsor,171172his tribute to the poet,332
Derby, Ferdinando Stanley, Earl of, his patronage of actors,35performances by his company,56596673Spenser’s bestowal of the title of ‘Amyntas’ on,385n2
Derby, William Stanley, Earl of,161
Desmond, Earl of, Ben Jonson’s apostrophe to the,140
Desportes, Philippe, his sonnet on Sleep,101and431plagiarised by Drayton and others,103andn3,430seq.plagiarised indirectly by Shakespeare,110111his claim for the immortality of verse,114andn1Daniel’s indebtedness to him,430431443444445n
Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft,365
Devrient family, the, stage representation of Shakespeare by,346
Diana, George de Montemayor’s, andTwo Gentlemen of Verona,53translations of,53
‘Diana’ the title of Constable’s collection of sonnets,88n96n104431
Diderot, opposition to Voltaire’s strictures by,348
‘Diella,’ sonnets by ‘R. L.’ [Richard Linche],437
Digges, Leonard, on the superior popularity ofJulius Cæsarto Jonson’sCatiline,220ncommendatory verses on the poet,276n1300306on the poet’s popularity,329
‘Don Quixote’ and the lost playCardenio,258
Doncaster, the name of Shakespeare at,1
Donne Dr. John, his poetic addresses to the Countess of Bedford,138n2expression of ‘love’ in his ‘Verse Letters,’141his 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,258259andn1
Douce, Francis,364
Dowdall, John,362
Dowden, Professor,333416n364365
Drake, Nathan,363
Drayton, Michael,61feigning old age in his sonnets,86nhis invocations to Cupid,97nplagiarisms in his sonnets,103andn2434follows Claude de Pontoux in naming his heroine ‘Idea,’104105n1his admission of insincerity in his sonnets,105Shakespeare’s indebtedness to his sonnets,110nclaims immortality for his sonnets,115use of the word ‘love,’127ntitle of ‘Hymn’ given to some of his poems,135nidentified by some as the ‘rival poet,’135adulation in his sonnets,138n2Shakespeare’s Sonnet cxliv. adapted from,153n2entertained by Shakespeare at New Place, Stratford,271427n2greetings to his patron in his works,398
Droeshout, Martin, engraver of the portrait in the First Folio,287-8his uncle of the same name, a painter,290
Droitwich, native place of John Heming, one of Shakespeare’s actor-friends,31n