Drummond, William, of Hawthornden, his translations of Petrarch’s sonnets,104n4111nItalian origin of many of his love-sonnets,104andntranslation of a vituperative sonnet from Marino,122n1translation of a sonnet by Tasso,152ntwo self-reproachful sonnets by him,152nSee also(Appendix)439andn1
Dryden, a criticism of the poet’s work by,330presented with a copy of the Chandos portrait of the poet,330361
Ducis, Jean-François, adaptations of the poet for the French stage349352
Dugdale, Gilbert,231n
Dulwich, manor of, purchased by Edward Alleyn,204233n1
Dumain, Lord, inLove’s Labour’s Lost,51n
Dumas, Alexandre, adaptation ofHamletby,351
Duport, Paul, repeats Voltaire’s censure,350
Dyce, Alexander,259n1onThe Two Noble Kinsmen,259his edition of Shakespeare,323
E
Ecclesiastes, Book of, poetical versions of,441andn1
Eden, translation of Magellan’s ‘Voyage to the South Pole’ by,253
Edgar, Eleazar, publisher,390
Editions of Shakespeare’s works.See underQuarto and Folio
Editors of Shakespeare, in the eighteenth century,313-22in the nineteenth century,323-5of variorum editions,322323
Education of Shakespeare: the poet’s masters at Stratford Grammar School,13his instruction in Latin,13no proof that he studied the Greek tragedians,13nalleged knowledge of the classics and of Italian and French literature,13141516study of the Bible in his schooldays,1617andn1removal from school,18
Edward II, Marlowe’s,Richard IIsuggested by,64
Edward III, a play of uncertain authorship,71quotation from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets,7289andn2
Edwardes, Richard, author of the lost playPalæmon and Arcyte,260
Edwards, Thomas, ‘Canons of Criticism’ of,319
Eld, George, printer,90180399n2401402
Elizabeth, Princess, marriage of, performance ofThe Tempest, etc. at,254258262264
Elizabeth, Queen: her visit to Kenilworth,17Shakespeare and other actors play before her,437081shows the poet special favour,8182her enthusiasm for Falstaff,82extravagant compliments to her,137called ‘Cynthia’ by the poets,148elegies on her,147148compliment to her inMidsummer Night’s Dream,161her objections toRichard II,175death,230her imprisonment of Southampton,380
Elizabethan Stage Society,70n1210n2
Elton, Mr. Charles, Q.C., on the dower of the poet’s widow,274n
Elze, Friedrich Karl, ‘Life of Shakespeare’ by,364Shakespeare studies of,345
‘Emaricdulfe,’ sonnets by ‘E.C.,’153n1436
Endymion, Lyly’s, andLove’s Labour’s Lost,62
Eschenburg, Johann Joachim, completes Wieland’s German prose translation of Shakespeare,343
Error,Historie of, andComedy of Errors,54
Essex, Robert Devereux, second Earl of, company of actors under the patronage of,33an enthusiastic reception predicted for him in London inHenry V,174trial and execution,175176his relations with the Earl of Southampton,376377380383
Euphues, Lyly’s, Polonius’s advice to Laertes borrowed from,62n
Euripides,Andromacheof,13n
Evans, Sir Hugh, quotes Latin phrases,15sings snatches of Marlowe’s ‘Come live with me and be my love,’65
Evelyn, John, on the change of taste regarding the drama,329n2
Every Man in his Humour, Shakespeare takes a part in the performance of,44176prohibition on its publication,208
F
Faire Em, a play of doubtful authorship,72
Falstaff, Queen Elizabeth’s enthusiasm for,82171named originally ‘Sir John Oldcastle,’169objections raised to the name,170the attraction of his personality,170his last moments,173letter from the Countess of Southampton on,383andn1
Farmer, Dr. Richard, on Shakespeare’s education,1415363
Farmer, Mr. John S.,386n1
‘Farmer MS., the Dr.,’ Davies’s ‘gulling sonnets’ in,107n1
Fastolf, Sir John,170
Faucit, Helen.SeeMartin, Lady
Felix and Philomena,History of,53
‘Fidessa,’ Griffin’s,182n431437
Field, Henry, father of the London printer,186
Field, Richard, a friend of Shakespeare,32apprenticed to the London printer, Thomas Vautrollier,32his association with the poet,32publishes ‘Venus and Adonis,’74396and ‘Lucrece,’76396
Finnish, translations of Shakespeare in,354
Fisher, Mr. Clement,166
Fitton, Mary, and the ‘dark lady,’123n406n415n
Fleay, Mr. F. G., metrical tables by,49non Shakespeare’s and Drayton’s sonnets,110n363
Fletcher, Giles, on Time,77n2his ‘imitation’ of other poets,103admits insincerity in his sonnets,105his ‘Licia,’433
Fletcher, John,181184258collaborates with Shakespeare inThe Two Noble KinsmenandHenry VIII,259262
Fletcher, Lawrence, actor, takes a theatrical company to Scotland,41andn1231
Florio, John, and Holofernes,51n84nthe sonnet prefixed to his ‘Second Frutes,’84andnSouthampton’sprotégé,84nhis translation of Montaigne’s ‘Essays,’84n253his ‘Worlde of Wordes,’84n387his praise of Southampton,131(and Appendix IV.)Southampton’s Italian tutor,376384
Folio, the First, 1623: editor’s note as to the ease with which the poet wrote,46the syndicate for its production,303304its contents,305306prefatory matter,306307value of the text,307order of the plays,307308the typography,308unique copies,308-10the Sheldon copy,309andn310number of extant copies,311reprints,311the ‘Daniel’ copy,311dedicated to the Earl of Pembroke,412
Folio, the Second,312
Folio, the Third,312313
Folio, the Fourth,313
Ford, John, similarity of theme between a song in hisBroken Heartand Shakespeare’s Sonnet cxxvi.,97n
Forgeries in the ‘Perkins’ Folio,312andn2
Forgeries, Shakespearean (Appendix I.),365-9of John Jordan,365366of the Irelands,366promulgated by John Payne Collier and others,367-369
Forman, Dr. Simon,239250
Forrest, Edwin, American actor,342
Fortune Theatre,212233n1
France, versions and criticisms of Shakespeare in,347-50stage representation of the poet in,350351bibliographical note on the sonnet in (1550-1600)(Appendix X.),442-5
Fraunce, Abraham,385n2
Freiligrath, Ferdinand von, German translation of Shakespeare by,344
French, the poet’s acquaintance with,1415
French, George Russell,363
‘Freyndon’ (or Frittenden),1
Friendship, sonnets of, Shakespeare’s,136138-47
Frittenden, Kent.SeeFreyndon
Fulbroke Park and the poaching episode,28
Fuller, Thomas, allusion in his ‘Worthies’ to Sir John Fastolf,170on the ‘wit combats’ between Shakespeare and Jonson,178the first biographer of the poet,361
Fulman, Rev. W.,362
Furness, Mr. H. H., his ‘New Variorum’ edition of Shakespeare,323341
Furness, Mrs. H. H.,364
Furnivall, Dr. F. J.,49n302n325334364
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Gale, Dunstan,397
Ganymede, Barnfield’s sonnets to,435andn4
Garnett, Henry, the Jesuit, probably alluded to inMacbeth,239
Garrick, David,315334335-7
Gascoigne, George, his definition of a sonnet,95n2hisSupposes,164
Gastrell, Rev, Francis,283
Gates, Sir Thomas,252
Germany, Shakespearean representations in,340346translations of the poet’s works and criticisms in,342-6Shakespeare Society in,346
Gervinus, ‘Commentaries’ by,49n346
‘Gesta Romanorum’ and theMerchant of Venice,67
Ghost inHamlet, the, played by Shakespeare,44
Gilchrist, Octavius,363
Gildon, Charles, on the rapid production of theMerry Wives of Windsor,172on the dispute at Eton as to the supremacy of Shakespeare as a poet,328n
Giovanni (Fiorentino), Ser, Shakespeare’s indebtedness to his ‘Il Pecorone,’1466172
Giuletta,La, by Luigi da Porto,55n1
‘Globe’ edition of Shakespeare,325
Globe Theatre: built in 1599,37196described by Shakespeare,37cf.173mainly occupied by the poet’s company after 1599,37profits shared by Shakespeare,37196200201the leading London theatre,37revival ofRichard IIat,175litigation of Burbage’s heirs,200prices of admission,201annual receipts,201performance ofA Winter’s Tale,251its destruction by fire,260261nthe new building,260Shakespeare’s disposal of his shares,264
Goethe, criticism and adaptation of Shakespeare by,345
Golding, Arthur, his English version of the ‘Metamorphoses,’1516116n162253
Gollancz, Mr. Israel,222n325
Googe, Barnabe, his use of the word ‘sonnet,’427n2
Gosson, Stephen, his ‘Schoole of Abuse,’67
Gottsched, J. C., denunciation of Shakespeare by,343
Gounod, opera ofRomeo and Julietby,351
Gower, John, represented by the speaker of the prologues inPericles,244his ‘Confessio Amantis,’244
Gower, Lord Ronald,297
Grammaticus, Saxo,222
Grave, Shakespeare’s,272
Gray’s Inn Hall, performance ofThe Comedy of Errorsin,70andn
Greek, Shakespeare’s alleged acquaintance with,13andn16
Green, C. F.,364
Greene, Robert, charged with selling the same play to two companies,47nhis attack on Shakespeare,57his publisher’s apology,58his share in the original draft ofHenry VI,60his influence on Shakespeare,61describes a meeting with a player,198A Winter’s Talefounded on hisPandosto,251dedicatory greetings in his works,398
Greene, Thomas, actor at the Red Bull Theatre,31n
Greene, Thomas (‘aliasShakespeare’), a tenant of New Place, and Shakespeare’s legal adviser,195206269270andn
Greenwich Palace, Shakespeare and other actors play before Queen Elizabeth at,4344n1708182
Greet, hamlet in Gloucestershire, identical with the ‘Greece’ in theTaming 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,’88ninvocations to Cupid in his collection, ‘Cœlica,’97nhis ‘Sonnets,’438439
Griffin, Bartholomew,182nplagiarises Daniel,431437
Griggs, Mr. W.,302n
Grimm, Baron, recognition of Shakespeare’s greatness by,349350n1
‘Groats-worth of Wit,’ Greene’s pamphlet containing his attack on Shakespeare,57
Guizot, François, revision of Le Tourneur’s translation by,350
‘Gulling sonnets,’ Sir John Davies’s,106107435436Shakespeare’s Sonnet xxvi. parodied in,128n
H
‘H., Mr. W.,’ ‘patron’ of Thorpe’s pirated issue of the Sonnets,92identified with William Hall,92402403his publication of Southwell’s ‘A Foure-fould Meditation,’92erroneously said to indicate the Earl of Pembroke,94406-415improbability of the suggestion that a William Hughes was indicated,93n‘W. H.’s’ true relations with Thomas Thorpe,390-405
Hacket, Marian and Cicely, in theTaming of the Shrew,164-6
Hal, Prince,169173
Hales, John (of Eton), on the superiority of Shakespeare to all other poets,328andn
Hall, Elizabeth, the poet’s granddaughter,192266275her first marriage to Thomas Nash, and her second marriage to John Barnard (or Bernard),282her death and will,282283
Hall, Dr. John, the poet’s son-in-law,266268273281
Hall, Mrs. Susanna, the poet’s elder daughter,192205266inherits the chief part of the poet’s estate,275281her death, her ‘witty’ disposition,281
Hall, William (1), on the inscription over the poet’s grave,272andn2362
Hall, William (2), see ‘H., Mr. W.’
Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard, the indenture of the poet’s property in Blackfriars in the collection of,267nhis edition of Shakespeare,325312his great labours on Shakespeare’s biography,333363364
Hamlet: parallelisms in theElectraof Sophocles, theAndromacheof Euripides, and thePersæof Æschylus,13nPolonius’s advice to Laertes borrowed from Lyly’sEuphues,62nallusion to boy-actors,213n2214andn1216date of production,221previous popularity of the story on the stage,221andnsources drawn upon by the poet,221-2success of Burbage in the title-part,222the problem of its publication,222-4the three versions,222-4Theobald’s emendations,224its world-wide popularity,224the longest of all the poet’s plays,224the humorous element,224225its central interest,225ForeditionsseeSection xix. (Bibliography),301-25
Hanmer, Sir Thomas,224his 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,8his bequest to her,276her three sons,276283
Hart, John,283
Hart, Joseph. C.,371
Harvey, Gabriel, bestows on Spenser the title of ‘an English Petrarch,’101justifies the imitation of Petrarch,101n4his parody of sonnetteering,106121andnhis advice to Barnes,133his ‘Four Letters and certain Sonnets,’440