Love’s Labour’s Lost: Latin phrases in,15probably the poet’s first dramatic production,50its plot not borrowed,51its characters,51andn52its revision in 1597,52date of publication,52influence of Lyly,62performed at Whitehall,81examples of the poet’s first attempts at sonnetteering,84scornful allusion to sonnetteering,107the praise of ‘blackness,’118119andn2performed before Anne of Denmark at Southampton’s house in the Strand,384ForeditionsseeSection xix. (Bibliography),301-25
Love’s Labour’s Won, attributed by Meres to Shakespeare,162SeeAll’s Well
‘Love’s Martyr, or Rosalin’s Complaint,’183184n304
Lowell, James Russell,13n341
Lucian, theTimonof,243
‘Lucrece:’ published in 1594,76Daniel’s ‘Complainte of Rosamond’ reflected,7677andn1the passage on Time elaborated from Watson,77andn2dedicated to the Earl of Southampton,7778126127enthusiastic reception of,78-9quarto editions in the poet’s lifetime,299posthumous editions,300
Lucy, Sir Thomas, his prosecution of Shakespeare for poaching,2728caricatured in Justice Shallow,29173
Luddington,20
Lydgate, ‘Troy Book’ of, drawn upon forTroilus and Cressida,227
Lyly, John,61followed by Shakespeare in his comedies,6162his addresses to Cupid,97nhis influence onMidsummer Night’s Dream,162
Lyrics in Shakespeare’s plays,207250255andn
M
‘M. I.’306See also‘S., I. M.’
Macbeth: references to the climate of Inverness,41n342date of composition,239the story drawn from Holinshed,239points of difference from other plays of the same class,240Middleton’s plagiarisms,240not printed until 1623,239the shortest of the poet’s tragedies,239performance at the Globe,239ForeditionsseeSection xix. (Bibliography),301-25
Macbeth, Lady, and Æschylus’s Clytemnestra,13n
Mackay, Mr. Herbert, on the dower of the poet’s widow,274
Macklin, Charles,336337
Macready, William Charles,339351
Madden, Rt. Hon. D. H., on Shakespeare’s knowledge of sport,27n168364
Magellan, ‘Voyage to the South Pole’ by,253
Magny, Olivier de,443
Malone, Edmund, on Shakespeare’s first employment in the theatre,34on the poet’s residence,38on the date ofThe Tempest,254332333his writings on the poet,321322362
Malvolio,211
Manners, Lady Bridget,378379andn
Manningham, John (diarist), a description ofTwelfth Nightby,210
Manuscript, circulation of sonnets in,88andn(Appendix ix.),391396
Marino, vituperative sonnet by,122n1442n2
Markham, Gervase, his adulation of Southampton in his sonnets,131134387
Marlowe, Christopher,57his share in the revision ofHenry VI,60his influence on Shakespeare,6163-4Shakespeare’s acknowledgments,64his translation of Lucan,90393399
Marmontel and the Shakespearean controversy in France,349
Marot, Clément,442
Marriage, treatment of, in the Sonnets,98
Marshall, Mr. F. A.,325
Marston, John, identified by some as the ‘rival poet,’136183his quarrel with Jonson,214-20
Martin, one of the English actors who played in Scotland,41andn1
Martin, Lady,298339365
Masks worn by men playing women’s parts,38n2
Massey, Mr. Gerald, on the Sonnets,91n1
Massinger, Philip,258portions ofThe Two Noble Kinsmenassigned to,259andHenry VIII,263andn2
‘Mastic,’ use of the word,228n
Masuccio, the story of Romeo and Juliet told in hisNovellino,55
Matthew, Sir Toby,375383
Measure for Measure: the offence of Claudio,23ndate of composition,235produced at Whitehall,235not printed in the poet’s lifetime,235source of plot,236deviations from the old story,237238creation of the character of Mariana,238the philosophic subtlety of the poet’s argument,238references to a ruler’s dislike of mobs,238ForeditionsseeSection xix. (Bibliography),301-325
Melin de Saint-Gelais,442
Memorials in sculpture to the poet,297
Menæchmiof Plautus,54
Mendelssohn, setting of Shakespearean songs by,347
Merchant of Venice: the influence of Marlowe,6368sources of the plot,6667the last act,69date of,69use of the word ‘lover,’127nForeditionsseeSection xix. (Bibliography),301-325
Meres, Francis, recommends Shakespeare’s ‘sugred’ sonnets,89his quotations from Horace and Ovid on the immortalising power of verse,116nattributesLove’s Labour’s Wonto Shakespeare,162testimony to the poet’s reputation,178179390
Mermaid Tavern,177178
Merry Devill of Edmonton,181258n2
Merry Wives of Windsor: Latin phrases put into the mouth of Sir Hugh Evans,15Sir Thomas Lucy caricatured in Justice Shallow,29lines from Marlowe sung by Sir Hugh Evans,6465period of production,171publication of,172source of the plot,172chief characteristics,173ForeditionsseeSection xix. (Bibliography),301-325
Metre of Shakespeare’s plays a rough guide to the chronology,48-50of Shakespeare’s poems,75-77of Shakespeare’s sonnets,95andn2
Mézières, Alfred,350
Michel, Francisque, translation by,350
Middle Temple Hall, performance ofTwelfth Nightat,210
Middleton, Thomas, his allusion to Le Motte inBlurt,Master Constable,51nhis plagiarisms ofMacbethinThe Witch,240
Midsummer Night’s Dream: references to the pageants at Kenilworth Park,17162reference to Spenser’s ‘Teares of the Muses,’80date of production,161sources of the story,162the final scheme,162ForeditionsseeSection xix. (Bibliography),301-325
Milton, applies the epithet ‘sweetest’ to Shakespeare,179nhis epitaph on Shakespeare,327
Minto, Professor, claims Chapman as Shakespeare’s ‘rival’ poet,135n
Miranda, character of,256
‘Mirror of Martyrs,’211
Miseries of Enforced Marriage,243
‘Monarcho, Fantasticall,’51n
Money, its purchasing power in the sixteenth century,3n3197n
Montagu, Mrs. Elizabeth,348
Montaigne, ‘Essays’ of,85n253n
Montégut, Emile, translation by,350
Montemayor, George de,53
Montgomery, Philip Herbert, Earl of,306381410
Monument to Shakespeare in Stratford Church,276286
Morley, Lord,410n
Moseley, Humphrey, publisher,181258
Moth, inLove’s Labour’s Lost,51n
Moulton, Dr. Richard G.365
Mucedorus, a play by an unknown author,72
Much Ado about Nothing: a jesting allusion to sonnetteering,108its publication,207208date of composition,208the comic characters,208Italian origin of Hero and Claudio,208parts taken by William Kemp and Cowley,208quotation from theSpanish Tragedy,221nForeditionsseeSection xix. (Bibliography),301-25
Mulberry-tree at New Place, the,194andn
Music at stage performances in Shakespeare’s day,38n2its indebtedness to the poet,340
N
Nash, Anthony, the poet’s legacy to,276
Nash, John, the poet’s legacy to,276
Nash, Thomas (1), marries Elizabeth Hall, Shakespeare’s granddaughter,282
Nash, Thomas (2), on the performance ofHenry VI.5657piracy of his ‘Terrors of the Night,’88non the immortalising power of verse,114use of the word ‘lover,’127nhis appeals to Southampton,131134135n385386221n427n2his preface to ‘Astrophel and Stella,’429n1
Navarre, King of, inLove’s Labour’s Lost,51n
Neil, Samuel,364
Nekrasow and Gerbel, translation into Russian by,353
New Place, Stratford, Shakespeare’s purchase of,193194entertainment of Jonson and Drayton at,271the poet’s death at,272sold on the death of Lady Barnard (the poet’s granddaughter) to Sir Edward Walker,283pulled down,283
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, criticism of the poet by,331
Newdegate, Lady,406n415
Newington Butts Theatre,37
Newman, Thomas, piratical publication of Sir Philip Sidney’s sonnets by,88n429andn1
Nicolson, George, English agent in Scotland,41n1
Nottingham, Earl of, his company of players,225taken into the patronage of Henry, Prince of Wales,231n
O
Oberon, vision of,17161in ‘Huon of Bordeaux,’162
Oechelhaeuser, W., acting edition of the poet by,346
Oldcastle, Sir John, play on his history,170313
‘Oldcastle, Sir John,’ the original name of Falstaff inHenry IV,169
Oldys, William,231362
Olney, Henry, publisher,437
Orlando Furioso,47n208
Ortlepp, E., German translation of Shakespeare by,344
Othello: date of composition,235not printed in the poet’s lifetime,235plot drawn from Cinthio’s ‘Hecatommithi,’236new characters and features introduced into the story,236exhibits the poet’s fully matured powers,236ForeditionsseeSection xix. (Bibliography),301-25
Ovid, influence on Shakespeare of his ‘Metamorphoses,’1575andn176162253claims immortality for his verse,114andn1116nthe poet’s alleged signature on the title-page of a copy of the ‘Metamorphoses’ in the Bodleian Library,15
Oxford, the poet’s visits to,31265266Hamletacted at,224
Oxford, Earl of, his company of actors,35
‘Oxford’ edition of Shakespeare, the,325
P
Painter, William, his ‘Palace of Pleasure’ andRomeo and Juliet,55All’s Well that Ends Well,163Timon of Athens,243andCoriolanus,246
Palæmon and Arcyte, a lost play,260
Palamon and Arsett, a lost play,260
Palmer, John, actor,337
‘Palladis Tamia,’ eulogy on the poet in,178
‘Pandora,’ Soothern’s collection of love-sonnets,138n2
Pandosto(afterwards calledDorastus and Fawnia), Shakespeare’s indebtedness to,251
Parodies on sonnetteering,106-8122andn
‘Parthenophil and Parthenophe,’ Barnes’s,132
Pasquier, Estienne,443
Passerat, Jean,443
‘Passionate Centurie of Love,’ Watson’s, the passage on Time in,77plagiarisation of Petrarch in,101n4102427n2428
‘Passionate Pilgrim,’ piratical insertion of two sonnets in,98182437the contents of,182n299printed with Shakespeare’s poems,300
Patrons of companies of players,35adulation offered to,138andn2140141440andn
Pavier, Thomas, printer,180
‘Pecorone, Il,’ by Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, Shakespeare’s indebtedness to,1466andn3172W. G. Waters’s translation of,66n3
Peele, George,57his share in the original draft ofHenry VI,60
Pembroke, Countess of, dedication of Daniel’s ‘Delia’ to,130429homage paid to, by Nicholas Breton,138n2
Pembroke, Henry, second Earl of, his company of players, performHenry VI(part iii.),3659andTitus Andronicus,66
Pembroke, William, third Earl of, the question of the identification of ‘Mr. W. H.’ with,94406-15performance at his Wilton residence,231232n1411dedication of the First Folio to,306his alleged relations with Shakespeare,411-15the identification of the ‘dark lady’ with his mistress, Mary Fitton,123n409the mistaken notion that Shakespeare was hisprotégé,123ndedications by Thorpe to,399andn1403n2
Penrith, Shakespeares at,1
Pepys, his criticisms ofThe TempestandMidsummer Night’s Dream,329
Percy, William, his sonnets, entitled ‘Cœlia,’435
Perez, Antonio, and Antonio inThe Merchant of Venice,68n
Pericles: date of composition,242a work of collaboration,242the poet’s contributions,244dates of the various editions,244not included in the First Folio,305included in Third Folio,313ForeditionsseeSection xix. (Bibliography),301-25
Perkes (Clement), inHenry IV., member of a family at Stinchcombe Hill in the sixteenth century,168
‘Perkins Folio,’ forgeries in the,312317n2367andn
Personalities on the stage,215n1
Péruse, Jean de la,443
Petowe, Henry, elegy on Queen Elizabeth by,148
Petrarch, emulated by Elizabethan sonnetteers,848586nfeigns old age in his sonnets,86nhis metre,95Spenser’s translations from,101imitation of his sonnets justified by Gabriel Harvey,101n4plagiarisms of, admitted by sonnetteers,101n4Wyatt’s translations of two of his sonnets,101n4427plagiarised indirectly by Shakespeare,101111andn113n1the melancholy of his sonnets,152nimitated in France,443
Phelps, Samuel,325339
Phillips, Augustine, actor, friend of Shakespeare,36induced to reviveRichard IIat the Globe in 1601,175his death,264
Phillips, Edward (Milton’s nephew), criticism of the poet by,362editor of Drummond’s Sonnets,439n1
‘Phillis,’ Lodge’s,118n2433andn3
Philosophy, Chapman’s sonnets in praise of,441
‘Phœnix and the Turtle, The,’183184304