Aborigines, British,1—5.Addison’s“Drummer,” origin of,419.Adventuresof the Elizabethan era,375—378.Alchemy, modern opinions on,631.Allegory, poetic,487—501.Allen, Cardinal,424.Alliterationin Spenser’s verse,477.Anglo-Normans, the,59—69.Anglo-Saxonsarrive in Britain,17; history of their career,28—36.Anonymousauthorship,672.Arcadia, the, of Sir P. Sidney,451—459.Ariostoturned into allegory,489.Arnolde’s Chronicle,240—242.Arthur, King of Britain,17.Ascham, R., and his “Schoolmaster,” 359—367.Atterbury, Bishop, vindicates the genuine character of Clarendon’s History,731.Audley, Lord Chancellor, enriched by church-lands,318.Augmentation, Court of,318.Babble, etymology of,3,n.Bacon, Francis, Lord; a believer in occult science,646—649; his philosophy,650,660.Bale, Bishop, and his satires,358.Barclay’sEclogues,287.Baron, the, of the Middle Ages,71.Beowulfand his exploits,51—58.Biblespublicly burned in Oxford,335; first translated into English,369; afterwards prohibited,ib.Bible and Key, mode of discovering thieves,420,n.Bibliotheque Bleue,260.Bodley, Sir Thos., founds his great library,664—669; refuses to include plays in his library,525.Booksof the people,256—267.Books, war against,738—756.Borde, Andrew,263—265.Brandt, S., and his “Ship of Fools,” 285—288.Britainand its early inhabitants,12—23.Brutuslands in Britain,2.Burbage, the actor of Shakespeare’s heroes,534.Burleigh, Lord, his hostility to Spenser,467—471.Burnet, Bishop: his “History of his own time,” 735—737.Burtonand his curious pamphlets,267.Butler, S., criticizes Jonson and Shakespeare,551,552.Cædmon, the Anglo-Saxon poet,37—50.Calamy, Dr., casts doubt on Clarendon’s History,728.Calumny, and its uses,429.Camoensexplained by allegory,489.Campian, the Jesuit,425—427.Campion, Dr., his opinion of rhyme,396.Casaubonpublishes Dee’s intercourse with spirits,636.Caxtonand his works,212—220.Cecil, Lord, plots against Rawleigh,602—604.Campernounbegs an estate,317.Chapmanand his “Homer,” 522.Characters, books of,676.Charles I.a student of Shakespeare,548.Chaucerand his English,136; his life and works,158—176.Cheke, Sir J., on the English language,133.ChesterWhitsun-plays,346.Chivalry, institution of,70.Clarendon’sHistory,724—737.Classicauthors neglected,415.Cobhamconspiracy, the,604.Cockram, H., his dictionary,139,n.Collectors, and their useful labours,661.Comedy, an indefinite term originally,502; Dante so styles his poem,ib.; the first English comedy,507.Commonwealth, origin of the term,712,713.Corsellis, and the early Oxford press,210.Costar, the early printer,209.Cotton, Sir Robert, his famous library,668; his melancholy death,669.Coxeterprepares an edition of old plays,559.Cromwelland his grants of church lands,318; his opinion of his position,699.Cross, the enthusiasm for the sign of,79.Crowley, Robert, and his works,329—332.Cryptographypractised by Dr. Dee,640.Cudworth, R., and his “System of the Universe,” 714—723.Danteand his allegories,491.Day, John, the printer,748.Dee, Dr., the occult philosopher,617; his scholastic career,618,619; his troubles at court,620; his acquaintance with Princess Elizabeth,621; fixes a lucky day for her coronation,ib.; is consulted by her privy council,622; his library,ib.; his works,623; his mystic studies,624—629; his foreign travels,630—634; his return and death,635,636; his connexion with spirits,636; his political position,640.Descartes, a favourer of occult philosophy,647.Dialects,142—150.Dictionariesof rhyme,403.Digby, Sir Kenelm, his sympathetic powder,646.Divining Rod, account of the,624.Dodsley’sedition of old plays,559,n.Douce, Francis, and his collections,662.Dramas, primitive,339—352.Dramatic Tastein the time of Charles II.,550,551.Dramatistsof the reign of Elizabeth,516—528.Drayton, proud of theatrical praise,621; his poetical works,581—589.Druids, the,1—11.Drydenand his criticisms on Shakespeare,554—556.“Ecclesiastical Polity,” by Richard Hooker,439—450.Edward the Sixth, character of,323.Elizabeth, Queen, studies under Ascham,359—363; objects to religious pictures,366; her popular politics,370—380; her sensitiveness to public opinion,379; compares herself to Richard II.,380; her varied orthography,382; fears to be thought a poetess,672.Elphinstonewrites words as pronounced,389.Elyot, Sir Thomas, and his “Boke of the Governor,” 268—275.England, derivation of the name,25.Englishpriestly colleges abroad,424.Engravingon copper, invention of. 206.Epigrams, books of,676.Essex, Earl of, introduced to Queen Elizabeth as an opponent of Rawleigh,596; his incompetence as a general,600; his disgrace and death,602.Fabulousearly history of Britain,1.Fabyan’sChronicle,243—249.Fairiesdisbelieved,416.Farmer, Dr., his annotations on Shakespeare,567.Finiguerradiscovers the art of engraving for printing,206.Fish, S., and his “Supplication of Beggars,” 741.Florence, first public library at,663.Fludd, the occult philosopher,642—649.Foreign Criticismand its value,417.Foxe’sBook of Martyrs popularized,374.Franklincontemplates spelling by sound. 388.Freedomof the press,756.Frenchwords derived from Latin,97,n.; ordered to be solely used for law,125.Friendshipa romantic attachment in the days of Elizabeth,451.Fust’sfirst printed Bible,204.Gammer Gurton’sNeedle long considered the first English comedy,507—509.Gentry, rise of,371.Ghosts, controversies concerning,419.Gibberish, derivation of the term,651,n.Glanvil’streatise on witchcraft,418,419.Gorboduc, the first English tragedy,503—506.Gowerthe poet, his life and works,177—182.Gothicromances,81—95.Greeka fashionable language among ladies,360.Greene, Robt., attack on Shakespeare,536.Gregoryof Nazianzen, author of the earliest sacred dramas,339.Grey, Lady Jane, her classic attainments,360.Guiana, Rawleigh’s voyages to,598—600.Gutenberg, the early printer,208.Hakluyt’scollection of voyages,377.Hale, Sir Matthew, and his judgment on witches,417.Hall, John, and his work on monarchy,709—711.Hanmer, Sir T., his edition of Shakespeare,562.Hariot, Thos., the traveller,611—613.Harrington, Sir J., on poetry,409; his Oceana,692—708.Harvey, Gabriel, introduces Spenser to Sir P. Sidney,460; supposed to be the annotator of the Shepherd’s Calendar,461.Hawes, Stephen, the poet,230—233.Hastings, battle of,60.Henrythe Eighth, his literary character,250—255.Henrythe Seventh, as a patron of literature,228—233.Henslow, the Elizabethan manager,520,n.,523.Hexameterverse ridiculed by Nash,396.Heywood, John, and his works,354—358.Higden, R., and the Polychronicon,236.Historyand its sources,234—239.Hooker, the favourite author of James I.,679; his Ecclesiastical Polity,439—450; the simplicity of his life,440; his marriage,441; his uneasy mastership of the Temple,442; his return to the country,444; his premature death and unconcocted manuscripts,445—447.Hoskyns, a critic and poet, temp. James I.,623,n.Huarte’sExamination of Men’s Wit,579.Humours, and their significance,578.Huguenotsatiric plays,351.Icelandicpoetry,34.Interludes, their invention,348.Inventionof printing,203—213.Jackson, Z., comments on Shakespeare,547,n.James I., ratifies the belief in witchcraft,417; his literary character,677—680; his polemical feats,682—684.James, Dr., first librarian to Sir Thos. Bodley,665—667.Jesuitsin England,423.Johnson’sedition of Shakespeare,563—566.Jones, Dr., and his Phonography,388.Jonson, Ben, employed by Henslowe—to add to other’s plays,523; his study of humours,578—583; assists in Rawleigh’s History of the World,613; his literary intercourse with James I.,680.Joubert’sFrench orthoepy,385.Junius, J., a student of our ancient literature,45—47.Kelley, Edw., the alchemist,625—633.Kyd’splay of Jeronimo,523.Lambe, Chas., his specimens of the dramatic poets,519,n.,528,n.Languages, European, origin of,96—110; English, its origin,111—127; vicissitudes of,128—141.“Leicester’s Commonwealth,” a political libel,427—435; its author challenged by Sir P. Sidney,454.L’Estrange, the book licenser,754.Lexicographers, the Elder,138.Libraries, ancient,221—227.Local Names, their derivation,27.Londonin the days of Shakespeare,673.Lydgate, the Monk of Bury,196—202.Mabinogion, the,21,n.Magic, early belief in,413.Magic Mirrors,627, andnote.Malone’sedition of Shakespeare,568.Mandeville, the traveller,151—157.Manuscripts, their value in the middle ages,221—223.Marie de France, the poetess,66.Marprelatepamphlets,747.Martyr, Peter, opposes school logic,334; anecdotes of,335—337.Masham, Lady, her neglect of her father’s works,722.Massinger’splays, faulty in printed editions,547,n.Matthewof Paris, the monkish chronicler,236.Memoirs, publishers of contemporary,724—737.Mersenne, Père, attacks the Rosacrusians,647.Metresof the ancients used by the moderns,303.Microscope, invention of,207.Miltonresembles Cædmon,40—50; his principles of orthography,392; his account of Charles I. studying Shakespeare,548,9.Minstrelsof the Middle Ages,75.Monasteries, spoliation of,316—321.Monopoliesin the reign of Elizabeth,594; of printing,748.Monkerypopular with the people,372.Montague, Mrs., defends Shakespeare,572.Moralities, or moral plays,347.More, Sir T., his psychological character,289—302.Mulcasterattempts orthographical reform,385; his praise of the English language,386.Mysteries, or Scriptural plays,344—348.Nobility, the, decline in grandeur in the time of Henry VII.,371; decay of great households,372; restrained in their marriages by Elizabeth,374.Occasionalists,423.Occleve, the scholar of Chaucer,191—195.Oceana, the, of Sir J. Harrington,692—705.Oldmixondenies the genuine character of Clarendon’s history,728—732.Orthoepyas a means of correcting orthography,382—392.Orthographyin the days of Elizabeth,382—387.Painter’s“Palace of Pleasure,” 518.Pamphlets, their history and value,685—691.Parsonsthe Jesuit,424—427.Pastimeof Pleasure, by Hawes,230—233.Partnershipin dramatic authorship,523—524.Philosophersof the 16th century,651—653.Piers Plowman, his vision,183—190.Pinkertonand his “improved language,” 388.Polemicsin the time of James I.,381—384.Politicalpamphlets, remarkable history of a curious collection,687—691.Polyolbion, by Drayton, analysed,584—589.Pope’sedition of Shakespeare,558—590,n.Possessioners,331.Preaching, when introduced,326.Predecessorsof Shakespeare,514.Press, the, dreaded by early writers,670—673.Printing, invention of,203—213; first introduced to England,214—220.Psychologicalhistory of Rawleigh,590.Public Librariesfirst founded,661.Public Opinion, rise of,368—380.Puritansin the time of James I.,681.Puttenham’sArte of English Poesie,405—412.Ralph Roister Doister, the first English comedy,509.Ramusopposes Aristotle,652.Rawleigh, Sir W., his character,590; his early career,591; voyages undertaken at his suggestion,593; his favour at court,595; his reverse of fortune,597; his affected romance of love to Elizabeth,ib.; his first voyage,598; his restoration to the queen’s favour,601; the Cobham conspiracy,604; unpopularity with James I.,ib.; last voyage,605; death,606; his ability as a historiographer,607; his great general knowledge,608; his long imprisonment,610; his philosophical theology,612.Reed’sedition of Shakespeare,568.Reformation, the,324.Retainersof the old Nobility,370.Reynardthe Fox,260.Rhymein Italy and France,393,394; origin of,399—402.Rhyming Dictionaries,403.Romances, Anglo-Norman,65; Gothic,81—95.Romans, the, in Britain,13—16.Roper’sLife of More,291,n.Rosacrusianconfraternity,642.Rota, the, a political club,699.Rowe’sedition of Shakespeare,557.Roy, W., satirizes Wolsey,280.Rymer, and his Shakespearian Criticism,553—556.Sackville, Earl of Dorset, the author of the first English tragedy,504.Sacramentof Rome ridiculed,334.Satires, Ancient,257.Satirists, early,675.Saxon Chronicle, the,68.Scogin the Jester,263,n.Scot, Reginald, his “Discoverie of Witchcraft,” 413—422.Selden, John, notes Drayton’s poem, the “Polyolbion,” 586.Servant’sSong,511,n.Shadwell’sLancashire Witches,420; founds his dramatic style on Jonson,582.Shakespeare, patronized by James I.,679; indebted to Sidney’s Arcadia for some poetic passages,452; his early dramas,518—523; his predecessors and contemporaries,514—528; vicissitudes of his fame,529; his use of the plots, &c., of predecessors,530—532; incidents of his early life,533,534; his dramatic career,534—538; his poems,539—540; his treatment by contemporaries,541; popularity with the public,542; careless of his own fame,543; first edition of his works,545; editions by Rowe,557; Pope,558; Theobald,559; Sir T. Hanmer,561; Warburton,563; Johnson,ib.; theVariorumedition,567; annotations by Rymer,553; Farmer,567; Reed, Steevens, Malone,568; Warton,569; Voltaire,566.Ship, the, of Fools,285—288.Sidney, Sir P., and his Arcadia,451—453; his chivalric manners,454; his appreciation of the female character,455; his great work published by his sister,458; the general regret at his death,459; critical injustice to Sidney from Horace Walpole,451—458.Skeltonthe poet,276—284.Skullsas drinking cups,32,n.Smith, Sir T., attempts to correct orthography,383.Songs, Ancient,256—259.Sorcery, and its believers,414.SpanishDramatic History,526.Spelling, and its difficulties,389—391.Spenser, incidents of his life little known,460; his introduction to Sir P. Sidney,ib.; his Shepherd’s Calendar,461; his mode of Life,462; his Irish adventures,464—467; his death,473; his Faery Queen,475—486; its allegorical character,492.Spiritualvisions of Dr. Dee,628—636.Spoliationof the monasteries,316—321.Star Chamberdecrees against books,751.Stationers, their origin,744.Steevens, edition of Shakespeare,568.Still, Bishop, the Author of an Early Comedy,508.Stonehenge,10,n.Surrey, the poetical Earl of,303—315.Sympathetic Powder, for magical cures,616.Tales, popular, their origin,261.Tarlton’sjest against Sir W. Rawleigh,595.Tasso, explains the “Gierusalemme Liberata,” by allegory,490.Technicalterms of Rhetoric,408.Telescope, invention of,207.Theatres, ancient, in London,515,516.Theobald’sedition of Shakespeare,559,560.Thomason’sremarkable collection of political phamphlets,687—691.Thorkelin, the Danish Scholar,57.Tindal’sTestament, curious narrative concerning,743.Tolanddishonestly inserts a political libel in Harrington’s works,708.Tower of London, scientific men imprisoned in,610.Tragedy, the first English,503—506.Travellerssatirized by Bishop Hall,378.Travers, and his controversy with Hooker,442,443.Triads, Welsh,22,23,n.Troynovantfounded,2.Tyrwhit, editor of Chaucer,175.Udall, N., author of the first English comedy,513.Universe, Cudworth’s system of the,714—723.Upton’sedition of Spenser,495—500.Utopia, Sir T. More’s,299.Variorum Editionof Shakespeare,567.Venice, its government extolled,693; fallacy of such praise,702.Ventriloquismpractised by Magicians,626.Vernaculardialects of Europe,96—110; of England,124.Verse, Anglo-Saxon,32.Vicissitudesof the English language,128—141; of the French,130; of the Latin,131.Virginia, named by Queen Elizabeth,593.Voltairecriticises Shakespeare,570—572.Waragainst books,738—756.Warburton’sedition of Shakespeare,562,563.Warton, T., comments on Shakespeare,569.Weapon-salve, for magical cures,646.Webster, J., his elaborate treatise on witchcraft,418.Welshmemorials of early Britain,20.Wickliffe’stranslation of the Bible,123.William of Malmesbury, the Monkish historian,237.WilliamI. invades England,59.Wilson, Thos., endangered at Rome for his writings on rhetoric,106; his translation of Demosthenes,374.Witchcraft, early belief in,413.Witch-finders,417.Wolsey’swar against the press,740.Women, satires on,265.Wyatt, Sir T., the poet,312—315.Yarringtonand his tragedies,518,n.
Aborigines, British,1—5.
Addison’s“Drummer,” origin of,419.
Adventuresof the Elizabethan era,375—378.
Alchemy, modern opinions on,631.
Allegory, poetic,487—501.
Allen, Cardinal,424.
Alliterationin Spenser’s verse,477.
Anglo-Normans, the,59—69.
Anglo-Saxonsarrive in Britain,17; history of their career,28—36.
Anonymousauthorship,672.
Arcadia, the, of Sir P. Sidney,451—459.
Ariostoturned into allegory,489.
Arnolde’s Chronicle,240—242.
Arthur, King of Britain,17.
Ascham, R., and his “Schoolmaster,” 359—367.
Atterbury, Bishop, vindicates the genuine character of Clarendon’s History,731.
Audley, Lord Chancellor, enriched by church-lands,318.
Augmentation, Court of,318.
Babble, etymology of,3,n.
Bacon, Francis, Lord; a believer in occult science,646—649; his philosophy,650,660.
Bale, Bishop, and his satires,358.
Barclay’sEclogues,287.
Baron, the, of the Middle Ages,71.
Beowulfand his exploits,51—58.
Biblespublicly burned in Oxford,335; first translated into English,369; afterwards prohibited,ib.
Bible and Key, mode of discovering thieves,420,n.
Bibliotheque Bleue,260.
Bodley, Sir Thos., founds his great library,664—669; refuses to include plays in his library,525.
Booksof the people,256—267.
Books, war against,738—756.
Borde, Andrew,263—265.
Brandt, S., and his “Ship of Fools,” 285—288.
Britainand its early inhabitants,12—23.
Brutuslands in Britain,2.
Burbage, the actor of Shakespeare’s heroes,534.
Burleigh, Lord, his hostility to Spenser,467—471.
Burnet, Bishop: his “History of his own time,” 735—737.
Burtonand his curious pamphlets,267.
Butler, S., criticizes Jonson and Shakespeare,551,552.
Cædmon, the Anglo-Saxon poet,37—50.
Calamy, Dr., casts doubt on Clarendon’s History,728.
Calumny, and its uses,429.
Camoensexplained by allegory,489.
Campian, the Jesuit,425—427.
Campion, Dr., his opinion of rhyme,396.
Casaubonpublishes Dee’s intercourse with spirits,636.
Caxtonand his works,212—220.
Cecil, Lord, plots against Rawleigh,602—604.
Campernounbegs an estate,317.
Chapmanand his “Homer,” 522.
Characters, books of,676.
Charles I.a student of Shakespeare,548.
Chaucerand his English,136; his life and works,158—176.
Cheke, Sir J., on the English language,133.
ChesterWhitsun-plays,346.
Chivalry, institution of,70.
Clarendon’sHistory,724—737.
Classicauthors neglected,415.
Cobhamconspiracy, the,604.
Cockram, H., his dictionary,139,n.
Collectors, and their useful labours,661.
Comedy, an indefinite term originally,502; Dante so styles his poem,ib.; the first English comedy,507.
Commonwealth, origin of the term,712,713.
Corsellis, and the early Oxford press,210.
Costar, the early printer,209.
Cotton, Sir Robert, his famous library,668; his melancholy death,669.
Coxeterprepares an edition of old plays,559.
Cromwelland his grants of church lands,318; his opinion of his position,699.
Cross, the enthusiasm for the sign of,79.
Crowley, Robert, and his works,329—332.
Cryptographypractised by Dr. Dee,640.
Cudworth, R., and his “System of the Universe,” 714—723.
Danteand his allegories,491.
Day, John, the printer,748.
Dee, Dr., the occult philosopher,617; his scholastic career,618,619; his troubles at court,620; his acquaintance with Princess Elizabeth,621; fixes a lucky day for her coronation,ib.; is consulted by her privy council,622; his library,ib.; his works,623; his mystic studies,624—629; his foreign travels,630—634; his return and death,635,636; his connexion with spirits,636; his political position,640.
Descartes, a favourer of occult philosophy,647.
Dialects,142—150.
Dictionariesof rhyme,403.
Digby, Sir Kenelm, his sympathetic powder,646.
Divining Rod, account of the,624.
Dodsley’sedition of old plays,559,n.
Douce, Francis, and his collections,662.
Dramas, primitive,339—352.
Dramatic Tastein the time of Charles II.,550,551.
Dramatistsof the reign of Elizabeth,516—528.
Drayton, proud of theatrical praise,621; his poetical works,581—589.
Druids, the,1—11.
Drydenand his criticisms on Shakespeare,554—556.
“Ecclesiastical Polity,” by Richard Hooker,439—450.
Edward the Sixth, character of,323.
Elizabeth, Queen, studies under Ascham,359—363; objects to religious pictures,366; her popular politics,370—380; her sensitiveness to public opinion,379; compares herself to Richard II.,380; her varied orthography,382; fears to be thought a poetess,672.
Elphinstonewrites words as pronounced,389.
Elyot, Sir Thomas, and his “Boke of the Governor,” 268—275.
England, derivation of the name,25.
Englishpriestly colleges abroad,424.
Engravingon copper, invention of. 206.
Epigrams, books of,676.
Essex, Earl of, introduced to Queen Elizabeth as an opponent of Rawleigh,596; his incompetence as a general,600; his disgrace and death,602.
Fabulousearly history of Britain,1.
Fabyan’sChronicle,243—249.
Fairiesdisbelieved,416.
Farmer, Dr., his annotations on Shakespeare,567.
Finiguerradiscovers the art of engraving for printing,206.
Fish, S., and his “Supplication of Beggars,” 741.
Florence, first public library at,663.
Fludd, the occult philosopher,642—649.
Foreign Criticismand its value,417.
Foxe’sBook of Martyrs popularized,374.
Franklincontemplates spelling by sound. 388.
Freedomof the press,756.
Frenchwords derived from Latin,97,n.; ordered to be solely used for law,125.
Friendshipa romantic attachment in the days of Elizabeth,451.
Fust’sfirst printed Bible,204.
Gammer Gurton’sNeedle long considered the first English comedy,507—509.
Gentry, rise of,371.
Ghosts, controversies concerning,419.
Gibberish, derivation of the term,651,n.
Glanvil’streatise on witchcraft,418,419.
Gorboduc, the first English tragedy,503—506.
Gowerthe poet, his life and works,177—182.
Gothicromances,81—95.
Greeka fashionable language among ladies,360.
Greene, Robt., attack on Shakespeare,536.
Gregoryof Nazianzen, author of the earliest sacred dramas,339.
Grey, Lady Jane, her classic attainments,360.
Guiana, Rawleigh’s voyages to,598—600.
Gutenberg, the early printer,208.
Hakluyt’scollection of voyages,377.
Hale, Sir Matthew, and his judgment on witches,417.
Hall, John, and his work on monarchy,709—711.
Hanmer, Sir T., his edition of Shakespeare,562.
Hariot, Thos., the traveller,611—613.
Harrington, Sir J., on poetry,409; his Oceana,692—708.
Harvey, Gabriel, introduces Spenser to Sir P. Sidney,460; supposed to be the annotator of the Shepherd’s Calendar,461.
Hawes, Stephen, the poet,230—233.
Hastings, battle of,60.
Henrythe Eighth, his literary character,250—255.
Henrythe Seventh, as a patron of literature,228—233.
Henslow, the Elizabethan manager,520,n.,523.
Hexameterverse ridiculed by Nash,396.
Heywood, John, and his works,354—358.
Higden, R., and the Polychronicon,236.
Historyand its sources,234—239.
Hooker, the favourite author of James I.,679; his Ecclesiastical Polity,439—450; the simplicity of his life,440; his marriage,441; his uneasy mastership of the Temple,442; his return to the country,444; his premature death and unconcocted manuscripts,445—447.
Hoskyns, a critic and poet, temp. James I.,623,n.
Huarte’sExamination of Men’s Wit,579.
Humours, and their significance,578.
Huguenotsatiric plays,351.
Icelandicpoetry,34.
Interludes, their invention,348.
Inventionof printing,203—213.
Jackson, Z., comments on Shakespeare,547,n.
James I., ratifies the belief in witchcraft,417; his literary character,677—680; his polemical feats,682—684.
James, Dr., first librarian to Sir Thos. Bodley,665—667.
Jesuitsin England,423.
Johnson’sedition of Shakespeare,563—566.
Jones, Dr., and his Phonography,388.
Jonson, Ben, employed by Henslowe—to add to other’s plays,523; his study of humours,578—583; assists in Rawleigh’s History of the World,613; his literary intercourse with James I.,680.
Joubert’sFrench orthoepy,385.
Junius, J., a student of our ancient literature,45—47.
Kelley, Edw., the alchemist,625—633.
Kyd’splay of Jeronimo,523.
Lambe, Chas., his specimens of the dramatic poets,519,n.,528,n.
Languages, European, origin of,96—110; English, its origin,111—127; vicissitudes of,128—141.
“Leicester’s Commonwealth,” a political libel,427—435; its author challenged by Sir P. Sidney,454.
L’Estrange, the book licenser,754.
Lexicographers, the Elder,138.
Libraries, ancient,221—227.
Local Names, their derivation,27.
Londonin the days of Shakespeare,673.
Lydgate, the Monk of Bury,196—202.
Mabinogion, the,21,n.
Magic, early belief in,413.
Magic Mirrors,627, andnote.
Malone’sedition of Shakespeare,568.
Mandeville, the traveller,151—157.
Manuscripts, their value in the middle ages,221—223.
Marie de France, the poetess,66.
Marprelatepamphlets,747.
Martyr, Peter, opposes school logic,334; anecdotes of,335—337.
Masham, Lady, her neglect of her father’s works,722.
Massinger’splays, faulty in printed editions,547,n.
Matthewof Paris, the monkish chronicler,236.
Memoirs, publishers of contemporary,724—737.
Mersenne, Père, attacks the Rosacrusians,647.
Metresof the ancients used by the moderns,303.
Microscope, invention of,207.
Miltonresembles Cædmon,40—50; his principles of orthography,392; his account of Charles I. studying Shakespeare,548,9.
Minstrelsof the Middle Ages,75.
Monasteries, spoliation of,316—321.
Monopoliesin the reign of Elizabeth,594; of printing,748.
Monkerypopular with the people,372.
Montague, Mrs., defends Shakespeare,572.
Moralities, or moral plays,347.
More, Sir T., his psychological character,289—302.
Mulcasterattempts orthographical reform,385; his praise of the English language,386.
Mysteries, or Scriptural plays,344—348.
Nobility, the, decline in grandeur in the time of Henry VII.,371; decay of great households,372; restrained in their marriages by Elizabeth,374.
Occasionalists,423.
Occleve, the scholar of Chaucer,191—195.
Oceana, the, of Sir J. Harrington,692—705.
Oldmixondenies the genuine character of Clarendon’s history,728—732.
Orthoepyas a means of correcting orthography,382—392.
Orthographyin the days of Elizabeth,382—387.
Painter’s“Palace of Pleasure,” 518.
Pamphlets, their history and value,685—691.
Parsonsthe Jesuit,424—427.
Pastimeof Pleasure, by Hawes,230—233.
Partnershipin dramatic authorship,523—524.
Philosophersof the 16th century,651—653.
Piers Plowman, his vision,183—190.
Pinkertonand his “improved language,” 388.
Polemicsin the time of James I.,381—384.
Politicalpamphlets, remarkable history of a curious collection,687—691.
Polyolbion, by Drayton, analysed,584—589.
Pope’sedition of Shakespeare,558—590,n.
Possessioners,331.
Preaching, when introduced,326.
Predecessorsof Shakespeare,514.
Press, the, dreaded by early writers,670—673.
Printing, invention of,203—213; first introduced to England,214—220.
Psychologicalhistory of Rawleigh,590.
Public Librariesfirst founded,661.
Public Opinion, rise of,368—380.
Puritansin the time of James I.,681.
Puttenham’sArte of English Poesie,405—412.
Ralph Roister Doister, the first English comedy,509.
Ramusopposes Aristotle,652.
Rawleigh, Sir W., his character,590; his early career,591; voyages undertaken at his suggestion,593; his favour at court,595; his reverse of fortune,597; his affected romance of love to Elizabeth,ib.; his first voyage,598; his restoration to the queen’s favour,601; the Cobham conspiracy,604; unpopularity with James I.,ib.; last voyage,605; death,606; his ability as a historiographer,607; his great general knowledge,608; his long imprisonment,610; his philosophical theology,612.
Reed’sedition of Shakespeare,568.
Reformation, the,324.
Retainersof the old Nobility,370.
Reynardthe Fox,260.
Rhymein Italy and France,393,394; origin of,399—402.
Rhyming Dictionaries,403.
Romances, Anglo-Norman,65; Gothic,81—95.
Romans, the, in Britain,13—16.
Roper’sLife of More,291,n.
Rosacrusianconfraternity,642.
Rota, the, a political club,699.
Rowe’sedition of Shakespeare,557.
Roy, W., satirizes Wolsey,280.
Rymer, and his Shakespearian Criticism,553—556.
Sackville, Earl of Dorset, the author of the first English tragedy,504.
Sacramentof Rome ridiculed,334.
Satires, Ancient,257.
Satirists, early,675.
Saxon Chronicle, the,68.
Scogin the Jester,263,n.
Scot, Reginald, his “Discoverie of Witchcraft,” 413—422.
Selden, John, notes Drayton’s poem, the “Polyolbion,” 586.
Servant’sSong,511,n.
Shadwell’sLancashire Witches,420; founds his dramatic style on Jonson,582.
Shakespeare, patronized by James I.,679; indebted to Sidney’s Arcadia for some poetic passages,452; his early dramas,518—523; his predecessors and contemporaries,514—528; vicissitudes of his fame,529; his use of the plots, &c., of predecessors,530—532; incidents of his early life,533,534; his dramatic career,534—538; his poems,539—540; his treatment by contemporaries,541; popularity with the public,542; careless of his own fame,543; first edition of his works,545; editions by Rowe,557; Pope,558; Theobald,559; Sir T. Hanmer,561; Warburton,563; Johnson,ib.; theVariorumedition,567; annotations by Rymer,553; Farmer,567; Reed, Steevens, Malone,568; Warton,569; Voltaire,566.
Ship, the, of Fools,285—288.
Sidney, Sir P., and his Arcadia,451—453; his chivalric manners,454; his appreciation of the female character,455; his great work published by his sister,458; the general regret at his death,459; critical injustice to Sidney from Horace Walpole,451—458.
Skeltonthe poet,276—284.
Skullsas drinking cups,32,n.
Smith, Sir T., attempts to correct orthography,383.
Songs, Ancient,256—259.
Sorcery, and its believers,414.
SpanishDramatic History,526.
Spelling, and its difficulties,389—391.
Spenser, incidents of his life little known,460; his introduction to Sir P. Sidney,ib.; his Shepherd’s Calendar,461; his mode of Life,462; his Irish adventures,464—467; his death,473; his Faery Queen,475—486; its allegorical character,492.
Spiritualvisions of Dr. Dee,628—636.
Spoliationof the monasteries,316—321.
Star Chamberdecrees against books,751.
Stationers, their origin,744.
Steevens, edition of Shakespeare,568.
Still, Bishop, the Author of an Early Comedy,508.
Stonehenge,10,n.
Surrey, the poetical Earl of,303—315.
Sympathetic Powder, for magical cures,616.
Tales, popular, their origin,261.
Tarlton’sjest against Sir W. Rawleigh,595.
Tasso, explains the “Gierusalemme Liberata,” by allegory,490.
Technicalterms of Rhetoric,408.
Telescope, invention of,207.
Theatres, ancient, in London,515,516.
Theobald’sedition of Shakespeare,559,560.
Thomason’sremarkable collection of political phamphlets,687—691.
Thorkelin, the Danish Scholar,57.
Tindal’sTestament, curious narrative concerning,743.
Tolanddishonestly inserts a political libel in Harrington’s works,708.
Tower of London, scientific men imprisoned in,610.
Tragedy, the first English,503—506.
Travellerssatirized by Bishop Hall,378.
Travers, and his controversy with Hooker,442,443.
Triads, Welsh,22,23,n.
Troynovantfounded,2.
Tyrwhit, editor of Chaucer,175.
Udall, N., author of the first English comedy,513.
Universe, Cudworth’s system of the,714—723.
Upton’sedition of Spenser,495—500.
Utopia, Sir T. More’s,299.
Variorum Editionof Shakespeare,567.
Venice, its government extolled,693; fallacy of such praise,702.
Ventriloquismpractised by Magicians,626.
Vernaculardialects of Europe,96—110; of England,124.
Verse, Anglo-Saxon,32.
Vicissitudesof the English language,128—141; of the French,130; of the Latin,131.
Virginia, named by Queen Elizabeth,593.
Voltairecriticises Shakespeare,570—572.
Waragainst books,738—756.
Warburton’sedition of Shakespeare,562,563.
Warton, T., comments on Shakespeare,569.
Weapon-salve, for magical cures,646.
Webster, J., his elaborate treatise on witchcraft,418.
Welshmemorials of early Britain,20.
Wickliffe’stranslation of the Bible,123.
William of Malmesbury, the Monkish historian,237.
WilliamI. invades England,59.
Wilson, Thos., endangered at Rome for his writings on rhetoric,106; his translation of Demosthenes,374.
Witchcraft, early belief in,413.
Witch-finders,417.
Wolsey’swar against the press,740.
Women, satires on,265.
Wyatt, Sir T., the poet,312—315.
Yarringtonand his tragedies,518,n.