INDEXAARONthe Moor in 'Titus Andronicus,'30,31Abbess in 'Comedy of Errors,'36Abbot, Archbishop,494Achilles in 'Troilus and Cressida,'110,192,438,508-510,514,515,518-520,526-529,531'Ad Gulielmum Shakespeare,' by John Weever (1595),126Adam in 'As You Like It,'107,226Adriana in 'Comedy of Errors,'35,36,132,213,573'Æneid,'28,60Æschylus,56,204'Æsthetiske Studier,' by George Brandes,377'Agamemnon,' by Seneca,345Agamemnon in 'Troilus and Cressida,'517,520Agincourt, Battle of, in 'Henry V.,'103,110,195,205Ajax in 'Troilus and Cressida,'510,516,520,526,527,529Albius in 'The Poetaster,'332'Alceste,' Molière's,223,548Alcibiades in 'Timon of Athens,'557,560,561,567,569'Alexander and Campaspe', by Lyly,564'All's Well that Ends Well,' or 'Love's Labour's Won' (1602-1603),chief characters in—Attack on Puritanism in,47-49,53,93,185,380,393-401,404,503,527,573Alonso in the 'Tempest,'653,654,657,660,661'Alphonsus, King of Arragon,' by Robert Greene,31Ambrogiuolo in Boccaccio's 'Decameron,'617,618Amintor in 'Maid's Tragedy,' by Beaumont and Fletcher,602,603Amleth in 'Saxo Grammaticus,'342,343'Amores,' by Ovid,56'Amoretti,' by Spenser,226,266,287'Amphitruo,' by Plautus,35Amyot, Jacques,304Andersen, Hans Christian,341Andromache in 'Troilus and Cressida,'514,518,519Angelo in 'Measure for Measure,'241,403-408,410,436Angiers in 'King John,'145,147Anne Boleyn in 'Henry VIII.,'611,612Anne in 'Richard III.,'131-133,137,139,573Anne, James I.'s queen,392,413,414,417,418,480,481,488,490,497,648,649Antenor in 'Troilus and Cressida,'509Antigonus in 'Winter's Tale,'638,646Antiochus in 'Pericles,'581Antipholus of Syracuse in 'Comedy of Errors,'35,50,51Antonio in—'Merchant of Venice,'154,159,160,162-165,167'Tempest,'660'Twelfth Night,'238Antony, Mark, in 'Julius Cæsar,'241,305,306,317,318,320,321,322,323-324,336,356,541'Antony and Cleopatra,'241,306,325,420,478,502,506,507,556,565,578,650Attractions for Shakespeare in—Sources of,461-469'Dark Lady,' as model in—Fall of the Republic as a world-catastrophe,470-476Apemantus in 'Timon of Athens,'530,557,563-565,569'Apology, The,' by Socrates,354Apothecary in 'Romeo and Juliet,'72,79,629Appleton, Morgan's 'Shakespearean Myth,'92Arbaces in 'King and No King,' by Beaumont and Fletcher,600Arbury, Mary Fitton's portrait at,279'Arcadia,' by Philip Sidney,294,453,581Archbishop of Canterbury in 'Henry V.,'96,205Archidamus in 'Winter's Tale,'642Arden, Edward,8----Mary, mother of William Shakespeare,6,8,153,532,578----Robert, grandfather of Shakespeare,6,14'Arden of Feversham,'173,175Arethusa in 'Philaster,' by Beaumont and Fletcher,597,598,601Ariel in the 'Tempest,'69,591,650-652,657,659,663,664,667,668Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso,'215,445,655Aristotle,17,95,413,647Armada, Spanish,17,18,44,50,247,251Armado in 'Love's Labour's Lost,'42-45Armitage, Charles,267Artemidorus in 'Julius Cæsar,'305Arthur in 'King John,'140-144,145-149,336Arviragus in 'Cymbeline,'617,619,621-624,626,627,629,632-634'As You Like It' (1600), Shakespeare's roving spirit and longingfor nature—Wit and chief characters in,5,29,92,107,116,159,170,180,221-231,234,236,306,361,389,393,503,560,586,635,640,650,672,673,675Asbies at Wilmecote,6,8,9,154Aspasia in 'Maid's Tragedy,' by Beaumont and Fletcher,602,603'Athelie,' Racine's,637Aubrey,4,6,196,274,594Audrey in 'As You Like It,'222,230Aufidius in 'Coriolanus,'538,546,552Augustus in Ben Jonson's 'Poetaster,'332,333.Aumerle in 'Richard II.,'121Autolycus in 'Winter's Tale,'638,639,641'Axel and Valborg,' by Oehlenschläger,77Ayrer's, Jacob, 'Comedia von der schönen Sidea,'654BACON, Anthony, patronised by Essex,253,258,260----Delia, Miss, supporting the Baconian Theory (1856),88,89----Francis,114,152,243,244,252,253,257,258,260,262-264,276,416,418,481,487Baconian Theory concerning Shakespeare's plays,88-90,94-96,313Baif, De,287Balthasar inMerchant of Venice,115Romeo and Juliet,380Bandello,72,215,233,304Banquo's ghost in 'Macbeth,'104,421,424,426-428,430Barabas in C. Marlowe's 'Jew of Malta,'150,151,166Bardolph in—'Henry IV.,'7,177'Merry Wives of Windsor,'209,211Barnabe Richs translation of Cinthios'Hecatomithi' (1581),233Barnadine in 'Measure for Measure,'407Barnes, Barnabe,287,288Barnfield, Richard,288Barnstorff,267'Bartholomew Fair,' by Ben Jonson (1614),29,284,340,345,635Basianus in 'Titus Andronicus,'30Bassanio in 'Merchant of Venice,'160,161,164,169,211,395,396Bates in 'Henry V.,'207'Battle of Alcazar,' by George Peele,31,203Baynard's Castle,271Bear Garden,100,101Beards 'Theatre of God's Judgements' (1597),28Beatrice in 'Much Ado About Nothing,'45,93,215,217-219,227,233,238,239,573,626Beaumont's, Francis, plays and career,178,513,593-595,597-605,612,652,678Belarius in 'Cymbeline,'619,621,623-624,626,632,644Bellay, Joachim du,287Belleforest's 'Histoires Tragiques,'343'Ben Jonson,' by Symonds,338Benedick in 'Much Ado About Nothing,'45,92,170,177,217-219,228,233,503Benoit de St. Maures 'Histoire de la Guerre de Troie' (1160),504,509Benvolio in 'Romeo and Juliet,'80Bermudas,275Bernabo in Boccaccio's 'Decameron,'617,618Berni's 'Orlando Innamorato,'444,445Bertram in 'All's Well that Ends Well.'47,48,393,396-400,527Beyersdorff's, Robert, 'Giordano Bruno und Shakespeare,'353,355,356Bianca in Othello,446Bierfreund, Theodor,605,606Biron in 'Love's Labour's Lost,'38,39,44-46,83,276,277Bishop of Ely in 'Henry V.,'97Blackfriars Theatre,106,271,388Blade's 'Shakespeare and Typography,'92Blanch in 'King John,'147Blount, Edward,286Boaden,267Boccaccio's plays,47,280,396,503,504,509,605,617-619Boece's, Hector, 'Scotorum Historiæ,'42Boétie, Estienne de la, Montaigne's friendship for,291Bolingbroke in 'Richard II.,'7,121,123-125,537'Book of Martyrs, Foxe's,608'Book of Troy,' Lydgate's,510'Booke of Ayres' (1601),232'Booke of Plaies, and Notes thereon,' by Dr. Simon Forman,420,616,635Börne,384Bosworth Field in 'Richard III.,'135Bothwell, Earl of347Bottom in 'Midsummer Night's Dream,'41,68,69Boyet in 'Love's Labour's Lost,'40,45Brabantio in 'Othello,'439,440,441,442,443Brandes, George,377Bright, James Heywood,267Briseida in Benoit's 'Histoire de la Guerre de Troie' (1160),504,509Brown, Henry,267Browning, Robert,301Browne's, Sir Thomas, 'Religio Medici' (1642),291Brown's, C. A., 'Shakespeare's Autobiographical Poems',114Brunnhofer,350Bruno's, Giordano, supposed influence over Shakespeare,349,357'Brut,' by Layamon (1205),452Brutus, Junius, in 'Coriolanus,'537----Marcus, in 'Julius Cæsar,'94,240,302-308,313-324,356,443,461,606,629Bryan, George,357Buckingham, Duke of, in 'Richard III.,'134,135Bucknill, Dr., on Shakespeare's Medical Knowledge,93Burbage, James,13,100----Richard, actor,13,106,151,177,196,298,347,547,585,608,686Burghley, Lord,219,242,248,252,271,350Butler, Samuel,594Byron,232,293,294,384,525,583,677,678,687CADE, Jack, in 'Henry VI.,'110,111,536,675'Cæsar's Fall' (1602),303Caius Lucius in 'Cymbeline,'617Calchas in 'Troilus and Cressida,'518Calderon,180,590,603,633,659Calianax in 'Maid's Tragedy,' by Beaumont and Fletcher,602,603Caliban in the 'Tempest,'170,340,530,624,642,654,656,659,661,663,664-667Calphurnia in 'Julius Cæsar,'305Cambyses,8,70,184Camden, William,325Camillo in 'Winter's Tale,'642,645Campbell's, Lord, Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements,91'Candelajo,' by Giordano Bruno,354'Candide,' by Voltaire,680Caphis in 'Timon of Athens,'564Capulet in 'Romeo and Juliet,'74,80,83,84,86Carleton, Sir Dudley,482,488,496,497,648,649'Carmosine,' by De Musset,599Carr, Robert, Viscount Rochester and Earl of Somerset,James I.'s favourite—Lady Essex's marriage with—Crime and fall of481,482,485,488,492-501,649Casca in 'Julius Cæsar,'311,322,536Cassio in 'Othello,'115,434,435,439,441,445,448,520,598Cassius in 'Cæsar,'