Limoges in 'King John,'144,146Lion in 'Midsummer Night's Dream,'70,71Livia in 'Sejanus,'335Livy,324'Locrine,'617Lodge, Thomas,221,222,287,344,635'London Prodigal' (1605),576Longaville in 'Love's Labour's Lost,'38'Lord Cromwell' (1613),576Lord Mayor of London in 'Richard III.,'135Lorenzo in 'Merchant of Venice,'165,168-171,177,503'Los Empeños de un Acaso,'18Lougher, John, Mary Fitton's second husband,279'Love's Labour's Lost' (1589), matter, style,and motives of,28,38-40,42-47,49,50,80,83,215,276,277,278,439,573,642'Love's Labour's Won,' or 'All's Well that Ends Well'(seethat title)'Lucan,' Marlowe's translation of286Lucentio in 'Taming of the Shrew,'169Lucetta in 'Two Gentlemen of Verona,53,168Luciana in 'Comedy of Errors,'35,36,51Lucio in 'Measure for Measure,'403,404,409Lucius in—'Julius Cæsar,'320'Timon of Athens,'561'Titus Andronicus,'31'Lucrece,' relation to painting in,55,56,58-63,182,267,270,271,503,547,675Lucy, Sir Thomas, Shakespeare's relations with,7,9-11,152,208,222,670,674Ludovico in 'Othello,'448Ludwig, Otto,354Lupercal Feast in 'Julius Cæsar,'305,536Lychorida in 'Pericles',583,584Lydgate,503,510Lyly, John,40-45,51,66-69,114,177,184,218,287,355-357,564Lysander in 'Midsummer Night's Dream',71Lysimachus in Pericles,588,589'MACBETH' (1604-1605), similarity between 'Hamlet' and 'Macbeth'Belief in Witches—Defective text—Macbeth's children—Morallesson,24,104,241,293,316,419-434,448,462,470,474,478,520——Lady, in 'Macbeth,'241,420,424-428,439,431,462,474,496,573Macduff in 'Macbeth,'425,429,430——Lady, in 'Macbeth,'427,429Macmorris in 'Henry V.,'206,207Magna Charta ignored by Shakespeare,149'Maid's Tragedy,' by Beaumont and Fletcher,593,602-604,606Malcolm in 'Macbeth,'425,429'Malcontent,' by Marston,327Malone, Edmund,266Malvolio in 'Twelfth Night,'92,231-233,235,236,407Mamillius in 'Winter's Tale,'636-638,640,642'Manfred,' by Byron,384Manningham, John,196,232,298,299'Marco Polo,' Frampton's translation of (1579),656Mardian in 'Antony and Cleopatra,'468Margaret in 'Much Ado About Nothing,'92——Henry VI.'s widow in 'Richard III.,'138,139——of Anjou in 'Henry VI.,'22,24,25,31,120,132,138,213,430,573Maria in—'Love's Labour's Lost,'45'Twelfth Night,'92,232,234,236,237Mariana in 'Measure for Measure,'403,407Marianus, Byzantine scholar,300Marina in 'Pericles,'572,573,579,581,582,583-592,615,645Marlowe, Christopher, English tragedy created by Shakespeare influencedby Marlowe,22-29,31,32,41,51,55,82,85,119-123,125,126,150,164-166,172,202,221,230,286,387,480,513,539,595,599,654Marston, John,177,178,298,325,327-332,339,349,599Marullus in 'Julius Cæsar,'302'Masque of Blackness,' by Ben Jonson,418'Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn,' by Beaumont,612Massey,267Massinger,275,608,610Mauvissière, French ambassador,350'Maydes Metamorphosis,' by Lyly,68,69'Measure for Measure,' chief characters and scenes in—Pessimismand monarchical tone of29,91,181,240,241,356,393,395,401-410,420,438,456,478,535,580,587,667Meissner, Johan,561,654,656'Melancholia,' by Albert Dürer,372Melantius in 'Maid's Tragedy,' by Beaumont and Fletcher,602,603Menelaus in 'Troilus and Cressida,'502,503,515-518.Menenius in 'Coriolanus,'94,538,542-546,548,552'Menœchmi' of Plautus,35,80,232Mephistopheles in 'Faust,'382,629'Merchant of Venice' (1596-1598), Shakespeare's craving for wealthand position—Sources of—Chief characters in—Shakespeare'slove of music shown in,53,113-116,150,151,154,156-171,174,176,210,503,573Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet,'64,73,76,83,85,177,218Meres (1598),29,47,56,158,221,265,269,270,431'Mermaid' Tavern,177,178,331,595'Merry Wives of Windsor' (1599), prosaic and bourgeois tone of—Fairyscenes in,7,11,101,104,208-212,214'Metamorphoses', Ovid's,31,41,56,68,270,510,658Michael Angelo,56,96,291-293,296,450,467,576,688Mickiewicz,385Middleton,303,427'Midsummer Night's Dream',5,41,53,63-71,77,80,103,209,213,244,393,574,582,601,606,607,660,663,667'Miles Gloriosus,'179Milton,82,678Minto, Professor,267,275Miranda in the 'Tempest',572,573,591,592,619,624,633,644,652,654,655,659,660-662,664,666,667'Mirror of Martyrs, or The Life and Death of Sir Iohn Oldcastle Knight,Lord Cobham,' by John Weever,303'Mirrour of Policie' (1598),303'Miseries of Enforced Marriage', by George Wilkins,580Mistress Overdone in 'Measure for Measure,'403,404'Mitre' Tavern,177,178Molière,64,179,180,209,223,227,232,240,329,409,458,535,548,572,616,687Mommsen,309,310Montague in 'Romeo and Juliet,'80Montaigne,44,291,340,351-357,650,659,665Montemayor's 'Diana,'53Montgomery, Lord,267Moonshine in 'Midsummer Night's Dream,'70More's 'Utopia,'501'Mort de César,' by Voltaire,312,323Mortimer in 'Henry IV.,'170,174,199Moth in 'Love's Labour's Lost,'42'Much Ado About Nothing,'45,92,93,215-221,233,389,399,503Muley Hamlet or Muley Mahomet in 'G. Peele's Battle of Alcazar,'31,203Munday,114,158,303Musset, Alfred de,282,384,506,565,599,689Mustard-seed in 'Midsummer Nights Dream,'64,69'Mydas,' by John Lyly,41NASH, Thomas,91,114,177,344,435,686'Natural History,' by Pliny,43'Natural History of the Insects mentioned by Shakespeare,'by R. Paterson (1841),92Navarre, King of, in 'Love's Labour's Lost,'38,45Neile, Bishop,486,495Nerissa in 'Merchant of Venice,'53,163Nestor in 'Troilus and Cressida,'502,519,520'New Inn,' by Ben Jonson,577'New Shakspere Society's Transactions,'22,42,68,127,358,359,369,377,391,558,592,608Newdigate-Newdegate, Lady,279'News of Purgatory,' by Tarlton,210Nicholson,334,338,339,377Niels Steno on Geology,95Nietzsche,297,530'Night Raven,' by Samuel Rowland,314'Nine Daies Wonder,' by Kemp,280,390Norfolk, Duke of, in—'Richard II.,'7,121'Richard III.,'136North,43,304,306,464,535,536,560Northampton, Lord,494,496,497Northumberland, Earl of, in—'Henry IV.,'174,187,192,197'Richard II.,'125Nottingham, Lord,303'Nouvelles Françaises du 14meSiècle,'523'Nugæ Antiquæ,' by Rev. H. Harington (1779),360Nurse in 'Romeo and Juliet,'72-75,84-86,505'Nutcrackers,' by J. L. Heiberg,69Nym in 'Merry Wives of Windsor,'209OBERONin 'Midsummer Night's Dream,'63,65-68,80Octavia in 'Antony and Cleopatra,'466,470,473,474,475Octavius Cæsar in 'Antony and Cleopatra,'465,466,470,473-476,537'Odyssey,'513Oehlenschläger,77,227,639Oldcastle, Sir John.SeeFalstaffOldys,11,196,197Oliver in "-'As You Like It,'222,228Olivia in 'Twelfth Night,'54,234-238'On Poet-Ape,' by Ben Jonson,20Ophelia in 'Hamlet,'93,156,170,214,340,342,346,356,360,367,368,370,374,375,377,380-382,385,387,395,447,478,573,606Orlando in 'As You Like It,'222,226,228,229'Orlando Furioso,' Ariosto's,215,445,655'Orlando Innamorato,' by Berni,444Osrick in 'Hamlet,'365,394'Othello' (1605),113,117,131,170,177,241,420,423,455,457,470,471,474,476,478,520,551,570,597,598,639Iago's character and significance,433-436Theme and origin of—Othello as a monograph,437-450Overbury, Sir Thomas,495,496,498Ovid,31,41,56,58,60,68,269,270,287,306,327,