Moseley, Humphrey, publisher, 181, 258
Moth, in Love's Labour's Lost, 51 n Moulton, Dr. Richard G., 365 Mucedorus, a play by an unknown author, 72
Much Ado about Nothing: a jesting allusion to sonnetteering, 108; its publication, 207, 208; date of composition, 208; the comic characters, 208; Italian origin of Hero and Claudio, 208; parts taken by William Kemp and Cowley, 208; quotation from the Spanish Tragedy, 221 n. For editions see Section xix. (Biblio- graphy), 301-25. Mulberry-tree at New Place, the, 194 and n
Music at stage performances in Shakespeare's day, 38 n 2; its indebtedness to the poet, 340
NASH, Anthony, the poet's legacy to, 276
Nash, John, the poet's legacy to, 276
Nash, Thomas (1), marries Eliza- beth Hall, Shakespeare's grand- daughter, 282
Nash, Thomas (2), on
the per- formance of Henry VI, 56, 57; piracy of his 'Terrors of the Night,' 88 n; on the immorta- lising power of verse, 114; use of the word 'lover,' 127 n; his appeals to Southampton, 131, 134, 135 n, 385, 386; 221 n; 427 n 2; his preface to 'Astrophel and Stella,' 429 n 1
Navarre, King of, in Love's Labour's Lost, 51 n Neil, Samuel, 364.
Nekrasow and Gerbel, translation
into Russian by, 353 New Place, Stratford, Shakespeare's purchase of, 193, 194; entertain- ment of Jonson and Drayton at, 271; the poet's death at, 272; sold on the death of Lady Bar- nard (the poet's granddaughter)
to Sir Edward Walker, 283; pulled down, 283
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, criticism of the poet by, 331
Newdegate, Lady, 406 ₪, 415 Newington Butts Theatre, 37 Newman, Thomas, piratical publi- cation of Sir Philip Sidney's sonnets by, 88 п, 429 and я I Nicolson, George, English agent in Scotland, 41 n I
Nottingham, Earl of, his company of players, 225; taken into the patronage of Henry, Prince of Wales, 231 n
OBERON, vision of, 17, 161; in Huon of Bordeaux,' 162 Oechelhaeuser, W., acting edition of the poet by, 346
Oldcastle, Sir John, play on his history, 170, 313
'Oldcastle, Sir John,' the original name of Falstaff in Henry IV, 169 Oldys, William, 231, 362 Olney, Henry, publisher, 437 Orlando Furioso, 47 n, 208 Ortlepp, E., German translation of Shakespeare by, 344
Othello: date of composition, 235; not printed in the poet's lifetime 235; plot drawn from Cinthio's 'Hecatommithi,' 236; new cha- racters and features introduced into the story, 236; exhibits the poet's fully matured powers, 236. For editions see Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25
Ovid, influence on Shakespeare of his Metamorphoses,' 15, 75 and n 1, 76, 162, 253; claims immor- tality for his verse, 114 and n 1, 116 n; the 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, 31, 265,
266; Hamlet acted at, 224 Oxford, Earl of, his company of actors, 35
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, 138 n 2
Pandosto (afterwards called Dorastus and Fawnia), Shakespeare's in- debtedness to, 251 Parodies on sonnetteering, 106-8, 122 and n
'Parthenophil and Parthenophe,' Barnes's, 132 Pasquier, Estienne, 443 Passerat, Jean, 443
'Passionate Centurie of Love,' Watson's, the passage on Time in, 77; plagiarisation of Petrarch in, 101 n 4, 102, 427 n 2, 428 Passionate Pilgrim,' piratical in- sertion of two sonnets in, 98, 182, 437; the contents of, 182 n; 299; printed with Shakespeare's poems, 300
Patrons of companies of players, 35; adulation offered to, 138 and n 2, 140, 141, 440 and n Pavier, Thomas, printer, 180 'Pecorone, I1,' by Ser Giovanni
Fiorentino, Shakespeare's indebt- edness to, 14, 66 and n 3, 172; W. G. Waters's translation of,
66n3 Peele, George, 57; his share in the original draft of Henry VI,
60 Pembroke, Countess of, dedication
of Daniel's Delia' to, 130, 429; homage paid to, by Nicholas Breton, 138 n 2
Pembroke, Henry, second Earl of,
his company of players, perform
Henry VI (part iii.), 36, 59; and Titus Andronicus, 66 Pembroke, William, third Earl of, the question of the identification of 'Mr. W. H.'with, 94, 406-15; per- formance at his Wilton residence, 231, 232 n 1, 411; dedication of the First Folio to, 306; his al- leged relations with Shakespeare, 411-15; the identification of the 'dark lady' with his mistress, Mary Fitton, 123 n, 409; the mistaken notion that Shakespeare was his protégé, 123 n; dedica- tions by Thorpe to, 399 and n 1, 403 n 2
Penrith, Shakespeares at, I Pepys, his criticisms of The Tempest and Midsummer Night's Dream,
Percy, William, his sonnets, en- titled 'Cœlia,' 435
Perez, Antonio, and Antonio in The Merchant of Venice, 68 n Pericles: date of composition, 242; a work of collaboration, 242; the poet's contributions, 244; dates of the various editions, 244; not included in the First Folio, 305: included in Third Folio, 313. For editions see Section xix. (Biblio- graphy), 301-25
Perkes (Clement), in Henry IV., member of a family at Stinch- combe Hill in the sixteenth cen- tury, 168
'Perkins Folio,' forgeries in the, 312, 317 n 2, 367 and n Personalities on the stage, 215 # 1 Péruse, Jean de la, 443
Petowe, Henry, elegy on Queen Elizabeth by, 148
Petrarch, emulated by Elizabethan sonnetteers, 84, 85, 86 n; feigns old age in his sonnets, 86 n; his metre, 95; Spenser's translations from, 101; imitation of his son- nets justified by Gabriel Harvey, 101 n 4; plagiarisms of, admitted by sonnetteers, 101 # 4: Wyatt's translations of two of his sonnets, ΙΟΙ 4, 427; plagiarised in- directly by Shakespeare, 110, 1II
and n, 113 n I; the melancholy of his sonnets, 152 n; imitated in France, 443 Phelps, Samuel, 325, 339 Phillips, Augustine, actor, friend of Shakespeare, 36; induced to re- vive Richard II at the Globe in 1601, 175; his death, 264 Phillips, Edward (Milton's nephew),
criticism of the poet by, 362; editor of Drummond's Sonnets, 439 n I
'Phillis,' Lodge's, 118 n 2, 433 and n3
Philosophy, Chapman's sonnets in praise of, 441
'Phoenix and the Turtle, The,' 183, 184, 304
'Pierce Pennilesse.' See Nash, Thomas (2)
'Pierces Supererogation,' by Gabriel Harvey, 101 n 4, 105
Pindar, his claim for the immortality of verse, 114 and n 1
Plague, the, in Stratford-on-Avon, ro; in London, 65, 231 Plautus, the plot of the Comedy of Errors drawn from, 16; transla- tion of, 54
Plays, sale of, 47 and n; revision of, 47; their publication deprecated by playhouse authorities, 48 n; only a small proportion printed, 48 n; prices paid for, 202 n 'Pléiade, La,' title of the literary comrades of Ronsard, 442; list of, 443
Plutarch,' North's translation of, Shakespeare's indebtedness to, 47, 162, 211, 243, 245 and n, 246 and n
Poaching episode, the, 27, 28 'Poetaster,' Jonson's, 217, 218
and n Poland, translations and perfor- mances of Shakespeare in, 353 Pontoux, Claude de, name of his heroine copied by Drayton, 104 Pope, Alexander, 297; edition of Shakespeare by, 315 Porto, Luigi da, adapts the story of Romeo and Juliet, 55 n 1
Portraits of the poet, 286-93, 296 n 2; the 'Stratford' portrait, 287; Droeshout's engraving, 287, 288, 300, 306; the Droeshout' paint- ing, 288-91; portrait in the Clarendon gallery, 291; Ely House' portrait, 290, 291; Chan- dos portrait, 292, 293; Jansen' portrait, 293, 294; Felton' and 'Soest' portraits, 294; minia- tures, 295
Pott, Mrs. Henry, 372 Prévost, Abbé, 348 Pritchard, Mrs., 336
Procter, Bryan Waller (Barry Corn- wall), 324
Promos and Cassandra, 237 Prospero, character of, 257 Provinces, the, practice of theatrical touring in, 39-42, 65 Publication of dramas: deprecated by playhouse authorities, 48 n; only a small proportion of the dramas of the period printed, 48 n; sixteen of Shakespeare's plays published in his lifetime, 48 Punning, 418, 419
Puritaine, or the Widdow of Wat- ling-streete, The, 180, 313 Puritanism, alleged prevalence in Stratford-on-Avon of, 10 n; 268 n2; its hostility to dramatic re- presentations, Ion, 212, 213n1; the poet's references to, 268 n I 'Pyramus and Thisbe,' 397
QUARLES, John, Banishment of Tarquin' of, 300
Quarto editions of the plays, in the poet's lifetime, 301, 302; pos- thumous, 302, 303; of the poems in the poet's lifetime, 299; pos- thumous, 300
'Quatorzain,' term applied to the Sonnet, 427 n 2, cf. 429 n I 'Queen's Children of the Chapel, the, 34, 35, 38, 213-17 Queen's Company of Actors, the, welcomed to Stratford-on-Avon by John Shakespeare, 10; its re- turn to London, 33, 35. 231 n Quiney, Thomas, marries Judith
Shakespeare, 271; his residence and trade in Stratford, 280; his children, 281
Quinton, baptism of one of the Hacket family at, 165
RAPP, M., German translation of Shakespeare by, 344 Ralegh, Sir Walter,
apostrophe to Queen Elizabeth by, 137 n 1; 182 n
Ratseis Ghost,' and Ratsey's ad- dress to the players, 185, 199 Ravenscroft, Edward, on Titus Andronicus, 65, 332
Reed, Isaac, 321, 322
Reformation, the, at Stratford-on- Avon, Ion
Rehan, Miss Ada, 342
Religion and Philosophy, sonnets on, 440, 441
Return from Parnassus, The, 198, 199 n 1, 218-20, 277 Revision of plays, the poet's, 47, 48 Reynoldes, William, the poet's
legacy to, 276 Rich, Barnabe, story of 'Apollonius and Silla' by, 53, 210
Rich, Penelope, Lady, Sidney's pas- sion for, 428
Richard II: the influence of Mar- lowe, 63, 64; published anony- mously, 63; the deposition scene, 64; the facts drawn from Ho- linshed, 64; its revival on the eve of the rising of the Earl of Essex, 175, 383. For editions see Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25 Richard III: the influence of Mar- lowe, 63; materials drawn from Holinshed, 63; Mr. Swinburne's criticism, 63; Burbage's imperso- nation of the hero, 63; published anonymously, 63; Colley Cib- ber's adaptation, 335. For editions see Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25
Richardson, John, one of the sure- ties for the bond against impedi- ments respecting Shakespeare's marriage, 20, 22
Richmond Palace, performances at, 82, 230
Ristori, Madame, 352
Roberts, James, printer, 225, 226, 303, 431
Robinson, Clement, use of the word 'sonnet' by, 427 n 2
Roche, Walter, master of Stratford Grammar School, 13
Roles, Shakespeare's: at Greenwich Palace, 43, 44 n1; in Every Man in his Humour, 44; in Sejanus, 44; the Ghost in Hamlet, 44; played some kingly parts in sport,' 44; Adam in As You Like It, 44
Rolfe, Mr. W. J., 325 Romeo and Juliet, 54; plot drawn from the Italian, 55; date of composition, 56; first printed, 56; authentic and revised version of 1599, 56; two choruses in the sonnet form, 84; satirical allusion to sonnetteering, 108. For editions see Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-35
Romeus and Juliet, Arthur Brooke's, 55, 322
Ronsard, plagiarised by English
sonnetteers, 102, 103 3, 432 seq.; by Shakespeare, 111, 112 and n1; his claim for the immorta- lity of verse, 114 and # 1, 116 n; his sonnets of vituperation, 121; first gave the sonnet a literary vogue in France, 442; and La Pléiade,' 442; modern reprint of his works, 445 n Rosalind, played by a boy, 38 n 2 Rosaline, praised for her black- ness,' 118, 119
'Rosalynde, Euphues Golden Le- gacie,' Lodge's, 209
Rose Theatre, Bankside: erected by Philip Henslowe, 36; opened by Lord Strange's company, 36; the scene of the poet's first suc- cesses, 37; performance of Henry VI, 56; production of the Vene- syon Comedy, 69
Rossi, representation of Shake- speare by, 352
Roussillon, Countess of, 163
Rowe, Nicholas, on the parentage of Shakespeare's wife, 18; on Shakespeare's poaching escapade, 27; on Shakespeare's perform- ance of the Ghost in Hamlet, 44; on the story of Southampton's gift to Shakespeare, 126; on Queen Elizabeth's enthusiasm for the character of Falstaff, 171; on the poet's last years at Strat- ford, 266; on John Combe's epitaph, 269 n; his edition of the poet's plays, 314, 362 Rowington, the Richard William Shakespeares of, 2 Rowlands, Samuel, 397 Rowley, William, 181, 243 Roydon, Matthew, adulatory lines to Sir Philip Sidney by, 140; elegy on Sidney, 184 n
Rupert, Prince, at Stratford-on- Avon, 281
Rusconi, Carlo, Italian prose ver- sion of Shakespeare issued by, 352
Russia, translations and perfor- mances of Shakespeare in, 352, 353
Rymer, Thomas, his censure of the poet, 329
for the bond against impediments with respect to Shakespeare's marriage, 20, 22; supervisor of Richard Hathaway's will, 22 Saperton, 27, 29
Sapho and Phao,' address to Cupid in, 97 n
Satiro-Mastix, a retort to Jonson's Cynthia's Revels, 215
Savage, Mr. Richard, 165 n, 363 'Saviolo's Practise,' 209 Scenery unknown in Shakespeare's day, 38 and n 2; designed by Inigo Jones for masques, 38 n 2; Sir Philip Sidney on difficulties arising from its absence, 38 n 2 Schiller, adaptation of Macbeth for the stage by, 345
Schlegel, A. W. von, 180; German translation of Shakespeare by, 343; lectures on Shakespeare by, 344
Schmidt, Alexander, 364 'Schoole of Abuse,' 67 Schroeder, F. U. L., German actor of Shakespeare, 346
Schubert, Franz, setting of Shake- pearean songs by, 347 Schumann, setting of Shakespearean songs by, 347
'Scillaes Metamorphosis,' Lodge's, drawn upon by Shakespeare for 'Venus and Adonis,' 75 and n 2 Scoloker, Anthony, in 'Daiphantus,' 277 Scotland,
Shakespeare's alleged travels in, 40-42; visits of actors to, 41
Scott, Reginald, allusion to Mo- narcho in The Discoverie of Witchcraft' of, 51 n
Scott, Sir Walter, at Charlecote, 28 Scourge of Folly, 44 n 2 Sedley, Sir Charles, apostrophe the poet, 331
Sejanus, Shakespeare takes part the performance of, 44, 401 Selimus, 179
Serafino dell' Aquila, Watson's in- debtedness to, 77 n 2, 102, 103 n I, 442 n
Sève, Maurice, 104 and 2, 430, 442, 445 n I
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