30, 31
Abbess in 'Comedy of Errors,' 36
Abbot, Archbishop, 494
Achilles in Troilus and Cressida,' 110,
192, 438, 508-510, 514, 515, 518-
520, 526-529, 531

'Ad Gulielmum Shakespeare,' by John
Weever (1595), 126

Adam in 'As You Like It,' 107, 226
Adriana in Comedy of Errors,' 35, 36,
132, 213, 573
'Eneid,' 28, 60
Eschylus, 56, 204

'Esthetiske Studier,' by George Brandes,
377

'Agamemnon,' by Seneca, 345
Agamemnon in Troilus and Cressida,'
517, 520

Agincourt, Battle of, in Henry V.,' 103,
110, 195, 205

Ajax in 'Troilus and Cressida,' 510, 516,
520, 526, 527, 529

Albius in The Poetaster,' 332
Alceste, Molière's, 223, 548
Alcibiades 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, 573
Alonso in the Tempest,' 653, 654, 657,
660, 661

'Alphonsus, King of Arragon,' by Robert
Greene, 31

Ambrogiuolo in Boccaccio's 'Decameron,'
617, 618

Amintor in Maid's Tragedy,' by Beau-
mont and Fletcher, 602, 603
Amleth in Saxo Grammaticus,' 342,
343

'Amores,' by Ovid, 56

Amoretti,' by Spenser, 226, 266, 287
'Amphitruo,' by Plautus, 35

Amyot, Jacques, 304

Andersen, Hans Christian, 341

Andromache in 'Troilus and Cressida,'

514, 518, 519

'Tempest,' 660

'Twelfth Night,' 238

Antony, 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, 650
Attractions for Shakespeare in-
Sources of, 461-469

'Dark Lady,' as model in-Fall of the
Republic as a world-catastrophe,
470-476

Apemantus in 'Timon of Athens,' 530,
557, 563-565, 569

Apology, The,' by Socrates, 354
Apothecary in Romeo and Juliet,' 72,
79,629

Appleton Morgan's 'Shakespearean
Myth,' 92

Arbaces in King and No King,' by
Beaumont and Fletcher, 600
Arbury, Mary Fitton's portrait at, 279
Arcadia,' by Philip Sidney, 294, 453,
581

Archbishop of Canterbury in 'Henry V.,'
96, 205

Archidamus in 'Winter's Tale,' 642
Arden, Edward, 8

Mary, mother of William Shake-
speare, 6, 8, 153, 532, 578
Robert, grandfather of Shakespeare,
6, 14

'Arden of Feversham,' 173, 175
Arethusa in Philaster,' by Beaumont
and Fletcher, 597, 598, 601
Ariel in the 'Tempest,' 69, 591, 650-652,
657, 659, 663, 664, 667, 668
Ariosto's Orlando Furioso,' 215, 445,
655

Aristotle, 17, 95, 413, 647

Armada, Spanish, 17, 18, 44, 50, 247,
251

Armado in 'Love's Labour's Lost,' 42-45
Armitage, Charles, 267

Artemidorus in 'Julius Cæsar,' 305
Arthur in 'King John,' 140-144, 145-
149, 336

Arviragus in 'Cymbeline,' 617, 619, 621-
624, 626, 627, 629, 632-634
'As You Like It' (1600), Shakespeare's
roving spirit and longing for 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,
675

Asbies at Wilmecote, 6, 8, 9, 154
Aspasia in Maid's Tragedy,' by Beau-
mont and Fletcher, 602, 603
'Athelie,' Racine's, 637
Aubrey, 4, 6, 196, 274, 594

Audrey in 'As You Like It,' 222, 230
Aufidius in Coriolanus,' 538, 546, 552
Augustus in Ben Jonson's 'Poetaster,'
332, 333

Aumerle in Richard II.,'
Autolycus in Winter's Tale,' 638, 639,
641

'Axel and Valborg,' by Oehlenschläger,

Barnabe Rich's translation of Cinthio's
'Hecatomithi' (1581), 233

Barnadine in 'Measure for Measure,'
407

Barnes, Barnabe, 287, 288
Barnfield, Richard, 288
Barnstorff, 267

'Bartholomew Fair,' by Ben Jonson
(1614), 29, 284, 340, 345, 635

Basianus in Titus Andronicus,' 30
Bassanio in 'Merchant of Venice,' 160,
161, 164, 169, 211, 395, 396
Bates in 'Henry V.,' 207

Battle of Alcazar,' by George Peele, 31,
203

Baynard's Castle, 271
Bear Garden, 100, 101
Beard's 'Theatre of God's Judgements'
(1597), 28

Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing,'
45, 93, 215, 217–219, 227, 233, 238,
239, 573, 626
Beaumont's, Francis, plays and career,
178, 513, 593-595, 597-605, 612,
652, 678

.

Belarius in Cymbeline,' 619, 621, 623-
624, 626, 632, 644
Bellay, Joachim du, 287

Belleforest's 'Histoires Tragiques,' 343
'Ben Jonson,' by Symonds, 338
Benedick in 'Much Ado About Nothing,'

45, 92, 170, 177, 217-219, 228, 233,
503

Benoit de St. Maure's 'Histoire de la
Guerre de Troie' (1160), 504, 509
Benvolio in 'Romeo and Juliet,' 80
Bermudas, 275

Bernabo in Boccaccio's 'Decameron,'
617, 618

Berni's Orlando Innamorato,' 444, 445
Bertram in 'All's Well that Ends Well,'
47, 48, 393, 396-400, 527
Beyersdorff's, Robert, Giordano Bruno
und Shakespeare,' 353, 355, 356
Bianca in Othello,' 446
Bierfreund, Theodor, 605, 606
Biron in 'Love's Labour's Lost,' 38, 39,
44-46, 83, 276, 277
Bishop of Ely in 'Henry V.,' 97
Blackfriars Theatre, 106, 271, 388
Blade's 'Shakespeare and Typography,'

92

Blanch in King John,' 147
Blount, Edward, 286
Boaden, 267

Boccaccio's plays, 47, 280, 396, 503, 504,
509, 605, 617-619

Boece's, Hector, Scotorum Historiæ,'
426

Boëtie, Estienne de la, Montaigne's
friendship for, 291

Bolingbroke in 'Richard II.,' 7, 121,
123-125, 537

Börne, 384

Bosworth Field in 'Richard III.,' 135
Bothwell, Earl of, 347

Bottom in 'Midsummer Night's Dream,'
41, 68, 69

Boyet in 'Love's Labour's Lost,' 40, 45
Brabantio in 'Othello,' 439, 440, 441,
442, 443

Brandes, George, 377

Bright, James Heywood, 267
Briseida in Benoit's 'Histoire de la
Guerre de Troie' (1160), 504, 509
Brown, Henry, 267
Browning, Robert, 301

Browne's, Sir Thomas, 'Religio Medici'
(1642), 291

Brown's, C. A., 'Shakespeare's Auto-
biographical Poems,' 114
Brunnhofer, 350

Bruno's, Giordano, supposed influence
over Shakespeare, 349, 357
'Brut,' by Layamon (1205), 452
Brutus, Junius, in 'Coriolanus,' 537

Marcus, in Julius Cæsar,' 94, 240,
302-308, 313-324, 356, 443, 461,
606, 629

Bryan, George, 357
Buckingham, Duke of, in 'Richard III.,'
134, 135

Bucknill, Dr., on Shakespeare's Medical
Knowledge, 93
Burbage, James, 13, 100

Richard, actor, 13, 106, 151, 177,
196, 298, 347, 547, 585, 608, 685
Burghley, Lord, 219, 242, 248, 252, 271,
350

Butler, Samuel, 594

Byron, 232, 293, 294, 384, 525, 583,
677, 678, 687

'Candelajo,' by Giordano Bruno, 354
Candide,' by Voltaire, 680
Caphis in 'Timon of Athens,' 564
Capulet in 'Romeo and Juliet,' 74, 80,
83, 84, 86

Carleton, Sir Dudley, 482, 488, 496, 497,
648, 649

Carmosine,' by De Musset, 599
Carr, Robert, Viscount Rochester and
Earl of Somerset, James I.'s favourite
- Lady Essex's marriage with -
Crime and fall of, 481, 482, 485, 488,
492-501, 649

Casca in Julius Caesar,' 311, 322, 536
Cassio in Othello,' 115, 434, 435, 439,
441, 445, 448, 520, 598

Cassius in Julius Cæsar, 170, 240, 302,
305-308, 311, 312, 315, 316, 317,
318, 322, 323, 461, 606

Catesby, Sir William, in 'Richard III.,'
135, 137

'Catiline,' by Ben Jonson, 302, 312, 325,
329, 336, 337

Cato, 312, 313, 319, 329, 461
Cavalieri, Tommaso de', 291-293, 296
Cavendish's, George, Relics of Cardinal
Wolsey,' 608

Cecil, Sir Robert, 42, 246, 247, 249, 252,
253, 258, 262, 273, 274, 411, 415,
416, 488, 492

Celia in As You Like It,' 92, 180, 221,
222, 226, 227, 228, 620

Ceres in the Tempest,' 652, 654, 668
Cerimon in Pericles,' 579, 591, 661
Cervantes' 'Don Quixote,' 366, 367, 388,

523

Chalmers, Alexander, 266
Chamberlain, John, 261, 482, 496, 497,
648-650

Chapman, 29, 177, 275, 327, 340, 497,
513-515, 518, 519, 599, 663
Charlcote, 7, 10, 11, 222, 674
Charmian in Antony and Cleopatra,'
468

Chaucer, 501, 503, 504, 509, 510, 601,
605

536, 675

'Cæsar's Fall' (1602), 303
Caius Lucius in Cymbeline,' 617
Calchas in 'Troilus and Cressida,' 518
Calderon, 180, 590, 603, 633, 659
Calianax in Maid's Tragedy,' by Beau-
mont and Fletcher, 602, 603
Caliban in the Tempest,' 170, 340, 530,
624, 642, 654, 656, 659, 661, 663,
664-667

Calphurnia in 'Julius Cæsar,' 305
'Cambyses,' 8, 70, 184
Camden, William, 325

Camillo in Winter's Tale,' 642, 645

Campbell's, Lord, 'Shakespeare's Legal
Acquirements,' 91