Fourefould Meditation' by, 72
Southwell, Father Thomas, 209
Spanish, translation of Shakespeare's
plays into, 199

Somerset House, Shakespeare and
his company at, 119-20
Sonnets, Shakespeare's: the poet's
first attempts, 52; the majority
probably composed in 1594, 53;
few written between 1594 and 1603,
53; their literary value, 53; circu-
lation in manuscript, 70; com-
mended by Meres, 70; their
piratical publication in 1609, 70;
their form, 54; want of continuity,
54, 55; autobiographical only in
a limited sense, 55, 56, 58, 59,
60; their borrowed conceits,
56-9; indebtedness to Drayton,
Petrarch, Ronsard, Desportes, and
others, 56, 57; the poet's claim of
immortality for his sonnets, 57, 96;
vituperation, 58; 'dedicatory' son-
nets, 62 seq.; the rival poet,'
64-6; sonnets of friendship, 66-8;
the supposed story of intrigue, 59;
summary of conclusions respecting
the 'Sonnets,' 75-6; edition of
1640, 163

Sonnets, quoted with explanatory
comments: xxvi., 63; lv., 58;
lxxviii., 62, 65; 1xxx., 65; lxxxvi.,
65; xciv. (line 14), 44, 70; C.,
62; ciii., 62; cvii., 53, 68, 69; cx.,
27; cxi., 27; cxxxviii., 70; cxliv.,
59, 70, 164

-

- the vogue of the Elizabethan:
52-3; conventional device of son-
netteers of feigning old age, 53;
lack of genuine sentiment, 55;
French and Italian models, 55;
censure of false sentiment in son-
nets, 55; Shakespeare's scornful
allusions to sonnets in his plays,
55; vituperative sonnets, 58
Southampton, Henry Wriothesley,
third Earl of, 32; the dedications
to him of 'Venus and Adonis'
and 'Lucrece,' 46, 48; his patron-
age of Shakespeare, 62–70; his gift
to the poet, 63, 100; his youthful
appearance, 67; his identity with
the youth of Shakespeare's sonnets
of 'friendship' evidenced by his
portraits, 68; imprisonment, 69;
as a literary patron, 168

Spanish Tragedy, Kyd's, popularity
of, 40, 114

Spelling of the poet's name, 153-4
Spenser, Edmund: and Shakespeare,
49-50; on the immortalising power
of verse, 57; his 'Amoretti,' 57
Sport, Shakespeare's knowledge of,
16, 84

Staël, Madame de, 197
Stafford, Lord, his company of
actors, 20

Stage, conditions of, in Shakespeare's
day, 24

Staple of News, The,' Jonson's quo-
tations from Julius Cæsar in, 113
Staunton, Howard, 173; his edition
of the poet, 180
Steele, Richard,

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on Betterton's
rendering of Othello, 187
Steevens, George: his edition of
Shakespeare, 178; his revision of
Johnson's edition, 178; his criti-
cisms, 178, 179
Stinchcombe Hill referred to as 'the
Hill' in Henry IV, 81
Stopes, Mrs. C. C., 205
Strange, Lord. See Derby, Earl of
Straparola, Notti' of, and the
Merry Wives of Windsor, 84
Stratford-on-Avon, settlement of
John Shakespeare, the poet's father,
at, 2; property owned by John
Shakespeare in, 3, 5; the poet's
birthplace at, 5; the Shakespeare
Museum at, 5, 161; the plague in
1564 at, 6; actors for the first
time at, 6; the grammar school, 7;
Shakespeare's departure from, 16,
17, 19; native place of Richard
Field, 19; allusions in the Taming
of The Shrew to, 79; the poet's
return in 1596 to, 93; the poet's
purchase of New Place, 97; appeals
from townsmen to the poet for
aid, 98; the poet's purchase of
land at, 103, 104; the poet's last
years at, 140-2; attempt to en-
close common lands and Shake-
speare's interest in it, 143; the
poet's death and burial at, 144;
Shakespeare memorial building
at, 161; the 'Jubilee' and the
tercentenary, 187
Sturley, Abraham, 98
Suckling, Sir John, 184

Sullivan, Barry, 161
Sully, M. Mounet, 198
Sumarakow, translation into Russian
by, 199

Supposes, the, of George Gascoigne, 78
Surrey, Earl of, sonnets of, 52, 54
Sussex, Earl of, his company of
actors, 21; Titus Andronicus per-
formed by, 22, 40

Swedish, translations of Shakespeare
in, 199

'Sweet,' epithet applied to Shake-
speare, 224

Swinburne, Mr. A. C., 38, 44, 187, 207

Tamburlaine, Marlowe's, 38
Taming of A Shrew, 78

Taming of The Shrew, 78-9. For
editions see Section xvii. (Biblio-
graphy), 163-82

Tarleton, Richard, 50; his 'Newes
out of Purgatorie' and the Merry
Wives of Windsor, 84

'Teares of the Muses,' Spenser's,
referred to in Midsummer Night's
Dream, 49

Tempest, The: traces of the influence
of Ovid, 8-9; 15; 26; the ship-
wreck akin to a similar scene in
Pericles, 127; date of composi-
tion, &c., 132-4; Ben Jonson's
scornful allusion to, 134; fanciful
interpretations of, 134-5.
editions see Section xvii. (Biblio-
graphy), 163-82
Temple Grafton, 13

For

'Temple Shakespeare, The,' 182
Tercentenary festival, the Shake-
speare, 187

Terry, Miss Ellen, 191
Theatre, The, at Shoreditch, 20,
22; Shakespeare at, between
1595 and 1599, 23; demolished,
and the Globe Theatre built with
the materials, 23
Theatres in London: Blackfriars
(q.v.); Curtain (q.v.); Fortune,
108; Globe (q.v.); Newington
Butts, 23; Red Bull, 19; Rose
(q.v.); The Theatre, Shoreditch
(q.v.)

Theobald, Lewis, his emendations
of Hamlet, 115; publishes a play
alleged to be by Shakespeare, 136;
his criticism of Pope, 175; his
edition of the poet's works, 175,
176

Thomas, Ambroise, opera of Hamlet
by, 198
Thoms, W. J., 205

Thornbury, G. W., 205

Thorpe, Thomas, the piratical pub-
lisher of Shakespeare's Sonnets,
70-4; adds 'A Lover's Complaint'
to the collection of Sonnets, 71; his
bombastic dedication to 'Mr. W.
H.,' 74-6

Three Ladies of London, The, some
of the scenes in the Merchant of
Venice anticipated in, 41

Tieck, Ludwig, theory respecting The
Tempest of, 133, 193

Timon of Athens: date of composi-
tion, &c., 126. For editions see Sec-
tion xvii. (Bibliography), 163-82
Timon, Lucian's, 126

Titus Andronicus: one of the only
two plays of the poet's performed
by a company other than his own,
22; authorship, &c., 40-1. For
editions see Section xvii. (Biblio-
graphy), 163-82

Titus and Vespasian, Titus Androni-
cus suggested by, 40

Topics of the day, Shakespeare's
treatment of, 30-1

Tours of English actors: in foreign
countries between 1580 and 1630,
25-6; in provincial towns, 24-5,
40, 109, 119
Translations of the poet's works, 192
seq.
Troilus and Cresseid,' 117
Troilus and Cressida: allusion to the
strife between adult and boy actors,
III; date of production, &c., 116–8;
plot drawn from Chaucer's 'Troilus
and Cresseid,' and Lydgate's' Troy
Book,' 117. For editions see Sec-
tion xvii. (Bibliography), 163-82
Troy Book,' Lydgate's, 117
True Tragedie of Richard III, The,
an anonymous play, 38, 164
True Tragedie of Richard, Duke of
Yorke, 36

Twelfth Night: description of a
betrothal, 13; indebtedness to the
story of 'Apollonius and Silla,' 32;
date of production, &c., 107. For
editions see Section xvii. (Biblio-
graphy), 163-82

Two Gentlemen of Verona: allusion
to Valentine travelling from Verona
to Milan by sea, 26; date of pro-
duction, &c., 31-2; influence of
Lyly, 38; satirical allusion to son-
netteering, 55; resemblance of it to
All's Well that Ends Well, 77–8.
For editions see Section xvii. (Bib-
liography), 163-82

Two Noble Kinsmen, The: attributed |
to Fletcher and Shakespeare, 136;
Massinger's alleged share in its
production, 136-7; plot drawn from
Chaucer's Knight's Tale,' 137
Twyne, Lawrence, the story of Peri-
cles in the Patterne of Painfull
Adventures' by, 127

ULRICI, 'Shakespeare's Dramatic
Art' by, 195

VARIORUM editions of Shakespeare,
178, 179, 204

Vautrollier, Thomas, the London
printer, 20

Venesyon Comedy, The, produced by
Henslowe at the Rose, 42
'Venus and Adonis;' published in
1593, 46; dedicated to the Earl of
Southampton, 46, 63; its imagery
and general tone, 46-7; eulogies
bestowed upon it, 48, 49; early
editions, 49, 163
Verdi, operas by, 199

Verplanck, Gulian Crommelin, 181
Versification, Shakespeare's, 29-30
Vigny, Alfred de, version of Othello
by, 198

Villemain, recognition of the poet's
greatness by, 197

Vincent, Augustine, relations with
Jaggard, 171-2

Visor, William, in Henry IV, member
of a family at Woodmancote, 81
Voltaire, strictures on the poet by,
196, 197

Voss, J. H., German translation of
Shakespeare by, 194

WALKER, Sir Edward, 151

Walker, William, the poet's godson,
146

Walker, W. Sidney, on Shakespeare's
versification, 206

Walley, Henry, printer, 116
Warburton, Bishop, revised version
of Pope's edition of Shakespeare
by, 177

Ward, Dr. A. W., 207
Ward, Rev. John, on the poet's
annual expenditure, 102; on the
visits of Drayton and Jonson to
New Place before the poet's death,
144; his account of the poet, 203
Warner, Mrs., 191
Warner, Richard, 207

Warner, William, the probable trans-
lator of the Menæchmi, 32
Warren, John, 164

Warwickshire: prevalence of the sur-
name Shakespeare, 1; position of
the Arden family, 4; Queen Eliza-
beth's progress on the way to Kenil-
worth, 10

Watchmen in the poet's plays, 19, 38
Watson, Thomas, 37; the passage on
Time in his' Passionate Centurie of
Love' elaborated in Venus and
Adonis,' 48; his sonnets, 52
Webbe, Alexander, makes John
Shakespeare overseer of his will, 6
Webbe, Robert, buys the Snitterfield
property from Shakespeare's
mother, 7

Weever, Thomas: allusion in his
'Mirror of Martyrs' to Antony's
speech at Cæsar's funeral, 108
Westward for Smelts' and the Merry
Wives of Windsor, 84; story of
Ginevra in, 131

Whateley, Anne, the assumed identifi-
cation of her with Anne Hathaway,
13-4

Wheler, R. B., 205

Whetstone, George, his Promos and
Cassandra, 122

White, Mr. Richard Grant, 181–2
Whitehall, performances at, 50-1, 120,
121, 124, 139

Wieland, Christopher Martin: his
translation of Shakespeare, 193
Wilkins, George, his collaboration
with Shakespeare in Timon of
Athens and Pericles, 126; his novel
founded on the play of Pericles, 127
Wilks, Robert, actor, 188
Will, Shakespeare's, 102, 143, 145-6
'Willobie his Avisa,' 59-61
Wilmcote, house of Shakespeare's
mother, 4, 5; bequest to Mary
Arden of the Asbies property
at, 4; mortgage of the Asbies
property_at, 7, 15; and 'Wincot'
in The Taming of The Shrew, 79,

80

Wilnecote. See under Wincot
Wilson, Robert, author of The Three
Ladies of London, 41

Wilson, Thomas, his manuscript
version of 'Diana,' 32

Wilton, Shakespeare and his com-
pany at, 119

Wincot (in The Taming of The

Shrew), its identification, 79
Winter's Tale, A, 131-2. For editions
see Section xvii. (Bibliography),
163-82

Wise, Andrew, 39, 105
Wise, J. R., 205

Women, on Elizabethan stage, 23-4;
on the Restoration stage, 188
Woncot in Henry IV identical with
Woodmancote, 81
Woodmancote, See Woncot
Worcester, Earl of, his company of
actors at Stratford, 6, 21
Worcester, registry of the diocese of,

2, II

Wordsworth, Bishop Charles, on
Shakespeare and the Bible, 205
Wordsworth, William, the poet, on
German and French æsthetic criti-
cism, 194, 197

Wotton, Sir Henry, on the burning

of the Globe Theatre, 137; letter
to Sir Edmund Bacon, 209
Wright, Dr. Aldis, 180
Wright, John, bookseller, 71
Wroxhall, the Shakespeares of, 2
Wyatt, Sir Thomas, sonnetteering of,
52, 54

Wyman, W. H., 210

Wyndham, Mr. George, on the
'Sonnets,' 206

YONGE, Bartholomew, translation of
'Diana' by, 32

Yorkshire Tragedy, The, 89-90, 126,
174