ADDISON, Joseph, 271
Aeschylus, II, 126, 139, 200
Alaric, 190

Alchemist, The, 35, 82, 178
Alexandrines, 39, 190
Andromède, 36

Antony and Cleopatra, 118 ff.
Ariosto, 88, 253

Aristotle, 12, 17, 18, 24, 48, 75,
129, 145, 209, 289
Artaban, 92

Balzac, 258

Beaumont, Francis (see Fletcher,
John)

Betterton, Thomas, 181
Blank verse, 50, 181 ff.
Boccaccio, 261, 273, 288
Boccalini, 234
Boileau, IIO
Bossu, le, 137

Caesar, Julius, 57, 64
Calderon, 26
Calprenède, la, 92
Canterbury Tales, 283 ff.
Catiline, 27, 36, 39, 93, 99 ff.
Catullus, 280

Chances, The, 81, 105
Chapelain, Jean, 190, 214
Chapman, John, 157, 202, 206
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 126, 269, 273,
278, 283 ff.; Canterbury Tales,
283 ff.; Treatise of the Astrolabe,
178

Cicero, 6, 14

Cinthio, Giraldi, 85

Classicism (see Neo-Classicism)
Cléopatre, 92

Cleveland, John, 7, 21

Collier, Jeremy, 275, 283, 290
Comedy, 78, 82

Congreve, William, 204, 264
Corneille, Pierre, 29, 31, 32, 34,
35, 36, 37, 38, 49

Corneille, Thomas, 84

Cowley, Abraham, 9, 81, 91, 113,
114, 115, 151, 153, 155, 169,
172, 173, 260, 280, 285
Criticism, Definition of, 109;
Grounds of, in Tragedy, 126 ff.
Cudworth, Dr, 230
Cyropaedeia, 184

Dacier, 213

Dampier, Voyages, 258
Dante, 219, 273

D'Avenant, Sir William, 53, 54,
88, 89, 187, 191

Decorum of the Stage, 30, 32, 65,
66, 119, 120
Demosthenes, 80

Denham, Sir John, 9, 151, 153,
187, 252, 281
Discoveries, 13, 42
Donne, John, 21

Drama, I ff.; comedy, 78, 82;
decorum in, 28, 30, 32, 65, 66,
119, 120; farce, 78; heroic, 54,
88 ff.; Liaison des Scènes, 12,
19; rule of, 12 ff., 119, 129 ff.,
144; tragedy, 35, 54, 126 ff.;
tragi - comedy, 23, 27, 33;
unities of, 12, 18, 24, 26, 98,
118: time, 12, 18, 24, 26, 98,
209; place, 13, 18, 24, 69 ff.;
action, 13, 33

Fletcher, John, 24, 27, 35, 39 ff.,
50, 82, 85, 95; The Bloody
Brother (Rollo), 27, 136; The
Chances, 81, 105; The Faithful
Shepherdess, 39, 53, 98; The
Humorous Lieutenant, 98; A
King and no King, 132, 136,
138; The Little French Lawyer,
85; The Maid's Tragedy, 35,
128; Philaster, 98; Rule a Wife
and have a Wife, 85; The
Scornful Lady, 31, 39; The
Spanish Curate, 85; Valen-
tinian, 137; Wit without Money,
81

French plays, 19

Gower, 281

Greek drama, 12 ff.

Guarini, 151, 171, 177

Hamlet, 142

Heinsius, 83

the Witches, 115; Sad Shep-
herd, 39, 53; Sejanus, 27, 36,
39, 63, 74; Silent Woman, 33,
35, 42, 75, 81, 82: analysis of,
42; Volpone, 35, 36
Juvenal, 15, 22, 81

Katharsis, 131

Language, improvement of, 186,

204

Latin words in English, 103
Lely, Sir Peter, 167
Liaison des Scènes, 12, 19
Longinus, 109, 126, 129, 138, 142
Love's Labour's Lost, 98
Lucan, 15, 90, 191

Lucretius, 114, 163, 167, 168
Lydgate, 281

Macbeth, 99

Macrobius, 14

Magnetic Lady, 30

215, 260

Heroic plays, 54, 88 ff.
Heroic verse, 50, 87, 281
Hobbes, Thomas, 167, 273, 276
Homer, 176, 205, 216, 276
Horace, 16, 21, 23, 25, 29, 30, 44,
53, 54, 56, 60, 63, 79, 83, 91,
93, 102, 109, 110, 116, 123, 124,
129, 145, 148, 151, 152, 163,
170, 172, 176, 194, 202, 213, 251
Howard, Sir Robert, 49, 60
Humour, 33, 86

Imagination, 114, 192
Italian language, 179

Jonson, Ben, 13, 15, 17, 24, 27,
30, 33, 35, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42 ff.,
49, 59, 63, 79, 80, 81, 85, 93,
99, 107, 115, 133, 137, 138,
151, 152, 157; Alchemist, 33,
82, 178; Bartholomew Fair, 33,
45, 279; Catiline, 27, 36, 39,
93, 99 ff.; Discoveries, 13, 42;
Every Man in his Humour, 103;
Magnetic Lady, 30; Masque of

115

Masque of the Witches,
Measure for Measure, 98
Menander, 14, 85

Merry Wives of Windsor, 39, 133
Midsummer's Night's Dream, 115
Milton, John, 108, 173, 214, 248,
256, 273
Molière, 32, 46

Montaigne, Michel de, 119, 218,
278
Mulgrave, Earl of, 169, 206

Nature, 8, 11, 15, 18, 51, 53, 54,
56, 61, 78, 103 ff., 112
Neo-Classicism, 68; rule of, 12,
119; opposition to, 13, 89, 90,
93, 112, 120, 209, 260

Oedipus, 125, 130
Ogilby, John, 162
Opera, 175 ff.
Othello, 85

Ovid, 21, 81, 140, 146 ff., 272 ff.

Paradise Lost, 108, 173, 214, 248
Pericles, 98

Petrarch, 274, 278

beth, 99; Measure for Measure,
98; Merry Wives of Windsor,
39, 135; Midsummer's Night's
Dream, 115; Othello, 85;
Pericles, 98; Richard II, 143;
Romeo and Juliet, 85; Tem-
pest, 115, 138, 181; Troilus and
Cressida, 126 ff.

Sidney, Sir Philip, 116, 187, 260
Siege of Rhodes, 53, 54, 187
Sophocles, II, 14, 90, 125, 133,
134, 136, 137, 200
Spanish plots, 17, 27
Spenser, Edmund, 90, 158, 171,
214, 220, 226, 253, 256, 272
Style, 125, 149, 159, 170, 179,
192, 204, 260

Suckling, Sir John, 9, 40
Synaloepha, 203

Tasso, 90, 91, 92, 93, 171, 214,
220, 224, 226, 246, 273

Taylor, John, 57

Tempest, 115, 138, 181

Terence, 13, 18 ff., 30, 82, 84, 85
Theocritus, 85, 171

Tragedy, 35, 54, 126 ff.
Tragi-comedy, 23, 27, 23
Troilus and Cressida, 126 ff.
Tuke, Sir Samuel, 33, 42

Unities, in the Drama, 12, 18,
24, 26, 98, 118; of time, 12, 18,
24, 26, 98, 209; of place, 13,
18, 24, 69 ff.; of action, 13, 33

Virgil, 42, 68, 81, 85, 157, 194,
205, 210, 216, 224, 276;
Aeneid, 207 ff.
Volpone, 35, 36
Vossius, 182

Waller, Edmund, 9, 187, 210,
224, 276
Wit, 81

Wotton, Sir Henry, 234
Wycherley, William, The Plain
Dealer, III

Xenophon, 184