Edmund Spenser, and its allusion to Shakespeare in 1594, 105 Combe, John, Shakespeare's supposed epitaph upon, 171
Combe, William and John, Shake- speare's purchase of 107 acres of land from, 171
"Comedy of Errors" quoted respect- ing a jealous wife, 67
Confession of Faith by John Shake-
speare, its want of authenticity, 112 Confirmation and Exemplification of arms to the Shakespeares, 53. 55 Cooke, Clarencieux from 1566 to 1592, and his grants of arms, 52 Cooke, James, his translation of Dr. Hall's medical work, 216 Cunningham, Mr. P., his Handbook of London regarding the Mermaid, 227 Curtain and Theatre in Shoreditch or- dered to be pulled down, 137
Daborne, Robert, his patent, with Shakespeare, Field, and Kirkham, for the Children of the Queen's Revels, 197, 198
Daniel, Samuel, his appointment con-
nected with the Children of the Queen's Revels, 173
Davies, Rev. R., his additions to Ful- man's MSS. regarding the deer- stealing question, 69; his statement that Shakespeare died a Roman Catholic, 216
Day, John, his "Humour out of
Dearth of corn in England in 1596
Declaration of good conduct from the Players at Blackfriars in 1589, 82 Deer-stealing, whether Shakespeare were guilty of it, 68; a common and venial offence, 71
Dethick, Sir William, called to account for granting arms, especially to John Shakespeare, 54
Dorset, the Earl of, and Aurelian
Townshend's daughter, 72 Dramatic Authors, when also usually Actors, 87
Drayton, Michael, and Henry Willoby, their mention of Shakespeare's "Lu- crece in 1594, 90; a Warwickshire man, 95. 217; his relinquishment of dramatic poetry, 173; cured of a tertian ague by Dr. Hall, 217 Droeshout, Martin, his engraving of Shakespeare in the folio of 1623, and its resemblance, 223 Drummond of Hawthornden, his speech for a lion, 151
Dutton, Lawrence, one of the leaders of the Queen's Players in 1592, 99 Dyce, the Rev. Alexander, his incorrect edition of "Salmacis and Herma- phroditus," 89
"Eastward Ho!" a comedy, the Au- thors of it imprisoned, 179 'Egerton Papers," published by the Camden Society in 1840, 73 Egerton, Sir Thomas, present to, of a buck by Sir Thomas Lucy, 73; en- tertains Q. Elizabeth in 1602, 157 Elizabeth, Queen, and the passage in "Midsummer Night's Dream," 78; her various companies of Players, 75; her public and personal patron- age of the stage, 157; her death, and ballad upon it, 159 Ellesmere, Baron, Lord Chancellor, and the Players in Blackfriars, 189 Ellesmere, the Earl of, his Translation of Von Raumer, 178
"Encomion of Lady Pecunia," by Richard Barnfield, the two editions in 1598 and 1605, 143
Falstaff, originally called Oldcastle, 153 Field, Henry, of Stratford, tanner, in-
ventory of his goods in 1592, 112 Field, Richard, the printer, his origin
and history, 113 Fletcher, Bishop, the father of the dramatist, his objectionable marriage with Lady Baker, 169
Fletcher, Laurence, the actor, made free of Aberdeen, 164; the first name in the Patent of James I. in 1603, 168 or Lazarus, his interest in the Blackfriars Theatre, 190
Florio, John, the Earl of Southamp- ton's bounty to, 116 Fluellen, Bardolph, and Audrey, names in Stratford, 109
Fortune Theatre in Cripplegate, the building and opening of, 149; re- moval of Henslowe and Alleyn to, 148; and Globe, dramatic perform- ances limited to, 150; pulled down in 1649, 208
Free-school of Stratford-upon-Avon,
and its masters, during the youth of Shakespeare, 59
Gascoigne, George, his "Princely Plea-
sures of Kenilworth," 1576, 78 Gentle, an epithet especially applied to Shakespeare, 106. 226 "Ghost of Richard III.," a poem by
Christopher Brooke, 212
Globe Theatre, the building of, 116; and Fortune, dramatic representa- tions limited to, 150; opening of in 1594, 118. 121; and Rose Theatres allowed to be kept open, 139; the burning and rebuilding of the Globe in 1613, 118. 207; what became of Shakespeare's property in it, 202; pulled down in 1644, 208 Gowry's Conspiracy, a play upon, for- bidden, 175
Greene, Robert, George Peele, and Christopher Marlowe, their claims to Spenser's Eulogy in 1591, 97 Greene, Robert, his "Groatsworth of Wit," 1592, published by Henry Chettle, 101; his death in 1592,
ib.; his attack upon Shakespeare, under the name of "Shake-scene," 102; quoted on the value of a thea- trical wardrobe in 1592, 190 Greene, Thomas, a popular comedian, 77; a reconciled Roman Catholic in 1592, 110; "Tu Quoque," a co- medy in which Thomas Greene acted with great success, 77
Greene, Thomas, solicitor and cousin to Shakespeare, his letter regarding him, 210, 211 Gunpowder plot of 1605, John Mars- ton's letter regarding, 179
Hall, Dr. John, married to W. Shake- speare's daughter Susanna, 184; at- tended his father-in-law in his last illness, 216; his "Select Observa- tions on English Bodies," translated by James Cooke, ib.; inscription commemorating him, 219 Hall, Edmund and Emma, sale by, to
John Shakespeare in 1574, of two freehold houses in Henley Street, 56 Hall, Elizabeth, born in 1607-8, 206 "Hamlet," the old play of, mentioned by Thomas Nash in 1587, 61; the Ghost in, performed by Shakespeare, 85; the earliest editions of, in 1603 and 1604, 183
Hall, Mrs. Susanna, the inscription upon her, 219
Hallam, Henry, quoted on the surpass- ing merits and character of Shake- speare, 229, 230
Hart, Charles, the actor, whether he
came from Stratford, 206 Hart, William, an infant, born and baptized in 1600, 205 Hathaway, Anne, reasons for her speedy marriage with Shakespeare, 63; not beautiful, 65; from whence she came, probably from Shottery, 67 Hathaway, Richard, the father of Anne, his residence, 67; a Dramatist of that name, ib. Heminge, John, a party with Shake- speare to a deed in 1613, 204 Henley Street, William Shakespeare
probably born in, 48; two freehold houses in, bought by John Shake- speare in 1574, 56
Henry VII. did not reward the ances-
tors of John Shakespeare, 39 "Henry VIII." or "All is True," the name of the play when the Globe Theatre was burnt down, 208 Henslowe and Alleyn, their removal from the Rose Theatre to the For- tune, in Cripplegate, 148 Henslowe, Philip, his Diary quoted respecting W. Kempe, 100; specting Ben Jonson's "Every Man in his Humour," 133; Church- warden, and rated to the poor, 187 Heywood, Thomas, his Apology for Actors, 1612, 82; his " Rape of Lucrece," 1608, perhaps the worst printed play in English, 142; trans- lations by him from Ovid imputed to Shakespeare, 144 "Horseload of Fools," Richard Tarl- ton's Jig of the, 80 Huband, Raphe, his sale of a lease of
Tithes to W. Shakespeare, 182 "Humorous Day's Mirth," 1599, by
George Chapman, 134
Hunsdon, Lord, his letter regarding the Blackfriars Theatre, 122
Ingon, or Ington, meadow rented by
John Shakespeare, 55
"Isle of Dogs," a play by Thomas Nash, forbidden, 136
Italy, France, and Spain, poets, &c., who visited those countries, 100
Jaggard, William, and "The Passionate
Pilgrim," 1599 and 1612, 143 James I., his Patent to the Players of the Lord Chamberlain in May, 1603, 168; brought on the stage deroga- torily, 177; his supposed letter to Shakespeare in return for "Mac- beth," 183
James, Elias, Shakespeare's imputed epitaph upon, 229
Joan, a favourite name with the Shake- speares, and why, 50 Johnson, Gerard, the sculptor of Shake- speare's bust at Stratford, 222 Jonson, Ben, his notice of a passage in "Julius Cæsar," 62; his Folio of 1616, and why certain plays were excluded, 93; new particulars re- garding his Mother, 132; his duel with Gabriel Spenser in 1598, 135; his "Every Man in his Humour" first acted in 1598, 133; his "Sejanus," 174; his connexion with the Gun- powder Plot, 179; his letter to Sir R. Cecill on the Gunpowder Plot, 180; his engagement to write the play of Richard Crookback, 213; his lines on Shakespeare as engraved by Martin Droeshout, 224 "Julius Cæsar," by Shakespeare, a passage in, noticed by Ben Jonson in his "Discoveries," 62 Juvenile Companies, their great success about the year 1600, 196
Kempe, William, the comic actor, and successor of Tarlton in 1589, 82; his challenge to E. Alleyn at the Globe, 149; his abandonment of the Lord Chamberlain's Players, 100; his supposed death in 1603, ib.; and Robert Armyn, complained of for personality, 176
Kenilworth Castle, was Shakespeare there in 1575? 77; G. Gascoigne's "Princely Pleasures" of, 1576, 78; R. Laneham's letter from, ib. Kimbolton, Lord, John Marston's letter to, revealing the Gunpowder Plot, 179 "Kind-heart's Dream," by Henry Chettle, and his subsequent apology to Shakespeare, 103
Kingsbury, Warwickshire, Edmund Spenser there resident, 95 King's Players, Patent by James I. to Fletcher, Shakespeare, Burbadge, &c., 68; complaints against, for personalities in plays, 175
Lambert, Edmund, married to the
sister of Mary Shakespeare, 57 Lambert, John, his mortgage of 401. upon Asbyes, and Chancery-suit, 128 Laneham, John, the actor, 78 Laneham, Robert, his Letter from Kenilworth, 1575, 78
Large, his protestant sermon at Strat-
ford, on a marriage in 1537, 111 Leicester, Earl of, royal licence to the
Players of, in 1574, 83
Lintot, B., his edit. of Shakespeare's Poems in 1710, 183
Lodge, Thomas, his allusion to "Venus
and Adonis," in 1589, 117 London, the Corporation of, and their hostility to theatres, 80; their com- plaint against Kempe and Armyn, 176; their wish to buy out the Players in the Blackfriars, 189 Lord Mayor of London, the Players of the Lord Admiral and Lord Strange summoned before, 81 "Lucrece," 1594, when it was pro-
bably written by Shakespeare, 90 "Lucrece, the Rape of," a play, by Thomas Heywood, 1608, 142 Lucy, Sir Thomas, of Charlcote, his animosity to W. Shakespeare, 68; Shakespeare's Ballad on, 70; his death in 1600, 72; ridicule of, in "The Merry Wives of Windsor," ib.; his son presents a buck to Sir Thomas Egerton in 1602, 73; Ma- lone's argument that he had no park, ib.; a Commissioner against Recusants in 1592, 108
Lucy, William, his discord with the inhabitants of Stratford on reli- gious points, in 1537, 111 Lyly, John, the dramatist, not entitled to Spenser's eulogy of 1591, 97
Mainwaring, Arthur, his promotion of
inclosures near Stratford, 211 Manningham's Diary quoted respecting
Spenser and his Epigram, 96; re- garding "Twelfth Night," 156; an anecdote of Shakespeare and Burbadge, 157 Marlowe, Christopher, killed by Francis
Archer in 1593, 86; ballad upon his death, ib.; his lameness, and that of Shakespeare, 226; H. Chettle's allusion to, 104
Marston, John, his letter to Lord Kimbolton on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, 179
Martin Mar-prelate introduced on the stage by the choir-boys, or Children of St. Paul's, 81. 98 Meres, Francis, his Palladis Tamia, 1598, and Shakespeare's plays there enumerated, 140; his residence near the theatres in Southwark, 141 Mermaid Club established by Sir W. Raleigh in 1603, and the wit-com- bats at it, 227
Nash, Thomas, his allusion to Attorneys' Clerks, 61; praise of Kempe in his "Almond for a Parrot," 1589, 82; imprisonment for his play "The Isle of Dogs," 136
Nashe, Thomas, who married Shake- speare's granddaughter, inscription on his monument, 219
New Place, or the Great House, Strat- ford upon Avon, bought by W. Shakespeare in or before 1598, 146; the mulberry-tree in the garden and its fate, 147; by whom inhabited about the year 1612, 206 Newington Butts Theatre, by what players occupied, 119
Niccols, Richard, his poem on the death of Queen Elizabeth, 161
Norfolk, John Duke of, his Household-
book printed in 1844, 75
"Oldcastle, the first part of the Life of," a play falsely imputed to Shake- speare, 152
Oldcastle, Sir John, Falstaff originally
Oldys's MS. notes to Langbaine, 65 "Othello," played before Queen Eliza- beth at Harefield in 1602, 157
"Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury," by Francis Meres, published in 1598, the list of plays in, 140 "Passionate Pilgrim," by W. Shake- speare, 1599 and 1612, and that R. Barnfield had no share in it, 143 Paul's, St., the Children of, silenced for introducing Martin Mar-prelate on the stage, 81. 98
Payments to Players at various early
dates in Stratford-upon-Avon, 74 Peele, George, his employment and share in the Blackfriars Theatre in 1589, 83; his works edited by the Rev. A. Dyce, ib.; not one of the Lord Chamberlain's Players in 1590, 84; his "Honour of the Garter," 1593, 86; his abandonment of the Lord Chamberlain's Players, 103 Petrarch's Seven Penitential Psalms translated by George Chapman, 177 Philip, Earl of Pembroke and Mont- gomery, on deer-stealing, 72 Phillips, Augustine, the actor, his death in 1605, 126; his original ex- amination before Popham, C. J., and others regarding a play, 153 Phillips, Sir Thomas, Bart., his dis- covery of Shakespeare's Marriage- bond, 62; his discovery of Tho. Whittington's will, 165
Phoenix Theatre, in Drury-lane, pulled down in 1649, 208 Plague, prevalent in Stratford in 1564, 49; in London in 1592-3, 99. 114 Players at the Blackfriars Theatre, their Certificate, 123; first rewarded by the Corporation of Stratford-upon-
Avon when John Shakespeare was Bailiff, 74
Plays, &c. forbidden by the Corporation of Stratford in 1602, 76; with titles like those of Shakespeare, but older than his time, 120
Poets careless about the beauty of their wives, and why, 65
Pope, Thomas, the actor, his will and death, 119. 169
Privy Council, letter from the, respect- ing Thomas Nash and his play of the "Isle of Dogs," 137 Pullyson, Thomas, Lord Mayor of London in 1585, his letter on the consumption of venison, 71
Quyney, or Quiney, Adrian, fined in
1558 for not keeping a gutter near his house clean, 46 Quyney, Richard, his letter to Shake- speare for a loan of 30%., 147 Quyney, Thomas, married to Shake- speare's daughter, Judith, 147; and their children, 215
Rainolds, Dr. John, upon stealing deer, robbing orchards, &c. in 1599, 71 Recusancy, supposed, of John Shake- speare in 1592, 109 Remonstrance of the actors at the Blackfriars Theatre in 1596, 123 Replingham, William, and the tithes of Stratford, 207
"Return from Parnassus," 1606, the praise of Shakespeare in it, 145 Revels, Children of the Queen's, list of plays proposed to be acted by, 198 "Richard II.," or "Henry IV.," a play not by Shakespeare, acted at the Globe in Feb. 1601, 154 "Richard Crookback," a play which Ben Jonson engaged to write for Hens- lowe, 213
"Romeo and Juliet" never assigned to its author in the 4tos, 141 Rowe, Nicholas, his assertion that John Shakespeare was a dealer in wool, 41; his statement respecting William Shakespeare's education, 60; on the deer-stealing question,
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