Addison’s “Drummer,” origin of, 419.
Adventures of the Elizabethan era, 375—378.
Alchemy, modern opinions on, 631.
Allen, Cardinal, 424.
Alliteration in Spenser’s verse, 477.
Anglo-Saxons arrive in Britain, 17; history of their career, 28—36.
Anonymous authorship, 672.
Arcadia, the, of Sir P. Sidney, 451—459.
Ariosto turned into allegory, 489.
Arthur, King of Britain, 17.
Ascham, R., and his “Schoolmaster,” 359—367.
Atterbury, Bishop, vindicates the genuine character of Clarendon’s History, 731.
Audley, Lord Chancellor, enriched by church-lands, 318.
Augmentation, Court of, 318.
Babble, etymology of, 3, n.
Bacon, Francis, Lord; a believer in occult science, 646—649; his philosophy, 650, 660.
Bale, Bishop, and his satires, 358.
Barclay’s Eclogues, 287.
Baron, the, of the Middle Ages, 71.
Beowulf and his exploits, 51—58.
Bibles publicly burned in Oxford, 335; first translated into English, 369; afterwards prohibited, ib.
Bible and Key, mode of discovering thieves, 420, n.
Bibliotheque Bleue, 260.
Bodley, Sir Thos., founds his great library, 664—669; refuses to include plays in his library, 525.
Brandt, S., and his “Ship of Fools,” 285—288.
Britain and its early inhabitants, 12—23.
Brutus lands in Britain, 2.
Burbage, the actor of Shakespeare’s heroes, 534.
Burleigh, Lord, his hostility to Spenser, 467—471.
Burnet, Bishop: his “History of his own time,” 735—737.
Burton and his curious pamphlets, 267.
Butler, S., criticizes Jonson and Shakespeare, 551, 552.
Cædmon, the Anglo-Saxon poet, 37—50.
Calamy, Dr., casts doubt on Clarendon’s History, 728.
Calumny, and its uses, 429.
Camoens explained by allegory, 489.
Campion, Dr., his opinion of rhyme, 396.
Casaubon publishes Dee’s intercourse with spirits, 636.
Caxton and his works, 212—220.
Cecil, Lord, plots against Rawleigh, 602—604.
Campernoun begs an estate, 317.
Chapman and his “Homer,” 522.
Characters, books of, 676.
Charles I. a student of Shakespeare, 548.
Chaucer and his English, 136; his life and works, 158—176.
Cheke, Sir J., on the English language, 133.
Chester Whitsun-plays, 346.
Chivalry, institution of, 70.
Classic authors neglected, 415.
Cobham conspiracy, the, 604.
Cockram, H., his dictionary, 139, n.
Collectors, and their useful labours, 661.
Comedy, an indefinite term originally, 502; Dante so styles his poem, ib.; the first English comedy, 507.
Commonwealth, origin of the term, 712, 713.
Corsellis, and the early Oxford press, 210.
Costar, the early printer, 209.
Cotton, Sir Robert, his famous library, 668; his melancholy death, 669.
Coxeter prepares an edition of old plays, 559.
Cromwell and his grants of church lands, 318; his opinion of his position, 699.
Cross, the enthusiasm for the sign of, 79.
Crowley, Robert, and his works, 329—332.
Cryptography practised by Dr. Dee, 640.
Cudworth, R., and his “System of the Universe,” 714—723.
Dante and his allegories, 491.
Day, John, the printer, 748.
Dee, Dr., the occult philosopher, 617; his scholastic career, 618, 619; his troubles at court, 620; his acquaintance with Princess Elizabeth, 621; fixes a lucky day for her coronation, ib.; is consulted by her privy council, 622; his library, ib.; his works, 623; his mystic studies, 624—629; his foreign travels, 630—634; his return and death, 635, 636; his connexion with spirits, 636; his political position, 640.
Descartes, a favourer of occult philosophy, 647.
Dictionaries of rhyme, 403.
Digby, Sir Kenelm, his sympathetic powder, 646.
Divining Rod, account of the, 624.
Dodsley’s edition of old plays, 559, n.
Douce, Francis, and his collections, 662.
Dramatic Taste in the time of Charles II., 550, 551.
Dramatists of the reign of Elizabeth, 516—528.
Drayton, proud of theatrical praise, 621; his poetical works, 581—589.
Dryden and his criticisms on Shakespeare, 554—556.
“Ecclesiastical Polity,” by Richard Hooker, 439—450.
Edward the Sixth, character of, 323.
Elizabeth, Queen, studies under Ascham, 359—363; objects to religious pictures, 366; her popular politics, 370—380; her sensitiveness to public opinion, 379; compares herself to Richard II., 380; her varied orthography, 382; fears to be thought a poetess, 672.
Elphinstone writes words as pronounced, 389.
Elyot, Sir Thomas, and his “Boke of the Governor,” 268—275.
England, derivation of the name, 25.
English priestly colleges abroad, 424.
Engraving on copper, invention of. 206.
Epigrams, books of, 676.
Essex, Earl of, introduced to Queen Elizabeth as an opponent of Rawleigh, 596; his incompetence as a general, 600; his disgrace and death, 602.
Fabulous early history of Britain, 1.
Fairies disbelieved, 416.
Farmer, Dr., his annotations on Shakespeare, 567.
Finiguerra discovers the art of engraving for printing, 206.
Fish, S., and his “Supplication of Beggars,” 741.
Florence, first public library at, 663.
Fludd, the occult philosopher, 642—649.
Foreign Criticism and its value, 417.
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs popularized, 374.
Franklin contemplates spelling by sound. 388.
Freedom of the press, 756.
French words derived from Latin, 97, n.; ordered to be solely used for law, 125.
Friendship a romantic attachment in the days of Elizabeth, 451.
Fust’s first printed Bible, 204.
Gammer Gurton’s Needle long considered the first English comedy, 507—509.
Gentry, rise of, 371.
Ghosts, controversies concerning, 419.
Gibberish, derivation of the term, 651, n.
Glanvil’s treatise on witchcraft, 418, 419.
Gorboduc, the first English tragedy, 503—506.
Gower the poet, his life and works, 177—182.
Greek a fashionable language among ladies, 360.
Greene, Robt., attack on Shakespeare, 536.
Gregory of Nazianzen, author of the earliest sacred dramas, 339.
Grey, Lady Jane, her classic attainments, 360.
Guiana, Rawleigh’s voyages to, 598—600.
Gutenberg, the early printer, 208.
Hakluyt’s collection of voyages, 377.
Hale, Sir Matthew, and his judgment on witches, 417.
Hall, John, and his work on monarchy, 709—711.
Hanmer, Sir T., his edition of Shakespeare, 562.
Hariot, Thos., the traveller, 611—613.
Harrington, Sir J., on poetry, 409; his Oceana, 692—708.
Harvey, Gabriel, introduces Spenser to Sir P. Sidney, 460; supposed to be the annotator of the Shepherd’s Calendar, 461.
Hawes, Stephen, the poet, 230—233.
Hastings, battle of, 60.
Henry the Eighth, his literary character, 250—255.
Henry the Seventh, as a patron of literature, 228—233.
Henslow, the Elizabethan manager, 520, n., 523.
Hexameter verse ridiculed by Nash, 396.
Heywood, John, and his works, 354—358.
Higden, R., and the Polychronicon, 236.
History and its sources, 234—239.
Hooker, the favourite author of James I., 679; his Ecclesiastical Polity, 439—450; the simplicity of his life, 440; his marriage, 441; his uneasy mastership of the Temple, 442; his return to the country, 444; his premature death and unconcocted manuscripts, 445—447.
Hoskyns, a critic and poet, temp. James I., 623, n.
Huarte’s Examination of Men’s Wit, 579.
Humours, and their significance, 578.
Huguenot satiric plays, 351.
Icelandic poetry, 34.
Interludes, their invention, 348.
Invention of printing, 203—213.
Jackson, Z., comments on Shakespeare, 547, n.
James I., ratifies the belief in witchcraft, 417; his literary character, 677—680; his polemical feats, 682—684.
James, Dr., first librarian to Sir Thos. Bodley, 665—667.
Jesuits in England, 423.
Johnson’s edition of Shakespeare, 563—566.
Jones, Dr., and his Phonography, 388.
Jonson, Ben, employed by Henslowe—to add to other’s plays, 523; his study of humours, 578—583; assists in Rawleigh’s History of the World, 613; his literary intercourse with James I., 680.
Joubert’s French orthoepy, 385.
Junius, J., a student of our ancient literature, 45—47.
Kelley, Edw., the alchemist, 625—633.
Kyd’s play of Jeronimo, 523.
Lambe, Chas., his specimens of the dramatic poets, 519, n., 528, n.
Languages, European, origin of, 96—110; English, its origin, 111—127; vicissitudes of, 128—141.
“Leicester’s Commonwealth,” a political libel, 427—435; its author challenged by Sir P. Sidney, 454.
L’Estrange, the book licenser, 754.
Lexicographers, the Elder, 138.
Local Names, their derivation, 27.
London in the days of Shakespeare, 673.
Lydgate, the Monk of Bury, 196—202.
Mabinogion, the, 21, n.
Magic, early belief in, 413.
Magic Mirrors, 627, and note.
Malone’s edition of Shakespeare, 568.
Mandeville, the traveller, 151—157.
Manuscripts, their value in the middle ages, 221—223.
Marie de France, the poetess, 66.
Marprelate pamphlets, 747.
Martyr, Peter, opposes school logic, 334; anecdotes of, 335—337.
Masham, Lady, her neglect of her father’s works, 722.
Massinger’s plays, faulty in printed editions, 547, n.
Matthew of Paris, the monkish chronicler, 236.
Memoirs, publishers of contemporary, 724—737.
Mersenne, Père, attacks the Rosacrusians, 647.
Metres of the ancients used by the moderns, 303.
Microscope, invention of, 207.
Milton resembles Cædmon, 40—50; his principles of orthography, 392; his account of Charles I. studying Shakespeare, 548, 9.
Minstrels of the Middle Ages, 75.
Monasteries, spoliation of, 316—321.
Monopolies in the reign of Elizabeth, 594; of printing, 748.
Monkery popular with the people, 372.
Montague, Mrs., defends Shakespeare, 572.
Moralities, or moral plays, 347.
More, Sir T., his psychological character, 289—302.
Mulcaster attempts orthographical reform, 385; his praise of the English language, 386.
Mysteries, or Scriptural plays, 344—348.
Nobility, the, decline in grandeur in the time of Henry VII., 371; decay of great households, 372; restrained in their marriages by Elizabeth, 374.
Occasionalists, 423.
Occleve, the scholar of Chaucer, 191—195.
Oceana, the, of Sir J. Harrington, 692—705.
Oldmixon denies the genuine character of Clarendon’s history, 728—732.
Orthoepy as a means of correcting orthography, 382—392.
Orthography in the days of Elizabeth, 382—387.
Painter’s “Palace of Pleasure,” 518.
Pamphlets, their history and value, 685—691.
Pastime of Pleasure, by Hawes, 230—233.
Partnership in dramatic authorship, 523—524.
Philosophers of the 16th century, 651—653.
Piers Plowman, his vision, 183—190.
Pinkerton and his “improved language,” 388.
Polemics in the time of James I., 381—384.
Political pamphlets, remarkable history of a curious collection, 687—691.
Polyolbion, by Drayton, analysed, 584—589.
Pope’s edition of Shakespeare, 558—590, n.
Possessioners, 331.
Preaching, when introduced, 326.
Predecessors of Shakespeare, 514.
Press, the, dreaded by early writers, 670—673.
Printing, invention of, 203—213; first introduced to England, 214—220.
Psychological history of Rawleigh, 590.
Public Libraries first founded, 661.
Public Opinion, rise of, 368—380.
Puritans in the time of James I., 681.
Puttenham’s Arte of English Poesie, 405—412.
Ralph Roister Doister, the first English comedy, 509.
Ramus opposes Aristotle, 652.
Rawleigh, Sir W., his character, 590; his early career, 591; voyages undertaken at his suggestion, 593; his favour at court, 595; his reverse of fortune, 597; his affected romance of love to Elizabeth, ib.; his first voyage, 598; his restoration to the queen’s favour, 601; the Cobham conspiracy, 604; unpopularity with James I., ib.; last voyage, 605; death, 606; his ability as a historiographer, 607; his great general knowledge, 608; his long imprisonment, 610; his philosophical theology, 612.
Reed’s edition of Shakespeare, 568.
Reformation, the, 324.
Retainers of the old Nobility, 370.
Reynard the Fox, 260.
Rhyme in Italy and France, 393, 394; origin of, 399—402.
Rhyming Dictionaries, 403.
Romances, Anglo-Norman, 65; Gothic, 81—95.
Romans, the, in Britain, 13—16.
Roper’s Life of More, 291, n.
Rosacrusian confraternity, 642.
Rota, the, a political club, 699.
Rowe’s edition of Shakespeare, 557.
Roy, W., satirizes Wolsey, 280.
Rymer, and his Shakespearian Criticism, 553—556.
Sackville, Earl of Dorset, the author of the first English tragedy, 504.
Sacrament of Rome ridiculed, 334.
Satires, Ancient, 257.
Satirists, early, 675.
Saxon Chronicle, the, 68.
Scogin the Jester, 263, n.
Scot, Reginald, his “Discoverie of Witchcraft,” 413—422.
Selden, John, notes Drayton’s poem, the “Polyolbion,” 586.
Servant’s Song, 511, n.
Shadwell’s Lancashire Witches, 420; founds his dramatic style on Jonson, 582.
Shakespeare, patronized by James I., 679; indebted to Sidney’s Arcadia for some poetic passages,452; his early dramas, 518—523; his predecessors and contemporaries, 514—528; vicissitudes of his fame, 529; his use of the plots, &c., of predecessors, 530—532; incidents of his early life, 533, 534; his dramatic career, 534—538; his poems, 539—540; his treatment by contemporaries, 541; popularity with the public, 542; careless of his own fame, 543; first edition of his works, 545; editions by Rowe, 557; Pope, 558; Theobald, 559; Sir T. Hanmer, 561; Warburton, 563; Johnson, ib.; the Variorum edition, 567; annotations by Rymer, 553; Farmer, 567; Reed, Steevens, Malone, 568; Warton, 569; Voltaire, 566.
Sidney, Sir P., and his Arcadia, 451—453; his chivalric manners, 454; his appreciation of the female character, 455; his great work published by his sister, 458; the general regret at his death, 459; critical injustice to Sidney from Horace Walpole, 451—458.
Skulls as drinking cups, 32, n.
Smith, Sir T., attempts to correct orthography, 383.
Sorcery, and its believers, 414.
Spanish Dramatic History, 526.
Spelling, and its difficulties, 389—391.
Spenser, incidents of his life little known, 460; his introduction to Sir P. Sidney, ib.; his Shepherd’s Calendar, 461; his mode of Life, 462; his Irish adventures, 464—467; his death, 473; his Faery Queen, 475—486; its allegorical character, 492.
Spiritual visions of Dr. Dee, 628—636.
Spoliation of the monasteries, 316—321.
Star Chamber decrees against books, 751.
Stationers, their origin, 744.
Steevens, edition of Shakespeare, 568.
Still, Bishop, the Author of an Early Comedy, 508.
Stonehenge, 10, n.
Surrey, the poetical Earl of, 303—315.
Sympathetic Powder, for magical cures, 616.
Tales, popular, their origin, 261.
Tarlton’s jest against Sir W. Rawleigh, 595.
Tasso, explains the “Gierusalemme Liberata,” by allegory, 490.
Technical terms of Rhetoric, 408.
Telescope, invention of, 207.
Theatres, ancient, in London, 515, 516.
Theobald’s edition of Shakespeare, 559, 560.
Thomason’s remarkable collection of political phamphlets, 687—691.
Thorkelin, the Danish Scholar, 57.
Tindal’s Testament, curious narrative concerning, 743.
Toland dishonestly inserts a political libel in Harrington’s works, 708.
Tower of London, scientific men imprisoned in, 610.
Tragedy, the first English, 503—506.
Travellers satirized by Bishop Hall, 378.
Travers, and his controversy with Hooker, 442, 443.
Troynovant founded, 2.
Tyrwhit, editor of Chaucer, 175.
Udall, N., author of the first English comedy, 513.
Universe, Cudworth’s system of the, 714—723.
Upton’s edition of Spenser, 495—500.
Utopia, Sir T. More’s, 299.
Variorum Edition of Shakespeare, 567.
Venice, its government extolled, 693; fallacy of such praise, 702.
Ventriloquism practised by Magicians, 626.
Vernacular dialects of Europe, 96—110; of England, 124.
Verse, Anglo-Saxon, 32.
Vicissitudes of the English language, 128—141; of the French, 130; of the Latin, 131.
Virginia, named by Queen Elizabeth, 593.
Voltaire criticises Shakespeare, 570—572.
Warburton’s edition of Shakespeare, 562, 563.
Warton, T., comments on Shakespeare, 569.
Weapon-salve, for magical cures, 646.
Webster, J., his elaborate treatise on witchcraft, 418.
Welsh memorials of early Britain, 20.
Wickliffe’s translation of the Bible, 123.
William of Malmesbury, the Monkish historian, 237.
William I. invades England, 59.
Wilson, Thos., endangered at Rome for his writings on rhetoric, 106; his translation of Demosthenes, 374.
Witchcraft, early belief in, 413.
Witch-finders, 417.
Wolsey’s war against the press, 740.
Women, satires on, 265.
Wyatt, Sir T., the poet, 312—315.
Yarrington and his tragedies, 518, n.