Rowley, William, 308, 341.
Rymer, Thomas, xiv, etc., xl, 306, 308, 310;
criticised by Rowe, 9, 10, 20;
by Theobald, 78, 86;
by Warburton, 103, 105;
by Johnson, 117, 120;
by Morgann, 251;
Foedera, 69, 314.
Sachs, Hans, 200, 339.
Sallust, 34, 36.
Salmasius, 111, 159.
Saxo Grammaticus, 133, 197, 198, 338.
Scaliger, J. C., 190, 337.
Scaliger, J. J., 111;
quoted, 159.
Schlegel, A. W. von, x.
Selden, John, 14, 109, 307, 319.
Seneca, 73.
Serenus, Quintus, 79.
Seward, Thomas, 320, 327.
Sewell, George, xxiii, xxviii, xli, 168, 184, 305, 309, 310, 329, 334, 340.
Shaftesbury, Earl of, xxxiv, 90, 317.
Shakespeare, Rowe's biography, 1-23;
Theobald's account of [pg 356] his life, 65-72;
story of deer-stealing, 3, 67, 204, 304;
his father “a butcher,” 205;
said to have been a “schoolmaster,” 205, 207;
said to have “held horses,” 164, 327;
acted the Ghost in Hamlet, 4, 206;
acted in Sejanus, 68;
story of dispute with Alleyn, 341;
popularity in eighteenth century, ix-xiii;
adaptations of his plays, xii-xiii;
his neglect of the dramatic rules, xiv-xxi, 10, 14, 16, 118, etc., 126, etc.;
his learning, xxi-xxvii, 2, 31-46, 52-55, 74-76, 135, etc., 162-215, 249;
eighteenth century editions, xxvii-xxxi, 143, etc.;
his characters, xxxii-xxxviii, 48, 64, 116, 117, 247;
his power over the passions, 48;
his sentiments, 49;
attention to prevailing taste, 49, 73, 103, 104;
plays upon words, 13, 73, 125, 126, 267;
bombast, 45, 124;
anachronisms, 32, 56, 87, 124, 316;
his “magic,” 14, 15, 252-254;
the “original of our English tragical harmony,” 25, 140;
spurious plays, 59, 308, 313;
corruption of text, 51, 93, 248, 343;
sonnets neglected during eighteenth century, 312;
glossary, 83, 315, 317;
compared with Jonson, 77;
with Addison, 134, 323;
statue, 95, 318.
“Shakespeare, William,” Compendious or Briefe Examination, (1751), 204, 340.
Sheares, William, 181.
Shelton, Thomas, 181.
Shiels, Robert, 335.
Shippen, Robert, liii.
Shirley, James, xlv, 181, 182, 333.
Sidney, Sir Philip, xvi, 124, 183, 186.
Skelton, John, 193, 337.
Smith, Adam, xxxv.
Smith, Joseph, liii, lvi.
Smith, Sir Thomas, 132.
Smith, William, 210.
Smith, William, “of Harlestone in Norfolk,” 317, 320.
Somers, Sir George, 69, 314.
Sophocles, 18, 40, 55, 176.
Southern, John, 330.
Spanheim, 111.
Spectator, The, xi, 105, 307, 308, 309, 313, 319;
Dennis's Letters to, xxxix, xl, 309.
Speght, Thomas, 335.
Spence, Joseph, Anecdotes, 312, 322.
Spenser, Edmund, 6, 7, 68, 69, 110, 140, 175, 183, 186, 314, 331, 335, 340.
Stafford, William, 205, 340.
Stanyhurst, Richard, 183, 189.
Steele, Richard, x, xl.
Steevens, George, xxvii, xxxviii, 313, 326, 340.
Strype, John, 204.
Suckling, Sir John, 8, 167, 305, 328.
Summers. See Somers.
Surrey, Earl of, 183.
Sylvester, Joshua. See Du Bartas.
Tacitus, 54.
Tarlton, Richard, 212, 345.
Tatler, The, x, xi.
Taylor, Edward, xxi.
Taylor, John, the Water-Poet, 163, 184, 208, 212, 326, 334, 344, 345.
Tempest (alteration by Dryden and Davenant), 14.
Terence, 11, 200, 201, 320, 338, 339.
Testament of Creseide, 186, 335.
Thackeray, W. M., x.