Acolastus, 316
Actors, Nash on, 316;
as playwrights, 156-158
Addison, 25, 381, 396, 412
"Adventures of Covent Garden," 404-408;
412
"Alcida," Greene's, 112, 155
Alexander, poem imitated from the French romance, 39
Alfarache, Guzman d', 292, 293, 294
Alfred, literature under, 33
"Almahide," 370
"Almanzor and Almahide," 392
Amadis of Gaul, Munday's translation of, 349
Amourists, The, 245
"Anatomie of Absurditie," Nash's, 169 note, 279
Andrews, Dr., Sermons by, 382
"Andromaque," Racine's, English translation of, 395, 396
Angennes, Julie d', 352
Anglo-Saxons, songs and legends of the, 32;
gloom of the literature of the, 33, 34
"Apologie for Poetrie," Sidney's, 229-233; 235, 254, 255, 301
Apulæus, 86
"Arbasto," 155; 175-178
"Arcadia," Sidney's, 226, 229;
account and criticism of, 234-262;
popularity, imitations and translations of, 262-283;
criticised in the eighteenth century by Addison, Cowper and Young, 270-272;
Milton's and Horace Walpole's criticism of, 272;
Niceron on, 283;
drawings from editions of, 16, 17, 273, 275, 277
"Arcadianism," Dekker and Ben Jonson on, 261
Arcady, land of, 218, 219
Architecture, Elizabethan, 12, 99, 100, 101, 102
Aretino, 298, 348
"Argalus and Parthenia," Quarles', 16, 264, 267;
as a chap-book, 271-275
D'Argenson's opinion of England, 24
"Ariosto," 43, 173, 237, 363;
Harington's translation of, 13, 76, 77, 79, 80, 366
"Arisbas," Dickenson's, 146
Arthur, the Celtic hero, 39;
and his knights, 35
Arundel, Earl of, 159
Ascham, Roger, denounces foreign travel and literature, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 79 note, 85, 318;
condemns Morte d'Arthur, 63, 74;
on the study of Greek and Latin, 87, 88;
his views on the old romances endorsed by Nash, 307, 308
"Astrée," d'Urfé's, 205, 247, 364, 365
"Astrophel and Stella," 229, 233, 234
D'Aubigné, 398
"Aucassin and Nicolete," 36, 37, 59, 60, 353
B.
Bacon, Francis, 24, 43;
"New Atlantis," 50;
and English prose, 52;
essay on Gardens, 241; 300, 403, 413
Bacon, Friar, stories about, 28
Bandello, 81 note, 86, 147
"Baron de Foeneste," 398
Baudoin, translation of Sidney's "Arcadia" into French, 276-280
Baxter's "Sir Philip Sidney's Ourania," 262
Beattie, 26
Beckett, engraver, 19
Behn, Mrs., 414-417
Bell's "Theatre," engraving from, 14, 97
Belleforest's tales translated and imitated by Paynter, 86;
"Histoires tragiques," 147
"Bentivolio and Urania," Ingelow's, 413
"Beowulf," the oldest English romance, 11;
fac-simile of the beginning of the MS., 31; 33, 34;
want of tenderness in, 35
"Bérénice," Racine's, translated by Otway, 397
"Berger extravagant," 21, 280, 398, 401
Bergerac, Cyrano de, his "Etats et empires de la lune et du soleil," 50;
his "Pédant joué," 128 note;
style of, 258;
humour of, 289, 290
Berners, Lord, 106-107
Bestiaries, 108, 111, 112, 115, 116, 119
Blount, Charles, Lord Mountjoy, Earl of Devonshire, 227
Blount, Edward, publisher of Lyly's comedies, 137, 138
Boccaccio, 43;
"Filocopo," "Amorous Fiammetta," "Decameron," English translations of, 75, 76; 86
Boileau, 258, 356 note, 363, 390
Borde, Dr. Andrew, 288, 289, 326
Bossuet, 387
Bovon of Hanstone, poem imitated from a French romance, 39
Boyle, Roger, Lord Broghill, 384-389
Bozon, Nicole, 111
Breton, Nicholas, 192, 198-202
Brunne, Robert Manning de, 38, 39
Bullen, 22
Bunyan, John, 159, 413
Burghley House, 12, 101, 102
Byron's "Don Juan," 409, 410
C.
Cæsarius, 48, 49
Callot, 317, 337
Camden Society, 18
"Campaspe," Lyly's, 138
Carey, 412
"Carte du Tendre," 19, 359, 361
"Cassandra," 396, 403, 412;
"Cassandre," 362, 364, 382, 383
Castiglione's "Courtier," 76
Caxton's woodcut of Chaucer's pilgrims, 12, 45;
his editions of Chaucer and work as a printer, 52-55; 60
"Cent Nouvelles," 47, 48
Cervantes, 43, 88, 399
Chappelain, Mdlle. G., translator of Sidney's "Arcadia," 277-280
Chapelain, Jean, author of "La Pucelle," 294, 350, 357
Characters, books of, 201-2 note
Charlemagne, poem imitated from French romance of, 39
Charles I., 84; 250, 252; 366, 382
Charles II., 381
Charles IX., 220
Chartley, 223
Chateaubriand, 231, 283
Chateaumorand, Diane de, 276
Chatterton, 26
Chaucer, Caxton's engraving of his pilgrims, 12, 45;
a story-teller, but with small influence on the Elizabethan novel, 43, 44;
homage of Pope and Dryden to, 44;
faculty of observation in, 49;
and mediæval story-tellers, 89;
"Cooke's Tale," 204;
read by Nash, 296
Chesterfield, Lord, 414
Chettle's edition of "Groats-worth of Wit," 165 note, 321;
"Piers Plain," 328, 330, 331
"Chrononotontologos," 412
Cibber, Theophilus, 381
"Civile Conversation," Guazzo's, 72, 73, 76
"Clarissa Harlowe," 25, 26, 31
"Clélie," 361, 364, 370; frontispiece of "La Fausse," 20, 375
"Cleopatra," 412; Queen, as represented on the English stage, 14, 97;
"Cléopatre," 364, 369;
frontispiece of, 20, 371
Clovis, 354
Colet, Dean of St. Paul's, 87
Comte, Auguste, 416
Condé, 352, 357
"Contes Moralisés," Bozon's, 111
Cooper, Fenimore, 415
Copland, 12
Corneille, 278, 282, 343, 355, 363, 373
Coryat, 302 note
Cotterel, Sir Charles, translator of "Cassandre," 373
"Cour Bergère," play derived by Mareschal from Sidney's "Arcadia," 282
"Court Secret," 413
Cowper, on Sidney's "Arcadia," 271
Coxon (or Cockson), Thomas, engraver, portraits by, 13
Crébillon fils, 414
Cromwell, 84, 363, 381
Crowne's "Pandion and Amphigenia," 19, 389-391; 392, 395
D.
Davenport, 173
Davies, John, drawing from his translation of Sorel's "Berger extravagant," 21
Day, John, "Ile of Guls," 263;
collaborator of Dekker, 331
"Débat de folie et d'amour," 173
Dedekind, 339
Defoe, 25, 26;
protest against the abbreviation of "Robinson Crusoe," 123, 124; 199, 260, 270, 294, 313, 320, 335, 345, 348, 390, 404, 417
Dekker, portrait of, 333;
on Arcadianism and Euphuism, 261;
on Nash in the Elysian fields, 327;
plays and pamphlets by, 330-346;
love of literature, 332;
gaiety, 333;
Lamb on, 332;
Nash and, 334;
"Wonderfull Yeare," 335-338;
advice on behaviour at a play-house, 340-343
Desperriers, Bonaventure, 86
Devereux, Penelope, afterwards Lady Rich, Sidney's "Stella," 223, 224, 225, 227, 228
Dickens, Charles, 124
Dickenson, imitator of Lyly, 145, 146, 161 note
Disguises, fondness for, in Elizabethan times, 237-239
"Don Simonides," Rich's, 146, 147
Drayton, 331
Dryden, 354, 363, 389, 392, 396, 404, 417
Du Bartas, 271
Du Bellay, 70
Dupleix, Scipion, historiographer royal, 354
Dyce, reprint by, 18
E.
"Ecclesiastical Polity," Hooker's, 382
Eliot, George, 36, 124
Elizabeth, Queen, portrait by Rogers, 11, 96, 256;
by Zucchero, 14;
in pastoral romance, 218;
manners of, 91-96;
learning of, 92;
toilettes of, 92;
Hentzner on, 96
Elizabethan houses, 101, 102;
dress, 128;
literary men, 161;
amusements, 18, 287, 298
"Emile," Rousseau's, 415
"Empress of Morocco," Settle's, 393, 395
"Endimion," Lyly's, 138, 139;
Gombauld's, 19, 367, 369
English, ancestry of the, 40, 41, 42;
effect of the French conquest on the literature of the, 43
"English Adventures," Boyle's, 388, 389
"English Rogue," Head's, 413
Erasmus, 51, 87, 88, 348
Essex, Earl of, 159
"Euphues," Lyly's, 103-142;
written for women, 104, 105;
on women in, 127-130, 133;
natural history in, 107, 108-120;
moral teaching in, 123, 124, 127;
bringing up of children in, 130-132;
popularity of, 137-142;
Nash on, 139, 140;
abbreviation of, 141
"Euphues his censure to Philautus," Greene's, 146, 168
Euphuism, Lyly and, 105;
acclimatization of, in England, 106, 107;
Shakespeare on, 140;
Dekker and, 261
Exeter, Joseph of, 38
Exeter, Marquis of, seat of the, 12
F.
Fayette, Mme. de la, 397
Fénelon's, "Télémaque," 50;
"Lettre à l'Académie," 229
Fenton's, "Tragicall Discourses," 80, 81
Fielding, 25, 124, 270, 313, 317, 406, 412, 417
Floire and Blanchefleur, 36
Florio's Montaigne, 227
Ford, Emanuel, disciple of Lyly, 192;
"Parismus," 193-198;
collaborator of Dekker, 331
Fortescue's, "Foreste," 81
Fouquet, 281
Fournival, Richard de, 107, 108
Fox, George, the Quaker, 158
"Francesco's Fortunes," drawings from, 11
"Francion," 293, 398
French, gaiety of the literature of the, 33, 34
Froissart, 43, 47, 86
Furetière, 398, 399, 404, 405
Furnivall, F. J., 39, 90, 102, 140, 162, 223
G.
Gaedertz, of Berlin, 17
"Gallathea," Lyly's, 139
"Gamelyne," tale of, 204
Gargantua and Pantagruel, story of, 50
Gascoigne, "Adventures passed by Master F. T.," 81
Gawain, a metrical romance imitated from the French, 89
"Généreuse Allemande," Mareschal's, 282
Gheeraedts, 16
Gil Bias, 24
Godwin, F., 413
"Golden boke of Marcus Aurelius," translated by Lord Berners and Sir Thomas North, 106, 107
Gomberville, 356
Gosse, 373
Gower, 296
"Grand Cyrus," romance of, 364, 383, 396
Green Knight, metrical romance from the French, 39
Greene, Robert, illustrations to his work, 11, 15;
stories of, translated into French, 27;
denounces foreign travel, 73 note;
natural history of, 112;