INDEX


AARON the Moor in 'Titus Andronicus,' 30, 31
Abbess in 'Comedy of Errors,' 36
Abbot, Archbishop, 494
Achilles in 'Troilus and Cressida,' 110, 192, 438, 508-510, 514, 515,
518-520, 526-529, 531
'Ad Gulielmum Shakespeare,' by John Weever (1595), 126
Adam in 'As You Like It,' 107, 226
Adriana in 'Comedy of Errors,' 35, 36, 132, 213, 573
'Æneid,' 28, 60
Æschylus, 56, 204
'Æsthetiske Studier,' by George Brandes, 377
'Agamemnon,' by Seneca, 345
Agamemnon in 'Troilus and Cressida,' 517, 520
Agincourt, Battle of, in 'Henry V.,' 103, 110, 195, 205
Ajax in 'Troilus and Cressida,' 510, 516, 520, 526, 527, 529
Albius in 'The Poetaster,' 332
'Alceste,' Molière's, 223, 548
Alcibiades in 'Timon of Athens,' 557, 560, 561, 567, 569
'Alexander and Campaspe', by Lyly, 564
'All's Well that Ends Well,' or 'Love's Labour's Won' (1602-1603),
chief characters in—Attack on Puritanism in, 47-49, 53, 93, 185,
380, 393-401, 404, 503, 527, 573
Alonso in the 'Tempest,' 653, 654, 657, 660, 661
'Alphonsus, King of Arragon,' by Robert Greene, 31
Ambrogiuolo in Boccaccio's 'Decameron,' 617, 618
Amintor in 'Maid's Tragedy,' by Beaumont and Fletcher, 602, 603
Amleth in 'Saxo Grammaticus,' 342, 343
'Amores,' by Ovid, 56
'Amoretti,' by Spenser, 226, 266, 287
'Amphitruo,' by Plautus, 35
Amyot, Jacques, 304
Andersen, Hans Christian, 341
Andromache in 'Troilus and Cressida,' 514, 518, 519
Angelo in 'Measure for Measure,' 241, 403-408, 410, 436
Angiers in 'King John,' 145, 147
Anne Boleyn in 'Henry VIII.,' 611, 612
Anne in 'Richard III.,' 131-133, 137, 139, 573
Anne, James I.'s queen, 392, 413, 414, 417, 418, 480, 481, 488, 490,
497, 648, 649
Antenor in 'Troilus and Cressida,' 509
Antigonus in 'Winter's Tale,' 638, 646
Antiochus in 'Pericles,' 581
Antipholus of Syracuse in 'Comedy of Errors,' 35, 50, 51
Antonio in—
'Merchant of Venice,' 154, 159, 160, 162-165, 167
'Tempest,' 660
'Twelfth Night,' 238
Antony, Mark, in 'Julius Cæsar,' 241, 305, 306, 317, 318, 320, 321,
322, 323-324, 336, 356, 541
'Antony and Cleopatra,' 241, 306, 325, 420, 478, 502, 506, 507, 556,
565, 578, 650
Attractions for Shakespeare in—
Sources of, 461-469
'Dark Lady,' as model in—Fall of the Republic as a world-catastrophe, 470-476
Apemantus in 'Timon of Athens,' 530, 557, 563-565, 569
'Apology, The,' by Socrates, 354
Apothecary in 'Romeo and Juliet,' 72, 79, 629
Appleton, Morgan's 'Shakespearean Myth,' 92
Arbaces in 'King and No King,' by Beaumont and Fletcher, 600
Arbury, Mary Fitton's portrait at, 279
'Arcadia,' by Philip Sidney, 294, 453, 581
Archbishop of Canterbury in 'Henry V.,' 96, 205
Archidamus in 'Winter's Tale,' 642
Arden, Edward, 8
----Mary, mother of William Shakespeare, 6, 8, 153, 532, 578
----Robert, grandfather of Shakespeare, 6, 14
'Arden of Feversham,' 173, 175
Arethusa in 'Philaster,' by Beaumont and Fletcher, 597, 598, 601
Ariel in the 'Tempest,' 69, 591, 650-652, 657, 659, 663, 664, 667, 668
Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso,' 215, 445, 655
Aristotle, 17, 95, 413, 647
Armada, Spanish, 17, 18, 44, 50, 247, 251
Armado in 'Love's Labour's Lost,' 42-45
Armitage, Charles, 267
Artemidorus in 'Julius Cæsar,' 305
Arthur in 'King John,' 140-144, 145-149, 336
Arviragus in 'Cymbeline,' 617, 619, 621-624, 626, 627, 629, 632-634
'As You Like It' (1600), Shakespeare's roving spirit and longing
for nature—Wit and chief characters in, 5, 29, 92, 107, 116, 159,
170, 180, 221-231, 234, 236, 306, 361, 389, 393, 503, 560, 586,
635, 640, 650, 672, 673, 675
Asbies at Wilmecote, 6, 8, 9, 154
Aspasia in 'Maid's Tragedy,' by Beaumont and Fletcher, 602, 603
'Athelie,' Racine's, 637
Aubrey, 4, 6, 196, 274, 594
Audrey in 'As You Like It,' 222, 230
Aufidius in 'Coriolanus,' 538, 546, 552
Augustus in Ben Jonson's 'Poetaster,' 332, 333.
Aumerle in 'Richard II.,' 121
Autolycus in 'Winter's Tale,' 638, 639, 641
'Axel and Valborg,' by Oehlenschläger, 77
Ayrer's, Jacob, 'Comedia von der schönen Sidea,' 654

BACON, Anthony, patronised by Essex, 253, 258, 260
----Delia, Miss, supporting the Baconian Theory (1856), 88, 89
----Francis, 114, 152, 243, 244, 252, 253, 257, 258, 260, 262-264,
276, 416, 418, 481, 487
Baconian Theory concerning Shakespeare's plays, 88-90,
94-96, 313
Baif, De, 287
Balthasar in
Merchant of Venice, 115
Romeo and Juliet, 380
Bandello, 72,215, 233, 304
Banquo's ghost in 'Macbeth,' 104, 421, 424, 426-428, 430
Barabas in C. Marlowe's 'Jew of Malta,' 150, 151, 166
Bardolph in—
'Henry IV.,' 7, 177
'Merry Wives of Windsor,' 209, 211
Barnabe Richs translation of Cinthios
'Hecatomithi' (1581), 233
Barnadine in 'Measure for Measure,' 407
Barnes, Barnabe, 287, 288
Barnfield, Richard, 288
Barnstorff, 267
'Bartholomew Fair,' by Ben Jonson (1614), 29, 284, 340, 345, 635
Basianus in 'Titus Andronicus,' 30
Bassanio in 'Merchant of Venice,' 160, 161, 164, 169, 211, 395, 396
Bates in 'Henry V.,' 207
'Battle of Alcazar,' by George Peele, 31, 203
Baynard's Castle, 271
Bear Garden, 100, 101
Beards 'Theatre of God's Judgements' (1597), 28
Beatrice in 'Much Ado About Nothing,' 45, 93, 215, 217-219, 227,
233, 238, 239, 573, 626
Beaumont's, Francis, plays and career, 178, 513, 593-595, 597-605,
612, 652, 678
Belarius in 'Cymbeline,' 619, 621, 623-624, 626, 632, 644
Bellay, Joachim du, 287
Belleforest's 'Histoires Tragiques,' 343
'Ben Jonson,' by Symonds, 338
Benedick in 'Much Ado About Nothing,' 45, 92, 170, 177, 217-219, 228,
233, 503
Benoit de St. Maures 'Histoire de la Guerre de Troie' (1160), 504, 509
Benvolio in 'Romeo and Juliet,' 80
Bermudas, 275
Bernabo in Boccaccio's 'Decameron,' 617, 618
Berni's 'Orlando Innamorato,' 444, 445
Bertram in 'All's Well that Ends Well.' 47, 48, 393, 396-400, 527
Beyersdorff's, Robert, 'Giordano Bruno und Shakespeare,' 353, 355, 356
Bianca in Othello, 446
Bierfreund, Theodor, 605, 606
Biron in 'Love's Labour's Lost,' 38, 39, 44-46, 83, 276, 277
Bishop of Ely in 'Henry V.,' 97
Blackfriars Theatre, 106, 271, 388
Blade's 'Shakespeare and Typography,' 92
Blanch in 'King John,' 147
Blount, Edward, 286
Boaden, 267
Boccaccio's plays, 47, 280, 396, 503, 504, 509, 605, 617-619
Boece's, Hector, 'Scotorum Historiæ,' 42
Boétie, Estienne de la, Montaigne's friendship for, 291
Bolingbroke in 'Richard II.,' 7, 121, 123-125, 537
'Book of Martyrs, Foxe's, 608
'Book of Troy,' Lydgate's, 510
'Booke of Ayres' (1601), 232
'Booke of Plaies, and Notes thereon,' by Dr. Simon Forman, 420, 616, 635
Börne, 384
Bosworth Field in 'Richard III.,' 135
Bothwell, Earl of 347
Bottom in 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' 41, 68, 69
Boyet in 'Love's Labour's Lost,' 40, 45
Brabantio in 'Othello,' 439, 440, 441, 442, 443
Brandes, George, 377
Bright, James Heywood, 267
Briseida in Benoit's 'Histoire de la Guerre de Troie' (1160), 504, 509
Brown, Henry, 267
Browning, Robert, 301
Browne's, Sir Thomas, 'Religio Medici' (1642), 291
Brown's, C. A., 'Shakespeare's Autobiographical Poems', 114
Brunnhofer, 350
Bruno's, Giordano, supposed influence over Shakespeare, 349, 357
'Brut,' by Layamon (1205), 452
Brutus, Junius, in 'Coriolanus,' 537
----Marcus, in 'Julius Cæsar,' 94, 240, 302-308, 313-324, 356, 443,
461, 606, 629
Bryan, George, 357
Buckingham, Duke of, in 'Richard III.,' 134, 135
Bucknill, Dr., on Shakespeare's Medical Knowledge, 93
Burbage, James, 13, 100
----Richard, actor, 13, 106, 151, 177, 196, 298, 347, 547, 585, 608, 686
Burghley, Lord, 219, 242, 248, 252, 271, 350
Butler, Samuel, 594
Byron, 232, 293, 294, 384, 525, 583, 677, 678, 687

CADE, Jack, in 'Henry VI.,' 110, 111, 536, 675
'Cæsar's Fall' (1602), 303
Caius Lucius in 'Cymbeline,' 617
Calchas in 'Troilus and Cressida,' 518
Calderon, 180, 590, 603, 633, 659
Calianax in 'Maid's Tragedy,' by Beaumont and Fletcher, 602, 603
Caliban in the 'Tempest,' 170, 340, 530, 624, 642, 654, 656, 659,
661, 663, 664-667
Calphurnia in 'Julius Cæsar,' 305
Cambyses, 8, 70, 184
Camden, William, 325
Camillo in 'Winter's Tale,' 642, 645
Campbell's, Lord, Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements, 91
'Candelajo,' by Giordano Bruno, 354
'Candide,' by Voltaire, 680
Caphis in 'Timon of Athens,' 564
Capulet in 'Romeo and Juliet,' 74, 80, 83, 84, 86
Carleton, Sir Dudley, 482, 488, 496, 497, 648, 649
'Carmosine,' by De Musset, 599
Carr, Robert, Viscount Rochester and Earl of Somerset,
James I.'s favourite—Lady Essex's marriage with—
Crime and fall of 481, 482, 485, 488, 492-501, 649
Casca in 'Julius Cæsar,' 311, 322, 536
Cassio in 'Othello,' 115, 434, 435, 439, 441, 445, 448, 520, 598
Cassius in 'Cæsar,'