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INDEX

Acting, importance of, in Shake-
spearean drama, 13; evil effects
of long runs,
Shake-
speare on, 45, 47.
Actor-manager, his merits and de-
fects, 125, 126.

Actors, training of, 139; English,
in France, 203. See also Ben-
son, Mr. F. R., and Boys.
Eschylus, statue of, 233.
Albert, Prince (consort), and
Shakespeare's birthplace, 222;
statues of, 237, 238.
Alleyn, Edward, 191, 194.
Annual Register of 1770, 194.
Aristotle, Shakespeare's mention
of, 144, 145; Bacon's study of,

145.

Arnold, Matthew, on Shakespeare,

29.

Astronomy, Shakespeare on, 146.
Athens, statuary at, 233.

Aubrey, John, his gossip of Shake-
speare, 66, 67.

Austria, subsidised theatres in,
131, 136.

Bacon, Anthony, in France, 203.
Bacon, Francis, philosophical
method of, 143; on memorial
monuments in New Atlantis,
234, 235.

Bacon, Sir Nicholas, his fame in
France, 204.

Badger, Mr. Richard, proposal for
a Shakespeare monument, 219.
Bannister, music for The Tempest,
106, 107.

Barker, Mr. Granville, as Richard
II., 13 n.

Basse, William, his tribute to
Shakespeare, 50.

Beeston, Christopher, Elizabethan
actor, 64.

Beeston, William the first, patron
of Nash, 63, 64; second, his the-
atrical career, 65, 66; his gos-
sip about Shakespeare, 65; his
conversation, 66; Aubrey's ac-
count of, 67.

Beethoven, statue of, 233.
Beljame, M. Alexandre, on Eng-
lish literature, 201; death of,
201.

Benson, Mr. F. R., his company of
actors, 111; his principles, 112
seq.; list of Shakespearean plays
produced by, 114, 115 n.; his
production of Hamlet una-
bridged, 116–18; his training of
actors, 119; his services to
Shakespeare, 121; his pupils on
the London stage, 130.
Berkenhout, John, 195.
Betterton, Thomas, at Stratford-
on-Avon, 73; contributes to
Rowe's biography, 73, 76;
his rendering of Hamlet, 101,
102.
Biography, art of, in England,
51 seq.

Bishop, Sir William, 76.
Bishopsgate (London),

speare at, 226, 227.

Shake-

Blackfriars, Shakespeare's house
at, 227.

Boileau and English literature,
200.

Bolingbroke (in Richard II.), pa-

triotism of, 173, 174.

Bowman, John, actor, 69; at
Stratford-on-Avon, 76.

Boys in women's parts in Eliza-
bethan theatres, 19, 41; aban-
donment of the practice,
43; superseded by women, 88,

89.

Buchanan, George, his plays, 204.
Burbage, Richard, Shakespeare's

friend and fellow actor, 33.
Burns, Mr. John, 131.
Burns, Robert, French study of,

201; monument to, 233, 237.
Byron, Lord, on Petrarch at Ar-
quà, 225; statue of, 237.

Calderon, 136, monument to, 233.
Calvert, Charles A., his Shake-
spearean productions at Man-
chester, 12, 3 n.

Camoens, monument to, 233.
Capital and the literary drama,
124-28.

Carlyle, Thomas, statue of, 237.
Catiline's Conspiracy, by Ben Jon-
son, 31.

Ceremony, Shakespeare on, 157,
158.

Chantrey, Sir Francis, and com-
memoration of Shakespeare, 215.
Charlecote, Shakespeare's esca-
pade at, 76.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, French influ-
ence on, 199.

Clarendon, Lord, on Shakespeare,
79.

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Davenant, Robert, Sir William's
brother, 70.

D'Avenant, Sir William, theatri-
cal manager, 67; his youth at
Oxford, 69; relations in boyhood
with Shakespeare, 70; elegy on
Shakespeare, 71; champion of
Shakespeare's fame, 71; his
story of Shakespeare and South-
ampton, 72; his influence on
Betterton, 72; manager of the
Duke's company, 87 n.; as dram-
atist, 98; his adaptations of
Shakespeare, 103-05, 106 n.,

108.

Deschamps, Eustace, on Chaucer,

199.

Desportes, Philippe, and Eliza-

bethan poetry, 199.

D'Israeli, Isaac, on Steevens's for-

gery, 195.

Downes, John, prompter and stage
annalist, 63.

Dramatic societies in England,

129.

Dress, Shakespeare on extrava-
gant, 185.
Drunkenness, Shakespeare on, 185.
Dryden, John, on William Bee-
ston, 66; as dramatist, 91; his
share in the adaptation of The
Tempest, 105.

Du Bellay, Joachim, and Eliza-
bethan poetry, 199.

Ducis, Jean François, his trans-
lation of Shakespeare, 207,
208.

Dugdale, Sir William, 74.
Dumas père, on Shakespeare, 206;
his translation of Hamlet, 209-
11.

Dyce, Alexander, on Steevens's for-
gery, 196, 197.

Elizabeth, Queen, summons Shake-
speare to Greenwich, 31.
Elizabethan stage society, 13 n.

INDEX

England, Shakespeare on history

of, 180.

Ennius on poetic fame, 232.
Etherege, Sir George, 91.
Eton College, debate about Shake-
speare at, 78.

Euripides, statue of, 233.
Evelyn, John, on Hamlet, 90.

Farquhar, George, 91.
Faulconbridge (in King John),
patriotism of, 174.

Fletcher, John, his Custom of the
Country, 92, 93; its obscenity,
93.
Folio, The First [of Shakespeare's
Plays], actors' coöperation in,
59; list of actors in, 61.
Folio, The Third [of Shakespeare's
Plays], purchased by Pepys, 94.
Folio, The Fourth [of Shake-
speare's Plays], in Pepysian Li-
brary, 94.

France, subsidised theatres in,
131, 134; Shakespeare in, 198
seq.; English actors in, 203.
Freedom of the will, Shakespeare
on, 166.

Fuller, Thomas, his Worthies of
England, 52; notice of Shake-
speare, 52.

Garrick, David, his stage costume,

19.

Gentleman's Magazine of 1801,
195.

George IV. and commemoration of
Shakespeare, 215.

German drama, 129, 135, 136.
Germany, subsidised theatres in,
131, 134.

Goethe, 136; monument to, 233.
Greene, Robert, French transla-
tion of romance by, 199.
Grendon, tradition of Shakespeare
at, 77.

247

"Grenovicus," contributor to Gen-
tleman's Magazine, 195.

Hales, John, of Eton, 78.

Hall, Bp. Joseph, French transla-
tion of works by, 199.
Hart, Charles, actor and Shake-
speare's grand nephew, 59, 68.
Hauptmann, 135.

Henry V. on kingly ceremony, 157;
patriotism of, 175, 182.
Heywood, Thomas, projected Lives
of the Poets, 54 n.; his affection
for Shakespeare, 65; his Apol-
ogy for Actors, 65.

History plays of Shakespeare,
character of, 180.

Hobbes, Thomas, in France, 200.
Howe, Josias, on a Shakespeare
tradition, 77.

Hugo, Victor, on Shakespeare,
206.

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Lincoln's Inn Fields (Portugal
Row), Theatre of, 86, 87 and n.
Literary drama on the modern
stage, 123; antagonism of cap-
ital to, 126-28.

Lives of the Poets of the seven-

teenth century, 54 and n.
Locke, John, in France, 200.

Locke, Matthew, Shakespearean

music of, 105, 108.
Logic, Shakespeare on, 146.
London, Shakespeare's association
with, 226 seq.; statues in, 236,
237; proposed sites for Shake-
speare monument, 239.

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peare's senior by two months,
37, 193.

Massinger, Philip, his Bondman,
92, 93.

Mathews, Charles, on a monu-
ment of Shakespeare, 214.
Metaphysics, Shakespeare on, 146–
48.

Mill, John Stuart, statue of, 237.
Milton, his elegy on Shakespeare,
51, 231.

Molière, accepted methods of pro-
ducing his plays, 16.

Montaigne, Michel de, and An-
thony Bacon, 203; his essays in
English, 204.

Moore, Thomas, and commemora-
tion of Shakespeare, 215.
More, Sir Thomas, his Utopia in
France, 204.

Municipal theatre, its justifica-

tion, 122; in Europe, 134.
Musset, Alfred de, on Shakespeare,
206.

Nash, John, and commemoration
of Shakespeare, 215.

Nash, Thomas, 64.

Nodier, Charles, his Persées de
Shakespeare, 211-13.
Norwegian drama, 129.

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