ACTING, importance of, in Shake-
pearean drama, 13; evil effects
of long runs, 14; Shakespeare on,
45, 47
Actor-manager, his merits and
defects, 125, 126

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

145

Bannister, John, his music for

The Tempest, 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, 64

Beeston, William the second, his
theatrical career, 65, 66; his
gossip about Shakespeare, 65;
his conversation, 66; Aubrey's
account of, 67

Beethoven, statue of, 233

Beljame, Alexandre, on English
literature, 201; death of, 201

29

Astronomy, Shakespeare on, 146
Athens, statuary at, 233
Aubrey, John, his gossip about
Shakespeare, 67, 68
Austria, subsidised theatres in,
131, 134

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

actors, 111; his principles, 112
seq.; list of Shakespeare plays
produced by, 114 n.; his produc-
tion of Hamlet unabridged, 116-
118; 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
Bishop, Sir William, 76
Bishopsgate (London),
speare at, 226, 227

Shake-

at, 227

Boileau, and English literature,

199

Bolingbroke, in Richard II.,

patriotism of, 173
Bowman, John, actor, 69; at
Stratford-on-Avon, 76

Boys in women's parts in Eliza-
bethan theatres, 19, 41; abandon-
ment of the practice, 43; super-
seded 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 Arquà,

225; statue of, 237

Coriolanus and the patriotic

instinct, 178, 179

Cromwell, Oliver, statue of, 237

DAVENANT, Robert, Sir William's
brother, 70
D'Avenant, Sir William: theatri-
cal manager, 67; his youth at
Oxford, 69; relations in boy-
hood 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
dramatist, 91; his adaptations
of Shakespeare, 103-105, 106 n.,
108

Deschamps, Eustace, on Chaucer,

199

Desportes, Philippe, and Eliza-
bethan poetry, 199

D'Israeli, Isaac, on Steevens's
forgery, 195

Downs, John, prompter and stage
annalist, 63

Dramatic societies in England,

129

Dress, Shakespeare on extravagant,
185

Drunkenness, Shakespeare on,

185

Dryden, John, on William Beeston,
66; as dramatist, 91; his share
in the adaptation of The Tem-
pest, 105

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

Ducis, Jean François, his transla-
tion of Shakespeare, 207, 208
Dugdale, Sir William, 74
Dumas père, on Shakespeare, 206;
his translation of Hamlet, 209-
211

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

247

ELIZABETH, Queen, summons
Shakespeare to Greenwich, 31
Elizabethan Stage Society, 13 n.
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

HALES, John, of Eton, 78
Hall, Bishop Joseph, French trans-
lation of works by, 199
Hart, Charles, Shakespeare's grand-
nephew, actor, 59, 68
Hauptmann, Gerhart, 135
Henry V., on kingly ceremony,
157; patriotism of, 175, 182

patriotism of, 174

Fletcher, John, his Custom of the
Country, 92, 93; its obscenity,

93

Folio, the First [of Shakespeare's
plays], actors' co-operation in,
59; list of actors in, 61; rejected
by Pepys, 94

Folio, the Second [of Shakespeare's

plays], in France, 205
Folio, the Third [of Shakespeare's
plays], purchased by Pepys, 94
Folio, the Fourth [of Shakespeare's
plays], in Pepysian library, 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,

18

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 translation
of romance by, 199

of the Poets, 54 n.; affection for
Shakespeare, 65; his Apology
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;
on Shakespeare memorial, 241
IMAGINATION in the audience, 22,
47, 48

Ingres, Jean, his painting of Shake-

speare, 206

Irving, Sir Henry, experience of

Shakespearean spectacle, 10;
and the literary drama, 123;
and the municipal theatre, 132;
and French drama, 200
Irving, Washington, and comme-
moration of Shakespeare, 216

JAMES I., his alleged letter to
Shakespeare, 72

James II., statue of, 236
John of Gaunt in Richard II.,

dying speech of, 115-116, 181
Johnson, Dr, on false patriots, 171
Jonson, Ben, testimony to Shake-
speare's popularity, 29; his
classical tragedies compared with
Shakespeare's, 30; his elegy on
Shakespeare, 50, 232; his dia-
lectical powers contrasted with

189 seq.

Pepys, Samuel, his play-going
experience, 81-86; on Eliza-
bethan and Jacobean drama, 91-
93; on Shakespeare, 94 seq.;
his
attitude to poetic drama, 95, 96;
his musical setting of "To be
or not to be," 100

Petrarch, his tomb at Arquà, 225
Phelps, Samuel, at Sadler's Wells,

11; list of plays produced by, 11,
114 n.; his mode of producing
Shakespeare, 12; on a State
theatre in London, 120; on pub-
lic control of theatres, 140, 141
Philosophy, Shakespeare's attitude
to, 143 seq.

Pindar on poetic fame, 232
Platter, Thomas, journal of his
London visit (1599), 38
Playhouses in London, Black-
friars, 227; Drury Lane, 86, 87
and n.; "The Globe," 38, 227;
"The Red Bull," 86; Sadler's
Wells, 11; Salisbury Court,
Whitefriars, 66, 86;

"The

Theatre" at Shoreditch, 37, 227
Pope, Alexander, and French
literature, 199; on the Shake-
speare cenotaph, 216

RICHARDSON, Samuel, in France,

200

Robinson, Richard, actor, 68
Ronsard, Pierre de, and Elizabethan
poetry, 199; in England, 203
Rousseau, J. J., and English litera-
ture, 200
Rowe, Nicholas, Shakespeare's first
formal biographer, 54;
54; his
acknowledgment to Betterton,

Sand, George, on Shakespeare, 206
Sardou, Victorien, work of, 200
Scenery, its purpose, 5; useless-
ness of realism, 23
Schiller, on the German stage,
136; monument to, 233
Scott, Sir Walter, and commemora-
tion of Shakespeare, 216, 232;
Edinburgh monument of, 238
Sedley, Sir Charles, 91
Seneca on mercy, 153 n.
Shadwell, Thomas, 67, adaptation
of The Tempest, 106 n.
Shakespeare, Edmund, actor, 227
Shakespeare, Gilbert, actor, 68
Shakespeare, William, his creation
of the Ghost in Hamlet, 27;
contemporary popularity of, 29;
at Court, 31; early London
career, 32; advice to the actor,
45; his modest estimate of the
actor'spowers,47; elegies on death
of, 49; Fuller's notice of, 52;
early biographies of, 54; oral tra-
dition of, in seventeenth century,
55; similarity of experience with
that of contemporary dramatists
and actors, 57; Elizabethan
players' commendation of, 60;
resentment with a publisher,
65; William Beeston's remini-
scences of, 67; Stratford gossip
about, 74-76; present state of
biographical knowledge, 81; his
attitude to philosophy, 143 seq.;
his intuition, 149-150; conceal-
ment of his personality, 150; his
private sentiments, 151; on
mercy, 152-153; on rulers of
states, 154; on divine right of
kings, 159; on obedience, 161;