Berkeley, Bishop, 155.
Bertram, 195, 204-5.
Bible, The, 32, 72, 148.
Boetius, 95, 116.

Bolingbroke's style, 156.
Boswell, James, 151.
Bowles, W. L., 83, 117.
Brooke, Lord, 147.
Brown, Tom, 42.

Browne, Sir Thomas, 146-7,
224.

Buckingham, Duke of, 10.
Bunyan, John, Pilgrim's Pro-
gress, 138, 148-9.

Burke, Edmund, 43, 151-2.
Burleigh, Lord, 143.

Burns, Robert, 10, 22, 104, 158.
Butler, Samuel, 8, 147.

Byron, Lord, 5, 83, 117, 156–7.

Darwin, 16.

Davenant, Sir W., 99.
Davies, Sir John, 1.
Deborah, Song of, 179.

Decameron, contrasted with

Canterbury Tales, 136,

De Foe, 105, 147.

Desdemona, 198, 245.
Dialogue in verse, 6.
Dodsley's Collection, 70.
Dogberry, 17 n, 196, 197, 200.
Domitian, 4.
Don John, 197.
Don Quixote, 148.

Donne, John, 59, 69-70, 147.
Drayton, Michael, 79, 88 and
n, 154.

Dryden, John, 4, 10, 59, 87 n,
156, 210, 236, 247, 256.
Durer, Albert, 223.

Farce, definition of, 201.
Ferdinand, 210 ff., 229.
Fielding, Henry, 105, 153.
Flaxman, 231.

Fletcher. See under Beau-
mont.

Fool in Lear, 187, 242-4, 252.
Fox, C. J., 152.

French critics, discrimination
of, 183.

French Revolution, 151-2.
Friar Laurence, 229.

Garve, 75, 83.
Gellert, 75.

Genius, 10.

Ghost in Hamlet, 234.

Gibbon, 163-4.

Gleim, anecdote of, 112.
Goethe, 160.

Goneril, 206, 243.
Goody Two-Shoes, 55.

Gower, Chaucer's disciple, 136.
Gravedigger in Hamlet, 200.
Gray, Thomas, 3, 50-1, 60, 74,
150.

Greek drama, 164-6, 187, 188,
191-4, 225, 230.
Greville, Fulke (Lord Brooke),
147.

Homer, 10, 61, 104, 139, 163,

190, 196, 203.

Hooker, 27, 42, 43.

Horace, 105.

Horatio, 239.

Hotspur, 198.

Hudibras, 8.

Hume, David, 158.

Iago, 206, 244-5, 251.

Iliad compared with Troilus
and Cressida, 203.
Imagination, 1, 69.

Imagination and fancy, 23 ff.,

125.

Imogen, 209.

Jacobi, 112.

Johnson, Samuel, 7, 150, 151,
159.

Dictionary, 87 n.

Johnston, Miss, and Swift,
146.

Jonson, Ben, 202, 247-50, 251,

253-4.

Alchemist, 248, 253.

Hieronymo, 207.
Poetaster, 249-50.
Silent Woman, 248.
Volpone, 249.

Juliet, 227.
Junius, 7.

Juvenal, 134.

Kant, 74 n.

Katherine, Queen, 209.
Klopstock, The Messiah, 105.
Kotzebue, 196.

Laertes, 195, 233.

Lamb, Charles, 10, 65, 157,
159.

Lancaster, Joseph, 48 n.
Landor, W. S., 156.

Lear, King, 198, 203, 240-4.
Leonatus, 245.
Leontes, 217, 245.
Lessing, 112, 160,

L'Estrange, Sir Roger, 6, 42.
Logic, 116.

Lucretius, 162.

Macbeth, 200, 211, 231-2, 235.

Macbeth, Lady, 231-2.
Marathon, 159.

Marini, 16.

Marlborough, Duke of, 220.
Marshal's Repository, 55.
Martial, 4.

Massinger, 202, 204, 212, 246,
251, 254, 256-60.
politics, 212, 254.

Maid of Honour, 257.
The Bondman, 206.
The Picture, 258.
Unnatural Combat, 206.
Very Woman, 206.
Virgin Martyr, 206.
Mendelssohn, 74 n.
Mercutio, 228.
Metastasio, 95, 198.
Metre, 52 ff.

Milton, John, 4, 24, 47, 50, 61,
74, 83, 88 n, 100, 106, 125,
134, 139, 140, 141-5, 203,
204, 246, 255.

and Shakespeare, 174, 213.
definition of poetry, 145.
egotism, 145.*

not picturesque but musical,

142.

preference of Euripides and
Ovid, 165.

style, 6.

the Deity of prescience, 203.
Paradise Lost, 142 ff., 204.
Samson Agonistes, 259-60.
Minucius Felix, quoted, 155.
Miranda, 208 ff., 229.
Molière's Miser, 229.

Montaigne and Sir T. Browne,
146.
Moore, Thomas, 5, 83, 117.
More, Dr. Henry, 32.
Mortimer, 198.

Richardson, 153.

Robertson, 158.

Romeo, 227 ff.

Sallust, 162.

'Scene,' meaning of the word,
87 n.

Schiller, 160.
Scotchmen, 158.

Scott, Sir Walter, 158, 159.
Selden, 154.

Seneca, 8, 161.
Seward, 253.
Shaftesbury, 10.

Shakespeare, William, 166-
247 passim.

all his characters strong,
196.
'aloofness', 169.
and the unities', 224-5.
as poet generally, 174-80.
choice of subjects, 167-9.
clowns, 17 n, 187, 199, 242.
compared with Ben Jonson,
247; with Schiller, 160.
depth and energy of thought,
173-4.

distinction from other dra-

matists, 194–9.

historical plays, 218, 221,
246.

imagery, 169-72.

imagination, 176–7, 179, 259.
intellectual action, 202.
judgement, 180–7, 192, 220,
234, 241.

laughs at mobs, 213, 224.
lyrical passages, 198.
metre, 256.

morality, 195, 196.
'myriad-minded', 166, 216.
never treats of avarice, 229.
not a lusus naturae, 181-7,
199-200.

of no age, 190, 202.
on jealousy, 217, 244-5.
patriotism, 219.

As You Like It, 198, 258.
Comedy of Errors, 201, 216.
Coriolanus, 221, 224.
Cymbeline, 218, 221, 245.
Hamlet, 8, 180, 195, 200, 203,
218, 232-40, 246.
Henry IV, 175, 198, 218.
Henry VIII, 44.
Julius Caesar, 221, 224, 230.
King John, 219.

Lear, 154, 171, 175, 180,
187, 194, 198, 203, 206,
218, 221, 240-4, 246, 250,
252.

Love's Labour's Lost, 216.
Macbeth, 44, 200, 211, 218,
231-2, 235, 238, 240, 246,
250.

Measure for Measure, 215-6.
Merchant of Venice, 198,

242.

Midsummer Night's Dream,

198.

Much Ado about Nothing,
197.

Othello, 171, 175, 180, 198,
200, 203, 217, 244-5, 246,
251.
Pericles, 221.

Rape of Lucrece, 166-80,
216.

Richard II, 198, 218-20,

255.

Richard III, 206.

Romeo and Juliet, 37, 194,

224-30, 246, 250.
Sonnets, 171.

Tempest, 207-15, 228.
Timon of Athens, 221.
Titus Andronicus, 221.
Troilus and Cressida, 203,
220-4.

Twelfth Night, 175, 201.
Two Noble Kinsmen, 253.
Venus and Adonis, 166-80,
216.

Winter's Tale, 53, 217-8,
245.

Sheridan, R. B., 147.
Shylock, 198.

Sidney, Algernon, 43, 156.
Sidonius Apollinaris, 116.
Simpson, 253.
Smollett, 158.

Sophocles, 10, 153, 162, 164–6,

180, 191.

South, 7.

Southey, Robert, 7, 11, 12, 83,
117-8.
Spanish stage, 254.
Spenser, Edmund, 21, 62-3,75,
137-41, 143, 245.
Spinoza, 112, 155.

Stage, the infant, 187; in
Shakespeare's time, 194.
Sterne, Laurence, 56, 154.
Stewart, Dugald, 158.
Style, 6-8.

Suttons, the two, 70.

Swift, Jonathan, 146, 147, 250.
Swiss, the, 33.

Tacitus, 162.