Dicks, John, his 9d. edition
of Shakespeare's Complete
Works, Intro. xii
Discoverie of the Bermudas,
by Sylvester Jourdain, 252
Doctor Faustus, Marlowe's,
19, 21

Donalbain, 159

Dorastus and Fawnia: see
Pandosto
Dowden, 213

Drake, Sir Francis, 14
Drayton, Michael, 23, 44
Dromios, the two, 65-6, 68
Dryden, 71, 285

Duncan, King, 151; white-
washed by Shakespeare,
155, 172-3

Edgar (Lear), 182, 188, 194;
on Lear's insanity, 200;
203, 204, 207
Edmund (Lear), 189; a study
of criminal genius, 191; his
illegitimacy, ibid.; his suc-
cessive treacheries and their
nemesis, 192; his contempt
for astrology, 194f.; 207
Edward the Confessor, 153
Egeon, 66

Elizabeth, Queen, 11, 22, 274
Elizabethan drama, evolution
of, 19; licentiousness in,
ibid.

Elizabethan era, character-

istics of, 9, 12; grandeur
of, 285ff.; contrast with
the present, 287
Emerson, 51, 270
England in fifteenth and six-

on

teenth centuries, off.
Essays and Lectures
Shakespeare, Coleridge's,
quoted, 11off.

Ethical rules, mutability of,

96

Faerie Queene, Spenser's, the
Lear story in, 184

Faguet, Intro. ix

Falstaff, 235

Fate, Shakespeare's view of,

193

Faulconbridge (King John),

192, 284

Ferdinand, 251, 260, 267
Ferrex and Porrex, 19
Field, Richard, 47
Fire-Bringer, The, W. V.
Moody's, 249
Fitton, Mary, 272f.
Fleance, 159

Fletcher, John, 45, 240
Florio, John, 254

Florizel, 220, 232, 236

Fool, the, in Lear, 182; his
function, 183; the embodi-
ment of despair, 203f
Forman, Simon, 209
Fortinbras, 117, 120
Freedom, Shakespeare's view
of, 149-50, 164ff.

Friar Bacon and Friar Bun-
gay, Greene's, 232

Gonzalo, 250, 254, 267
Gorboduc, 19
Gratiano, 95

Greene, Robert, 1, 3, 5, 23, 44;
his attack on Shakespeare,
214f.; 232, 278
Griffin, Hall, 116f.
Groatsworth of Wit, Greene's,
215 note

Gulliver's Travels, 254
Gunpowder Plot, the, 154

Hallam, 196

Hamlet (the character), Poe
on, 100f.; his age, 101; his
evolution from the sources,
103; his feigned madness,
103-4, 127; muddle of his
relations with Horatio,
104f.; the Ghost and the
"undiscover'd country,"
105f., 133; his relations
with Ophelia, 106ff., 134,
145; Shakespeare did not
consciously evolve a priori
a theory of his character,
109; the ineffectual philoso-
pher theory, 110ff.; exposi-
tions of it: Coleridge, 110;
Hazlitt, 111; R. G. White,
112; Smeaton, 114; dissent
from this: Bradley, 112
and note; what Hamlet
does in a few months, 117;
his reason for deferring
vengeance, 118; he is a man
of iron resolution and a
successful man of action,
120ff.; what Ophelia and
Claudius thought of him,
121, 135; his dying words
the clue to his whole
course, ibid.; the opening
situation, 123; action im-
possible, 124; his determi-
nation in meeting the
Ghost, 125f.; his manipu-

lation of Polonius, Rosen-
crantz and Guildenstern,
128; his use of the Players,
129ff.; true meaning of the
Soliloquies, 131, 133, 142f.;
his judgment of Horatio a
clue to his own character,
135; contrast between him
and Macbeth, 136, 158–9;
his purpose in leaving for
England, 137f.; his speech
over the praying King, 139;
the killing of Polonius, and
the Chamber scene, 140ff.;
his "rashness at sea, 143-
44; the graveyard scene,
144f.; the catastrophe, 145–
46; his dying words, 282
Hamlet (the play), 3, 18, 52,

53, 57, 77, chap. v (100-
148); carelessnesses in
structure of, 101ff.; first
quarto, 102; sources, 102-3;
written in a hurry, for an
uncritical public, 108;
Smeaton on, 113-4; dura-
tion of action of, 116; the
sub-play in, 130ff.; Werder
on, 147; its deserved popu-
larity, 100, 148; 172, 180
Hathaway, Anne, 47
Hazlitt, on Hamlet, 111; on
King Lear, 179ff.

Hecate (Macbeth 111 v), 157
Helena, 97, 194

Heminge and Condell, 45, 57;

on the quartos, 102; 273
Henry VIII, King, 10, II

note

Hermione, 218, 222; study of
her character, 225ff.; her
re-appearance in the Statue
scene, 227; Mrs. Jameson
on, 228; psychology of
self-respect, ibid.; 236
Hero and Leander, Mar-
lowe's, 18 and note

Histoires Tragiques of Belle-

forest, 103

Historia Britonum, Geoffrey
of Monmouth's, 28 note,
186-7

Historia Danica, the, of Saxo

Grammaticus, 102
Historie of New England,
Smith's, 239
Holinshed, Ralph, 25, 27, 152;
quotations from, 153, 155
note, 163 note; 184
Hooker, Richard, 12, 23, 285
Horatio, his relations with

Hamlet, 104f.; foreigner or
Dane? ibid.; Hamlet's
dying charge to him, 121–2;
his character, 135f.
Huxley, 23f., 99
Hystorie of Hamblet, The,
103

Julia, 62

Julius Caesar, 21, 28, 34, 133

Katherine, 99

Kent (Lear), 34; his Eliza-
bethan Billingsgate, 189;
his fidelity, 204f.
King Henry IV, 45
King Henry VIII, 240
King John, 182, 192, 284
King Lear (the play), 5, 20,
21, 28, 33, 53, 57, 149, 165;
chap. vii (179-208); Haz-
litt on, 179; barbarism in,
181f.; function of the Fool
in, 182-3; most tragic
aspect of, 183; popularity
of the story, 184; sources,
184ff.; one huge anachron-
ism, 187-9; the initial sit-
uation, 189f.; development
of characters in, 191ff.; idea
of "fate" in, 193-6; study
of madness in,
in, 197ff.;
compared with Macbeth,
203; the nadir of despair
touched in, 203-4, 206; 283
King Richard II, 284
King Richard III, 234
'King's evil," the, 152-3
Klein, 148

Knight of the Burning
Pestle, The, Intro. x, 101f.
Knowledge and insight, dif-
ference between, 28f.

Kyd, Thomas, 1, 4, 23, 55

Lady Macbeth, 97, 156; her
analysis of Macbeth's char-
acter, 158; her contrast to
him her strength supple-
ments his weakness, and
vice versa, 159ff.; she
weakens as he grows
stronger, 162, 167; she had
willed the crime before she
had heard of the Witches,

168, 172; her character as
a wife, 175-6; her despair,
176f.

Laertes, 107, 117, 134, 145f.
Launce and Speed, 62
Law, Shakespeare's know-
ledge (and ignorance) of,
25; his elaborate satire on
in Merchant of Venice,
86ff.
Lear, King (the character),

181, 186f.; his abdication,
189-90; his nemesis, 193,
195; his repellant charac-
teristics, 196f.; becomes
more rational as he be-
comes insane, 197ff.; analy-
sis of his insanity, 199ff.;
his recovery, 202; appro-
priateness of the un-
happy" ending, 186, 206;
238
Lee, Sir Sidney, his Life of
Shakespeare, 4 note, 23, 43,
71, 75, 78, III; on Prospero,
241 ff.; on the Sonnets, 272
Lennox, 167

Leontes, 218; a study in the
psychology of jealousy,
222ff.; his self-worship be-
comes insanity, 223; his
cure, 224; contrast with
Greene's Pandosto, 224-5
Longaville, 58ff.
Lopez, Roderigo, 75
Lorenzo, 8off., 95

Love and marriage, Bacon

on, 42-3

Love's Labour's Lost, 5, 18,

54, 58-61; characters in, 58;
plot of, ibid.; its euphuisms,
ibid.; later revision of, 59;
formalism of its verse, 59;
211, 236
Luciana, 66
Lucrece, 274

Lucy, Sir Thomas, 45

Lyly, John, his Euphues, 18;
58

by

Macbeth (the character),
contrasted with Hamlet,
136-7, 158-9; the historic
person blackwashed
Shakespeare, 155 and note;
his moral cowardice, 158;
his irresolution analyzed,
158ff.; his credulity, 159;
contrast with his wife,
159ff.; his ambition, 160;
two kinds of courage - his
and his wife's, ibid.; his
realization of natural neme-
sis, 161; he grows strong
in evil-doing as his wife
weakens, 162; his sins
originate in his will, 165,
167; his conscience creates
Banquo's ghost, 166; his
creative imagination, 168f.;
his grandeur at the close,
169ff.; compared with Mil-
ton's Satan, 171-2; his in-
gratitude to Duncan, 173;
his perfect partnership with
his wife, 175ff.; his de-
spair, 177; 238
Macbeth (the play), 28, 33,

53, 144, chap. vi (149–178);
moral order of the universe
studied in, 149-50; its melo-
dramatic material, 151;
panderings to King James,
152-3; anachronisms, 154;
contemporary references in
the Porter's soliloquy,
ibid.; basis in Holinshed,
and innovations, 155-6;
alleged interpolations, 157;
preternatural machinery in,
163ff.; a study in marriage,
175-6; 179, 180, 203
Macduff, 151, 159, 167; his
character, 175