Adriano de Armado, 58, 61
Alleyn, Edward, 49, 50
Alonzo, 250, 267
Anachronisms, Shakespeare's,
33f.; in Macbeth, 154; in
Lear, 187ff.
Antigonus (Winter's Tale),
219, 236
Antipholuses, the two, 65-6
Anti-Semitism, 75, 88-9, 93-4
Antonio (Merchant of Ven-
ice), 78, 82ff.
Antony and Cleopatra, 180
Apocrypha, the Shakespear-
ean, 240
Arcadia, Sidney's, 186
Ariel, 251, 253; his nature:
pure disembodied intelli-
no social
gence, 258f.;
nature, 259; his songs,
260f.
Arnold, Matthew, Intro. viii,
23, 195f., 271, 281
As You Like It, 78, 180, 236,
238
Astrology, ridicule of, in
Lear, 189, 194-5
Atlanteans, Bacon's, how
they became Christians, 35
Autolycus, 34, 36, 159, 220; a
sixteenth-century character,
Bacon, Francis, 12, 29, 32,
34f.; his New Atlantis,
ibid.; radical difference be-
tween him and Shake-
speare, 36ff.; his Essays,
38; his "idols," ibid.; his
letter to Burghley, ibid.;
his scheme of the imperium
hominis, 39; his ignorance
of dramatic poetry, 39
note; his Novum Organum,
38, 42; on love and mar-
riage, 42-3; 121, 234, 285
Bacon Myth, the, chap. ii; 31
note, 87
Banquo, 151, 152, 162, 163 and
note, 165; his character,
173-4; Macbeth's fear of
him, 174
Barabas, 17, 21
Bardell v. Pickwick and Shy-
lock v. Antonio, 86, 88
Barrie, Sir James, and Tam-
ing of the Shrew, 99
Bartholomew Fair, Jonson's,
56, 210, 239
Bassanio, 78, 80, 82, 85ff.
Beatrice, 97
Beaumont and Fletcher, I, 19,
Bellaria, the bellowings of,
216
Benvolio, 72
Bermudas, 239, 252, 253
Bible, the English, 286
Biron, 58ff.
Boatswain, the (Tempest),
268
Book-making, the gentle art
of, 26
Book of Common Prayer,
285
Bradley, A. C., on Hamlet,
112 and note, 128 note
Brooke, Arthur, 69
Browning's Paracelsus and
Sordello, 29; Abt Vogler
quoted, 79; Bishop Blou-
gram's Apology, 147; Cali-
ban upon Setebos, 257f.;
278
Burbage, Richard, 45, 49, 50
Burghley, Bacon's letter to,
38
Caliban, 210, 239; an imagi-
nary composite, 252f.; a
study of primitive man-
mind without morals,
255ff.; his poetic sensitive-
ness, 256; his hatred of
Prospero, ibid.; Brown-
ing's study of his religion,
257f.; 267
Camillo, 218, 223
Cardenio, 240
Caskets (Merchant of Ven-
ice), 79, 81
Castelvines y Monteses, Lope
de Vega's, 69
Castle, William, 47
Chapman, George, 23, 44
Chesterton's defence of the
penny dreadful, Intro. xi
Chicago distinguishes itself
again, 31 note
Christ, 247-8
Christian evangel, the, com-
pared with Shakespeare's
work, Intro. x, xi
Chronicle History of King
Lear (1594), 184f.
Chronological order of Shake-
speare's plays, 56ff.
Claudius, 117, 118, 119; his
estimate of Hamlet, 121,
135; the Prayer scene, 139f.
Coit, Stanton, 112 note
Coleridge, Hartley, 222
Coleridge, S. T., 5; his theory
of Hamlet's character,
11off.; my theory of his,
114-15; on the Porter in
Macbeth, 157 and note
Collier, Jeremy, 20 and note
Comedia von der schönen
Sidea, Ayrer's, 251
Comedy of Errors, The, 36,
58, 63-9; date of, 63; length
of, ibid.; "unities" observed
in, 64; departures from
Plautus in, 65; blend of
tragedy with farce in, 66;
defiances of history and
geography in, 68; shortest
of Shakespeare's plays,
156; 180
Comus, 237
Cordelia, 97, 183, 185f., 190,
196, 202
Cornwall and Albany (Lear),
192
Cranmer, 285
Custom of the Country, The,
Beaumont and Fletcher's,
Cymbeline, 28, 33, 209, 214,
246 note
Dark Lady of the Sonnets,
Shaw's, 205
Darwin: did he write Dick-
ens? 41
D'Avenant, Sir William, 47,
272 and note
Declaration of Popish Im-
postures, Harsnett's, 189
Devils in King Lear, 188-9
Dickens, 31f.; a Baconian
proof that Darwin wrote
his books, 41
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-
Faerie Queene, Spenser's, the
Lear story in, 184
Faguet, Intro. ix
Fate, Shakespeare's view of,
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
Garnet, Henry, 154
Gates, Sir Thomas, 252
Genius, "explanations" of,
by heredity or economic
causation, 2, 5ff.
Geoffrey of Monmouth, 28
and note, 184, 185ff.
Gertrude, 123, 134, 141
Gesta Romanorum, 76
Ghost, of Banquo, 166; of
Hamlet's father, 125ff.,
141-2, 282
Globe Theatre, 53, 104, 209;
burning of, 241
Gloucester (Lear), 182, 193-4
Golden Rule, Mark Twain on
Goneril and Regan, 185, 191,
192f.
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
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
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