INDEX

Acting, importance of, in Shakespearean 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.) Æschylus, statue of, 233 Albert, Prince (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 Arnold, Matthew, on Shakespeare, 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 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 Benson, Mr F.R., his company of actors, 111; his principles, 112 seq.; list of Shakespeare plays produced by, 114 n.; his production 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), Shakespeare at, 226, 227 Blackfriars, Shakespeare's house 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69; at Stratford-on-Avon, 76 Boys in women's parts in Elizabethan theatres, 19, 41; abandonment of the practice, 43; superseded by women, 88, 89 Buchanan, George, his plays, 204 Burbage, Richard, Shakespeare's friend and fellow-actor, 33 Burns, Mr John, 131 Burns, Robert, French study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 Arquà, 225; statue of, 237 Calderon, 136; monument to, 233 Calvert, Charles A., his Shakespearean productions at Manchester, 12 n. Camoens, monument to, 233 Capital and the literary drama, 124, 126, 127, 128 Carlyle, Thomas, statue of, 237 Cataline's Conspiracy, by Ben Jonson, 30, 31 Ceremony, Shakespeare on, 157, 158 Chantrey, Sir Francis, and commemoration of Shakespeare, 216 Charlecote, Shakespeare's escapade at, 76 Chaucer, Geoffrey, French influence on, 199 Clarendon, Lord, on Shakespeare, 78 Cockpit theatre, Drury Lane, 65, 86 Cockpit theatre, Whitehall, 87 and n. Coleman, John, on the subsidised theatre, 132 Coleridge S.T., and commemoration of Shakespeare, 216 Congreve, William, 91 Coriolanus and the patriotic instinct, 178, 179 Cromwell, Oliver, statue of, 237 Davenant, Robert, Sir William's brother, 70 D'Avenant, Sir William: theatrical 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 Southampton, 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 Elizabethan 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 Tempest, 105 Du Bellay, Joachim, and Elizabethan poetry, 199 Ducis, Jean François, his translation of Shakespeare, 207, 208 Dugdale, Sir William, 74 Dumas père, on Shakespeare, 206; his translation of Hamlet, 209-211 Dyce, Alexander, on Steevens's forgery, 196 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 Shakespeare 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' 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 Shakespeare, 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 Grendon, tradition of Shakespeare at, 77 "Grenovicus" contributes to Gentleman's Magazine, 195 Hales, John, of Eton, 78 Hall, Bishop Joseph, French translation 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 Heywood, Thomas, projected Lives 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 Shakespeare, 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 commemoration 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 Shakespeare's popularity, 29; his classical tragedies compared with Shakespeare's, 30; his elegy on Shakespeare, 50, 232; his dialectical powers contrasted with Shakespeare's, 53; on the players' praise of Shakespeare, 60; his son, Shakespeare's godson, 61; Beeston's talk of, 67; popularity of his plays at Restoration, 91, 92 Jusserand, Jules, on English literature, 202; his Shakespeare in France, 203 Kean, Charles, experience of Shakespearean spectacle, 9; Macready's criticism of, 14 Kemp, William, Elizabethan comedian, 33 Killigrew, Tom, manager of the King's Company, 87 n. Kingship, Shakespeare on, 155-160, 180-182 Kirkman, Francis, his account of William Beeston the second, 66 Lacy, John, actor, 67; acquaintance with Ben Jonson, 68; adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew, 108 Lawrence, Sir Thomas, and commemoration of Shakespeare, 216 Lessing, 136 Lincoln's Inn Fields (Portugal Row), Theatre at, 86, 87 and n. Literary drama, on the modern stage, 123; antagonism of capital to, 126-128 Lives of the Poets of the seventeenth century, 54 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 Shakespeare monument in, 239 London County Council, and the theatre, 130, 131; and subsidised enlightenment, 133; and Shakespeare monument, 219 London Trades Council and the theatre, 132 Lowin, John, original actor in Shakespeare's plays, 61; coached by Shakespeare in part of Hamlet, 63, 71, 72 Lycurgus, Attic orator, 233 Macready, W.C., his criticism of spectacle, 14 Marlowe, Christopher, Shakespeare's senior by two months, 37, 193 Massinger, Philip, his Bondman, 92, 93 Mathews, Charles, on a monument of Shakespeare, 214 Mercy, Shakespeare on, 152, 153 Metaphysics, Shakespeare on, 146-148 Mill, John Stuart, statue of, 237 Milton, his elegy on Shakespeare, 51, 231 Molière, accepted methods of producing his plays, 16, 18, 136 Montaigne, Michel de, and Anthony Bacon, 203; his essays in English, 204 Moore, Thomas, and commemoration of Shakespeare, 216 More, Sir Thomas, his Utopia in France, 204 Municipal theatre, its justification, 122; in Europe, 134 Musset, Alfred de, on Shakespeare, 206 Nash, John, and commemoration of Shakespeare, 216 Nash, Thomas, 64 Nodier, Charles, his Pensées de Shakespeare, 211-213 Norwegian drama, 129 Obedience, the duty of, 161 Oldys, William, antiquary, 68, 69 Opera in England, 131 Oxford, the Crown Inn at, 69; Shakespeare at, 70; visitors from, to Stratford, 75-77 Patriotism, Shakespeare on, 170 seq. Peele, George, alleged letter of, 189 seq. Pepys, Samuel, his play-going experience, 81-86; on Elizabethan 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 public 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, Blackfriars, 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 Shakespeare 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 literature, 200 Rowe, Nicholas, Shakespeare's first formal biographer, 54; his acknowledgment to Betterton, 73; his biography of Shakespeare, 79, 80 Royal ceremony, irony of, 158 Russell, Lord John, on patriotism, 172 Sadler's Wells Theatre, 11 Sand, George, on Shakespeare, 206 Sardou, Victorien, work of, 200 Scenery, its purpose, 5; uselessness of realism, 23 Schiller, on the German stage, 136; monument to, 233 Scott, Sir Walter, and commemoration 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's powers, 47; elegies on death of, 49; Fuller's notice of, 52; early biographies of, 54; oral tradition 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 reminiscences of, 67; Stratford gossip about, 74-76; present state of biographical knowledge, 81; his attitude to philosophy, 143 seq.; his intuition, 149-150; concealment 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; on social order, 162-163; on freedom of the will, 166; on women's will, 168; his humour and optimism, 169; on patriotism, 170 seq.; on English history, 180; on social foibles, 184-186; commemoration of, in London, 214 seq.; portraits of, 239 Shakespearean drama, attitude of students and actors to, 1; costliness of modern production, 2; the simple method and the public, 8; Charles Kean's spectacular method, 9; Irving's method, 10; plays produced by Phelps, 11; reliance on the actor, 13; in Vienna, 17; advantage of its performance constantly and in variety, 23; importance of minor rôles of, 115; its ethical significance, 164, 165; in France, 198 seq.; and British prestige, 229 ——, (separate plays):— Antony and Cleopatra in Vienna, 17 Coriolanus, political significance of, 164; and patriotism, 178 Cymbeline (III. i., 16-22), on patriotism, 183 Hamlet, Shakespeare's performance of the Ghost, 27; early popularity of the play, 29; Pepys's criticism of, 95, 99-101; the stage abridgment contrasted with the full text, 117-119 Henry IV. (Part I.), Pepys's criticism of, 97, 98 Henry V., meaning of first chorus, 19, 46; quoted, 157, 158, 162 Julius Cæsar, preferred by contemporary playgoers to Jonson's Cataline, 31; political significance of, 164 Lear, King, performed at Elizabeth's Court, 36; quarto of, 36 Love's Labour's Lost, performed at Court, 34; title-page of the quarto, 35 Macbeth, Pepys's criticism of, 104-105; quoted, 156 Measure for Measure, ethics of, 164 Merry Wives of Windsor, The, title-page of the quarto, 36; Pepys's criticism of, 97 Midsummer Night's Dream, A, Pepys's criticism of, 96 Othello, Pepys's criticism of, 95, 98, 99 Richard II., purport of John of Gaunt's dying speech, 115-116, 181 Romeo and Juliet, Pepys's criticism of, 96 Tempest, The, Pepys's criticism of, 105-108; spectacular production of, at Restoration, 107 Troilus and Cressida (II. ii., 166), on Aristotle, 144, 145; (I. iii., 101-124), on social equilibrium, 163 Twelfth Night, Pepys's criticism of, 96 Sheffield, John, Earl of Mulgrave and Duke of Buckinghamshire, 72 Shoreditch, the theatre in, 227 Sidney, Sir Philip, French translations of Arcadia, 199, 204 Somerset, the "proud" Duke of, on Shakespeare, 79 Sophocles, statue of, 233 Southampton, Earl of, and Shakespeare, 72 Southwark, the Globe Theatre at, 227 Spenser, Edmund, Beeston's gossip about, 67 Steevens, George, character of, 191; a forged letter by, 192, 193 Sterne, Laurence, in France, 200 Stevenson, R.L., his imaginary discovery of lost works by Shakespeare, 25 Stratford-on-Avon, Shakespeare's tomb at, 50; Betterton at, 73; visitors from Oxford to, 75, 76, 77; Shakespeare tradition at, 75, 76; Shakespeare memorials at, 218; destruction of New Place, 221; the monumental committee of, 221; sale of Shakespeare's birthplace, 222; purchase of New Place site, 223; the Birthplace Trust, 223, 224 Suckling, Sir John, his love for Shakespeare, 71 Sudermann, Hermann, 135 Tate, Nahum, his adaptations of Shakespeare, 103, 104 Theatres in Elizabethan London, 36; seating arrangements, 39; prices of admission, 39; the scenery, 40; the costumes, 41; contrast between their methods of production and those of later date, 44 Theatres, at Restoration, 86; characteristics of, 87-90. (See also Playhouses.) Theatrical Review of 1763, 190 Theatrical spectacle in Shakespearean drama, effect of excess, 3; its want of logic, 4; its costliness, 7; at the Restoration, 89, 109; at the present day, 110 Thomson, James, French study of, 201 Tuke, Sir Samuel, his Adventures of Five Hours, 98-99 Taylor, Joseph, original actor in Shakespeare's plays, 61; coached by Shakespeare in part of Henry VIII., 63, 71, 72 Vanbrugh, Sir John, 91 Veronese, Paolo, statue of, 233 Victoria, Queen, and Stratford-on-Avon, 222; statues of, 237 Vienna, production of Antony and Cleopatra at the Burg-Theater, 17; types of subsidised theatres at, 136, 138; conservatoire of actors at, 139 Voltaire on Shakespeare, 205, 206 War, popular view of, 177 Ward, John, vicar of Stratford-on-Avon, 74; his Diary, 74 Warner, Mrs, at Sadler's Wells, 11 Wellington, Duke of, monument to, 238 Westminster Abbey, Shakespeare's exclusion from, 50; his cenotaph in, 215-216 Will, freedom of, 166 Women, Shakespeare's views on, 168 Wordsworth, William, French study of, 201 Wycherley, William, 91 Young, Edward, French study of, 201

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