quarto editions, 119; metrical features, 127; quoted, 145, 146, 149.
Richard III: Shakespeare’s name on title-page, 25, 118; alluded to (?) by Weever, 81; Burbage playing Richard, 39; early allusion to, 107–108; quarto editions, 119; metrical features, 127.
Richardson, John: surety for Shakespeare’s marriage, 3, 5.
riming couplets in Shakespeare: 122.
Robinson, John: Shakespeare’s tenant at Blackfriars, 85.
Robinson, John: witness to Shakespeare’s will, 87.
Robinson, Richard: actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
Rogers, Philip: sued by William Shakespeare (probably not the poet), 99.
romanticism, Shakespeare’s: 137–140.
Romeo and Juliet: bad first quarto of, 25, 116; early allusions to, 31, 36, 95; no entry on Stationers’ Register, 116; Shakespeare’s name first appears in fourth edition, 117; list of quartos, 118, 119; metrical features, 127; performed at Curtain Theatre, 130; apothecary in, 151.
Rose Theatre: Harry the Sixth at, 101; account of, 131.
Rowe, Nicholas: his life of Shakespeare, 13, 27.
Rowington, manor of: cottage belonging to bought by Shakespeare, 43–45; bequeathed to Susanna Hall, 82–83.
Rowington, William Shakespeare of: not the poet, 99.
run-on (unstopped) lines in Shakespeare: 122–123, 126, 127.
Russell, Thomas: bequeathed £5 by Shakespeare, 84; named overseer of his will, 86.
Rutland, Earl of: Shakespeare and Burbage devise an impresa for, 73–74.
Sadler, Hamnet (or Hamlet): Shakespeare’s son named after him, 7; bequest to him in poet’s will, 84; witness to it, 87.
St. Helen’s Parish: Shakespeare taxed as resident there, 18–20, 130.
St. Saviour’s Church (Southwark): burial place of Edmund Shakespeare, 56.
Sandells, Fulke: surety for Shakespeare’s marriage, 3, 5.
Scoloker, Anthony: alludes to ‘friendly Shakespeare,’ 50.
Sejanus (Jonson): Shakespeare an actor in, 28.
‘Shake-scene’: Greene’s name for Shakespeare, 10.
