Davies, John, of Hereford: praises Shakespeare in an epigram, 64,
Davies, Sir John: 106.
Dekker, Thomas: compared with Shakespeare, 151.
Dethick, William: drafts award of arms to Shakespeare’s father, 15–18; confirms and extends this, 32–34.
diction, development of Shakespeare’s: 124–126.
Digges, Leonard: verses on Shakespeare, 94–95.
Dormer, Robert: concerned, with Mary his wife, in Blackfriars suit, 79, 80.
double (feminine) endings in Shakespeare: 122, 126, 127.
Drake, Sir Francis: 149, 154.
Drayton, Michael: compared with Shakespeare, 154–155.
Dyke, John: actor in Every Man in his Humour, 27.
Eastward Ho (Chapman, Jonson, Marston): quoted, 155. Ecclestone, William: actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
Edward III (Peele?): 148.
Egerton, Sir Thomas. See Ellesmere.
Eliza (Elizabeth): Jonson on her fondness for Shakespeare’s plays, 93.
Elizabeth, Queen: her opinion of Richard II, 107.
Ellesmere, Baron (Sir Thomas Egerton), Lord Chancellor: appeal to him in matter of Stratford tithes, 59–63; chancery suit over Blackfriars documents, 78–79; spurious letter to him, 99.
end-stopped lines in Shakespeare: 122, 126.
Essex, Earl of: his insurrection, 104, 105–107; flattered in Henry V, 136; 148.
Every Man in his Humour (Jonson): Shakespeare an actor in, 27–28; slur at Tempest in revised text, 115.
Falstaff: mentioned in Stationers’ Register, 36; contemporary allusions to, 104–105.
Field, Nathan: actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
Field, Richard: publisher of Venus and Adonis, 12.
Finsbury Fields: playhouses in, 180, 181.
Fletcher, Lawrence: one of ‘King’s Men,’ 46–47, 49; mentioned in A. Phillips’ will, 52.
Folio, the first Shakespeare: introductory matter to, 87–96; 116, 118.
