Shakespeare of Stratford/General Index
GENERAL INDEX
(For detailed list of biographical documents relating to Shakespeare see Table of Contents)
Addenbrooke, John: sued by Shakespeare, 57–59.
Admiral, the Lord (Earl of Nottingham): his company of players, 131.
Alleyn, Edward, actor: spurious letter to him, mentioning Shakespeare, 99.
All’s Well that Ends Well (originally known as Love’s Labour’s Won?): date, 121; metrical features, 127.
Antony and Cleopatra: entry on Stationers’ Register, 116; small use of prose, 124; metrical features, 127; structure, 139.
Arden, Mary (Shakespeare’s mother): 1, 2, 7–9, 16, 38; her burial, 57.
Arden, Robert (Shakespeare’s grandfather): 1, 2, 7, 16, 33.
Arden, Thomas: 2.
Armin, Robert: one of ‘King’s Men,’ 46, 49; mentioned in A. Philips’ will, 52; principal actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
As You Like It: entry on Stationers’ Register, 116; metrical features, 127; alluded to, 151.
Asbies (property of Shakespeare’s mother): 7–9.
Bacon, Anne: tenant of Blackfriars property, 71; deceased mother of M. Bacon, Jr., 79; wife of Mathias Bacon of Gray’s Inn, 81.
Bacon, Francis: ‘Baconian’ and related theories of authorship, 140, 142–144; quoted, 159.
Bacon, Mathias (Mathie) of Gray’s Inn: vendor of Blackfriars property to Henry Walker, 71.
Bacon, Matthew (Mathie): son of the foregoing, 81; sued in chancery by Shakespeare and others, 78–81.
Bacon, Richard (citizen of London): one of the appellants in the Blackfriars petition, 79, 80.
Bankside (Surrey): Shakespeare’s residence there, 20; theatres on, 131–132.
Barker, Henry: heir of John B., 59–63.
Barker, John: holder of mortgage on Stratford tithes, 54, 59.
Barnes, W. (citizen of Stratford): 78.
Barnfield, Richard: his tribute to Shakespeare, 26–27.
Bartholomew Fair (Jonson): slur at Tempest and Winter's Tale in Induction to, 114–115.
Beaumont, Francis: on Shakespeare’s lack of learning, 64; buried in Westminster Abbey, 91–92.
Beeston, Christopher: one of Chamberlain’s Men, acting Every Man in his Humour, 27; mentioned in A. Phillips’ will, 52.
Bell and Bell Savage inn-yards: used for plays, 129.
Belott, Stephen: plaintiff in Belott-Mountjoy case, 65–70.
Bendish, Sir Thomas: concerned with Shakespeare in Blackfriars suit, 79, 80.
Benfield, Robert: actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
Bernard, Sir John: second husband of Shakespeare’s granddaughter, 6.
Bishopsgate: Shakespeare a resident in this ward (St. Helen’s parish), 18–20; Bishopsgate Street, 129, 130.
Bishopton (near Stratford): tithes in, 53, 62; Shakespeare’s interests near B., 77, 85.
Blackfriars (London), Shakespeare’s house in: purchase, 70–72; mortgage on, 72–73; chancery suit concerning, 7881; bequeathed to Susanna Hall, 85.
Blackfriars Theatre: spurious records relating to it, 98; account of, 182.
Blackwell, William: late tenant of property adjacent to that purchased by Shakespeare in Blackfriars, 71.
blank verse: Shakespeare’s use of, 122–128.
Boar’s Head inn-yard (Whitechapel): used for plays, 129.
Bott, William: an early owner of New Place, 22.
Brend, Sir Thomas: owner of the site of Globe Theatre: 31, 82.
Brooke, Ralph (herald): charged Shakespeare with false assumption of arms, 18.
Bryan, George: actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
Bull inn-yard: used for plays, 129.
Burbage, Cuthbert: part owner of Globe Theatre, 32; of second Blackfriars Theatre, 182.
Burbage, James: builder of the ‘Theatre,’ 130.
Cambridge: Shakespeare’s reputation at, 36–37, 38–39, 107–108; Hamlet acted at, 134.
Camden, William: joins with Dethick in second grant of arms to John Shakespeare, 32-34; praises Shakespeare’s works, 47–48.
Carewe, Lord, of Clopton: obstructionist concerning Stratford tithes, 60, 61.
Cecil, Lord, of Essingdon (Sir Robert Cecil); James I’s license of the ‘King’s Men’ addressed to him as Keeper of the Privy Seal, 47. See also Cranborne.
Chamberlain’s (Lord) Company: Shakespeare an important member in 1594, 14; noted on title-pages of his plays, 24–25; act Jonson’s Every Man in his Humour, 27–28; lose the services of Kempe, 38; perform Richard II on the eve of Essex’s revolt, 106; at Cross Keys and Newington Butts in 1594, 129–130, 131.
Chapman, George: 155.
Chettle, Henry: apologizes for Greene’s attack on Shakespeare, 10–11.
Clayton, John: sued by William Shakespeare (probably not the poet), 99.
Clopton: Stratford family, 21, 22; Lord Carewe of, 60, 61; Clopton hedge, 77.
Coleridge, S. T.: on Shakespeare’s romanticism, 138.
Collier, J. P.: forgeries ascribed to, 98–100.
Collins, Francis (draughtsman of Shakespeare’s will): bequest to him, 84; named overseer of Shakespeare’s will, 86; witness to it, 87.
Combe family (of Stratford and Warwick): 55, 60, 62.
Combe, John: sells arable land to Shakespeare, 39–41, 63; bequeathes him £5,75.
Combe, Thomas: Shakespeare bequeathes him his sword, 84.
Combe, William (uncle of John): associated with John C. in sale of arable land, 39–41, 63.
Combe, William (nephew of John): sued in chancery by Lane, Greene, and Shakespeare, 62–63; attempts enclosures at Welcombe, 76, 78.
Comedy of Errors: conjecture about, 14; performed at court (‘the Play of Errors’), 51; at Gray’s Inn, 101, 138; Twelfth Night likened to, 108; date of, 120; metrical features, 127; contains Shakespeare’s sole allusion to America, 156.
Condell, Henry: actor in Every Man in his Humour and Sejanus, 27–28; one of ‘King’s Men,’ 46, 49; mentioned in A. Phillips’ will, 52; in Shakespeare’s, 85; signs, with Heminge, epistles in Shakespeare Folio, 87–91; actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
Conway, Sir Edward: defaulting tithe holder, 61.
Conway, Sir John: 23.
Cook, Alexander: actor in Jonson’s Sejanus, 28 (note); mentioned in A. Phillips’ will, 52; one of actors in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
Cope, Sir Walter: his letter about Love’s Labour’s Lost, 102, 133.
Coriolanus: prose in, 124; metrical features, 125–126, 127.
Cotswold hills: Shakespeare’s fondness for, 151, 156.
Court, plays performed at: 14, 50–51, 115, 132–133.
Cowley, Richard: one of ‘King’s Men,’ 46, 49; mentioned in A. Phillips’ will, 52; actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
Cranborne, Viscount (Sir Robert Cecil): Cope’s letter to, 102, 133.
Cross, Samuel: actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
Cross Keys inn-yard: Shakespeare’s company acting at, 129–130.
Cunningham, Peter: records discovered by, 51, 115.
‘Curtain’ Theatre: 20; account of 129, 130.
Cymbeline: Forman’s account of, 112–113; metrical features, 127.
Daborne, Robert: mentioned with Shakespeare in spurious warrant, 100.
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.
Forman, Simon: notes on plays seen at the Globe, 110–114.
Fortescue, John: former tenant of Shakespeare’s Blackfriars property, 71.
Fortune Theatre: 131.
Freeman, Thomas: his sonnet on Shakespeare, 74–75,
Froissart, Jean: ultimate progenitor of Shakespeare’s view of history, 147.
Gardiner, James: former tenant of Shakespeare’s Blackfriars property, 71.
Gesta Grayorum: account of Comedy of Errors in, 101.
Getley, Walter: conveys to Shakespeare a cottage, 43–45,
Gilburne, Samuel: actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
Globe Theatre: Shakespeare part owner of, 31–32; ‘usual house’ of King’s Men, 46; 56; pun on, 94; plays performed at, 103, 106, 110, 113, 114; burned, 114; its history, 131.
Goughe, Robert: actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
Gray’s Inn: Comedy of Errors performed at, 101.
Greene, Robert: his attack on Shakespeare, 9–10, 11.
Greene, Thomas: Shakespeare’s cousin and legal adviser, 55; joins the poet in chancery suit over tithe property, 59–63; associated with him in agreement about Welcombe enclosures, 75–76; notes by him, 77–78.
Greenwich Palace: plays before Elizabeth there, 14, 133; King James’s residence, 47.
Greville, Sir Edward: lord of the manor of Stratford, 23, 29; defaulting tithe holder, 61.
Greville, Sir Fulke: 23.
Hakluyt, Richard: alluded to, 157.
Hall, Elizabeth: Shakespeare’s granddaughter, 6; baptism, 57; bequests to her in the poet’s will, 83, 86.
Hall, John: Shakespeare’s son-in-law, 6; marriage to Susanna Shakespeare, 55, 57; his opinion on Welcombe enclosure scheme, 77; beneficiary and executor of the poet’s will, 86.
Hamlet: acted at Cambridge, 39; and Oxford, 134; Scoloker’s allusion to, 50; acted at sea, 108–109; text of, 116, 117, 118; quarto editions, 119; metrical features, 127; the pre-Shakespearean play, 181; fantastic interpretations of, 150; quoted, 158, 159.
Hampton Court: plays acted at, 133.
Harry the Sixth (old form of 1 Henry VI): 101.
Hart, William: Shakespeare’s brother-in-law, 2; his death, 87.
Hart, William (son of foregoing): bequest to him and his brothers, Michael and Thomas, in poet’s will, 84.
Harvey, Gabriel: his notes on Shakespeare, 27.
Hathway, Anne: her marriage to Shakespeare, 3–6; inscription on her tomb, 5; mentioned in Whittington’s will, 37; bequeathed the poet’s second-best bed, 86.
Hathway, Richard: father of Anne (?), 5.
Heminge, John: actor in Every Man in his Humour and Sejanus, 27–28; part owner of Globe Theatre, 32; one of ‘King’s Men, 46, 49; groom of the chamber, 49–50; bequest to him in poet’s will, 85; signs, with Condell, epistles in Shakespeare Folio, 87–91; actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
Hemming, John: trustee for Shakespeare in purchase of Blackfriars property, 70–73; perhaps identical with the foregoing, 72.
Henley Street (Stratford): Shakespeare’s birthplace in, 1, 88; bequeathed to Susanna Hall, 85.
Henry IV (part I): Shakespeare’s name on title-page of second edition, 25; early allusions to, 104, 105, 106; text of, 116, 118; quarto editions, 119; metrical features, 127; quoted, 151.
Henry IV (part II): entry on Stationers’ Register, 35-36; allusion to, 104–105; text of, 118; quarto edition, 119; metrical features, 127; quoted, 145, 147, 156.
Henry V: performed at court, 51; bad quarto editions, 117; Folio text, 118; list of quartos, 119; date of, 120; metrical features, 127; allusion to Essex in, 136; quoted, 147, 148, 154,
Henry VI: contemporary allusion to part I, 101; date, 120; metrical features, 127.
Henry VIII: Globe Theatre burned during performance of, 114, 131; metrical features, 127.
Henslowe, Philip: 131.
Heywood, Thomas: two poems by him fraudulently published as Shakespeare’s, 35; his Edward IV, 109; comparable to Shakespeare in wide experience, 141 (note).
Hiccoxe, Thomas and Lewes: tenants of land bought by Shakespeare, 41.
Hog hath Lost his Pearl, The (R. Taylor): allusion to Pericles in, 109.
Holland, Hugh: his elegiac sonnet on Shakespeare, 94.
Hope Theatre: 182.
Horneby, Thomas: surety for Addenbrooke, 58–59.
Huband, Ralph: sells interest in Stratford tithes to Shakespeare, 52–55.
Inns of Court: plays performed at, 101, 108, 133.
Inn-yards: used for acting, 129–130.
Ireland, William: tenant of Blackfriars property, 71.
Jackson, John: trustee for Shakespeare in Blacxfriars purchase, 70–73.
Jaggard, William: exploits Shakespeare’s popularity in The Passionate Pilgrim, 34–35.
James I: licenses Shakespeare’s company as ‘King’s Men,’ 45–47, 135; his coronation procession attended by them, 48–49; Jonson on his fondness for Shakespeare’s plays, 93; plays acted before him at Wilton, 133.
John, King: metrical features, 127; quoted, 146.
Johnson, Joan: witness in Belott-Mountjoy suit, 66, 67.
Johnson, William: trustee for Shakespeare in Blackfriars purchase, 70–73,
Jonson, Ben: Every Man in his Humour and Sejanus acted by Shakespeare, 27–28; anecdote of Shakespeare and Jonson, 38–39; eulogy of Shakespeare in Folio, 91–93; later appraisal of him, 96–97; slurs at Pericles, 109; alludes to Tempest and Winter’s Tale, 114–115; as critic of Shakespeare, 137; contrasted with him, 139, 140, 151.
Julius Cæsar: early allusions to, 95, 103–104; date of, 120; metrical features, 124–125, 127; structure, 139; quoted, 160.
Keeling, Captain William: performs Shakespeare’s plays at sea, 108–109.
King’s Men: licensed, 45–47; grooms of royal chamber, 49–50; perform plays at court, 50–51, 115; list of principal actors in Shakespeare’s plays, 96; their theatres, 129–135.
Kyd, Thomas: Shakespeare’s superiority to, 92; his Hamlet, 131.
Lake, (Sir) Thomas, 47.
Lambard, William: his conversation with Queen Elizabeth, 107.
Lambert, Edmund: estranged relative of Shakespeare, 7, 8.
Lambert, John: son of the foregoing, 7, 8, 9.
Lane, Richard: joins with Shakespeare in chancery suit about tithes, 59–63.
Lear, King: entry on Stationers’ Register, 55–56; spurious edition of, 117; text of, 118; quarto editions, 119; metrical features, 127.
light and weak endings in Shakespeare: 123, 126, 127.
Lorkins, Thomas: his letter describing Globe Theatre fire, 114,
Love’s Labour’s Lost: Shakespeare’s name on title-page, 25; performed at court, 25, 51, 133; early allusions to, 101–102; no entry on Stationers’ Register, 115; quarto edition, 119; date of, 121; metrical features, 127; fantastic interpretation of, 150; alluded to, 151, 154; quoted, 153.
Love’s Labour’s Won: mentioned by Meres, 26; probably an early form of All’s Well, 121.
Lowin, John: actor in Jonson’s Sejanus, 28 (note); in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
Lucas, T.: witness to Shakespeare’s agreement with Replingham, 78.
Lucrece: dedication to Southampton, 12–13; referred to in Willobie his Avisa, 13; early allusions to, 31, 74; publication of, 116; list of quarto editions, 119.
Lucy, Sir Thomas: 23, 24,
Lyly, John: Shakespeare’s superiority to, 92; Shakespeare compared with, 139, 140, 141.
Mabbe, James: memorial verses on Shakespeare, 95.
Macbeth: Forman’s account of, 110–112; metrical features, 123, 127; flattery of James I in, 136, 154.
Mainwaring, Humphrey: witness to Combes’ deed to Shakespeare, 42.
Mannering (Mainwaring) Arthur: concerned in Welcombe enclosure scheme, 77–78.
Manningham, John: his anecdote of Shakespeare and Burbage, 39; account of Twelfth Night, 108.
Marlowe, Christopher: reprimanded by Greene and Chettle, 10, 11; Shakespeare’s superiority to, 92; contrasted with Shakespeare, 137–140, 141, 146; quoted, 156, 158, 159.
Marston, John: ‘Crispinus’ in Jonson’s Poetaster, 39; alludes to performance of Romeo and Juliet, 130, 155.
Mason, Richard: witness to Combes’ deed to Shakespeare, 42,
Measure for Measure: performed at court, 51; metrical features, 127.
Merchant of Venice: performed at court, 51; spurious edition of, 117; list of quartos, 119; metrical features, 127; local allusion in, 137.
Meres, Francis: his estimate of Shakespeare, 25–26.
Merrick (Meyrick), Sir Gelly: his testimony about performance of Richard II, 105–106.
Merry Wives of Windsor: performed at court, 50; bad quarto text, 117; Folio text, 118; quartos of, 119; metrical features, 127; written for Queen Elizabeth, 136; a relative failure, 154.
metrical tests in Shakespeare: 122–127.
Middle Temple: Twelfth Night performed at, 108, 133.
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A: spurious edition of, 117; the two quartos, 119; metrical features, 124, 127; tribute to Queen Elizabeth in, 186; fantastic interpretations of, 150.
Montgomery, Philip Herbert, Earl of: Shakespeare Folio dedicated to, 87–89.
Mountjoy, Christopher: Shakespeare’s landlord, 65–70.
Mountjoy, Mary: suit arising from her marriage, 65–69.
Much Ado about Nothing: entry on Stationers’ Register, 85–86; quarto edition, 119; date of, 120; metrical features, 127.
Nashe, Anthony and John: witnesses to Combes’ deed to Shakespeare, 42; bequests to them in poet’s will, 84.
Nashe, Thomas (of Stratford): first husband of Shakespeare’s granddaughter, 6
Nashe, Thomas (the satirist): Greene’s allusion to (?), 10; praises early version of 1 Henry VI, 101.
New Inn, The (Jonson): 109.
New Place (Stratford): 5; purchased by Shakespeare, 20–22; repaired, 30; Shakespeare’s title assured, 42–43; 55; bequeathed to Susanna Hall, 85.
Newington Butts: playhouse at, 130–131.
Newport, Edward: associated with Shakespeare in Blackfriars suit, 79, 80.
Nicholas, Daniel: witness in Belott-Mountjoy suit: 66, 67.
‘Night of Errors, The’: 101.
Northumberland, Earl of: tenant of Blackfriars property, adjoining Shakespeare’s, 71.
Oldcastle, Sir John (Munday, Drayton, etc.): allusions to Henry IV in, 104.
Ostler, William: actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
Othello (‘The Moor of Venice’): performed at court, 50; early allusion to, 110; publication of, 116; text of, 118; metrical features, 127; local allusion in, 137; structure of, 139; quoted, 152.
Oxford: Hamlet acted at, 134.
Parnassus, Return from (part 1): allusions to Shakespeare in, 36–37.
Parnassus, Return from (part II): anecdote of Shakespeare and Jonson, 38–39; Richard III and Burbage, 107–108.
Pavier, Thomas: his spurious quartos of Shakespeare, 117, 119 (note 6).
Peele, George: addressed affectionately by Greene, 10; compared with Shakespeare, 141; author of Edward III (?), 148.
Pembroke, William, Earl of: Shakespeare Folio dedicated to, 87–89; ‘King’s Men’ at his house of Wilton, 133.
Pembroke’s Company: Shakespeare’s hypothetical connection with, 14–15.
Percy, Sir Charles: alludes to Henry IV (part II), 104–105; concerned in seditious performance of Richard II, 106.
Phillips, Augustine: his assumption of arms, 17; acts in Every Man in his Humour and Sejanus, 27-28; part owner of Globe Theatre, 32; one of ‘King’s Men,’ 46, 49; groom of royal chamber, 49–50; his will, 52; actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96; testifies concerning performance of Richard II, 106–107.
Pimlyco (anonymous poem): allusion to Pericles in, 109.
plague: playhouses closed by, 46, 134.
Platter, Thomas: describes play of Julius Cæsar, 103.
Poetaster (Jonson): 39.
Pope, Thomas: his assumption of arms, 17; actor in Every Man in his Humour, 27; part owner of Globe Theatre, 32; actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
Privy Council: Welcombe enclosure project referred to, 78; spurious petition to, 98.
prose, Shakespeare’s use of: 124.
provincial theatres: 134.
Puckering, Sir Thomas: letter to, 114.
quarto editions of Shakespeare’s works: list of (before 1623), 119.
Queen’s Chapel, Children of: 182.
Quyny, Adrian: friend of John Shakespeare, 22; letter to his son, 29.
Quyny, Richard (son of foregoing): letter to him, 22–24; his letter to Shakespeare, 28–29; letters to him, 29–30.
Quyny, Shakespeare: the poet’s grandson, 7.
Quyny, Thomas (son of Richard): Shakespeare’s son-in-law, 7, 81.
Ralegh, Sir Walter: compared with Shakespeare, 187, 144, 145, 146, 148, 152, 154, 159.
Replingham, William: executes agreement protecting Shakespeare against loss of tithe income, 75–76, 78.
Revels Accounts: Shakespeare’s plays in, 50–51, 115.
Reynolds, William: bequest to in Shakespeare’s will, 84.
Rice, John: actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
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.
Shakespeare, Edmund: the poet’s brother, 2, 56–57.
Shakespeare, Gilbert: the poet’s brother, 2, 41–42, 64–65.
Shakespeare, Hamnet: the poet’s son, 6–7, 15.
Shakespeare, Joan: two sisters of the poet so named, 2; younger married William Hart, 2, 88; bequests to her in Shakespeare’s will, 83, 84; her death, 87.
Shakespeare, John: the poet’s father, 1, 5–6, 7–9, 15–18, 32–34, 88.
Shakespeare, Judith: the poet’s daughter, 6–7, 81, 82–84, 86.
Shakespeare, Richard: the poet’s grandfather (?), 1.
Shakespeare, Richard: the poet’s brother, 2, 70.
Shakespeare, Susanna: the poet’s daughter, 6, 18, 45; married to John Hall, 55; chief beneficiary under Shakespeare’s will, 83, 85, 86; named executrix, 86.
Shakespeare, William: parents and ancestry, 1–2; his brothers and sisters, 2; actor in two of Jonson’s plays, 27–28; gives Jonson a purge, 38–39; William the Conqueror to Burbage’s Richard III, 39; his London residences, 18–20, 65–70; his Stratford monument, 94; spurious records about, 98–100; avoids contemporary English characters in his plays, 136–137; his romanticism, 137–140; compared with Lyly, Marlowe, and Jonson, 139–140; his varied contacts with the theatre, 140–141; his Toryism in politics, 144–148; feeling for the sea, 148–150; recent political interpretations of his plays, 150–151; his treatment of rustic and of city types, 151–152; his religion, 152–153; distinguished from other Elizabethans, 153, 154–157; a thinker, rather than emotionalist or pragmatist, 157–160.
Shakespeare, William: contemporaries of the poet, 99.
Shank, John: actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
Shaw, Julius: witness of Shakespeare’s will, 87.
Shaxberd (Shakespeare): 51,
Sheldon, William: witness to Combes’ deed to Shakespeare, 42.
Shoreditch (or Finsbury Fields): theatres in, 20, 130.
Shottery: Richard Hathway’s home, 5; Shakespeare contemplates purchase of land in, 22–23.
Sidney, Sir Philip: 137, 159.
Silver Street (London): Shakespeare a resident in, 65–70.
Snitterfield: probable birthplace of Shakespeare’s father, 1.
Somerset House: ‘King’s Men’ in attendance on Spanish ambassador at, 49; wills preserved at, 52, 82.
Sonnets, Shakespeare’s: quarto edition of, 116, 119; allusion to traveling of actors in, 134; their doubtful connection with Southampton, 136; quoted, 153.
sources of Shakespeare’s works: tabular statement, facing 120.
Southampton, Countess of: 105.
Southampton, Earl of: patron of Shakespeare’s poems, 11–13; spurious letter ascribed to, 98–99; 136.
Southwark: spurious lists of inhabitants, including Shakespeare, 98, 99; Edmund Shakespeare buried in, 56. See also Bankside.
Spanish ambassador (Velasco): grooms of royal chamber in attendance on, 49–50.
speech-endings in Shakespeare: 123, 126, 127.
Spenser, Edmund: compared with Shakespeare, 136, 187, 188, 141, 144, 145, 148, 152, 157, 159; quoted, 156.
Stationers’ Company: first mention of Shakespeare in their register, 35–36, 116; list of entries of Shakespeare’s works, 119.
Strange, Lord: his company of actors, 130; Shakespeere’s possible connection with them, 131.
Stratford, Old: Shakespeare buys land in, 39–42, 63; interested in tithes in, 53, 62, 77, 85.
Sturley, Abraham: 22–24, 29–30.
Swan Theatre: 182.
Taming of a Shrew (pre-Shakespearean play): 131.
Taming of the Shrew: metrical features, 127.
Taylor, John: the Water-Poet, 152.
Taylor, Joseph: actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
Tempest, The: Jonson’s slurs at, 114–115; performed at court, 115; metrical features, 122, 127; local allusion in. 137; structure, 189.
Temple Grafton: Anne Whateley of, 3, 4.
‘Theatre,’ The: Shakespeare’s early London residence near, 20; account of 129, 130, 131.
Theatres: Shakespeare’s, 129–135.
Thuresbie, William: associated with Shakespeare in Blackfriars suit, 79, 80.
Timon of Athens: metrical features, 127.
tithes of Stratford: Shakespeare suggested as possible purchaser, 23; purchase of, 52–55; chancery suit concerning, 59-63; agreement with Replingham about, 75–76.
Titus Andronicus: published anonymously, 117; quarto editions of, 119; date of, 120, 131; metrical features, 127.
Tofte, Robert: alludes to Love’s Labour’s Lost, 102.
Tooley, Nicholas: mentioned in A. Phillips’ will, 52; actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
Troilus and Cressida: text of, 118; quarto edition, 119; metrical features, 127.
Twelfth Night: performed in Middle Temple, 108; metrical features, 127.
Two Gentlemen of Verona: metrical features, 127.
Underhill, Hercules: confirms Shakespeare’s title to New Place, 42–43.
Underhill, William: sells New Place to Shakespeare, 20-22; poisoned by his son, 43.
Underwood, John: actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
Venus and Adonis: dedicated to Southampton, 11–12; early allusions to, 31, 36, 87, 74; publication of, 116; quarto editions, 119; date of, 120.
Walker, Henry: sells Shakespeare house in Blackfriars, 70–73, 81.
Walker, William: Shakespeare’s godson, 57, 84.
Walker’s Street (Chapel Lane, Stratford): 44, 45.
Wallace, C. W.: documents discovered by, 65–70, 78–81.
‘War of the Theatres’: 88–89.
Warwick, Anne, Countess of: Lady of the manor of Rowington: 43–45.
Weever, John: his sonnet to Shakespeare, 81; alludes to Julius Cæsar, 103–104.
Welcombe (near Stratford): 6; tithes in, 53, 62; enclosures attempted at, 75–78; Shakespeare’s holdings near, 85.
Whatcott, Robert: witness to Shakespeare’s will, 87.
Whateley, Anne: license for her marriage to Wm. Shaxpere, 3, 4.
Whitehall Palace: plays acted at, 50, 56, 115, 133.
Whittington, Themas: mention of Shakespeare and his wife in his will, 87.
Willobie his Avisa: allusion to Shakespeare in, 13.
Wilmecote (Wellingcote): home of the Ardens, 2, 33.
Wilton (seat of Earl of Pembroke): performance of Shakespeare’s company at, 133.
Winter’s Tale: Forman’s account of, 113–114; Jonson’s slur at, 114–115; performed at court, 115; metrical features, 127; alluded to, 151,
Worcester’s Company: Kempe joins them, 38.
Würtemberg, Prince of: sees Othello at the Globe Theatre, 110.