s, Francis, 35.

Combe, John, 25, 26, 40.

Combe, William, 25.

_Comedy of Errors_, 54, 68, 74, 78, 95.

Condell Henry, 29, 32, 35, 142, 157.

_Confessio Amantis_, 60.

Congreve, William, 111.

Constable, Henry, 61.

_Contention of York and Lancaster_, 161.

_Coriolanus_, 52, 82, 169.

Corneille, 182.

_Cornelia_, 99.

Covent Garden theater, 118.

Craig, W. J., 154.

Curtain theater, 117, 122.

Cushman, Charlotte, 176.

_Cymbeline_, 57, 63, 68, 73, 110, 169, 174.

Daniel, Samuel, 61, 62, 113.

D'Avenant, Sir William, 43, 44, 45, 112, 168.

Davies, Rev. R., 41.

_Decameron_, 57.

Dekker, T., 31, 103, 104, 105, 109, 111.

_De la Litterature_, 185.

Delius, N., 153, 154, 172.

Dennis, John, 177.

_De proprietatibus rerum_, 64.

De Quincey, T., 159.

Derby's men, 120.

Devrients, the, 184.

De Witt drawing of Swan theater, 120, 121.

_Diana_ of Montemayor, 58.

Diderot, D., 184.

_Discovery of Guiana_, 64.

_Distichs of Cato_, 52.

Donnelly, I., 164.

_Double Falsehood_, 160, 162.

Dowdall, John, 42.

Dowden, E., 84, 181.

Downes, John, 43.

_Downfall and Death of Huntington_, 103.

Drake, Sir F., 96.

Drayton, Michael, 40, 61.

Droeshout, Martin, 37, 38 n.

Drummond, W., 46.

Drury Lane theater, 118, 175.

Dryden, John, 111, 168, 169, 170, 182, 190, 192.

Ducis, J. F., 185.

_Dunciad_, 149.

Dyce, A., 153, 155, 161, 172.

Dyke, John, 29.

Earl of Leicester's men, 119, 120.

Earl of Worcester's men, 119.

Eden's _History of Travayle_, 64.

_Edward III_, 161, 162.

Edwards, Richard, 60.

Edwards, T., 150.

Elizabeth, Queen, 1, 2, 9, 10, 11, 32, 79, 119, 133.

Ellesmere, Lord, 163.

Ely Palace portrait, 37, 38 n.

_English Dramatic Poets_, 38.

_English Traveller_, quoted, 133.

_Epicene_, 95.

_Essay of Dramatic Poesie_, 168.

Essex, Earl of, 68, 124.

_Euphues_, 62.

Euripides, 90, 91.

Evans, Sir Hugh, 51.

_Everyman in His Humour_, 39, 103.

Fables in Shakespeare, 52.

Fabyan's _Chronicles_, 63.

_Faerie Queen_, 61.

_Fair Em_, 161.

_Fair Quarrel_, 111.

_Faithful Shepherdess_, 113.

_Fasti_, 53.

Faucit, Helen, 176.

Field, Richard, 23.

First Folio, 167;
described, 141-143;
facsimile of title-page, 143;
introductory matter in, _see_ APPENDIX A.

Fisher Quarto, 141 n.

Fleay, F. G., 72 n, 172.

Fletcher, John, 9, 91, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 168, 177, 191;
collaboration on _Two Nob