composition, 242
a work of collaboration, 242
the poet's contributions, 244
dates of the various editions, 244
not included in the First Folio, 305
included in Third Folio, 313
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

Perkes (Clement), in _Henry IV._, member of a family at Stinchcombe Hill
in the sixteenth century, 168

'Perkins Folio,' forgeries in the, 312 317 _n_ 2 367 and _n_

Personalities on the stage, 215 _n_ 1

Peruse, Jean de la, 443

Petowe, Henry, elegy on Queen Elizabeth by, 148

Petrarch, emulated by Elizabethan sonnetteers, 84 85 86 _n_
feigns old age in his sonnets, 86 _n_
his metre, 95
Spenser's translations from, 101
imitation of his sonnets justified by Gabriel Harvey, 101 _n_ 4
plagiarisms of, admitted by sonnetteers, 101 _n_ 4
Wyatt's translations of two of his sonnets, 101 _n_ 4 427
plagiarised indirectly by Shakespeare, 101 111 and _n_ 113 _n_ 1
the melancholy of his sonnets, 152 _n_
imitated in France, 443

Phelps, Samuel, 325 339

Phillips, Augustine, actor, friend of Shakespeare, 36
induced to revive _Richard II_ at the Globe in 1601, 175
his death, 264

Phillips, Edward (Milton's nephew), criticism of the poet by, 362
editor of Drummond's Sonnets, 439 _n_ 1

'Phillis,' Lodge's, 118 _n_ 2 433 and _n_ 3

Philosophy, Chapman's sonnets in praise of, 441

'Phoenix and the Turtle, The,' 183 184 304

Pichot, A., 350

'Pierce Pennilesse.' See Nash, Thomas (2)

'Pierces Supererogation,' by Gabriel Harvey, 101 _n_ 4 105

Pindar, his claim for the immortality of verse, 114 and _n_ 1

Plague, the, in Stratford-on-Avon, 10
in London, 65 231

Plautus, the plot of the _Comedy of Errors_ drawn from, 16
translation of, 54

Plays, sale of, 47 and _n_
revision of, 47
their publication deprecated by playhouse authorities, 48 _n_
only a small proportion printed, 48 _n_
prices paid for, 202 _n_

'Pleiade, La,' title of the literary comrades of Ronsard, 442
list of, 443

'Plutarch,' North's translation of, Shakespeare's indebtedness 10 47 162
211 243 245 and _n_ 246 and _n_

Poaching episode, the, 27 28

'Poetaster,' Jonson's, 217 218 and _n_

Poland, translations and performances of Shakespeare in, 353

Pontoux, Claude de, name of his heroine copied by Drayton, 104

Pope, Alexander, 297
edition of Shakespeare by, 315

Porto, Lu