Pall Mall, 341

'Shakespeare Society,' the, 333 365

Shallow, Justice, Sir Thomas Lucy caricatured as, 29
his house in Gloucestershire, 167 168 173

Sheldon copy of the First Folio, the, 309 310

Shelton, Thomas, translator of 'Don Quixote,' 258

Shiels, Robert, compiler of 'Lives of the Poets,' 32 _n_ 3

Shottery, Anne Hathaway's Cottage at, 19

Shylock, sources of the portrait of, 67 68 and _n_

Siddons, Mrs. Sarah, 337 338

Sidney, Sir Philip: on the absence of scenery in a theatre, 38 _n_ 2
translation of verses from 'Diana,' 53
Shakespeare's indebtedness to him, 61
addressed as 'Willy' by some of his eulogists, 81
his 'Astrophel and Stella,' brings the sonnet into vogue, 83
piracy of his sonnets, 88 _n_ 432
circulation of manuscript copies of his 'Arcadia,' 88 _n_
his addresses to Cupid in his 'Astrophel,' 97 _n_
warns the public against the insincerity of sonnetteers, 104
on the conceit of the immortalising power of verse, 114
his praise of 'blackness,' 119 and _n_ 1
sonnet on 'Desire,' 153
use of the word 'will,' 417
editions of 'Astrophel and Stella,' 428 429
popularity of his works, 429

Sidney, Sir Robert, 382

Singer, Samuel Weller, 324

Sly, Christopher, probably drawn from life, 164 165 166 167 221 _n_

Smethwick, John, bookseller, 304

Smith, Richard, publisher, 431

Smith, Wentworth, 157 _n_
plays produced by, 180 _n_

Smith, William, sonnets of, 138 _n_ 2 157 _n_ 390 437

Smith, Mr. W. H., and the Baconian hypothesis, 372

Smithson, Miss, actress, 351

Snitterfield, Richard Shakespeare rents land of Robert Arden at, 3 6
departure of John Shakespeare, the poet's father, from, 4
the Arden property at, 7
sale of Mary Shakespeare's property at, 12 and _n_ 1 186

Snodham, Thomas, printer, 180

Somers, Sir George, wrecked off the Bermudas, 252

Somerset House, Shakespeare and his company at, 233 and _n_ 2

Sonnet in France (1550-1600), the, bibliographical note on (Appendix X.),
442-5

Sonnets, Shakespeare's: the poet's first attempts, 84
the majority probably composed in 1594, 85
a few written between 1594 and 1603 (e.g. cvii.)
their literary value, 87 88
circulation in manuscript, 88 396
commended by Meres, 89
their piratical publication in 1609, 89-94 390
their form, 95 96
want of continuity, 96 100
the two 'groups,' 96 9