et's
death, 271
his account of the poet, 361

Warner, Richard, 364

Warner, William, the probable translator of the _Menaechmi_, 54

Warren, John, 300

Warwickshire: prevalence of the surname Shakespeare, 1 2
a position of the Arden family, 6
Queen Elizabeth's progress on the way to Kenilworth, 17

Watchmen in the poet's plays, 31 62

Watkins, Richard, printer, 393

Watson, Thomas, 61
the passage on Time in his 'Passionate Centurie of Love' elaborated
in 'Venus and Adonis,' 77 and _n_ 2
his sonnets, 83 427 _n_ 2 428
plagiarisation of Petrarch, 101 _n_ 4 102
foreign origin of his sonnets, 103 _n_ 1 112
his 'Tears of Fancie,' 113 _n_ 1 433

'Weak endings' in Shakespeare, 49 _n_

Webbe, Alexander, makes John Shakespeare overseer of his will, 11

Webbe, Robert, buys the Snitterfield property from Shakespeare's mother,
12 and _n_

Webster, John, alludes in the _White Divel_ to Shakespeare's industry,
278 _n_

Weelkes, Thomas, 182 _n_

Weever, Thomas: his eulogy of the poet, 179 _n_
allusion in his 'Mirror of Martyrs' to Antony's speech at Caesar's
funeral, 211

Welcombe, enclosure of common fields at, 269 270 and _n_

'Westward for Smelts' and the _Merry Wives of Windsor_, 172 and _n_ 3
story of Ginevra in, 249

Whateley, Anne, the assumed identification of her with Anne Hathaway, 23
24 and _n_

Wheler, R. B., 363

Whetstone, George, his _Promos and Cassandra_, 237

White, Mr. Richard Grant, 325

Whitehall, performances at, 81 82 234 235 and _n_ 241 254 _n_ 264

Wieland, Christopher Martin: his translation of Shakespeare, 343

Wilkins, George, his collaboration with Shakespeare in _Timon of Athens_
and _Pericles_, 242 243
his novel founded on the play of _Pericles_, 244

Wilks, Robert, actor, 335

Will, Shakespeare's, 203 271 273-276

'Will' sonnets, the, 117
Elizabethan meanings of 'will,' 416
Shakespeare's uses of the word, 417
the poet's puns on the word, 418
play upon 'wish' and 'will,' 419
interpretation of the word in Sonnets cxxiv.-vi. and cxliii., 420-26

'Willobie his Avisa,' 155-158

Wilmcote, house of Shakespeare's mother, 6 7
bequest to Mary Arden of the Asbies property at, 7
mortgage of the Asbies property at, 12 26
and 'Wincot' in _The Taming of the Shrew_, 166 167

Wilnecote. _See under_ Wincot

Wilson, Robert, author of _The Three Ladies of London_, 67

Wilson, Thomas