INDEX. A. Actors, names of Shakespeare, printed by mistake in first folio, Actors, fellows of W. S. Did they suspect imposition? 37. Actresses, none in Shakespeare's day, 273. Addison, Joseph, his estimate of Shakespearean plays, 26. Althea, classical error as to, 210. Angling, knowledge of, displayed in plays, 228. Or pseudonymic, fashionable in those days, 176. A compromise of, suggested, 300. Theobald anticipates, 301. Areopagitica, Milton's, first asserted author's rights, 108. Protest against them, 274, note. Purchased with Shakespeare's first earnings, 274. Why Shakespeare purchased, 274. Article in Chambers' Journal first raises authorship question, 185. Expert evidence of, 303–304. Audiences. See Plays. Did not want scientific treatises, 229. Formative days of, 263. Not critical, 13. The Shakespearean, 114-259. (319) Author, his interest to be anonymous, 113. Compensation, how obtained, 108. Author of the plays. See Plays. His fidelity to national characteristics, 42. Insight of, into the human heart, no guess work, 43. Authorship of Henry VI., R. G. White's idea of, 303. Anonymous or pseudonymic authorship, prevalent, 176. Insecurity of. See Author, Copyright, Nashe, Printers, Insecurity of authorship. See Star Chamber. Autographs of W. S. See "Florio" autograph. B. Bacon, and Shakespeare misquote passage of Aristotle, 241., Appears in New Theory, 284. Believes in teaching history by drama, 242. Could have appraised the S. Drama 180. Did William Shakespeare write works of, 38, 39. Driven to "the Jews,' 233. See "Shylock." His acquirements, 232. His estimate of the theatre, 203. His letter to the Queen, 237. His "Northumberland MS.," 242. His reasons for concealment, 201, 316. His "Sonnet" what may be, 280, 281. His youth compared with Shakespeare's, 232. May have brought together first folio, 236. No cause to mourn for Elizabeth, 243. Not mentioned to Shakespeare by Jonson, 145. Bacon, often wrote in other's names, 243. Or is he told of Shakespeare by, 145. Possesses the qualities assigned to author of the dramas, 175. Surmised philosophical purpose, 203. When appointed attorney-general plays cease to appear, 233. Believed in a joint authorship, 206. Believes "Hamlet" to be key-note of the plays, 190. Claims to have discovered Bacon's clew, 192. Death of, 200. Estimate of her book, 196, note. Extracts from her first paper, 189. Her approach to an overt act, 197-199. Her belief as to the manuscripts, 193, 194. Her poverty, 188-195. Her question as to the MS. answered, 244. What it really was, 191. Reception of her theory in America, 187. In England, 187. Supposed to be mad, 10, 11. But her madness contageous, 11. Visits Stratford, 174–195. Old Verulam, id. What her madness was, 191, 300. Writes her first paper in 1855, 186. “Baconian” and “Delia Bacon" theories discriminated, 201. Bibliography of the, 246. Indifferent as to Wm. S. being a law student, 245. In general, what, 203. Preponderance for, 297. Bailey, Rev. John, invents a new Shakespeare story, 160, note. Bartholomew Fair," induction to. See Jonson, Ben, 139. Becker Death Mask, the, 103. Bed, the second best, 50. Not explained by R. G. White or by Steevens, 65. แ 'Beeston," author of "Schoolmaster story," 60. 'Beeston," who was he? 160. Belleforest, borrowed from in the plays, 221. Best seats at theatres on the stage, 273. Bible, Shakespeare and the, 60, note, 231. Birthday of W. S. See St. George's day. Blackfriars Theater, James Burbage builds, 256. Boaden, James, his summary of the portraits, 93. Bohemia. See Sea-coast of Bohemia. Book-making, knowledge of, displayed in plays. See Printing. Answer to, 285. Boys, took female parts in Shakespeare's day, 273. Brown C. Armitage, his discovery as to Sonnets, 278. Brown, Henry, theory of the Sonnets, 279. Bunyan, John, analogy of life to Shakespeare, 165, 166. Burbage, James, builds the Blackfriars theater, 256. Burbage, Richard, lines interpolated in Hamlet to suit, 34, note. Comparison between, and “Shakespeare," 219. 'Business" of Wm. Shakespeare, now obsolete, 298. Bust in possession of Garrick Club, 105. See Garrick Club Bust. Whitewashed, by Malone, 97. Byron, Lord, his estimate of the Shakespearean plays, 19. C. Campbell, Lord, his notice of the legal acquirements of W. S. 59. Capell, preserves specimens of Shakespeare's wit, 270. ? Carlyle, Thomas, calls on Delia Bacon, 195. Suggested her writing first paper, 195. Cartwright, expert evidence as to, 303. Testimony as to Shakespeare's acquirements, 264. Rumored to have been by Burbage, 99. Chatterton, Thomas, difference between his case and Shakes- Chettle, wonders that Shakespeare does not mourn Elizabeth, 243. His apology for Greene's expression, 125. Christian Monastery in Ephesus in days of Pericles, 116. Cinthio, borrowed from in the plays, 221. Classical knowledge, displayed in plays, 207, 208. Difficulties suggested by, 211. Clergy, benefit of, 262, note. Included all learned professions, id. Clown, the principal actor in Shakespearean theaters, 260, 261. Cohn, Albert, his theory as to Shakespeare in Germany, 216. Coleridge, his opinion as to authorship, 45. Commentators, bore down upon the Shakespearean text, 10. Commentary, sample of the run of, 86. Compromise theory, 300; applied to Henry VI., 302. Theobald and others anticipate, 300, 301. Condell, Henry. See Heminges & Condell. Contemporaries of W. S., why they did not suspect him, or si- lent if they did, 57. |