d. 1624

| +------------------+ | | Anne Tufton Nicholas m. =Francis= 1 Earl of =Tresham=, Thanet, who d. 1605 in 1629

INDEX

INDEX

(_The page-numbers refer to the foot-notes as well as to the main body of the text._)

Abington, Mrs., the actress, 377

Abington (Habington), Mrs., sister of Lord Monteagle, 57

_Abuses Stript and Whipt_, 135

actors, lists preceding plays, 229

_Ad Comitissam Rutlundiae_, 173

Addison, Joseph, 188

Aeschylus, 200

afterthought-parentheses, 265, 350

_Alchemist, The_, 110, 325, 334, 336, 343

Alden, R. M., editions of _The Knight_ and _A King and No King_, 110, 117, 234, 252, 258, 287, 300, 311, 312, 318, 361

alliteration, 259

_All's Well that Ends Well_, 79, 115, 390, 391, 392, 393

_Amadis de Gaule_, 313, 322, 327

_Amends for Ladies_, 302, 304, 334

_Anatomy of Melancholy, The_, 186

Anton, Robert, 328

_Antony and Cleopatra_, 75, 79, 116, 283, 389

_Apocrypha, The_, 369

apothegms, 289

_Arcadia_, 106, 108, 111, 133, 158, 159

Ariosto, 34

Aristophanes, 197, 230

Aronstein, P., 407

Ascham, Roger, 23

Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 10, 23, _et passim_

Aston, Sir Walter, 166, 167

_Astree_, D'Urfe, 89-90, 274

'Astrophel,' 166

_As You Like It_, 159, 345, 390, 392

Aubrey, John, _Brief Lives_, ed., A. Clark, 32, 95, 137, 153, 219

Bacon, Sir Francis, 35, 36, 37, 125f., 129, 146, _et passim_

Bacon, Sir Nicholas, and Anthony, 35, 64, 68

Baker, Sir John of Sissinghurst, Kent, 24, 65ff.; Cicely, Countess of Dorset, 66, 69, 70; Cicely, Lady Blunt, 69, 70; Grisogone, Lady Dacre, 69, 70, 178

Baker family, 71, 137

Baker, Sir Richard, 65, 66

Baker, Richard, the historian, 67, 70

Bancroft, Bishop, 64, 216

Bancroft, Thomas, _Two Bookes of Epigrammes and Epitaphs, 1639_, 20

Bandello, Thomas, 392

Banke-Side, 95-96, 114, 170

Barkstead, William, 335

_Barrons Wars, the_, 42

Basse, William, 40, 134, 199, 200

_Battle of Bosworth Field, The_, 184, (22)

Baudouin, _Le Curieux Impertinent_, 332

Beau Manor, 10; "Beaumanoir," 12

Beaumont and Fletcher, portraits of, 190-192, 217-219; collaboration of (in general), 3-9, 223-416; the problem, 225-233; critical apparatus, 233-235; folios, 225-229, 236-239; quartos, 239-241, and under individual plays; editions, 217, 234, 244, 271, 318, 324, 338, 349, 359, 361, 368, 371, 377; delimitation of the field, 236-242; versification, 243-260; diction of Fletcher, 260-277, of Beaumont, 281-290; mental habit of Fletcher, 277-280, of Beaumont, 281-290; authorship of _Foure Playes_, _Love's Cure_, _The Captaine_, 300-306; of the _Woman-Hater_, 73, 307; of _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, 80, 310; of _The Coxcombe_, 337; of _Philaster_, 345; of _The Maides Tragedy_, 349; of _Cupid's Revenge_, 359; of _A King and No King_, 361; of the _Scornful Ladie_, 374; influence upon Shakespeare (?) 386, upon the drama, 396; Beaumont and Fletcher compared, 399-411

Beaumont, Anthony, 160

Beaumont, Barons and Viscounts de, 10-12

Beaumont's diction, 281ff.

Beaumont, Elizabeth, Lady Vaux, 15, 46

Beaumont, Elizabeth, sister of the dramatist, Mrs. Seyliard, 43, 45, 46, 70, 159, 176, 187

Beaumont, Elizabeth, daughter of the dramatist, 180, 187

Beaumont, Frances, posthumous daughter of the dramatist, 187ff.

Beaumont, Francis, the dramatist: his family, early years in Grace-Dieu, Oxford, 10ff.; at the Inns of Court, earliest poems, etc., 29ff.; the Vaux cousins and the Gunpowder Plot, 46ff.; some early plays of, 72ff.; period of partnership with Fletcher, 95ff.; relations with Shakespeare, Jonson, and others in the theatrical world, 114ff., 124ff., 145ff.; _The Masque of the Inner Temple_, 124-144; the Pastoralists, and other contemporaries at the Inns of Court, 131-144; an intersecting circle of jovial sort, 145-149; the Countess of Rutland (Elizabeth Sidney), 150ff.; his marriage, death, surviving family, 172ff.; personality and contemporary reputation, portraits, 190ff.; versification, 246ff., 281ff.; stock words, phrases, and figures, 282ff.; lines of Inevitable Poetry, 287; his mental habit, 291ff.; his dramatic art, adaptation, etc., 378ff.; Did the Beaumont "romance" influence Shakespeare? 386ff.; not a leader in decadence, 396-401; Beaumont compared with Fletcher, 401-411; and with other dramatists, 411-415

Beaumont, Francis, his _Poems_, 39, 40, 150ff., 172-174, 183, 230, 251, 292, 295, 298, 330

Beaumont, Francis, the Justice, father of the dramatist, 15-19, 21, 24, 29

Beaumont, Sir Henry, brother of the dramatist, 16, 18, 29, 44, 45, 99

Beaumont, Sir Henry, of Coleorton, 19, 160

Beaumont, Sir John, brother of the dramatist, 16, 18, 21, 22, 25, 26, 29, 38-40, 42-45, 59-61, 116, 132, 146, 150, 154, 159, 162-164, 166, 180, 182, 184-186, 195

Beaumont, John, Master of the Rolls, 12-14, 59-60

Beaumont, Maria, Lady Villiers, Countess of Buckingham, 19, 160-163

Beaumont, Sir Thomas, 45, 162

Beaumont's versification, 246ff.

Beeston's Players, 314

_Beggers Bush, The_, 98, 236, 237, 378

Bell, H. N., 14

_Bellman of London, The_, 98

Belvoir Castle, 154

Berkenhead, John, 208

Betterton, Thomas, 366

_Biographia Dramatica, The_, 233

Birch, _Mem. of Q. Elizabeth_, 68

Blackfriars Theatre, the, 80, 81, 85, 89, 96, 97, 102, 103, 104, 105, 114, 119, 122, 136, 179, 207, 314, 316, 317, 319, 342, 343, 368, 370, 373

Blackwell's _Treatise on Equivocation_, 53

Blaiklock, Lawrence, 39, 40, 150, 165, 295

Blue Boar Inn, 22

Boas, F. S., ed. of _Philaster_, 349

Boccaccio, 101, 334, 392

Bolton, Edmund, 185, 194

Bond, R. Warwick, 367, 368, 371, 374; ed. of _The Scornful Ladie_, 377

_Bonduca_, 236, 238, 278, 378, 410

Bosworth, battle of, 22, (184)

_bouleversements_, 364

Boyle, R., 234, 252, 254, 300, 302, 308, 374

Bread-street, 99, 113, 203

Brett, Cyril, _Drayton's Minor Poems_, 191

_Bridal, The_, 359

_Britain's Ida_, Phineas Fletcher, 64

_Britannia's Pastorals_, 132-144

Broadgates, 29

Brome, Richard, 92, 168, 212, 213

Brooke, Christopher, 38, 119, 136, 145, 147-149

Brookesby, Bartholomew, 48, 57; Edward, 47

Browne, William, 38, 40, 131-144, 153, 202, 214

Browning, Robert, 183, 246

Brydges, Egerton, 233

Buc, Sir George, 349

Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 19, 60, 159-164, 185

Bullen, A. H., art. _John Fletcher_ (D. N. B); gen. editor, _Variorum Beaumont and Fletcher_, 203, 234, 271, 272, 312, _et passim_

Burbadge, Cuthbert, 103, 342, 343

Burbadge, Richard, 102, 103, 114, 118, 122, 136, 154, 316, 317, 358

Burre, Walter, 81, 319, 320, 322, 323

Burton, William, 16, 186

_Bury-Fair_, 96, 220

_Bussy D'Ambois_, 399

Butler, James, Duke of Ormonde, 188

cadences, conversational and lyrical, 247

caesurae, 244ff.

_Cambridge English Classics_, edition of _Beaumont and Fletcher_, 244, 263-270, _et passim_

Camden, William, 137, 149, 178, 182

_Camden Miscellany, The_, 66

Campion, Father, 46

_Capricious Lady, The_, 377

_Captaine, The_, 98, 111, 176, 236, 240, 306, 378, 383

_Cardenio_ or _Cardenna_, 111, 119

Carey, Giles, 114, 122, 336

Carleton, Mistris, 125

Carr (Ker) Robert, Earl of Somerset, 74, 75, 179, 372

Cartwright, William, 209, 232

Casaubon, Isaac, 182

Catesby, Robert, 49, 50-53, 57, 58

Catholics, and the "Catholic Cousins" of Beaumont, 46ff., 179

_Catiline_, 120, 154, 411

Cavendish, Henry, 17, 24

Cavendishes, the, 16, 17, 38, 165

Cavendish, Sir William, first Duke of Newcastle, 165

_Centurie of Praise_, 200

Cervantes, see _Don Quixote_

Challoner, _Missionary Priests_, 16

Chalmers, A., 185, 233

Chamberlain, John, 125, 126, 155f.

Chancery, Inns of, 29, 30, _et passim_; and see _Inns of Court_

_Chances, The_, 64, 211, 230, 236, 243, 244, 263, 267, 268, 279, 403

Chapel Players, the, 32

Chapman, George, 85, 86, 87, 98, 102, 116, 122, 124, 125, 132ff., 135, 142, 154, 182, 189, 194, 198, 200, 202, 203, 214, 317, 328, 329, 391, 396, 399, 412

Charles I, 185, _et passim_

Charles II, 358

_Charles, Duke of Byron, The Tragedie of_, 317

Charles, Prince of Wales, 371, 372

Charnwood Forest, 10, 11, 13, 18, 20, 43, 151, 159

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 37

_Chaucer_, Speght's, 24, 178

Cheapside, 99, 114, _et passim_

Child, H. H., 43

_"chorizontes," the_, 9

_Christ's Victorie_, Giles Fletcher, 64

Cicely Tufton, see Rutland

Cinthio, 392

Clarendon, Lord, 169

Clark, Andrew, 147, 148, 192

Cleves wars, the, 368-370, 372, 373

Clifford, Anne, Countess of Dorset, of Pembroke and Montgomery, 192

Clifford's Inn, 131

Clifton, Sir Gervase, 166

Clifton, Lady Penelope, 165f., 174, 202

Cockayne, Sir Aston, 168, 219, 226, 228, 233, 377

Coke, Sir Edward, 52, 58, 148, 162

Coleorton, 12, 19, 45, 160, _et passim_

Coleridge, S. T., 5, 397

Collier, J. P., 102, 220, 233

Collins, _Peerage of England_, 14, 17, 50, _et passim_

_Comedy of Errors, A_, 35, 393, 412, 413

_Commendatory Verses_, 94, 198, 229, 230, _et passim_

_Concerning the True Forms of English Poetry_, 184

Condell, Henry, 103, 120, 122, 343, 402

Congreve, William, 188

_Convivium Philosophicum_, 145-149, 203

Conyoke or Connock, 149

Cook, Alexander, 122

Cooke, W., 377

Coke, Sir Edward, 52, 58

Corbet, Bishop, 181, 195

_Coriolanus_, 389

_Coronation, The_, 229, 237

Coryate, Tom, 99, 149

Cotton, Charles, the elder, 98, 168-170, 226-228

couplet, 'heroic,' 252

Cowley, Abraham, 184

_Coxcombe, The_, 8, 87, 96-101, 103, 106, 111, 202, 208, 228, 236, 240, 273, 286, 287, 294, 296, 298, 311, 332-341, 370, 378, 383, 396, 400

Cranefield, Arthur, 149

Critics of Beaumont and Fletcher, 234

Croke, Sir John, Charles, and Unton, 138

Cromwell, Oliver, 74, 138, 170

_Crowne of Thornes, The_, 184

Cunliffe, J. W., 35, 37

_Cupid's Revenge_, 8, 111-112, 159, 237, 239, 240, 283, 285, 288, 294, 299, 305, 314, 359ff., 370, 378, 381, 384, 386, 387, 388, 389, 396, 407

_Curious Impertinent, The_, _El Curioso Impertinente_, _Le Curieux Impertinent_, 332, 334, 335

_Custome of the Countrey, The_, 236

_Cymbeline_, 344, 345, 386-395

_Cynthia's Revels_, 85, 96

_Cyropaedeia_, 109

Daborne, Robert, 122, 239, 379, 407

_Damon and Pythias_, 32

Daniel, Joseph, 149

Daniel, P. A., 349, 359

Daniel, Samuel, 142, 194

Darley, G., _Works of Beaumont and Fletcher_, 25, 181, 233

D'Avenant, William, 82, 307, 308, 350

Davies, John, of Hereford, 105, 133, 142, 145, 146, 209, 342, 343, 346, 366

Day, John, 102, 122, 159, 314, 325

Dekker, John, 98, 102, 122, 211, 412

Denham, Sir John, 184

_Description of Elizium_, Drayton, 191

Devereux, Lady Penelope, 166

diction, 260ff., 275f., 281ff., and see Beaumont and Fletcher

Diego Sarmiento, Don, Count Gondomar, 371ff.

Digby, Sir Everard, 48, 50, 52, 53, 57

_Discourse of the English Stage_, 386

disputed plays, 300ff.

_Distrest Mother, The_, 186

_Divine Poems_, Drayton, 191

Dolce, Ludovico, _Giocasta_, 35

Don Diego, see Sarmiento de Acuna

Donne, John, 38, 98, 148, 149, 150, 169

_Don Quixote_, relation to _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, esp. 321-331; also 80, 120, 320, 332f., 413

'Doridon,' 140ff.

Douay, 369

Douthwaite, W. R., _Gray's Inn, etc._, 30ff.

_Double Marriage, The_, 6, 236

Drake, Sir Francis, 37, 64, 138, 216

_Dramatic Miscellany_, Davies, 366

Drayton, Michael, 21, 26, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 72, 98, 116, 122, 132ff., 137, 145, 153, 182, 185, 187, 191, 192, 194, 201, 202, 209

Drummond, William, of Hawthornden, 84, 90, 152, 193, 194, 202, 230

Dryden, John, 71, 72, 121, 188, 233, 358, 365

_Duchess of Malfi, The_, 411

Dugdale, G., 131

Duke, H. E., _Gray's Inn_, 34ff.

_Duke of Milan, The_, 136

Duke of York, The, (Prince Charles's) Players, 335, 336

D'Urfe, Marquis, 89-90, 274

_Dutch Courtezan, The_, 399

Dyce, Alexander, _Works of Beaumont and Fletcher_, 16, 19, 96, 195, 233, _et passim_

Earle, John, Bishop, 156, 196-198, 209, 230, 241, 346, 385

_Eastward Hoe_, 73, 79, 328

Editions, also Folios and Quartos, see Beaumont and Fletcher

Edwardes, Richard, 32

Edwards, Jonathan, 25

_Eglogs_, a revision of _Idea, the Shepheard's Garland_, Drayton, 42, 187

Ekesildena, Catherine, 186

_Elder Brother, The_, 237, 272

_Elegies_, Brooke, 136

_(Certayn) Elegies--with Satyres and Epigrames_, Fitzgeffrey, 202

_Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland_, 156, 251

_Elements of Armories_, Bolton, 195

Elizabeth Beaumont Seyliard, see Beaumont, Elizabeth

Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland, see Sidney, Elizabeth

Elizabeth, Princess, 33, 52, 110, 124, 139, 149

Elizabeth, Queen, 67

Elton, Oliver, _Michael Drayton_, 43, 167, 192

_Endimion and Phoebe_, 41

end-stopped lines, 243ff.

_English Palmerin_, see _Palmerin_

_Epicoene_, 103, 120, 322, 324, 335, 369, 413

_Epigrams_, Jonson, 121, 195, 203

_Epistle Dedicatorie_, Shelton, 321, 323

_Epistle to Henery Reynolds_, Drayton, 201

_Epithalamium_, Wither, 135

_Equivocation_, Blackwell's treatise, 53

_Essay of Dramatick Poesie_, Dryden, 233, 358

_Ethelwolf, oder der Koenig Kein Koenig_, 367

Euripides, 35, 200, 207

Evans, Henry, 80, 102, 317, 342

Evelyn, John, letter to Pepys, 218

_Every Man in his Humour_, 92, 413

_Every Man out of his Humour_, 32, 327

_Examination of his Mistris' Perfections_, 172-174

extra syllables, 243

_Faire Maide of the Inne, The_, 236, 238, 378

_Faithful Friends, The_, 237, 378

_Faithfull Shepheardesse, The_, 21, 65, 73, 83-88, 90, 93, 139, 166, 171, 216, 231, 237, 240, 247, 249, 252, 261, 263, 264, 265, 266, 270, 277, 280, 302, 304

_False One, The_, 236

_(Of The) Famous Voyage_, 203

Farquhar, George, 188

Fauchet, _Thierry_, 109

Fawkes, Guy, 49, 52, 56

feet, trisyllabic, 243

_Fellows and Followers of Shakespeare, The_, Gayley, 233, _et passim_; see Gayley

Fenner, Sir John, 130

Ferrar, William, 138

_Fidele and Fortunio_, 392

Field, Nathaniel, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 114, 122, 211, 214, 239, 251, 272, 300, 302, 303, 304, 305, 335, 342, 343, 360, 379, 407

_Fifty Comedies and Tragedies_, 288

Fitzgeffrey, Henry, _Elegies, Satires, and Epigrams_, 202

Fleay, F. G., _Hist. Stage, Chron. Engl. Drama, etc._, 4, 8, 41, 74, 84, 233, 234, 238, 252, 300, 303, 308, 316, 318 _et passim_

Flecknoe, Richard, 386, 397

Fletcher, John, ("I. F.") 40, 195; his family, his youth, 62ff.; some early plays of, 82ff.; period of partnership with Beaumont, 95ff.; relations with Shakespeare, Jonson, etc., 114ff., 124ff., 145ff.; later years, portraits, 211ff.; his versification, 243ff.; his diction, 260ff.; stock words, phrases, and figures, 270ff.; his mental habit, 277ff.; the Fletcher of the joint-plays, 383ff.; his dramatic art, 383-385, 399-411

Fletcher, criteria, 243ff.; 260ff.; see Beaumont and Fletcher, diction, verse, Ye-test, etc.

Fletcher, Richard, Bishop, 62-68

Fletcher, Dr. Giles, 64, 68; Giles, the younger, 64

Fletcher, Phineas, 64

'Fletcherian Syndicate, the,' 379, 407

_Flowers, The_, 36, 125

Folio, First, Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, (35 Plays), 236

Folio, Second, _Fifty Comedies and Tragedies_, 1679 (53 Plays), 237

Ford, John, 211, 412

_Forrest, The_, Jonson, 152

Fortescue, George, 186

_Foure Playes, or Morall Representations, in One_, (see also _Triumphs_), 87, 236, 240, 251, 272, 301-305, 378, 386, 388, 389

_Foure Prentises, The_, 204, 325

Frederick, the Elector Palatine, 33, 36, 110, 124

Fuller, Thomas, _Worthies_, 67, 108

Gardiner, Robert, 337

Gardiner, S. R. _Hist. Engl._, and _Prince Charles_, 44, 49, 74, 372ff., _et passim_

Gardiner, Thomas, 138

Garnet, Father Henry, 47, 51-54, 56-59

Garrick, David, 366

Gascoigne, George, _Supposes_, 34, 35, 37

Gayley, C. M., _The Fellows and Followers of Shakespeare_, Part Two, in _Rep. Eng. Com._, Vol. III, now in press, 233, 300, 385, 408, 409, _et passim_

_Gentleman Usher, The_, 391, 399

Gerard, Father John, 47-56, 165

_Ghost of Richard III_, Brooke, 136

Giffard, Maria, Lady Baker, Mrs. Fletcher, Lady Thornhurst, 65-71

Gilbert, Adrian, 156

_Giocasta_, Ludovico Dolce, 35

_Gismond of Salerne_, 37

Globe Theatre, the, 79, 97, 103, 105, 114, 118, 120, 122, 144, 179, 280

Glover, A, and Waller, A. R., editors of _Camb. Engl. Class., Beaumont and Fletcher_, 244, 263-270, _et passim_

_Golden Remains, The_, 150

Goodere, Sir Henry, 43, 148; Francis, Anne, 43

Goodwin, Gordon, 134, 139

_Gorboduc_, 37, 70

Grace-Dieu, 13, 17, 18, 20, 22, 45, 61, 72, 95, 98, 151, 159, 391, _et passim_

Gray's Inn, 33, 34, 35, 37, 124, 125, 130f.

Greene, Robert, _Menaphon and Pandosto_, 26, 159, 387, 392

_Greenstreet Papers, The_, 103, 119, 136, 319

Greg, W. W., 83, 159, 238, 272

Grey Friars, at Leicester, 22

Grey, Lady Jane, 23, 63, 66

Grosart, A. B., art. in _D. N. B., Sir John Beaumont's Poems_, 16, 185, 187, 195, _et passim_

Gunpowder Plot, the, 46-61, 73, 138, 164

Gurlin, Nat., 202

Guskar, H., 88

Gwynn, Nell, 366

Hakluyt, Richard, 182

Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O., 342

_hamartia_, 354, 358

_Hamlet_, 79, 116, 117, 286, 389

Harcourt, the Rt. Hon. Lewis, 190

Harleian MS. of Fletcher, 195

Harington, Sir John, 63, 67

Harris, John, 212

Hasted, _Hist. Kent_, 50, 69, 71, 176, _et passim_

Hastings, Edward, second Lord, 14; Elizabeth (grandmother of the dramatist), 13, 14; Sir Henry, 48, 165; Lady Mary, 14; William, first Lord, 14, 23; Sir William, 14

Hastings, Earls of Huntingdon: George, first Earl, 13, 14; Francis, second Earl, 13-15, 23, 24, 46; Henry, third Earl, 14, 24; George, fourth Earl, 48; Henry, fifth Earl, 38, 164, 165

Hatcher, O. L., _John Fletcher, A Study in Dramatic Method_, 231, 232, 233, 300, 408, 409, _et passim_; in _Anglia_, 89

Hawkins, Sir Thomas, 138, 185

Hele, Lewis, 130

Heming, John, 103, 118, 120, 136, 342, 343

Hemings, John, see Heming

_Henry IV_, 110, 115

_Henry VIII_, 120, 179

Herbert, Mary, Countess of Pembroke, 42

Herbert, William, third Earl of Pembroke, 133, 153

Herford, C. H., 287

Herodotus, 109

_Heroical Adventures of the Knight of the Sea_, 328

Herrick, Robert, 169, 170, 350, 361

Herring, Joan, 220

_Hesperides_, Herrick, 169, 170

Heyward, Edward, 137

Heywood, Thomas, 122, 204, 325, 331, 399, 412

_Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells, The_, 204

Hill, H. W., 159

Hill, Nicholas, 203

Hills, G., 337

_Histoire de Celidee, Thamyre, et Calidon_, 89

Historical Portraits (Oxford), 190, 234ff.

_Histriomastix_, 397

_History of Cardenio_, by Fletcher and Shakespeare, 119

Hodgets, John, 40

Holinshed, 392

Holland, Aaron, 318

Holland, Elizabeth, 62, 66

Holland, Hugh, 98, 148, 149

Holme-Pierrepoint, 16, 17

_(Upon an) Honest Man's Fortune_, 8, 144, 176, 215, 220, 236, 238, 280, 378

Hoskins, John, his _Convivium Philosophicum_, 146ff., 149, 203

Howard, Henry, 349, 361

Howard of Walden, Lord, 321

Howe, Josias, 209

Hughes, Thomas, _Misfortunes of Arthur_, 35

_Humorous Lieutenant, The_, 236, 243, 265, 268, 278, 279, 401-403

Huntingdon, see Hastings

hyperbole, 285

_Hypercritica_, Bolton, 194

_Idea, the Shepheard's Garland, Eglogs_, Drayton, 42

_If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody_, 331

_Ile of Guls_, 159

Imogen, Innogen, 392

Inderwick, F. A., _Calendar of Inner Temple Records_, 30, 131, _et passim_

_In Laudem Authoris_, 40, 134

Inner Temple, 18, 29, 33, 37, 99, 124ff., 129, 131, 137, 138, 139, 162

_Inner Temple Records_, 29-31, 131, 139, _et passim_

Inns of Court and Chancery, 29, 32, 37, 118, 135, 145, _et passim_

_Insatiate Countess, The_, 399

_Island Princesse, The_, 236, 278

Isley, Ursula, wife of the dramatist, 175-178, 180, 187

Isleys, the, 175-177, 186

iteration, 259

James I, Progress of 1603, 44, 60, 74, 77, 91, 161, 162, 164, 165, 372

joint-plays, 252ff., 400ff., etc.

Jones, Inigo, 125, 145, 147, 148

Jonson, Ben, 3, 5, 9, 24, 32, 52, 72, 82, 84, 85, 86, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 110, 111, 114ff., 122, 124, 132ff., 136, 137, 142, 145, 148, 149, 150, 152, 153, 154, 157, 169, 170, 174, 182, 185, 191, 193, 199, 200, 201, 205, 209, 211, 213, 214, 231, 272, 322, 327, 328, 329, 334, 335, 336, 342, 343, 369, 411, 412

Jovius, Paulus, 78

Juby, Edward, 114

_Julius Caesar_, 108, 110

Ker (Carr) Robert, Earl of Somerset, 74, 75, 179, 372

Keysar, Robert, 80, 81, 315, 318, 320, 323

Kinwelmersh, Francis, 35

King, Edward, Milton's 'Lycidas,' 24

_King and No King, A_, 7, 8, 37, 92, 109-110, 112, 121, 145, 146, 174, 205, 237, 239, 241, 252, 255, 258, 259, 273, 275, 288, 293, 294, 307, 308, 311, 346, 361-367, 378, 381, 382, 384, 386-396, 400, 401, 411, 414, 415

_King Lear_, 159, 283

King's Players, the, 38, 97, 102, 103, 105, 109, 110, 114, 119, 120, 122, 124, 136, 211, 306, 315, 316, 343, 345, 349, 360

King's Bench, 138

Kirkham, Edward, 118, 136

_Knight of Malta, The_, 211, 236, 238, 239, 378

_Knight of the Burning Pestle, The_, 7, 41, 73, 79-81, 88, 93, 100, 112, 115, 171, 204, 237, 240, 273, 285, 310-332, 378, 382, 385, 407, 413, 414

_Knight of the Burning Sword, The_, 325

_Knight of the Sunne and His Brother Rosicleer, The_, 327

Knole Park, Kent, 70, 187, _et passim_

Knowles, Sheridan, 359

Koeppel, E., 117

Kyd, Thomas, 26, 200, 204, 285, 286, 313

Lady Elizabeth's Players, 314

Lamb, Charles, 233, 397

Langbaine, G., 233, 332

Lansdowne MS., 200

_Lawes of Candy, The_, 236, 238, 378

Leland, John, _Itinerary_, 10, 11, 154, 160, _et passim_

Lennard, Sir Henry, twelfth Lord Dacre, 70, 71, 178

Leonhardt, B., 117

_Letter to Ben Jonson_, 97-101, 193, 251, 337

Lincoln's Inn, 32, 124f., 135, 136, 145, 148

Lisle, Sir George, 204, 231, 361

_Little French Lawyer, The_, 236

Lodge, Thomas, 159, 392

_Love Lies a-Bleeding_, 103, etc., see _Philaster_

Lovell, John, Lord, 22, 23

_Lovers Progresse, The_, 236

_Loves Cure_, 236, 240, 305, 378

_Love's Labour's Lost_, 392, 412

_Loves Pilgrimage_, 236, 237, 238, 378

Lowin, John, 122, 214, 402

_Loyall Subject, The_, 211, 236, 243, 268, 278, 410

Luce, Morton, 393

Lyly, John, 26, 200

Macaulay, G. C., _Francis Beaumont, a Critical Study_; _Beaumont and Fletcher_ in _Camb. Hist. Eng. Lit._, 89, 108, 117, 226, 234, 252, 265, 287, 300, 302, 305, 308, 312, 337, 374, 409

_Macbeth_, 286

Macready, W. C., 359

_Mad Lover, The_, 236, 279

_Maide in the Mill, The_, 236

_Maides Tragedy, The_, 6, 7, 107-109, 117, 121, 124, 159, 230, 232, 234, 237, 239, 240, 241, 252, 255, 258, 273, 285, 288, 289, 292, 308, 346, 349-359, 361, 378, 381, 382, 384, 386-395, 398, 400, 405, 407, 411, 414, 415

_Malcontent, The_, 399

Malone, Edmund, 233

Manners, Lady Katharine (Villiers), Duchess of Buckingham, 159, 162, 163

Manners, Roger, see Rutland

Manningham, John, 32

Manverses, the, 16-18

Manwood, Thomas, 136

_Mari coccu, battu et content, Le_, 334

Markham, Lady, 165

Marlowe, Christopher, 33, 194, 200, 201, 204, 285, 286, 313, 326, 362

Marston, John, 73, 88, 102, 122, 328, 329, 396, 399, 412

Martin, Richard, 99, 149

Mary, Queen of Scots, 24, 65, 179

_Masque of the Inner Temple, The_, 119, 124-139, 145, 208, 225, 228, 236, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 259, 281, 385

_Masque of Flowers_, see _Flowers_

_Masque of Ulysses and Circe, The_, 133

Massinger, Philip, 6, 8, 98, 119, 122, 136, 168, 169, 201, 203, 211, 214, 219, 226, 228, 234, 241, 265, 272, 300, 305, 306, 326, 340, 379, 400, 407; authorities upon his style, 300

Mayne, Jasper, 361

McKerrow, R. B., 271, 272

_Measure for Measure_, 391, 392, 393

_Menaechmus_, 35

_Menaphon_, 159

Merchant Taylors' School, 86

Mermaid Tavern, the, 97-99, 114, 145, 148, 149, 193, 203

_Merry Wives, The_, 110

_Metamorphosis of Tobacco_, 38

_Microcosmographie_, 198

Middle Temple, the, 118, 124f., 138

Middleton, Thomas, 102, 122, 201, 211, 239, 272, 305, 324, 399, 407, 412

_Midsummer-Night's Dream, A_, 392

Milner, J. D., 218

_Mirror for Magistrates, The_, 70

_Mirror of Knighthood, The_, 327, 329

'Mirtilla', 43, 45, 187

_Miseries of Enforced Marriage, The_, 324

_Misfortunes of Arthur, The_, 35

Mitre Inn, The, 94, 145, 146

_Monsieur Thomas_, 73, 84, 88-94, 168, 237, 243, 245, 247, 263, 383

Montaigne, 228

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 25

Monteagle, Lord, 50, 51, 57

Montemayor, 392

Moore, Sir Thomas, 194

More, Paul Elmer, 272f., 355f., 397ff., 415

Morris, John, _Life of Father Gerard_, 46-59 _et passim_

Mosely, Humphrey, _The Stationer to the Readers_, 130, 206, 216, 217

_Morte d'Arthur_, 327

Mountjoy, Christopher, 114, 118

_Moyses in a Map of his Miracles_, 42

_Mucedorus_, 331

_Much Ado About Nothing_, 110, 344, 390, 392

Mulcaster, Richard, 86, 318

Munday, Anthony, 327

Murch, H. S., ed. of _The Knight_, 324, 330

Murray, J. T., _Eng. Dram. Comp._, 104, 105, 315, 368

_Muses Elizium_, 44, 187, 191

_Narrative_ of Father Gerard, 47, 54

Nashe, Thomas, 154, 204

Nevill, Sir Henry, the elder, 145-148, 153; the younger, 145, 146

_Nice Valour, The_, 97, 98, 216, 236, 238, 378

Nichols, J., _Collections_, _Hist. Leicestershire_, _Progresses of Queen Elizabeth_, _Progresses of James I_, 12, 13, 19, 65, 131, 186, _et passim_

_Nimphalls_, Drayton, 187, 191

_Night Walker, The_, 237

_Noble Gentleman, The_, 236, 238, 378

Northumbrian MS. of _Bacon_, 146

Norton, Thomas, _Gorboduc_, 37

oaths, 275, 286

_Oath of Allegiance, The_, 60, 164

_Obstinate Lady, The_, 377

_Ode to Sir William Skipworth_, 215

Oldfield, Mrs., 377

_Old Wives Tale, The_, 326

Oliphant, E. H., 83, 117, 234, 241, 252, 270, 272, 281, 300, 302, 304, 309, 312, 337, 338, 340, 374

_On the Tombs in Westminster_, 183

optatives, 275, 286

_Orlando Furioso_, 334

Ostler (Osteler, Ostler, Osler), Wm., 122, 342, 343

_Othello_, 79, 110

Overbury, Sir Thomas, 27, 153, 179

Ovid, 38, 41, 142

_Palamon and Arcite_, 32

'Palmeo', 43, 187

_Palmerin de Oliva, Palmerin of England_, 313, 325, 327, 329

_Pandosto_, 159, 392

_Parisitaster_, 88

Pastoralists, the, 124, 132-144, 145

_Pastorals_, Ambrose Philips, 186

Paul's Players, the, 73, 83, 102, 315, 316, 318

Peele, George, 326, 329

Pepys, Samuel, 218, 358, 366

Percy, Thomas, 49-52

_Pericles_, 118, 344, 345, 387, 391, 392, 393, 394

Persons, Father, 46, 47

Pettus, Sir John, 231

_Philaster_, 6, 7, 72, 88, 92, 96, 97, 101-107, 109, 116, 121, 159, 191, 230, 237, 239, 240, 241, 252, 253, 258, 259, 260, 261, 273, 285, 294, 297, 298, 302, 307, 308, 311, 312, 329, 337, 341-349, 361, 378, 381, 382, 384, 386-396, 412, _et passim_.

Philip III of Spain, 371, 372

Philips, Sir Ambrose, 186

Phillipps de Lisles, the present, 186

Phillipps, J. O. Halliwell, 342

Phillips, Sir Robert, 149

_Philosophia Epicurea Democritiana_, 203

Pierce, Edward, 315

Pierrepoint, Anne, mother of the dramatist, 16-18, 25

Pierrepoint, Sir Henry, 16, 18, 45

Pierrepoint, Robert, first Earl of Kingston, 17, 27, 38, 164, 179

_Pilgrim, The_, 236, 278

Plautus, 35, 197, 230

_Plutus_, 125

_Poems, The_, of Beaumont, see Beaumont, Francis, _The Poems_

_Poems Lyrick and Pastoral_, Drayton, 42

_Poetaster, The_, 149, 342

Poets' Corner, 182ff., 192, 196, 199

Pole, Katherine, 14

Portraits of Beaumont, Nuneham, 181, 190, 192; Robinson's engraving of 1840, 190, 217; Knole, 190, 192, 217; G. Vertue, 217; Evans, 217; Walker and Cockerell, 218

Portraits of Fletcher, Knole: Blood, 217; G. Vertue, 217; Evans, 217; Robinson, 217; Walker, 218; Earl of Clarendon's, 218; Janssen, 219

'Prince of Misrule', 34

'Prince of Portpoole', 34

Prince's Players, the, 114

_Praise of Hemp-seed, The_, 199

Princess Elizabeth's Players, 336

_Prophetesse, The_, 236

prose-test, the, 259

Prynne, William, 397, 399

_Purple Island, The_, Phineas Fletcher, 64

Queen Anne's Players, 314, 318

_Queene of Corinth, The_, 211, 236

Queen Henrietta's Players, 314

Queen's Revels' Children, the, 80, 81, 83, 86, 87, 89, 96, 102, 103, 111, 114, 122, 124, 304, 305, 314, 315, 317, 319, 332, 335-337, 342, 343, 360, 368-370, 373

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 36, 100, 138, 149, 155, 165, 179

Randolph, Thomas, 150

Red Bull Theatre, the, 313, 318

'Remond' and 'Doridon,' query, Fletcher and Beaumont, 139-144

_Revesby Sword-Play_, 34

Reynolds, Henry, 132, 201

Reynolds, John, 147

rhyme, 250

'_Ricardo and Viola_,' 338, 383

Richard III, 14, 22

Rigg, J. M., 13ff., 19

_Rollo_, 237

'romance,' 279, 394, _et passim_

_Romeo and Juliet_, 286, 389

_Rosalynde_, 159

Rosenbach, A. S. W., 333

Rossiter, Philip, 103, 315, 316, 319, 370

Routh, H. V., 328

Rowley, William, 211, 239, 272, 314, 407, 412

_Royall King and Loyall Subject_, 399

_Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, 211, 237, 243, 244, 249, 263, 268, 269, 280, 403

run-on lines, 174, 250, 255, 258ff., 261ff.

Rutland, Roger Manners, fifth Earl, 48, 152-155; Francis, sixth Earl, 162, 163; Elizabeth, Countess of, see Sidney, Elizabeth; Cicely (Tufton), Countess of, 163

Rymer, Thomas, 233, 354, 355, 397

Sackville, Edward, fourth Earl of Dorset, 191

Sackville, Lionel, seventh Earl of Dorset, 191, 217

Sackville, Richard, third Earl of Dorset, 70, 179, 180, 191

Sackville, Thomas, first Earl of Dorset, 37, 65-71

_Salmacis and Hermaphroditus_, 39, 40, 41, 134, 141, 142

Sampson, M. W., 386

Sannazarro, 392

Sarmiento de Acuna, Don Diego, Count Gondomar, 371-373

Schelling, F. E., 234, 295

Schevill, Rudolph, 322f., 324, 330, 332

_Scornful Ladie, The_, 7, 100, 111-113, 171, 180, 232, 237, 238, 239, 240, 273, 368-378, 382, 383, 396

_Scourge of Folly, The_, 104, 342, 343, 344

_Sea Voyage, The_, 236

'_Second Maiden's Tragedy_,' 334

_Sejanus_, 148, 411

Selden, John, 99, 137, 149, 169, 170

Semphill, Sir James, 59-60

Seneca, 37

_Session of the Poets, The_, Suckling, 137

Seyliard, Mrs., see Elizabeth Beaumont

Seyliard, Thomas, 45, 159, 176, 187; see also Beaumont, Elizabeth

Shadwell, Thomas, 96

Shakespeare, 3, 4, 5, 9, 12, 23, 26, 32, 33, 35, 79, 83, 92, 98, 101, 102, 103, 105, 106, 108, 110, 111, 114ff., 118, 122, 124, 136, 145, 154, 159, 182, 184, 193, 194, 199, 201, 211, 214, 219, 272, 280, 283, 286, 309, 326, 329, 330, 343, 344, 386ff., 387ff., 389, 396, 401, 411ff.

Shakespeare, and Beaumont, 114-118

Shakespeare, and his company of players, 110-111, 118-120, 145, 316

Shakespeare, Was he influenced by Beaumont and Fletcher? 386-395

Shaw, _Knights of England_, 17, 45, _et passim_

Shelton, Thomas, transl. of _Don Quixote_, 120, 321-331, 335

_Shepheard's Calendar_, 44

_Shepherdesse, The_, John Beaumont, 159, 163

_Shepherd's Hunting, The_, 135

_Shepherd's Pipe, The_, 134, 135, 139

Shirley, James, 150, 206, 208, 229

_Sicelides_, Phineas Fletcher, 64

Sidney, Elizabeth Manners, Countess of Rutland, 133, 139, 150-159, 165, 172-174, 180, 287

Sidney, Sir Philip, 26, 37, 106, 111, 133, 142, 143, 150ff., 158, 159, 166, 197, 201, 392

Sidney, Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, 42, 133, 153

_Silent Woman, The_, 120, 413, see _Epicoene_

Skipwith, Sir William, 45, 166, 215

_Spanish Curate, The_, 236, 271

Slye, Christopher, 103

Smith, L. T., 11, 200

Southampton, see Wriothesley

Spedding, James, 36

Speght's _Chaucer_, 24, 178

Spenser, Edmund, 24, 44, 182, 193, 199, 200

Stanhope, Philip, Earl of Chesterfield, 165

Stanley, Thomas, second Earl of Derby, 14

Stanley, Thomas, 350, 374

Stapleton, Miles Thomas, 12

_State Papers Domestic, Calendar of_, 15, 51-61, 63, 127, 129, 146, 162, 164, 177, _et passim_

_Stationers' Registers_, 84, 121, 237, _et passim_

_Stationer to the Readers, The_, Mosely, 206

'Stella', 166

Stephens, John, 202

Stiefel, A. L., 89

Stourton, Lord, 50

Stratford upon Avon, 118

Stuart, Lady Arabella, 17, 179

Suckling, Sir John, 137

Sullivan, Mary, 127, 128

Sundridge, 175-180, 377, _et passim_

_Supposes, The_, Ariosto--George Gascoigne, 34, 35

suspense, 389

Symonds, J. A., 386

Swinburne, Algernon, 4, 7, 8, 190, 233, 397

Sympson and Seward, 233

Talbots, the, Earls of Shrewsbury, 14, 17

_Tamer Tamed, The_, 83, 236, 279, _et passim_, _The Woman's Prize_

_Taming of the Shrew, The_, 35, 83

Tasso, _Aminta_, 132

Taylor, John, 198

Taylor, Joseph, 122, 214, 332, 335ff., 402

_Tempest, The_, 110, 283, 344, 386, 387, 390, 391, 393

Tennyson, Alfred, 183

Theobald, Lewis, 237, 359

_Thersites_, 326

_Thierry and Theodoret_, 8, 109, 237, 238, 240, 378, 386, 387, 395

Thorndike, A. H., _Influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Shakespeare_, editions of _Maides Tragedy_ and _Philaster_, 73, 83, 84, 105, 110, 234, 241, 300, 303, 304, 305, 316, 318, 349, 350, 380, 386f.

Thornhurst, Sir Stephen, 69

'Thyrsis,' 43, 187

_Time Poets, The_, 203

_Timon_, 389

_'Tis a Pity, She's a Whore_, 412

_Titles of Honour_, 137

_Tombs in Westminster, On the_, 183

_To the Apparition of his Mistresse calling him to Elizium_, 170

_To the Honour'd Countess of ----_, 152

_To the Memory of my beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and what he hath left us_, 200

Tourneur, Cyril, 272

Townshend, Sir Robert, 167

_Tragedies of the Last Age, The_, 354

_Tragedy of Bonduca, The_, see _Bonduca_

_Travails of Three English Brothers, The_, 81, 313, 314, 317, 318, 321, 325, 331

Tresham, Francis, 48, 50, 52, 57, 58

Tresham, Mary, 46

Tresham, Sir Thomas, 46

triplet, the, 259

_Triumph of Death, The_, 270, 301-305, 389

_Triumph of Honour, The_, 251, 301-305, 389

_Triumph of Love, The_, 8, 251, 301-305, 388

_Triumph of Time, The_, 270, 301-305

_True Tragedy of Richard, Duke of York, The_, 326

_(On the) True Forms of English Poetry_, 184

_Twelfth Night_, 32, 117, 345, 390, 392, 393

_Two Gentlemen of Verona, The_, 345, 390, 392, 412

_Two Noble Kinsmen, The_, 5, 119, 237

Underwood, John, 342, 343

Upham, A. H., 90

_Upon an Honest Man's Fortune_, see _Honest Man's Fortune_

_Upon the Lines and Life of Shakespeare_, Hugh Holland, 148

_(Tragedy of) Valentinian, The_, 6, 8, 211, 236, 287, 400, 410

Vanbrugh, Sir John, 188

_Variorum Edition of Beaumont and Fletcher_, 190, 217, 234, 271, 346, 367, 413, _et passim_

Vaux, Anne, _alias_ Mrs. Perkins, 46-59, _passim_, 164

Vaux, Eleanor, _alias_ Mrs. Jennings, 46, 47, 57

Vaux, Mrs., Elizabeth Roper, 46-56, 138, 164

Vauxes, the, cousins of the dramatist, and the Gunpowder Plot, 46-61, 164f.

verse-endings, double, triple, etc., 243

verse-tests, 243ff., 246ff.

versification of Fletcher and of Beaumont, 243-259

_Very Woman, A_, 377

Villiers, Christopher, 161, 162

Villiers, George, Duke of Buckingham, 19, 60, 148, 159-164, 185

Villiers, John, 161-162, 164

_Volpone_, 72, 82, 92, 411

von Wurzbach, Wolfgang, 334

Walker, Henry, 119

Walkley, Thomas, 145

Wallace, C. W., _Shakspere's Money Interest in the Globe_, etc., _Century Maga._, 114, 118, 314, 315, 316, 319

Waller, A. R., and Glover, A., editors of _Camb. Eng. Class., Beaumont and Fletcher_, 244, _et passim_; Waller, ed. of _The Scornful Ladie_, 377

Waller, Edmund, 150, 184, 231, 349, 359, 374

Walpole, Henry, 16, 48

Ward, Sir Adolphus William, _Hist. Eng. Dram. Lit._, 3, 91, 216, 234, 308, 377, 397

Warwick, Richard, Earl of, 14

Webster, John, 102, 122, 211, 396, 399, 411

Wenman, Sir Richard, 53, 138

Wenman, Thomas, 134, 137, 138

West, John, 149

_White Devil, The_, 122, 399

Whitefriars Theatre, the, 96f., 102f., 122, 304, 315, 316, 343, 360, 369

Whitehall, 125f.

White Webbs, 52, 56

_Wife for a Month, A_, 236, 263, 275, 278, 400, 403-406, 410

_Wild-Goose Chase, The_, _Dedication_, 214, 237, 279

Wilkins, George, 314, 324, 325

Wills, James, 188

Wilson, Arthur, 160

Winter, Henry and Thomas, 49-52, 57

_Winter's Tale, The_, 110, 159, 283, 344, 386, 387, 390, 391, 393

_Wit at Severall Weapons_, 236, 237, 378

Wither, George, 134f., 138, 142

_Wit Without Money_, 237, 279

_Woman-Hater, The_, 7, 40, 41, 59, 72-79, 80, 82, 93, 100, 112, 115, 130, 171, 237, 239, 240, 250, 258, 273, 281, 285, 297, 305, 307-311, 350, 378, 382, 385, 407, 412

_Woman is a Weather-Cocke_, 87, 302-305

_Woman's Prize, The_, or _The Tamer Tamed_, 83, 236, 279

_(To Any) Woman that hath been no Weather-cocke_, 304

_Women Pleas'd_, 236, 279

Wood, Anthony, 32

Wordsworth, W., 20, 21, 25

Wright, Christopher and John, 49-52

Wright, Thomas, 13

Wriothesley, Henry, third Earl of Southampton, 154, 184

Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 175

Xenophon's _Cyropaedeia_, 109

Ye-test, the 271-273, 309, 371, 374-375

_Yorkshire Tragedy, The_, 303

_Your Five Gallants_, 324

Zola, 404

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Transcriber's note:

Minor punctuation and capitalization inconsistencies have been corrected without comment and include adding missing opening or closing quotes, closing parenthesis, and sentence closing periods.

Tables of Family Trees on pages 419-423 have been formatted to fit into the page margins.

Images falling within an unbroken paragraph have been relocated to either the top or bottom of said paragraph.

Word spelling, hyphenation, abbreviation, capitalization, apostrophization, diacritical accents and other variations or inconsistencies occur throughout the authors text, footnotes, index, noted verse(s) and quoted materials. All have been retained as printed unless specifically noted. Examples are provided below.

Typographical corrections:

p. 17, "Holme-Pierpoint" to "Holme-Pierrepoint" (5) (Holme-Pierrepoint is seventeen) p. 23, "Huntington" to "Huntingdon" (20) (Francis of Huntingdon) p. 62, "clerygyman" to "clergyman" (had been a clergyman) p. 68, "worldy" to "worldly" (Bishop's worldly estate) p. 118, "Aven" to "Avon" (2) (Stratford upon Avon) p. 164, "Beaument" to "Beaumont" (674) (John Beaumont never recalls) p. 345, "Gentleman" to "Gentlemen" (The Two Gentlemen of Verona) p. 445, "320" to "302" ("Woman is a Weather-Cocke," 87, 302-305) p. 444, "Kinsman" to "Kinsmen" (Two Noble Kinsmen, The) p. 445, "Cycropaedeia" to "Cyropaedeia" (Xenophon's Cyropaedeia)

Possible typographical errors retained in text; falling within quoted material:

p. 64, "lived in her highnes," (highness) p. 81, "it was no ofspring" (offspring) p. 108, "Drammatick and Scenical King" (Dramatick) p. 122, "... excellent Maister Beamont" (Beaumont) p. 194, "... Francis Beamont" (Beaumont) p. 231, "Flesher and Beaumont" (Fletcher) p. 231, "The Faithfull Shipheardesse" (Shepheardesse) p. 375, "Abigal," (Abigail) p. 430, "Cavendishes" (Cavendishs') (in Index)

Several instances of "Middle English Spellings" used are:

"Maiesties" (Middle English) and "Majesties," and "Doe, se, yt, yn, y'll" and "do, see, it, in, I'll"

Play Title Variations, each of which appears several times:

"Aeschylus" and "AEschylus" "Amadis de Gaule" and "Amadis de Gaul" "Beggars' Bush" and "Beggars Bush" "... Curious coxcombe" and "... Curious cox-combe" "Duchess of Malfi" and "Duchess of Malfy" "Julius Ceasar" and "Julius Caesar" "Maid's Tragedy", "Maids Tragedy", "Maides Tragedy" "Maske of the Gentleman of Grayes Inne" and "Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne". "Morall Representations" and "Moralle Representations" "Parisitaster" and "Parasitaster" "Essay of Dramatick Poesie" and "Essay on Dramatick Poesy" "The Scornful Lady" and "The Scornful Ladie" "The Shepheardesse" and "The Shepheardess" "The Coxcomb" and "The Coxcombe" "Weather-cocke" and "Weather-Cocke" "Women Pleas'd" and "Women Pleased"

Other word variations:

"Zouch" and "Zouche" (Ashby-de-la-----) "Bedchamber" and "Bed-chamber" "birthright" and "birth-right" "Cal, S. P.," "Cal. St. Pa., Dom.," "Calendar of State Papers (Domestic)" (see Footnotes) "Condel" and "Condell" (Henry ----) "countryside" and "country-side" "D'Urfey" and D'Urfe (Marquis ----) "Hoskyns" and "Hoskins" (Serjeant ----) "milkmaid" and "milk-maid" (both occur on p. 27) "northwest" and "north-west" "Pierepoint" and "Pierrepoint" "Sannazzaro" and "Sannazarro" "Shepherdesse" and "Shepheardesse" "Sempill" and "Semphill" (Sir James ----) "southeast" and "south-east" "White-hall" and "Whitehall"

Words using the [oe] ligature which has been changed to "oe" in this e-text: manoeuvere, manoeuvered, manoeuvers.