Part 67

_Comedy in England, Beginnings of_, by C. M. Gayley, xiii–xcii; liturgical fragments, early saints' plays and parodies, xiii; comedy of ridicule, xx; the miracle cycles in their relation to comedy, xxi; dramatic value of the English miracle plays, xxxi; the contribution of later "marvels" and early secular plays, xxxvii–xxxviii; the Devil and the Vice, xlvi; the indebtedness of comedy to the Vice, liii–liv; the relation between miracle, moral, and interlude, liv; the older morals in their relation to comedy, lvii; the dramatic contribution of the older morals, lxii; period of transition, farce and romantic interlude, lxiv; period of transition, school of interlude and controversial moral, 'Christian Terence' and _comedia sacra_, lxix; polytypic, or fusion, plays, lxxvii; survivals of the moral interlude, lxxxv; the movement toward romantic comedy, lxxxvii; conclusion regarding the requisites of comedy, xci; comedy compared with tragedy, xxxi, xxxvii–xxxviii, lxi–lxiv, 639; elements, kinds, and relation to society, xci, 635, 648; pastoral, 4, 268; in miniature, 10; emancipation from miracle and moral, 15; _Commedia dell' arte_, lxviii; see also under _Allegory_, _Romantic_, _Manners_, _Humours_, _Latin_, _Woman_, _Prose_, _Plot_, _Character_.

_Comedy of Errors, The_, by Shakespeare, 648, 650.

_Common Conditions_, the play of, lxxxiii, lxxxviii, 336, 341, 342.

_Comodey of Umers, The_, 526, 528, 533.

_Complaynt of Scotland, The_, folk-tale in, 345.

_Comus, The_, of Milton, and _Old Wives' Tale_, 348, 364, 378.

_Conflict of Conscience, The_, by Nathaniel Woodes, xlix, li, lxxxvi, 426.

Congreve, William, the character of 'Prue' in his _Love for Love_, 536.

_Conny-Catching_, Greene's pamphlets on, 398, 418; _The Defence of_, 408.

_Conscious Lovers, The_, by Steele, 'Lucinda' in, 429.

_Conspiracy, The_, York and Wakefield, plays of, xxv, xxvi, xlvi.

_Contes_, the French, xvii, lxv.

_Conversion of St. Paul, The_, Digby play of, xxx, l, lxxxi.

Cooper, W. D., his _Extracts from the Corpus Christi Register_, 89; his edition of _Roister Doister_, 104, 191, 194, and frequently in notes to _R. D._

Copland, publisher of Robin Hood plays, xl.

_Cornish Plays, The_, xxiii, xxiv, xlvii.

Corpus Christi, Feast of, xiv, xx.

Cotgrave's _Dictionary_, 108, 194, _et passim_.

_Council of the Jews, The_, Coventry play of, l.

Council of Treves, The, xi.

Courthope, Mr. W. J., his _History of English Poetry_, xxxvii, lxiii, lxiv.

Courtney, Bishop, _vs._ Feast of Fools, xxi.

_Coventry Gild Plays, The_, xxiii; and see under _N-town_.

Coventry, The Old Leet Book of, xlvi.

_Coventry Plays, The_, so-called, of Corpus Christi, xxiii, xxiv, xxix, xlviii, lviii, lxxvii.

Crafts, in the religious drama, xviii, xxxi, etc.

Cranmer, Archbishop, on prayers for the dead, 193.

Creede, Thomas, publisher of some of Greene's plays, 403–405, 415, 420.

Creizenach, Professor Wilhelm, his _Geschichte d. neueren Dramas, Bae. I, II_, mentioned, xvi, xviii, xix, xxi, xxxvi, xlv, lxx, lxxiv.

Crocus, his play of _Joseph_, lxx.

Croxton Play, The, of the _Sacrament_, xxxix.

_Crucifixion, The_, play of, xxii, xxvii.

Cushman, Professor L. W., his _Devil and Vice in English Dram. Lit._, xlvii–xlix, liii.

Cycles, the English miracle, xviii, xxi, xxxi, etc.

_Cymbeline_, Shakespeare's, 645, 659, 660; the song, "Hark, hark, the Lark" suggested by one of Lyly's, 322.

DAMON AND PITHIAS, by Richard Edwardes, lxxviii, lxxxiv, lxxxvii, xcii, 268, 269.

_Daniel, The History of_, by Hilarius, xv.

_Daryus, King_, xlix, lxxvi, lxxxvi.

_David and Bethsabe_ (_The Love of King David_, etc.), by Peele, 335, 336, 341.

Davidson, Professor Charles, his _English Mystery Plays_, xxxviii.

Day, John, his intimacy with Porter, 524.

_Débats_, Dramatic, lxv.

Dekker, Thomas, lxxiii; his _Satiro-Mastix_, 191; and Lyly, 274; "Three merrie men" in _Westward Hoe_, 352; his _Knight's Conjuring_ and the 'Groatsworth' group of poets, 423; relations with Porter and Drayton, 522; with Chettle, 523; and the 'war of the theatres,' 657, 658.

_Descensus Astrææ_, by Peele, 416.

_Despencers, The_, by Porter and Chettle, 523

'Devil,' The, and the 'Vice,' xlvi–liv, lvi, lxxiii, 499.

_Devil is an Ass, The_, by Ben Jonson, xlviii, li, liii.

_Devil is in It, The_, (_If this be not a Good Play_, etc.), by Dekker, xlviii.

_Dido, The_, by the Master of St. Paul's, lxxi.

_Digby Plays, The_, edited by Dr. Furnivall, xv; references to, xxix, xxx, xxxi, xlvii, xlviii, l, lv.

Diogenes Laertius, his _Lives of the Philosophers_, 269, 280; and elsewhere in notes to _Campaspe_.

Disguisings, xl.

_Disobedient Child, The_, by Thomas Ingeland, xlvii, li, liii, lv, lxxxii, lxxv.

Disputations, lxv.

_Doctor Faustus_, by Marlowe, the relation of _Friar Bacon_ to it, 389, 413, 414.

Dodsley, Robert, his collection of _Old English Plays_, reëdited by W. Carew Hazlitt, xx, 194, 430, _et passim_.

Don Quixote, an English:--'Ralph' of the _Burning Pestle_; foreshadowed by 'Huanebango,' 343.

Douce, Francis, his _Illustrations of Shakespeare_, xxi, xlix, lii, 128; on Porter, 518, 534.

Dowden, Professor, A Monograph on William Shakespeare as a Comic Dramatist, 635–661.

Downton [Dowton, Dunton, or Dutton], Thomas, an actor in the Admiral's Company in Porter's time, 515, 516, 517, 524.

Drayton, Michael, relations with Porter, Dekker, etc., 522.

_Dream of Pilate's Wife_, the York play of _The_, xxv.

_Dublin, the History of the City of_, by Whitelaw and Walsh, xxxviii.

Du Méril, E., _Poés. Pop. lat. antiq._ 191.

Dunbar, William, his _Will of Maister Andrew Kennedy_, 192.

Durandus, _Rationale_, 192.

Dyce, Alexander, his edition of Skelton, 259; of Peele, 346, 348, and see notes to Gummere's edition of _O. W. T._, _et passim_; of Greene, 402, 415, 420, 430, and notes to _Friar Bacon_; of Porter's _2 A. W. A._, 515, 517, 518, 535, 544, and frequently in notes to the present edition.

EBBSWORTH, _Roxburghe Ballads_, and "O man in desperation," 351.

Ebert, Professor Adolf, his article on _Die englischen Mysterien in the Jahrbuch für romanische und englische Literatur_, xxxii; on the "ambiguous letter," 150.

_Edward I_, by Peele, 335, 337, 383.

_Edward III_, anonymous, and Greene's _Orlando_ and _Never Too Late_, 410.

Edward VI, Injunctions under, on prayers for the dead, 193; Statute of 1547 on vagrancy, 193.

Edwardes, Richard, and _Godly Queen Hester_, lxxxiii; his _Damon and Pithias_, lxxxiv; and Lyly, 271.

Elizabeth, and Edwardes' _Palamon and Arcite_, lxxxiv; prayers for the dead, under, and her relation to the later edition of _Roister Doister_, 193; and Lyly, 266, 269; and Greene, 408, 409, 416, 502.

Ellis, Mr. Havelock, his edition of Porter's _2 A. W. A._, 515, 519, 531, 535, 554, and frequently in the notes to the present edition.

Ellis, his _Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men_, 89, 91.

Elze, Dr. Karl, on a verse in _Friar Bacon_, 510.

_Encomium Lauri_, by Gabriel Harvey, a line in, ridiculed by Peele, 373.

_Endimion_, by Lyly (edited by Professor Baker), 265, 267, 269, 272, 291.

_Enfants de Maintenant, Les_, a French _moralité_, lxxxii.

_Enfants sans souci_, their _sotties_, lxvi.

_Englands Mourninge Gowne and Mourning Garment_, 412.

_England's Parnassus_, by Allott, 420.

Eton, Udall at, 90.

_Euphues_ and Euphuism, 265, 267, 297, 337, 646.

Eusebius, xxxviii.

_Everyman_, the _Moralle Play of_, l, liii, lv, lvi, lviii.

_Every Man in his Humour_, by Ben Jonson, its relation to Porter's work, 524, 530, 533.

_Ezekias_, by Udall, 93.

FABLIAUX, xvii, lxv.

_Faire Em_ and Greene's _Friar Bacon_, 411, 412, 418, 427.

Fairholt, F. W., his edition of Lyly's dramatic works, 276; see also notes to _Alexander and Campaspe_.

Farce, and farce interlude, xviii, xxxvii, lxiv, lxvii; French, lxv, 15.

_Farewell to Follie_, one of Greene's pamphlets, 398, 411, 412.

_Farewell to the Famous and Fortunate Generals_, poem by Peele, 403.

Ferbrand, William, publisher of Porter's _2 A. W. A._, 534.

Festival Plays, etc., xxxvii–xlvi.

_Fflagellacio, The_, Wakefield miracle of, xxvi–xxviii.

_Fidei Defensor_, use of the title, 184.

Fitzstephen, William, on saints' plays, xiv, xv.

Fleay, Mr. F. G., his _Chronicle History of the English Stage, Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama_, and _Life of Shakespeare_, lxxxii, lxxxiii, lxxxvi, lxxxviii, lxxxix, xci, 336, 339, 347, 360, 383, 399, 403, 404, 406, 410, 412, 415, 418, 421, 424, 426, 521, 523, 527, 528, and other references.

Fletcher, John, his _Bloody Brother_, 352; and Shakespeare, 660.

_Fleury Plays_, the, of St. Nicholas, xvi.

Floegel, _Geschichte d. grotesk-komischen, neuarbeitet von Ebeling_, xlv.

Flügel, Professor Ewald, _Critical Essay on Udall_, 89–104; edition of _Roister Doister_, 105–189; appendix to _R. D._, 189–194; also lxxviii; his _Lesebuch_, 69, 91, 194.

Folk-lore, the background of, in _O. W. T._, 345–346.

_Folk Lore Journal_, specimens from, xliii.

Fool, literature of the, lii; relation to the Vice, xlvii–liv, lxxxii; in _Roister Doister_, 100, 101; in Greene, 393, 430; in Shakespeare, 644–646, etc.

Fools, The Feast of, xx, lxvi.

_Four Elements, The_, interlude by John Rastell, lxi, lxxi–lxxiv; referred to, 109.

_Four Kynges_, 523.

_Foure P.P._, the play called _The_, by John Heywood, 9, 10.

Foster's _Alumni Oxonienses_, 518.

Frazer, J. G., _The Golden Bough_, on the "death-index," cf. _O. W. T._, 345.

_Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (The Famous Historie of Frier Bacon)_ by R. Greene, edition of, with essay and notes, by C. M. Gayley, 433–503; appendix on the versification of, 503; mention of, xlviii, li, liv, 338, 389, 410, 413, 426.

"Friar Rush," 231.

_Fulk Fitz Warine, The Story of_, 127.

Fuller's _Worthies_, cited, 65.

Furnivall, Dr., his edition of the _Digby Plays_, xxiii, xxx, xlvii, lv; his _Polit. Rel. and Love Songs_, 191.

_Furnivall Miscellany, The_, xix.

GALLATHEA, by John Lyly, 268.

_Gammer Gurton's Nedle_, by William Stevenson, edition of, with essay on the authorship, date and qualities of the play, by Mr. Henry Bradley, 195–259; other mention of, lxxiii, lxxviii, lxx–lxxii, xcii, 99, 121, 338, 342, 533.

Gayley, Professor C. M., Preface to this volume, iii; An _Historical View of the Beginnings of English Comedy_, xiii–xcii; regarding _Roister Doister_, 97, 104; regarding _Gammer Gurton_, 198; on the title of _Old Wives' Tale_, 347; _Critical Essay on Greene's Life and the Order of his Works_, 397–431; edition of _Frier Bacon_, 433–502; appendix on Greene's versification, 503–511: _Critical Essay on Henry Porter's Life and his Place in English Drama_, 513–536; edition of _Two Angry Women_, 537–633.

Gascoigne, George, his _Supposes_, lxxviii, lxxxiv, 517; his _Glasse of Government_, lxxiv.

_Gentylnes and Nobylyte_, the dialogue of, 8.

Geoffrey, Abbot of St. Alban's, and the _Ludus de S. Katharina_, xiv, xvi.

_George-a-Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield_, 338, 392, 401, 533; date and authorship, 418–420.

_Germanic Philology, Journal of_, 336.

_Giant and the King's Daughter_, the tale of the, in _O. W. T._ 354.

Gillette's _Because She Loved Him So_, mentioned, 529.

Giraldus Cambrensis, referred to, 426.

_Glasse of Government, The_, by Gascoigne, lxxiv.

Gnapheus (W. Fullonius), his _Acolastus_, lxx, lxxi, lxxxi.

_Godly Queene Hester_, a moral play, xxxiv, lxxvi, lxxviii, lxxxiii.

Godwin's _Lives of the Necromancers_, 281.

_Golden Legend, The, of the Lives of the Saints_, translated by Caxton, a source for plays, xv, xxxi, xxxvii, xliv.

Gosche's _Jahrbuch_, names of the Devil, 190.

Gosson, his _Ephemerides of Phialo_, 249; on dramatic attractions, 341.

Gower, John, and 'Titivillus,' 190, and _physique_, 398.

Graf, Herman, _Der Miles Gloriosus im englischen Drama_, 190.

Greban, A., his play of the _Passion_, xxxvi.

Greene, Robert, Monograph on his place in English Comedy, by Professor Woodberry, 387–394; Critical Essay on his life and the order of his plays, with edition of his _Frier Bacon_, and appendix on his versification, by Professor Gayley, 395–511; life, 397; authorities on, 397; misapprehensions concerning his career, 398; development as dramatist and order of plays, 402; plays conjecturally assigned to him, 418; 'Young juvenall' and the comedie 'lastly writ,' 422; _Frier Bacon_, composition, 411; stage history and materials, 425; dramatic construction, 427; previous editions and the present text, 430; Other mention, lxxxii, lxxxv, lxxxvii, xc; and Lyly, 266; and Peele, 338–339; and Porter, 517; and Shakespeare, 645, 647; his _Menaphon_, 337; dates of his _Perimedes_, _Pandosto_, _Menaphon_, _Ciceronis Amor_, _Philomela_, 398; _Arbasto_, _Morando_, _Planetomachia_, printed, 400.

_Greene's Vision_, 400.

Gregory IX, against clerical participation in miracle plays, xix.

_Grim, the Collier of Croydon_, xlviii.

Grimm, J., _Mythologie_, cited, 373.

Grindal, Archbishop, 192, 400.

Gringoire, his _l'Homme Obstiné_, xlix.

_Griselda_, play of, mentioned, lxxi.

'Groatsworth' group of poets, the, 422–423.

_Groatsworth of Wit, A_, by Greene, 397, 398, 400, 402.

Grosart, Dr. A. B., his edition of Nashe's works, 337, 351; of Harvey's, 359; of Greene's works, 387, 397, 403, 410, 415, 416, 430; article in _Englische Studien_, 418; his edition of _Selimus_, 420; on the authorship of _A Knack_, 424.

Guevara, Antonia de, his _Dial of Princes_, used by Lyly, 267, 337.

Gummere, Professor F. B., edition of Peele's _Old Wives' Tale_ with _Critical Essay_ on the author and the play, notes and appendix, 333–384.

_Guy of Warwick_, cited, 115.

HACKETT, Thomas, licensed to print _Roister Doister_, 97.

Hales, Professor J. W., on the date of _Roister Doister, Englische Studien_, 95.

Halle, Adam de la, his opera of _Robin et Marion_, xli.

Halliwell (and Wright), collection of _Reliquiæ Antiquæ_, 191.

Halliwell-Phillipps, Mr. J. O., xli–xliii, xlv, liii, 171, 194, 528.

_Hamlet_, the early play attributed to Thomas Kyd, 427; Shakespeare's, 534, 658.

Harrison's _Description of England_, 117, 167.

Hartmann's _Iwein_, a similarity in, to _O. W. T._, 373.

Harvester's song, the, in _O. W. T._, proposed restoration of, 383.

Harvey, Gabriel, and Lyly, 266, 348; and Peele, 337, 340, 343; and Nashe, in the _Trimming of Thomas Nashe_, 359; and 'Huanebango,' 343, 345, 358–359, 373, 383; and Greene, 398, 402, 423.

Haslewood, Joseph, his _Ancient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poesy_, 337.

Hathaway, R., and Porter, 517.

Haughton, W., and Porter, 524.

Hawkins, Thomas, his _Origin of the English Drama_, lxxvi, 24.

Hazlitt, W. C., his edition of Dodsley's _Old Plays_, 104, 194, 204, 535, _et passim_.

Heber, Richard (_Bibliotheca Heberiana_ in British Museum), on Porter, 517.

_Henno_, a play by Reuchlin, lxix.

_Henry IV., Parts I and II_, Shakespeare's, lxxxix, 534, 646.

_Henry V._, Shakespeare's, 653.

_Henry VI., Parts I and II_, 418, 427.

_Henry VIII._, Shakespeare's, 660.

Henry VIII., the usury statutes under, 95–97; his song of "Pastime," 132.

Henslowe, Philip, his _Diary_, and Greene, 405, 408, 411, 415, 418; and Porter, 515, 517, 518, 520, 522, 526–528.

Herford, Professor C. H., his _Literary Relations of England and Germany,_ lxx, lxxiv, lxxvi, lxxxii, lxxxv, 90.

_Herod_, the Wakefield play of, xxvii.

Heywood, John, Critical Essay on his life and place in English comedy, with editions of his _Play of the Wether_, and his _Johan_, by Mr. A. W. Pollard, 19–85; life, 3; Heywood and Sir Thomas More, 5; dramatic development and literary estimate, 6–12; his _Foure PP., Wether, Wit and Folly, Love_, 6–11; _Pardoner_ and _Johan_, 6, assigned to him, 11; _Wether_, early editions and the present text, 16; his two achievements, 16; _Johan_, previous editions and the present text, 61; Other mention of H., xvii, xlix, lvi, lix, lxi, lxvl–xviii, lxxviii, lxxxii, 89, 95, 96; his _Proverbes_, 110, 191, 194, 275.

Heywood, Thomas, and Henry Porter, 517, 521, 524, 526.

Hilarius, his plays, xiv–xvi.

Hippe, Max, on the "Thankful Dead" theme, in Herrig's _Archiv_, 345.

_Historia Histrionica_, lxxxi.

_Histrio-Mastix_ (attributed to Marston), xlviii.

Hohlfeld, Professor, _Die altenglischen Kollectivmisterien_, in _Anglia_, Bd. XIX, xxv.

Hoker's _Piscator_, lxxi.

Holinshed, R., _Chronicles_, on the dearth of corn in 1523, 40, 117.

Holland's _Translation of Pliny_, 279 _et seq._

_Homme Obstiné, l'_, xlix.

_Homme Pécheur, l'_, xlix, lxxii.

Hone, William, his _Ancient Mysteries_, xxi, xxxviii.

_Horestes_, by John Pikerynge, xlix, lii, lxxxvii, 204.

Host, the miracle of the, xxxix.

_Hot Anger Soon Cold_, by Porter (with Chettle and Ben Jonson), 522, 523.

Hox Tuesday play, the, mentioned, xxxvii, xli.

Hrosvitha, mentioned, xvii.

'Huanebango' in _O. W. T._, and Gabriel Harvey, 343, 345, 359, 383.

Humanists, their drama, etc., lxxiii, lxxvi, lxxxii, 98.

Humours, the comedy of, anticipations of, lii, liv, lxiii, lxxxvi, 532, _et passim_.

Hunt, Joseph, published Porter's _2 A. W. A._, 534.

Hunter, Joseph, his _Chorus Vatum Anglicanorum_ (in the British Museum), 518.

_Hunting of Cupid, The_, by Peele, 415.

_Hyckescorner_, a moral interlude, lx, lxxi, lxxiv; referred to, 133.

IDEAL, the, in comedy, xv, xxi, xxx, xxxi, xxxviii, lviii, lxi, lxii, lxix, lxxviii, lxxxii, lxxxv, lxxxvii, xcii; in Udall's, 99; in Greene's, 390, 392, 394, 419, 428, 429; in Shakespeare's, 637–643, 647, 648, 651, 654–661.

Induction, the use of, in _Old Wives' Tale_, 343; in plays by Greene, Shakespeare, Nashe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher; Schwab's thesis on, 343–344.

Ingeland, Thomas, his interlude of _The Disobedient Child_, lxxv.

Innocent III, against acting, xix.

Interludes: _Interludium de Clerico et Puella_, xvii, xxxvii, lxvi; interludes in churches, xx; moral, xl; relation of miracle, moral, and interlude, lv; various kinds of interlude, lvi; causes of improvement in, lvii; farce and romantic interlude, lxiv; school and controversial, lxxii; Italian models, lxxxviii; See also under _John Heywood_.

Intrigue and passion, plot of, xcii.

_Iphigenia_, a children's play, 268.

JACKE JUGELER, play of, xlix, li, lxxii, lxxviii, lxxix, 103, 107.

_Jack the Giant-Killer_, the story of, in connection with _Old Wives' Tale_, 345.

_Jack Wilton_, by Nashe, 266.

_Jacob and Esau, The Historie of_, a play, lxxiv, lxxvii, lxxx, lxxxii.

Jacobs, J., _English Fairy Tales_, 345, 359, 362.

_James IV, The Scottish Historie of_, by Greene, lxxxiii, 389, 392, 404, 415, 418, 420, 427.

Jeffes, Anthony, and Humphrey, actors in the Admiral's company in Porter's time, 524.

Jew, the, in early comedy, xc (_Jew of Malta_, etc.).

_Jobe, A History of_, attributed to Greene, 418.

_Johan Johan, Tyb, etc., A mery play betwene_, assigned to John Heywood, an edition with critical essay and notes, by Mr. A. W. Pollard, 1–19, 59–87; Other mention, xvii, lxix, lxxxi, 533.

_Johan, Kyng_, by Bishop Bale, xlix, lxxii, lxxv–lxxvii.

_John, King of England, The Troublesome Raigne of_, attributed to Greene, 418.

Jonson, Ben, liii, lxxiii, lxxv, lxxxviii; his _New Inn_ referred to, 109; and Lyly, 274, 275; his use of the induction, 343; and Henry Porter, 515, 522, 533; on the purpose of comedy, 637, 645; in _Troilus and Cressida_, 638, 657, 658.

Joseph and Mary Plays, the, of York, Wakefield, and Coventry, chivalrous and romantic quality of, xxix.

Juby, Ed., the actor, and Greene, 401.

_Judicium_, the Wakefield play of _The_, xxvii, xxix, xlvi, xlviii, lxxxi.

_Judith_, by Macropedius, lxx.

Jusserand, M. J. J., on Heywood's interludes, lxvi.

KILLING OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, the Digby play of the, xxiii, xxx.

_Kind Hart's Dreams_, by Chettle, 419, 422.

Kirchmayer (Naogeorgos), his _Pammachius_, lxv, lxx.

Kirkman, Francis, his catalogue of plays; Peele, 336; Greene, 419; Porter, 518.

Kittredge, Professor G. L., on _Sir Clyomon_, 336; on a phrase in _Alexander and Campaspe_, 303.

Klein, Professor G. L., his _Geschichte d. englischen Dramas_, xviii, xxi, xxxvi, lii, lxviii, lxx.

_Knack to Know a Knave, A_, 'the comedie last writ' (?), compared with _Friar Bacon_, and with the _Looking-Glasse_, 418, 424, 425 and note, 427, 429, 457, 499; mentioned, xlviii, xc.

_Knight of the Burning Pestle, The_, by Beaumont and Fletcher, 342, 343.

Koch, _Englische Studien_, note in, 190.

Kyd, Thomas, lxxxviii; and Lyly, 273; and Greene, 410.

LACUNA, the metrical use of in dramatic blank verse, 510.

Lämmerhirt, G. P., _Untersuchungen, u. s. w._, concerning Peele, 341, 348.

Langbaine, G., his _Account of the English Dramatick Poets_, 518.

Langland, xix; his _Piers Plowman_, xl, 108, 109, 191, etc.

Latimer, Bishop, his _Sermons_ (on exorcising the devil), 192, 193.

Latin,--tropes, xiii; saints' plays, xiv–xvi; cultivation of Plautus and Terence in the Middle Ages and their impress on elegiac comedy, xvii; history of the later comedy, lxv, lxvii.

Leach, A. F., _Some English Plays and Players_ (in the _Furnivall Miscellany_), xix.

_Lear, King_, Shakespeare's, 418, 639, 660.

Lee, Mr. Sidney, his _Life of Shakespeare_, 406, 408.

Leicester, the Earl of, his relation to _Endimion_, 267; to _Alexander and Campaspe_, 269; his players, 399.

_Legenda Aurea_, by Jacobus Voragine, xliv; see also under _Caxton_.

Legends, xviii, lxxxviii.

Leland, John, his relations with Udall, 89–92; his _Collectanea_, 89, etc.

Leo X, and Heywood, 11.

Life-Index, the, instance of in _O. W. T._, 365.

_Like wil to Like, quod the Devel to the Colier_, by Ulpian Fulwel, xlvii, xlviii, li, lii, lxxxiv, lxxxvi, 108, 110, 342, 499.

_Lillie's Light_, 266.

Liturgical drama, the, xiii, xx.

Locher's translation of the _Narrenschiff_, lx.

Lock, Henry, his _Ecclesiastes_, 266.

Lodge, Thomas, and Lyly, 266; and Peele, 337; and Greene; the _Looking-Glasse_, and their respective contributions to it, 405–407; Lodge's _Civil Wars_, 405, 407, 409, 415, 418, 420–422; and Porter, 517; and Shakespeare, 645.

_Longer thou Livest, etc._, by W. Wager, lxxxvi.

_Look About You_, published by Ferbrand, 534.

_Looking-Glasse for London and England, A_, by Greene and Lodge, 338, 352, 404; the parts written by Lodge, 405; characteristics of his verse, 407, 414, 415, 422, 425.

Lorenz, A.O.F., on the _Miles Gloriosus and his Parasite_, 190.

_Loseley Mss., The_, edited by A. J. Kempe, 90, 93, 94.

_Love, The Play of_, by John Heywood, xlix, liii, lxvii, lxix, 8–12.

_Love's Labour's Lost_, Shakespeare's, xli, 275, 427, 644, 648, 649, 650, 654.

_Love's Metamorphosis_, by Lyly, 266, 268.

_Love Prevented_, by Porter, 521, 527.

Löwen, his _Prinz Pickelhering_, xlv.

_Ludi Sanctiores_, mentioned by Fitzstephen, xv.

_Ludi Beatæ Christinæ_, xxxviii.

_Ludus Coventriæ (seu Ludus Corporis Christi)_, the N-Town plays, commonly assigned to Coventry, which see.

_Ludus de S. Katharina_, by Geoffrey, xiv, xvi.

_Ludus ludentem Luderum ludens_, lxxi.

_Ludus super Iconia S. Nicolai_, by Hilarius, xiv, xvi.

_Lusty Juventus_, by R. Wever, xlvii, li, lxxii, lxxvi.

Lydgate, John, lii.

Lyly, John, Critical Essay on his life and place in English comedy, by Professor Baker, 263–276; life of Lyly, 265; place of _Euphues_ in English literature, 266; Lyly's plays, subdivision of them, 267; date and sources of _Alexander and Campaspe_, 268; literary estimate of _A. and C._, 269; Lyly's development as a dramatist, 272; place in English Comedy, 273; previous editions of _A. and C._, and the present text, 275; Professor Baker's edition of _A. and C._, 277–333; Other mention, lxxxvii, xc, 348, 517, 646.

Lyndsay, Sir David, his _Thrie Estatis_, lxxv.

Lyric, the, in the plays of Lyly, 274; of Greene, 391.

MACBETH, Shakespeare's, 658.

Machiavelli, N., his _Discourses_, 200.

Macropedius, his _Asotus_ and other plays, lxx; his _Rebelles_, lxxiv.

_Mactacio Abel_, the Wakefield play of, xxviii.

_Magdalene, The Life of the_, in Caxton's _Golden Legend_, xxx.

_Magnyfycence_, a moral play by Skelton, lviii, 168.

_Maid's Metamorphosis, The_, not by Lyly, 266.

Malone, Edmund, li, 430, 516, 518, 534.