Part 68

_Mamillia_, by Greene, 397.

_Mankynd_, a moral play, xlvii, l, li, lvi, lviii, lix, lx, lxxi, lxxiv, lxxvi, lxxvii.

Manly, Professor J. M., his _Specimens of the Pre-Shakespearean Drama_, xiii, xliii, 104, 204, 239, 276, 283; and in notes to _Roister_, _Gammer Gurton_, and _Campaspe_.

Manners, of contemporary life as an element in drama, xvi, xvii, xx, xxi, xxviii, xxix, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxix, xli, xlvi, xlix–liv, lviii–lxii, lxiii, lxv, lxvii–lxix, lxxii, lxxviii _et seq._, xci; in Heywood, 4, 11; in Udall, 99, 103; in Stevenson, 202–204; in Lyly, 271, 275; in Peele, 341–344, 347; in Greene, 391–394, 428–430; in Porter, 528, 530–533; in Shakespeare, 639, 641–644, 648–661, _passim_.

_Manuale ... ad usum insignis Ecclesiæ Eboracensis_, 192.

_Marie Magdalene, The Life and Repentaunce of_, by Lewis Wager, xxxi, lxxxvi. Edited by Professor F. I. Carpenter (Univ. Chicago Press).

Marlowe, Christopher, lviii, xc; and Peele, 337, 339; and Greene, 388, 389, 403–405, 414, 423; and Porter, 523; and Shakespeare, 652.

Marprelate Controversy, the, Lyly's part in, 265.

_Marriage of Witte and Science, The_, see under _Wit Plays_.

Marston, John, and Henry Porter, 520.

_Martin Marprelate_, the _Epistle_ and _Epitome_ assign _G. G. N._ to Bridges, 200.

_Martine Marsixtus_, by R. W., and Greene, 401, 404.

_Martin's Month's Minde_ (Nashe ?), cited, 353.

Marvels, or miracles of the saints, xiv, xv, xvi, xviii, xx, xxx, xxxvii–xlvi, lxii, lxix, lxxxvi.

_Mary Magdalene_, the Digby play of, and the importance of the character in romantic comedy, xxx, xxxi, xxxvii, xlviii, l, li, lviii.

Mary, the Virgin, her importance as a romantic character, xxix, xxx.

Maskell, _Monumenta Ritualia_, 144, 192.

Masques, xl, lxxxix; by Udall, 93, 94; by Lyly, 267, 272; by Shakespeare, 650, 651, 660, 661.

_Measure for Measure_, Shakespeare's, 657.

Medwall, H., his _Goodly Interlude of Nature_, lx.

_Menaphon_, by Greene; his letter prefixed; and Nashe's _Preface_, 337, 389, 411, 412, 423, 424.

_Merchant of Venice, The_, Shakespeare's, xc, 305, 534, 583, 651, 652.

Meredith, Mr. George, on woman in comedy, lxi; on the comic spirit, 637.

Meres, Francis, his _Palladis Tamia_, on Peele, 337; on Greene and Nashe, 422; on Porter, 517, 528.

Merlin, similarities to the character of, in _Old Wives' Tale_, 345, 356.

_Merrie conceited Jests of George Peele_, 337.

_Merry Wives of Windsor, The_, Shakespeare's, 533, 645, 652, 654.

Meyer, E., _Geschichte d. hamburgischen Schul-und-Unterrichtswesens im Mittelalter_, xxi.

Middleton, Thomas, his _Game of Chess_, 275; his _Trick to Catch the Old One_, cited, 359.

_Midsummer Night's Dream, A_, Shakespeare's, 275, 389, 415, 427, 533, 534, 648, 651.

'Miles Gloriosus,' the, of Plautus, in English literature, lxxiv, 98, 189, 190.

Milton, John, his _Comus_ compared with the _Old Wives' Tale_, 347.

Miracle plays, Biblical and legendary, xiv–xvi, xviii–xx; the cycles in their relation to English comedy, xxi–xxxi; historical order of comic passages in the cycles, sequence of æsthetic values, xxiv _et seq._; dramatic value of, xxxi–xxxvii; relation to the stage, and the theory of the English miracles, xxxii, xxxiv; national note in, xxxvi; how they fall short of artistic comedy, xxxvii; nature of legendary, xxxviii; relation to moral and interlude, lv.

Mirth plays, lxxi, lxxii.

_Misogonus_, by Thomas Richardes(?), lxxviii, lxxxi–lxxxiii, 191.

_Missa Gulæ_, in Halliwell and Wright's _Reliquiæ Antiquiæ_, 191.

_Mock Requiem_, the, in _Roister Doister_, sources, etc., 191–192.

_Monachopornomachia_, lxxi.

Mone, F. J., _Shauspiele des Mittelalters_, 190.

Monox, Will, and Greene, 423.

Montemayor, Jorge de, his pastoral of _Diana Enamorada_ and _Two Gentlemen of Verona_, 650.

Moral, the, or moral play, not properly called morality, lv, note 61; collective, of the fourteenth century, xxxiv; nature of the moral, xlix; the vice in, xlvi, xlviii–liv; relation of moral, miracle, and interlude, liv–lvii; the older morals in their relation to comedy, lvii–lxii; their dramatic contribution, lxii–lxiv; school interlude and controversial moral, lxix–lxxvii; French moralities, lxxii; fusion plays, lxxvii, lxxviii; moral interlude, lxxx; survival of rudimentary, decadent, functionless, lxxxv, lxxxvi; variations of, and moral tragedies, lxxxvi; pleasant and stately, lxxxviii; other mention, 4, 5, 99, 103, 267, 407.

_Morando,_ Greene's, 397.

More, Sir Thomas, lxi, lxxvii; and Heywood, 5, 89.

Morley, Professor Henry, his _English Writers_, lii.

Morris-dance, xl.

_Mortificacio, The_, York play of, xxv.

Morton, Cardinal, 5.

_Mother Bombie_, by Lyly, 266, 268, 272, 273, 338.

_Mourning Garment, The_, by Greene, 398, 406, 412, 416.

Movement, the, in comedy, compared with that of tragedy, lxiii.

_Mucedorus_, by Lodge (?), 420, 499.

_Much Ado about Nothing_, Shakespeare's, 646, 654.

Mummings, xl.

Munday, Anthony, his _Two Italian Gentlemen_, lxxxviii; and Lyly, 266; and Porter, 518, 524.

_Mundus et Infans_, lviii.

_Mydas_, by Lyly, 265, 267, 268, 272.

_Myroure of oure Ladye_, definition of 'Tytyvyllus,' 190.

Mysteries, Dodsley's imported name for miracles, xxii; _Corpus_ of French, xxxiv.

Myth, classical, as material for plays, lxxxiv, lxxxvii, lxxxviii, lxxxix, xcvi, 268, 657, 658, 660.

NAOGEORGOS (Kirchmayer), his _Pammachius_, lxx.

_Narcissus_, a play, 268.

_Narrenschiff_, Locher's translation, lx.

Nash's History of Worcestershire, 65.

Nashe, Thomas, on Gascoigne, lxxxv; his _Jack Wilton_, 266; his _Four Letters Confuted_, 351; on Peele in his letter prefixed to Greene's _Menaphon_, 337; on Kyd, 410; on Greene in _Have with You to Saffron Walden_, 337, 419; on the Harveys in _Strange Newes_, 423; also, 373; that he was "young Juvenal," 422; his relations with Greene proved by reference to Meres, Chettle, Dekker, his own _Strange Newes, Anatomie of Absurditie, Astrological Prognostication, Summer's Last Will_, 217, 422–424; his _Christe's Teares_, 424; his relations with the 'Groatsworth' group of poets, 403, 424; with Porter (?), 515, 517.

Nativity, plays of the, xxii, xxxiv.

_Nature, The Goodly Interlude of_, by Medwall, xlviii, l, lvi, lix–lx, lxxi, lxxvi.

_Never too Late_, by Greene, 397, 398, 410.

_New English Dictionary, The_, by Dr. Murray, Mr. Bradley _et al._, frequent references in notes to plays here presented.

_Newcastle Plays_, the sensational in _The_, xxiii, xxix.

_Newe Custome_, a controversial moral, lxxxvi.

_Nice Wanton_, the interlude of, lxxii, lxxiv.

Nicholas, his _Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council_, 91.

Nichols, John, _The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth_, 93.

Nicholson, Dr. Brinsley, on _Old Wives' Tale_, 360, 370.

Nietzsche, F., his _Geburt d. Tragödie_, and _Fröhliche Wissenschaft_, 338.

_Nigromansir, The_, by Skelton, xlvii, xlix, li, lviii, lix.

_Noah_, the York Play of, xxv, lxxxi; the Wakefield play of, xxvii, xxviii.

North, Sir Thomas, his translation of Plutarch's _Lives_, 285, 290, 291, 292 _et seq._

_Notes and Queries_, xliii.

_Novelle_, adaptation of them to drama, ix, lvii.

_N-town, The_, or so-called Coventry or Hegge Plays, xxiii, xxiv, xxix, xxxiv, xxxvii, xlviii, l, lviii.

OFFICIUM LUSORUM, 191.

_Old Wives' Tale, The_, by George Peele, edited with critical essay and notes by Professor Gummere, 333–382; also Appendix on Sources of Characters, and the Harvesters' Song, by the same, 382–384; Other mention, 409, 427.

_Orlando Furioso_, The, by Ariosto, 346; used by Peele in _O. W. T._, 383; by Greene, 409.

_Orlando Furioso, The Historie of_, by Greene, 342, 383, 389, 408–411, 414, 415, 417, 418.

Osborn, in _Teufelslitteratur_, names of the Devil, 190.

Ovid, Lyly's indebtedness to, 272, 281, 298, etc.

'Owleglasse,' mentioned in _Two Angry Women_, 613.

PALAMON AND ARCITE, by Richard Edwardes, lxxxiv.

_Palladis Tamia_, 528, and see under _Meres_.

Palsgrave, John, his edition of the _Acolastus_, lxx, lxxii, lxxxii; _Lesclarcissement de la Langue Francoyse_, 109, 194, and frequently in notes to _Roister_.

_Pammachius_, by Naogeorgos, translated by Bale, lxx, lxxv.

_Pamphilus_, the comedy of, xvii.

'Pancaste,' the real name of 'Campaspe,' 329.

Parasite, the domestic, xvii, lxxxii; in ancient and modern comedy, 100, 101.

_Pardoner, The, and the Frere_, interlude assigned to Heywood, lxvii, lxix, lxxxi, 10, 15.

_Pardonneur_, etc., _Farce nouvelle d'un_, 15.

Paris, Matthew of, his _Lives of the Abbots of St. Albans_, xiv.

Parker, Archbishop, on Still, 201.

_Parker Society Publications_, on exorcism, 193.

Parodies, religious, xiv–xx; of church services, 191, 192.

Parsones, Thomas, and Porter, 516.

_Passion_, mystery play by A. Greban, xxxvi.

Pastoral scenes and masques, 272, 391.

_Paternoster Play, The_, xxxiv, l.

'Pathelin,' lxvi.

_Patient Grissel_, 191.

_Paul, St., The Conversion of_, in the Digby collection, xxx, xxxvii.

Peele, George, and Lyly, lxxxvii, xc, 275; Critical Essay on, with edition of his _Old Wives' Tale_, by Professor Gummere, 333–384; Peele's life, 335; plays assigned to him, 335; his place in the development of English drama, 336; the _O. W. T._ an innovation, 341; the background of folk lore in _O. W. T._, 345; literary estimate of, 346; sources, title, text of, 347, 382; the Harvesters' song in, 383; his _Hunting of Cupid_, 423.

Peile, Dr., and _Gammer Gurtons Nedle_, 198.

Pembroke, the Earl of, his players, and Porter, 520.

Penner, E., his _Metrische Untersuchungen zu Peele_, 348.

Percy, Dr., on _Hyckescorner_, lx.

_Pericles_, probably Shakespeare's, 191, 659, 660.

_Pernet qui va au vin, tresbonne et fort ioyeuse, Farse nouuelle de_, lxv, lxvi, 12, 15.

_Perymedes_, by Greene, 403, 406, 409.

Petit de Julleville, _La Comédie en France au moven âge_, xxi, lxvi.

Petrarch, his _Philologia_, lxvii.

Pettie, George, his _Petite Pallace of Pettie His Pleasure_, 267.

Philip II, and _Mydas_, 268.

Phillips, Edward, his _Theatrum Poetarum_ on _Faire Emm_, 418.

_Philogenia_, an Italian play, lxix.

Piccolomini, his _Crisis_, lxvii.

'Pickelhering,' xlv.

_Piers Plowman_, xl, 108, 109, 191, etc.

Pikerynge, John, his _Interlude of Vice concerning Horestes_, lxxv, lxxxiii, lxxxvii.

Pilkington, _Exposition upon Aggeus_, 191.

_Pinner of Wakefield, The_, see _George-a-Greene_.

_Planetomachia_, by Greene, 397, 398.

Plautus, xvi, lxv, lxvii, lxviii, lxxii, lxxix, lxxxii, lxxxvi; Udall and, 99; Lyly and, 268; Shakespeare and, 650; also frequent references in notes to _Roister Doister_.

_Play of Love, The_, see _John Heywood_.

_Play of the Sacrament, The_, xxxix.

_Play of the Wether_, see _John Heywood_.

Play within the play, the, in Peele, etc., 343; in Greene, 426.

Players, see under _Acting_.

Pliny, Lyly's indebtedness to, 267, 269; his _History of World_, 279; also frequently in notes to _Campaspe_.

Plutarch on _Education_, and on _Exile_ used by Lyly, 267; also his _Life of Alexander_, 269, 283; and elsewhere in the notes to Lyly's _Alexander and Campaspe_.

_Poliscene_, an Italian play, lxix.

Politics, in Lyly's allegories, 275.

Pollard, Mr. A. W., his edition of the _Towneley Plays_, xxiii, xxvi; on the Towneley (Wakefield) master, xxviii; his _English Miracle Plays_, xlix, li, lxvi; _A Critical Essay on John Heywood_, with editions of his _Play of the Wether_ and _Johan_, 1–86.

_Polyhymnia_, by Peele, 336.

Polytypic plays, lvii, lxxii, lxxvii–lxxxv.

Popular festival plays, xxxix–xlvi.

Porter, Henry, the dramatist, lxxxviii; Critical Essay on his life and dramatic work, with an edition of his _Two Angry Women_, by Professor Gayley, 513–633; facts of Porter's life, 515; early notices, 517; conjectural identity, 518; dramatic career, 520; his associates, 522–524; date of his extant play, 525; its dramatic qualities and construction, 528; portrayal of character, 530; place in the history of comedy, 533; previous editions and the present text, 535.

Porter, Henry, the musical composer, 518.

Porter, Walter, 518.

Prayer, the, at the end of early plays, 184; and see close of other comedies in this volume.

Preston, Thomas, his _Cambises, King of Percia_, lxxxvi.

_Pride of Life, The_, a moral, liii, lvi, lviii.

'Priest of the Sun, The,' in Greene and Lodge's _Looking-Glasse_, 406.

_Processus Crucis_, story about a, by Bebel, xxxvi.

Prodigal Son Plays, lxxii–lxxiv, lxxx, lxxxii, lxxxiii.

Prose, in Medwall's _Nature_, lx; in the _Supposes_, lxxxv; in plays of Lyly, 271, 274; of Greene, 417.

_Prouerbes in the Englishe Tonge, Dialogue Conteyneng the Number of the Effectuall_, 3.

Publishers: of Heywood's plays, 5, 8, 10, 13, 16, 17, 63; of _Roister Doister_, 97, 104; of _Gammer Gurton_, 197; of Lyly's plays, 276; of Peele's _Old Wives' Tale_, 348; of Greene's plays, 403, 404, 405, 408, 411, 415, 418, 420, 430; of Porter's _2 A. W. A._, 534, 535.

Puttenham, George, his _Arte of English Poesie_, lxxxiii.

'Pyrgopolinices' in Plautus, 102.

QUADRIO, F. S., _Della Storia e della Ragione d'ogni Poesia_, xviii, lxvii.

Queen's players (Elizabeth's, 1583–1592), Greene's relations with the, 408, 409, 411, 413, 417, 418.

_Querolus_, a Latin play, xvii.

_Quintus Fabius_, a play, 268.

_Quip for an Upstart Courtier, A_, by Greene, 371, 398, 423.

RADCLIFFE, Ralph, his _Griselde_ and other plays, lxxi.

_Ram Alley_, by Barry, 352.

Rankins, William, a writer for Henslowe in Porter's time; author of _Mulmutius Dunwallow_; joint author of plays with Hathaway, 524.

_Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune, The_, an early romantic comedy, lxxxviii; the induction in, 343; 'Lentulo' in, 430.

Rastell, John, reputed author of _A New Interlude and Mery of the Nature of the Four Elements_, lxi, lxxi; publisher and perhaps author of _Calisto and Melibœa_, lxviii; relations with John Heywood, 5, 8.

Rastell, William, printer of four of Heywood's plays, 5, 6, 8, 10, 86.

Ray, J., _English Proverbs_, 108, etc., 194, 569, 595.

R. B. (Richard Bower?), Mr. Fleay's conjecture concerning, 336.

Realism in comedy: in Bodel's _St. Nicholas_, xvi; in late Latin comedies, xviii; in religious parodies, xx; in the miracle cycles, xxiv–xxx, xxxv–xxxvi; in the later 'marvels,' xxxix; in popular festival plays, xli–xlvi; of the miracle Devil, xlvi _et seq._; of the Vice, xlix _et seq._; in the older moral plays, lviii–lxii, lxiii; in the French and English farce, etc., lxiv–lxvi; in school plays, continental and English, lxix–lxxvii; in fusion plays, lxxvii _et seq._; in survivals of the moral, lxxxvi; in the _Rare Triumphs_ and in Wilson's 'Stately Morals,' lxxxviii–xc; comedy realistic or satirical, xci; In Heywood, 4 _et seq._; in Udall, 99, 103; in Stevenson, 202–204; in Lyly, 275; in Peele, 342–344; in Greene, 388, 391–394, 419, 428–430; in Porter, 528–533; in Shakespeare, 644, 645, 648, 653 _et seq_.

_Rebelles_, by Macropedius, lxx, lxxiv.

_Red Ettin, The_, a fairy tale referred to in comment on _O. W. T._, 345, 362.

Redford's _Wit and Science_, lxix, lxxii.

Reed, Isaac, his edition of Baker's _Dictionary of the Stage_, on _Gammer Gurton_, 201.

_Regularis Concordia Monachorum_, xiii.

Reinhardstoettner, Karl von, on Plautus, 117, 190.

_Reliquiæ Antiquæ_, by Halliwell and Wright, xxxvi, 191.

Renaissance, the, effect upon drama, lxiv; upon Greene, 390.

_Repentance of Robert Greene, The_, 398, 418.

_Respublica_, a controversial moral, xlix, lxxii, lxxiv, lxxvi, lxxvii.

_Resurrection, The_, miracle plays of, xiv, xix, xxii.

_Returne from Pernassus, The_, on rivalry of Jonson and Shakespeare, 638.

Reuter, Kilian, his Latin play of _St. Dorothea_, lxx.

_Revels at Court, Accounts of the_, 270; Udall and the Revels, 93.

Rhetorical pause, the, methods of representing it in dramatic blank verse, 510–511.

Ribbeck, Otto, his _Alazon_, 189.

Richardes, Thomas, perhaps author of _Misogonus_, lxxxi.

Ritson's _Songs_, 191.

Ritter, O., on Greene's _Frier Bacon_, 413, 426.

_Rituale Romanum_, the, and Udall's parody of, 192.

Ritwyse, John, author of a satiric interlude, lxxi.

Robert of Gloucester, Robert of Brunne, their use of the _septenarius_, 189.

_Robin et Marion_, by Adam de la Halle, xli.

Robin Hood plays, xxxviii, xl; ref., 418; _The Lytell Geste_ of, 130.

_Roister Doister_, by Udall, lix, lxxii, lxxvii, lxxviii, lxxix, lxxx, lxxxii, xcii. Edition with Critical Essay on the life of the author, the text, date, plot, characters of the play, with notes and appendix on various matters, by Professor Flügel, 87–194; other mention, 202, 203, 204, 338.

Rojas, Fernando de (and Cota), their _Calisto and Melibœa_, lxviii.

Rolls Series, xix.

Romantic, the, in saints' plays, xiv–xvi; in Latin interludes and elegiac comedy, xvii, xviii; in miracle cycles, xxiv, xxix–xxx; in various later 'marvels,' xxxvii, xxxviii; in the older moral plays, lviii–lix; foreign influence and native romance, lxv, lxvii–lxix; in the wit plays, lxxiii; in the plays of prodigals, lxxiv–lxxv; in fusion plays, lxxvii _et seq._; especially in _Damon_ and _The Supposes_, lxxxiv–lxxxv; the movement toward romantic comedy, lxxxvii; nature, subjects, and kinds of romantic comedy, lxxxvii, lxxxviii, xci; in Heywood, lxix, 6; in Lyly, 271–275; in Peele, 338, 341–347; in Greene, 390, 427; in Greene and Shakespeare, 643, 645, 647 _et seq._

_Romeo and Juliet_, Shakespeare's, 533, 590, 603, 652.

_Rosalynde, Euphues' Golden Legacie_, by Thomas Lodge, 645.

Rose Theatre, the, and Greene, 408, 411; and Porter, 519, 520, 521.

Ross, Mr. C. H., on the authorship of _Gammer Gurton_, 202.

Rowley, Samuel, intimacy of Henry Porter with, 524.

Royal entries, their dramatic significance, xl.

_Royal Exchange_, by Greene, 398.

Rutebeuf, his play of _Theophilus_, xvi.

R. W., his _Martine Marsixtus_, 424.

Rye's _East Anglian Glossary_, 211.

SACRAMENT plays, xxxvii, xxxix.

Saints' plays, the early, their nature and relation to comedy, xiv–xxi; the later, their contribution to drama, xxvii; a list of, and their connection with romantic plays, xxxviii; secularized as in _St. George_, xli–xlv; mentioned, lxii, lxxxiv, lxxxviii; The Play or Pageant of _St. Anne_, xv; _St. Botulf,_ xv, xxxviii; _St. Christian_, _St. Christina_, _Sts. Crispin and Crispinian_, xxxviii; _St. Dorothea_, lxviii; _St. Edward_ and _St. Fabyan_, xxxviii; _St. George_, xv, xxxviii, xli; _St. Katharine_, xiv, xv, xxxviii; _St. Laurence_, xxxviii; _St. Mary Magdalene_, xxx, xxxvii, lxxxvi; _St. Nicholas_, xv, xvi; _St. Olave_, xxxviii; _St. Paul_, xxx, xxxvii, l; _St. Sebastian_, xxxviii; _St. Susanna,_ xv, xxxviii.

St. Andrew's Day, note to mention in _O. W. T._, 358.

St. Augustine, against the _mimi_, etc., xix.

St. Dyryk, perhaps Theodoric, 69.

_St. James the More, Life of_, xliv.

St. Jerome, his attitude toward Plautus and Terence, xvii; and legendary miracles, xxxviii.

St. John's, Beverley, Resurrection play at, xiii, xx.

St. Luke's Day, mentioned in _O. W. T._, 358.

St. Modwena, mentioned in _Johan_, 82.

St. Sithe (?), 213.

Satire, mediæval in drama, xvii; in religious parodies, xx; in the miracles, xxiv, xxviii–xxix, xxxvi; the Devil not primarily satirical, xlvi, xlviii; the Vice in satirical literature, li–liv; in the interlude, lvi, lxv, lxx, lxxvi, lxxvii, lxxxiii, lxxxvi, xci; in Heywood, 4 _et seq._; See also articles on Udall, Lyly (265, 267), Peele, Greene, Shakespeare.

Scene, the, beside a scene, 424.

Schelling, Professor F. E., his _English Chronicle Plays_, lxxvi; his edition of _Tom Tyler_, lxxxi.

Schick, Professor, his edition of Kyd's _Spanish Tragedy_, 410; on _Faire Emm_, 411.

Schipper, Professor, his _Neuenglische Metrik,_ applied to Greene's verses, 508–509.

School plays, xiv, lxv, lxix–lxxv; English for Latin, 90, 98, 197–198, 267, 270.

Schwab, _Das Schauspiel im Schauspiel_, 343.

_Scillaes Metamorphosis_, by Lodge, 406.

_Scipio Africanus_, the play of, 268.

Scott, Sir Walter, account of Shetland Sword Dance in _The Pirate_, xliii, xlv; on "Brotherhood in Arms," 366.

_Second and Third Blast of Retrait from Plaies and Theaters_, Henry Denham's, on 'strange' comedies, 342.

_Second Trial, The_, the York play of, xxv.

Secular plays, the early, and their contribution to comedy, xx–xxi, xxxvii–xlvi; see also _Morals_, _Farce_, _Interludes_, and _Romantic Comedy_.

_Secunda Pastorum_, the Second Shepherds' Pageant of the Wakefield cycle, xxvii, xxviii, xxxii, lxix, 3, 202, 533.

_Selimus, The First Part of the Tragical Raigne of_, not by Greene, 418, 420, 482, 483.

_Senarius, The_, in Greene, 509; and the _Septenarius_ in Udall, 189.

Seneca, lxxxv, 275.

_Sequentia falsi Evangelii Secundum Marcam_, in Du Méril, 191.

Seven Deadly Sins, the, xxx, xxxi, xlix, l, lii, liv.

Shakespeare, William, the Fool in his plays, lii, lxxxiii; incidental mention, lxxxv, 191 _et passim_; relation to Lyly's work, 271, 275, 287, 322; to Peele's, 336, 343, 345; to Greene's, 387–389, 393–394, 401–402, 415; resemblances to, in Porter, 517; _Shakepeare as a Comic Dramatist_, a monograph by Professor Dowden, 635–661; the essentials of Shakespearian comedy, 637; tragedy compared with comedy, 639; comedy, the characters in, and their relation to incident, etc., 640–660; punishment and rewards in Shakespeare's comedy, 641–642; compared with Jonson's comedy, 641; complication and resolution, love, laughter, satire, 642–643; intrigue and treatment of materials, 644; euphuism, 646; his development as a comic dramatist, 648 _et seq._; transformation plays, 648; _Love's Labour's Lost_, 649; _The Comedy of Errors_, 650; _The Two Gentlemen of Verona_, 650; _A Midsummer Night's Dream_, 651; _The Merchant of Venice_, 652; _The Taming of the Shrew_, 653; the Falstaff plays, _The Merry Wives of Windsor_, _King Henry V_, 653–654; _Much Ado about Nothing_, 654; _Twelfth Night_, 655; _All's Well that Ends Well_, 656; _Measure for Measure_, 657; _Troilus and Cressida_, 657; his relation to Chapman, Dekker, Marston, Jonson, Southampton, 656–657; the period of tragedy, 657–658; _Pericles_, _Cymbeline_, _The Winter's Tale_, _The Tempest_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, 659–661.

Shaw, Robert, a player acquaintance of Henry Porter, 516, 524.

_Shearmen and Taylors' Pageant_, the Coventry Guild play of the, xxiii.

_Shepherd's Plays, The_, of York, xxv; of Wakefield, xxvii, xxviii, lxxxi; and see _Secunda Pastorum_.

Sherwood, Thomas, his _Anglais et François Dictionaire_, added to Cotgrave, 118, 194, etc.

_Shipwrights' Play, The_, of Newcastle, xlviii, lix.

_Short Discourse of my Life, A_, by Greene, 397.

Shows, dumb, lxxxix.

'Shrew' plays, lxxxi.

Shrewsbury, religious play at, xiii.

Sidney, Sir Philip, 337; his _Arcadia_, 389.

Simpson, R., his _School of Shakespeare_, 404, 422.

Singer, John, one of the Admiral's men in Porter's time.

_Sir Armadace_, the "Thankful Dead" in, and _O. W. T._, 345

_Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes_, lxxxviii, 335, 341, 342.

_Sir John Oldcastell_, by A. Munday and others, 523.

_Six Hundred Epigrams_, by John Heywood, 3.

Skeat, Professor W. W., xiii, 110, 190, 374.

Skelton, John, contribution to Fool-literature, lii; his _Magnyfycence_, lviii, 189; his _Nigromansir_, xlviii, l, lviii; his _Phyllyp Sparowe_, 192.

Slater, Martin, an associate of Henry Porter, 521.

Smeken, his _Sacrament Play_, xxxix.

Smith, Miss Lucy Toulmin, her edition of the _York Plays_, xxiii, xxvi.

Smith, Toulmin, his _English Gilds_, xxxviii.

_Solyman and Perseda_, perhaps by Kyd, the source of Peel's 'Erestus' in _O. W. T._, 383.

_Sonnets_, the, of Shakespeare, 656, 658.

_Sotties_, the French, lxv–lxvi.

Southampton, the Earl of, 646.

_South English Legendary, The_, xliv.

_Spanish Masquerado, The_, by Greene, 398, 409.

_Spanish Tragedy, The_, by Thomas Kyd, 410, 427.

_Spencers, The_, or _Despencers_, a tragedy by Porter and Chettle, 516, 523.

Spenser, Edmund, Lyly compared with, 274; Harvey's characterization of, 340; his _Tears of the Muses_, 405; other mention, 421, 426.

Spenser, Gabriel, the actor, 524.

_Spider and the Flie, The_, by Heywood, 3.