Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 2 of 2] Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age

Act iv. scene 2., i. 556.

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_Comic Painting_, exquisite, of Shakspeare's dramas, ii. 550.

_Commentators_ in the age of Shakspeare, notice of, i. 470.

_Compact_ of witches with the devil, account of, ii. 183-185.

_Compliments_, extravagant, current in the age of Shakspeare, ii. 161, 162.

_Composition_ of the poetry of the Elizabethan age considered, i. 597, 598.

_Compton_ (Lady), moderate demands of, from her husband, ii. 145.

_Conduct_ of Shakspeare's drama considered, ii. 541-544.

_Conjurors_ and schoolmasters, frequently united in the same person in the 16th century, i. 95, 96.

_Constable_ (Henry), critical notice of the poems of, i. 609, 610. Particularly of his sonnets, ii. 55.

_Constance_, remarks on the character of, ii. 420, 421.

_Cooks_, in Shakspeare's time, overlooked by their masters, i. 74. Were better paid than clergymen, 93.

_Cooper_'s Latin and English Dictionary, used by Shakspeare, i. 26. The author preferred by Queen Elizabeth, 27.

_Copley_ (Anthony), a minor poet of the age of Shakspeare, i. 679.

_Copyholder_, character of a poor one, in the time of Elizabeth, i. 120.

_Copyrights_ of plays, how disposed of in Shakspeare's time, ii. 224, 225.

_Cordelia_, beautiful character of, ii. 465.

_Coriolanus_, date of the tragedy of, ii. 493. Critical remarks on its conduct and the characters introduced, 494.

_Passages of this drama illustrated in the present work._