"A. W.," 46.
Absence of letters by W. Shakspere, 23, 52.
Accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber, 57-8, 65.
Activities, dramatic, of de Vere, 256-284.
Actors' licenses, Shakespeare in, 44-5.
Admiral's, Lord, company of players, 312-313.
"Aetion," Spenser's, 53.
Affectation of Sir P. Sidney, 248.
"Agamemnon and Ulysses," Oxford's play of, 261, 357.
Alençon (see Anjou).
"All's Well," 184, 192, 194, 204-5, 210-12, 221-2, 308, 319, 352, 391-2, 421; the argument from, climax to, 233-5; story of Bertram in, 391-2.
Alteration of numbers in Grafton portrait, 457-8.
Ancestry of Edward de Vere, 181-90.
Anecdote respecting Shakspere, 52; of Burbage and Shakspere, 63, 64.
Anjou, Duke of, 205, 298, 404.
Anonymity, motives for, 46, 47, 173-7.
Anti-Stratfordian authorities, 12, 13-4; difficulties, 46-9.
"Antony and Cleopatra," 350, 388.
Archives, municipal, and Shakspere, 54-5, 65.
Arguments, convergence of many, 8, 64-5, 116-7, 120, 170-6, 365-7, 370-2, 420-1, 452-3.
Argument, posthumous, summary of, 365-7, 454; poetical, 121-170; dramatic, 256-292.
Aristocracy of Shakespeare, 94-5, 183-4, 192-3, 211, 255.
Arundel, Charles, and Oxford, 181.
"As you like it," 160 180-1, 319, 352.
Asbies, Shakspere's lawsuit, re, 44.
Atheism, Oxford accused of, 120, 409.
Authorities, chiefly Stratfordian, 6, 7; anti-Stratfordian, 12, 13; biographical, 172.
Authorship, importance of, 1; Merchant of Venice, bearing upon, 2; and William Shakspere, 2-3; dramatic, Halliwell-Phillipps, on, 47.
Autobiography in the Sonnets, 174-5, 369.
Bacon, Francis, 367; and Oxford, 199; and Essex, 332, 403; death of, 367.
Bacon's Crest, 455.
Baconian theory, 332, 367, 377.
Bagehot, Richard, on Shakespeare, 169.
Baptista Minola's crowns, 225-6; Nigrone's, 226.
Bayne, The Rev. Ronald, M.A., on Antony Munday, 258-9.
Bearing of "Merchant of Venice" upon the authorship, 2.
Bedingfield, Edward de Vere's letter to, 132-3.
Bell, H. G., Mary Queen of Scots, 302.
Benedict Spinola, 227.
Beesly's, "Queen Elizabeth," 110.
Bequests of William Shakspere, 27-31; to Heminge and Condell, 27; Jonson, and, 28-9.
Bertram in "All's Well," Story of, 233, 391-2.
Berowne in "L.L.L." and Oxford, 245, 393.
Betrothal of Anne Cecil to Sir P. Sidney, 213.
Biographical authorities, 172; summary, 415-19.
Bishopgate, Shakspere's residence in, 40, 43, 313; Oxford at, 313.
Blackfriars property, deed of purchase of, 35.
Boar's Head tavern, Oxford at, 337-39; Southwark, 338.
Boar (The) as a crest, 339, 455.
Boccaccio, 193, 234.
Bond, M.A., Mr. R. W., on Lyly's works, 269-82.
Books and W. Shakspere, 18, 30; Lord Chamberlain's missing 59.
Brutus, eccentricity of, 252.
Bullen, A. H., on Antony Munday, 258.
Burbage, Mrs. Stopes on death of, 37.
Burbage, Richard, 57, 66-7, 188; Company at Court, 58, and Shakspere, anecdote of, 63, 64.
Burbage, James, 318-9.
Burleigh, Lord (see William Cecil); Lady, 204, 215-16.
Burns, Robert, 177.
Burns, Ruskin on, 17; and books, 18-19; education of, 18-19.
Business methods of Shakspere, 2; transactions of Shakspere, 24.
Business of Shakspere, 43-4.Cambridge, History of English Literature, 121, 141; History of English Literature on A. Munday, 257-9; servants of de Vere, play at, 256.
Carlyle on Shakespeare as dramatist, 88; on Shakespeare's feudalism, 93-4; Thomas, 127; on Shakespeare as poet, 307, 420.
Castle Hedingham, 191, 214, 232.
Catholicism, Shakespeare on, 102-3; and Edward de Vere, 110-4, 119, 410; and Hamlet, 409-11; and "The Tempest," 442-3.
Cecil, Anne, 203, 210, 211, 212, 213, 227-34; and Desdemona. 228-9; death of, 305-6, 407; and Juliet, 166, 212, 388, and Ophelia, 404-5.
Cecil, Sir Robert, 213, 329; de Vere's letter to, 198.
Cecil, Thomas, 213, 217, 404; and Essex rebellion. 411.
Cecil, William, 178, 193, 208, 254, 308-9, 318; and literary men, 216; espionage of, 217, 403-4; and travel, 222; Spenser on, 216, 240; Macaulay on, 240, 400; and Queen Mary's execution, 296-303; and Polonius, 302-5; 400-404; characteristics of, 400-401; maxims, 401-2; philosophy of life, 401-3; and Somerset, 403.
Cecils, The, and Edward de Vere, 203.
Chamberlain, Great, 182, 188-90, 371; Lord, 188-90.
Chamberlain's, Lord, company of actors, 54-6, 340-1; missing books, 59.
Chapter on Stratfordian view, interpolation of, 8-9.
Character of Edward de Vere, 114, 116-17, 122, 124, 131-2, 138, 158, 161, 167-70, 172-6, 183, 201, 216, 231-2, 273-4, 291-2, 299-300, 343, 367-8, 370-1, 388-9, 412-3, 424-5.
Chaucer, 155.
Chettle and William Shakspere, 234-5, 362.
Chettle's apology, 49-50, 64.
Child, Harold H., 121, 125.
Church, Dean, life of Spenser, 128, 240, 248; on Sidney's affectation, 248; on Spenser's "Willie," 284-6; on Burleigh's cunning, 240.
Chronological summary, 415-19.
Clark and Wright, Clarendon Press on "Macbeth," 348.
Clarke, Cowden, 284, 359.
Classical education of Shakespeare, 91-2.
Clayton, John, 44.
Climax to "All's Well" argument and Boccaccio, 233-4.
Close of career in London of W. Shakspere, 60.
Coarse fun in "The Tempest," 440-1.
Colin Clout, 287, 289.
"Colin Clout's come home," 53.
Collins, Arthur, on Edward de Vere, 125; historical recollections, 172, 206.
Combe, Thomas, 28.
Comedies compared with "Tempest," 432.
"Comedy of Errors," 136, 226.
Comedy and tragedy combined, 167-70, 397-8.
Competing solutions, 113, 366-7, 377, 381.
Comte, Auguste, Shakespeare a sceptic, 103.
Concealment, motives for. 46, 173-77.
Contemporary notices of Shakespeare, 49-52; silence respecting Shakspere, 52-3.
Contemporaries and W. Shakspere, 66-7.
Convergence of many arguments, 8, 64-66, 116-71, 120, 170-1, 365-7, 370-2, 420-1, 452-3.
"Coriolanus," 143, 350.
Courthope, W. J., History of Poetry, 121; on Edward de Vere, 121, 125.
Creizenach Shakespeare's aristocratic views, 95; on Lyly and Oxford, 265-6.
Creighton's "Age of Elizabeth and literature, 110.
Crest, Oxford's, 339, 454-5.
Crests, Fairbairn's, 454-5.
"Cymbeline," 350; compared with "The Tempest," 451.Damask rose and lily, 141-44.
Dancing, 205.
Daniel, Sonnets of, 386.
Dante. 68, 75.
Dark Lady in the Sonnets, 382.
Dates of publication, 351-8.
Dating the plays, 314-22.
Date of "The Tempest," 429-32.
Davison, Burleigh's letter to, 303.
Davison's Poetical Rhapsody, 293.
De Vere (see Vere).
Death of Shakspere, 25; of Spenser, Jonson and Dean Church on, 37; of Burbage, Mrs. Stopes on, 37; of Anne Cecil, 305-6; of Oxford, 342, 366.
Dedication of "Lucrece," 374; of Sonnets, 374-76.
Deed of purchase of Blackfriars property, 35.
Definition of the Shakespearean problem, 71.
Dennis, G. Ravenscroft, on the House of Cecil, 172, 217; on Thomas Cecil, 403.
Desdemona and Anne Cecil, 228-9.
Desire, Shakespeare and de Vere on, 145-9.
Desportes, Sidney's plagiarism from, 250.
"Destiny," Hamlet and, 393-4.
Devereux, Robert, poetry of, 203 (see also Essex Rebellion).
Devereux, Walter (1st Earl), 213.
Dictionary of National Biography, 111-17, 172.
Different spellings of "Shakespeare," xi, 45.
Difficulties of anti-Stratfordian views, 46.
Discovery, 20-28; preparatory movement towards, 7; sensational 233-4, 392.
Disrepute in the Sonnets, 174 (see also Loss of good name).
Document in Guildhall library, 35
Donnelly, Ignatius, "The Great Cryptogram," 11-13.
Doubtfulness of Stratfordian view, 3.
Dowden, Prof., list of plays, 317, 319, 347.
Drake, on "King Lear," 348.
Drama and Shakespeare, 88-90.
Dramas, unpublished, and Shakspere's Will, 25-6, 358-9.
Drama, evolution of Elizabethan, 262; Hamlet as patron of, 267, 405-6.
Dramas, issue of Shakespearean, 311-21, 345-59.
Dramatic activities of de Vere, 256-84.
Dramatic authorship, Halliwell-Phillipps on, 47, roles of Shakspere, 62.
Dramatist, Edward de Vere as, 115, 125-6.
Drayton at Stratford, 28; sonnets of, 386.
Dreams in "Hamlet" and "The Tempest," 435-7.
Droeshout engraving "455-8.
Dryden on Spenser's "Willie," 285.
Duality in Shakespeare, 253; in Oxford, 252-4; in Hamlet, 397-8.
Dumb Shows in "The Tempest," 437-8.
Durning-Lawrence, Shakspere's signatures, 33; on Bacon's Crest, 455.
Dyce on date of "The Tempest," 432Earls Colne, 191
Early life of William Shakspere, 16-21.
Early life of Oxford, 190-209.
Eastcheap, Boar's Head tavern at, 337, 338.
Eccentricity of Shakespeare, 85-6; of Edward de Vere, 114, 252; of Brutus, 252-3; of Hamlet, 396-7.
Echo poems, 162-4, 211
Echo poem in Venus and Adonis, 162.
Echo, The, in "Romeo and Juliet," 164.
Educated classes, Shakespeare as the poet of, 17.
Education of Shakespeare, 14-5, 91-2; of Shakspere, 16-21; of Burns, 18-20; of Oxford, 195-207.
Edwards, the choirmaster, 266, 270-1.
Elizabeth, Queen, and Shakespeare, 54; funeral of, 189-90; and Oxford, 134, 195, 198-9, 204; and Lady Burleigh. 215; and Hatton, 219-20; proposed French marriage, 298-301; death of, and Shakespeare, 334; death of, and Oxford, 335.
Elizabethan poetry, 128; drama, evolution of, 262.
Elze, Karl on date of "The Tempest," 432.
Emerson on Walt Whitman, 77-8; on Shakespeare, 78, 369.
"Endymion," Lyly's play of, 269, 280.
"England's Helicon," 141, 207, 257-8.
English, Shakespeare's, 14; men of Letters (Shakespeare), 21, 69, 454.
Espionage of Burleigh, 217.
Essex, Earls of (see Devereux).
Essex, rebellion, 61, 65; and Henry Wriothesley, 328-34; rebellion and "Richard II" 329; execution of, 331; rebellion and Thomas Cecil, 411.
Essex, histories of, 172; Wright's history of and climax to "All's Well" argument, 233-5.
Euphuism, 245, 455.
Evolution of Elizabethan drama, 262.
Exeter, Earl of (see Thomas Cecil).
Exposition, method of, 4-5.Fairbairn's Crests, 454.
False stories of Oxford, 179-80.
Father of Edward de Vere, 190-3, 206; of Hamlet, 398.
Features, general, of Shakespeare, 84-92.
Fenton, Geoffrey, 231.
Feudalism and Shakespeare, 93, 410-11; and "The Tempest," 442.
Fielding, 76.
First folio of Shakespeare, 26, 62, 352, 358; Heminge and Condell's responsibility for, 27, 358-9; Ben Jonson and, 27-8.
Fletcher, Laurence, 55.
Folio, first, of Shakespeare, 26, 62, 352, 358; second of Shakespeare, 277-8, 419.
Forgeries, Shakespearean, 59, 430.
Fortune and Nature, poem on, 160-161.
Fortinbras and James I, 411-12.
Free school at Stratford, William Shakspere and, 16.
France, Shakespeare and, 300-1.
French language and Shakespeare, 14, 201; and Oxford's education, 201-202.
Fuller, Worthies' library, 123; and Sir Horace Vere, 408.Gayton's "Festivous Notes," 338.
General features of Shakespeare, 84-92.
Genius and the Shakespeare problem, 73-77.
Getley, Walter, 44.
Globe theatre burnt down, 61-2, 65.
Goethe, 76, 358.
Golding Arthur, tutor to Oxford, 190, 423; and Ovid, 195; and law, 197.
Good name, loss of, 157-9, 173-6, 343, 371.
Grafton portrait, 457-8.
"Great Cryptogram," Ignatius Donnelly, 11-13.
Greek unities and "The Tempest," 442
Green's Short History on Oxford, 110.
Greene, 51, 64.
Greene's attack on Shakspere, 42, 49, 64, 362.
Greenstreet, Mr., on William Stanley, 381.
Greenwood, Sir George's work, indebtedness to, 6, 7; Sir George, 11, 78; on Ben Jonson, 30, 38; on masking performance in "The Tempest," 431.
Greville, Fulke (Lord Brooke), 179-80, 246, 254.
Grosart, Dr., 172; on Edward de Vere, 123-4; and Fuller Worthies' Library, 130-2, 136-8.
Guildhall library, Shakspere document in, 35.
Gunnyon, W., sketch of Burns, 17, 18-19.Hackney, Oxford's residence at, 188, 198,199, 313.
Haggard Hawk, the Poems on, 108, 139-40, 383.
Hall, Susanna, Shakspere's daughter, 25.
Hall, Doctor, and Shakspere's books, 30.
Halliwell-Phillipps, material supplied by, 13; Outlines, 15; on Shakspere's books, 18; on death of Shakspere, 25; On testamentary irregularities, 33-34; on Shakspere's residence at Stratford, 40; on Shakespeare as a dramatist, 41; on purchase of New Place, 41; on- dramatic authorship, 47; on Shakspere as actor, 54-55; on Treasurer of Chambers accounts, 57; and the Boar's Head tavern, Eastcheap, 337-9.
Hamlet, 51, 96, 137, 172, 192, 204, 222, 301, 308, 319, 322, 342, 352-3, 354, 364, 421, 425; and secrecy, 48; as patron of drama, 267, 406; sea experiences of, 305; publication of, 357-8; Frank Harris on, 390; Shakespeare as, 390-414; father and mother of, 398-9; and Laertes, 405; and his times, 409; dying appeal of, 412-3; and versification in "Tempest," 448-50; and dumb-shows, 437-8; and the De Vere motto, 455.
Handwriting (see Penmanship).
Heminge and Condell, responsibility for first folio, 27, 358-9, 366.
Harris, Frank. "The Man Shakespeare," 7, 148-9, 184, 212, 245, 254-5, 374; on Hamlet, 390.
Harris, Sergeant, 199.
Harvey, Gabriel, 242-4, 269-70, 275, 287, 323.
Hatfield manuscripts, 172, 198, 239, 313, 336.
Hatton and Oxford, 219-20 254.
Hedingham, (see Castle Hedingham).
Helena in "All's Well" and Lady Oxford, 210, 212.
Henneage, Thomas, 57, 194, 364.
"Henry IV," Parts I and II, 337-9, 351; Part II, 319, 354, 363.
"Henry V," 253, 301, 319, 352, 363.
"Henry VI," Parts I, II and III, 95, 185-7; Part III, 153.
"Henry VIII," 78, 317, 349, 429.
Holofernes, 242-4.
Home life of Shakspere, 16.
Homeric poems and Shakespeare, 3, 68.
Horatio and Hamlet, 407-9
Horatio de Vere, 362, 407-9.
Horsemanship, 206-7; and "The Tempest," 444.
Hostility between de Vere and Burleigh, 217-41.
Howard, Charles, Earl of Nottingham, 312-13.
Human nature and "The Tempest," 445-6.
Hume, Martin, on The Great Lord Burleigh, 172, 302; on Mary Queen of Scots, 302; on Burleigh's maxims, 401.
Hunsdon, Lord, 189.
Hunter on "The Tempest," 429, 431.Ignoto, 46.
Importance of authorship, 1.
Income of W. Shakspere, 24, 56-7, 360-1.
Incredibilities of Stratfordian views, 48.
Indebtedness to Sir G. Greenwood's work, 6, 7; to Sir Sidney Lee's work, 111; to Halliwell-Phillipps's work, 15-6; to Frank Harris's work, 254-5.
Interpolation of Chapter on Stratfordian view, 8.
Interrogatives, Shakespeare's and de Vere's use of, 153-4.
Inventor of the Shakespeare sonnet, 386.
Issue of Shakespearean dramas, 310-21.
Italy, Edward de Vere in, 116, 208, 223-27; and Shakespeare, 96-7.Jaggard, "Passionate Pilgrim," 144.
James I, Coronation of, 189; and Fortinbras, 411.
Jonson, Ben, and the first folio, 27-8; not mentioned in Shakspere's Will, 27; son of. 29; visit to Shakspere, 28-30; verse in first folio, 38.
Jonson, Ben, 51, 65 66, 67; and Shakspere, 63; and "Every man out of his humour," 339.
Judith and Susanna Shakspere, 25.
Juliet and de Vere's childwife, 166, 211-2, 388.
"Julius Caesar," 255, 319, 352.Kay, Thomas, on Grafton portrait, 457-8.
Kemp, William, 57
"'King John," 352.
"King Lear," 253, 301, 317, 347-8, 352, 356.
Knight on date of "Tempest," 431.
Knyvet, Sir Thomas, antagonism with Oxford, 251.Laertes and Polonius, 401; and Thomas Cecil, 403-4.
Lancastrian sympathies of Shakespeare, 95-6; of Oxford, 118.
Lang, Andrew, and Shakespeare's rapid roduction, 322-3.
Lark, The morning, 165.
Last years of William Shakspere at Stratford, 21-5.
Later plays of Shakespeare, 345-51, 365-6, 454.
Latin, Shakespeare's knowledge of, 14, 201; and Oxford's education, 201-2.
Law and Shakespeare, 14, 92; and Oxford, 197-8.
Lawsuit of Shakspere re Asbies, 44.
Lee, Sir Sidney, Heminge and Condell responsibility for first folio, 27, 358-9; on publication of Shakespeare's dramas, 39, 49, 316, 353, 356; on Shakspere's business transactions, 44; on Shakspere as actor, 54; Life of William Shakespeare, 70; on Shakespeare and drama, 89; on Shakspere and money matters, 98; on Edward de Vere, 111-2, 124; on Jaggard. 144; on Will and Desire, 149; on Arthur Golding's "Ovid." 195; on Shakespeare's French and Latin 201; on Sidney's plagiarism, 250; on Shakespeare and Lyly, 268-9; on Shakespeare's later plays, 345, 349-50; on Pericles, 356; on the Sonnets, King Lear, Troilus and Cressida, 356; on proposed marriage of Southampton, 378-9; on mummery in "Cymbeline," 451.
Lefranc, Prof., 11-2; on William Stanley, 381.
Letter, only, addressed to Shakspere, 42; to Bedingfield, Edward de Vere's, 132-4.
Letters of Edward de Vere, 198-9, 265, 313.
Letters by W. Shakspere, absence of, 23, 52-3
Licenses, actors', Shakespeare in, 44-5.
Life, early, of W. Shakspere, 16-21; of Oxford, 190-209.
Lily and Damask rose, 141-4.
Literary, experts and Shakespeare problem, 71-2; interests of Shakespeare 86-8; transition and Edward de Vere, 129; style of Edward de Vere, 130-1; form, a peculiar, 156; quality of "The Tempest," 433-4; men in the Savoy, 269-70.
Literature, Cambridge History of, 121, 141; and stage plays, 323-7.
Living, William Shakspere's rate of, 22.
Loftie's memorials of the Savoy, 269-70.
London, residence in, of Shakspere, 39-40; residence in, of Oxford, 188, 222-4; Oxford's company of actors in, 256.
Lord Chamberlain's company of actors, 54-6; books missing, 59, 65; company and the Spanish ambassador, 61; company litigation, 61.
Loss of good name, 157-9, 173-6, 203, 235-6, 239-241, 255-6, 368, 371, 388, 409-10, 412-14, 424-5.
Love's contrariness 147-8; penalties, 149-50; Labour's Won, 235.
Love's difficulties, poems on, 145-7.
"Love's Labour's Lost" and the De Vere motto, 454-5.
"Love's Labour's Lost," 75, 136, 143, 168, 200, 242-251, 259, 268, 276, 315, 322, 351, 354, 363, 391, 421.
Lovers, Shakespeare's, 439-40.
"Lucrece," 142-3, 153-6, 252, 255, 316, 322, 351; dedication of, 374.
Lyly, 122, 182; and the Oxford Boys, 265-9; and maxims of Polonius, 402; and Shakespeare's works, 268-282; and Oxford, 270-72, 281-2.
Lyly's "Campaspe ,"276-7, 282; "Whip for an ape," 277; "Endymion," 269, 280; "Gallathea," 282; "Love's metamorphosis," 282; "Woman in the Moon," 283; lyrics, 269, 276-82; works, Mr. R. W. Bond, M.A., on, 269-78; Euphues, 273.
Lyric poetry of Shakespeare, 90-1; of Edward & Vere, 121-2, 134.
Lyrics of Lyly, 269.Macaulay on Shakespeare's religion, 102; on Burleigh, 240-1, 400.
"Macbeth," 317, 347-9, 352, 365.
Magic in The Tempest." 441-2.
Maledictions, closing, by Shakespeare and de Vere, 155.
"Man Shakespeare" (see Harris).
Manners, Roger, 175, 367, 377.
Manuscripts of Shakespeare, 26.
Manzoni, 76.
Marlowe, 268.
Marriage, first, of Oxford 210; second, of Oxford, 309, 383-4; of Southampton, proposed, 378-82; of Oxford's mother, 399-400.
Mary Queen of Scots, trial and execution of, 295, 302-3.
Masterpieces and maturity, 75-8.
Material of research not new, 6; supplied by Halliwell-Phillipps, 13.
Maturity and masterpieces, 75-8.
Maxims of Burleigh, 401-2.
"Measure for Measure," 220, 319, 352.
Melancholy of Shakespeare and de Vere, 157.
Mental distraction of Shakespeare and de Vere, 151-2.
"Merchant of Venice," bearing of upon authorship, 2, 96-7, 157, 189, 226, 302, 309, 319, 352, 354, 363, 397; passage on music, 444-5.
Meres, Francis, 51, 112, 124, 266, 314.
"Merry Wives of Windsor," 280, 319, 352, 354, 364; and the Boar's Head tavern, 338-9.
Method of exposition, 4-5; of solution of Shakespeare problem, 79-83, 420-1, 458.
Method, business, of Shakespeare, 2.
Mézières on Lyly and Shakespeare, 271.
Middle period of W. Shakspere, 39-67.
"Midsummer Night's Dream," 136, 146-8, 259-61, 268, 313, 319, 352, 354, 363; and "The Tempest," 430.
Milton, 75.
Miranda, 439-40.
Missing, signatures of Shakspere, 33; books of the Lord Chamberlain, 59, 65.
Modern revolution, Shakespeare and, 409-12; times, Shakespeare and, 425-27.
Molière, 76, 177.
Money, and Shakespeare, 2, 98-9; matters and Edward de Vere, 115; difficulties of Edward de Vere, 308-9.
Morant, History of Essex, 172.
Mother of Edward de Vere, 193-4, 399; Hamlet, 394, 398.
Motives for anonymity, 46-7; for concealment, 173-7.
Motto of the De Veres, 455.
"Much Ado about Nothing," 140, 319, 352, 354, 363.
Munday, Anthony, 208, 223, 323, 423; Oxford and Shakespeare, 257-61, 283.
Municipal archives and Shakspere, 54-5, 65.
Music and Shakespeare, 97-8.
Music passage in "Merchant of Venice," 444-5; passage in "The Tempest," 444.
Musical taste of Edward de Vere, 115.
"Mystery," Shakespeare, 68-70.
Mysteriousness of Shakespeare, 84-5.New Place, purchase of, 42-3.
Non-literary occupations of Shakspere, 24.
Norfolk, Duke of, 233.
North's Plutarch "Coriolanus," 350.
Note, preliminary, xi.
Notices, contemporary, of Shakespeare, 49-51.Obituary notice, none of Shakspere, 37.
Occupations of Shakspere, 22-5.
Ophelia and Hamlet, 394-7, 455; and Lady Oxford, 405.
"Othello," 139, 159, 316, 319, 342, 352, 353, 383, 421; and de Vere, 227-30, 388.
"Outlines," by Halliwell-Phillipps, 15.
Ovid, 138.
Oxford, Earls of, 181-193 (see Vere); and the Wars of the Roses, 185-7; Shakespeare and, 186; and Great Chamberlains, 188-9.
Oxford Boys, The, 170; and Lyly, 265-69.
Oxford, first Countess of (see Anne Cecil); second Countess of (see Elizabeth Trentham).Parents of William Shakspere, 16.
Passage, opening, of Shakspere's will, 30-1.
Passionate Pilgrim," The, 144.
Peculiar literary form, 156-7.
Penmanship of Shakspere, 20, 31; of Burns, 20; of Edward de Vere, 323.
Penzance, Lord, 11, 13.
"Pericles," 78, 317, 352, 354, 355, 356.
Period, middle, of W. Shakspere 39-67.
Periods, three, of Shakspere's life, 21, 35-7; of Shakespearean publication, 351-9
Petrarch, Sidney's plagiarism from, 250.
Petrarcan sonnet and Shakespeare's, 386.
Phillipps, Augustine, 58, 61.
Philosophy, opportunist, of Polonius, 401-3; of "The Tempest," 433-7.
"Phoenix' Nest, The," 211.
Pity, desire for, 161.
Plagiarism of Sir P. Sidney, 249-50
Plays, Ben Jonson's, Shakspere in, 60-1; as poetry, 326-8; later plays of Shakespeare, 345-51, 365-6, 454.
Poem on Fortune and Nature, 160-1.
Poems, of Shakespeare, publication of, 43; of Lord Vaux, 136-7; on Love's difficulties, 145-9; by Edward de Vere, 108-9, 135-170, 232-3, 237, 246, 260, 263, 264, 289, 312, 383, 387.
Poetry, History of W. J. Courthope, 121; Elizabethan, 128; and stage plays, 327.
Politicians and Shakespeare, 301-2; and Hamlet, 410;
Polonius, 213, 214, 218, 222, 397; and Burleigh, 400-6.
Portrait, of Oxford, 456; Droeshout, of Shakespeare, 455-6; Grafton, of Shakespeare, 457.
Portland, Duke of, and Oxford's portrait, 456.
Posthumous arguments, summarized, 365-6; and Prof. Sir Walter Raleigh, 454.
Preliminary note, xi.
Preparatory movement towards the Discovery, 7.
Preservation of secret, 47-8.
Prince Hal at Boar's Head, Eastcheap: 337-8; his escapades and Oxford, 339-43.
Problem, the Shakespeare, 69, 78; solution required, 70-1; defined, 71.
Problem not purely literary, 4.
Provincial tours of Shakespeare's company, 54-6.
Publication of Shakespeare's dramas, and W. Shakspere, 39; dates of, 351-8.
Purchase of New Place, 42-3.
Purpose of the Thesis, 3.
Puttenham, 112, 124, 266, 270.Quarrel with Sidney, Oxford's, 247-8.
Queen's company of actors, 341.Raleigh, Sir Walter (Professor) on Stratfordian traditions, 21; on Shakspere's London life, 40; and "English Men of Letters," 69; on A. Golding's "Ovid," 196; on Shakespeare's later plays, 454.
Ralegh, Sir Walter, 53, 219-20, 254; and execution of Essex, 331.
Raynolds, 28.
Rate of living of William Shakspere, 22.
Realism in Oxford and Shakespeare, 128-31, 138, 435.
Records, the, of Edward de Vere, 172-81.
Religion, Shakespeare's, 102; Oxford's, 119-20; Hamlet's, 409-10.
Reputation, loss of, 157-9; of Edward de Vere 172-3 (see Loss of Good Name).
Research, material of, not new, 6; method of, 79-83, 420-22, 458.
Residence at Stratford of W. Shakspere, 25; at Southwark of Shakspere, 42; at Bishopsgate, 40, 43.
Residences of Edward de Vere, 188, 310, 312.
Retirement of Edward de Vere, 307-314.
"Return from Parnassus," 51.
Revolution, Shakespeare and Modern, 409-12.
"Richard II" and the Essex rebellion, 329, 363.
"Richard II," 61, 95, 136, 157, 182-183, 206-207, 319, 338, 351.
"Richard III," 96, 185-188, 319, 351-3.
Rogers, Philip, 44.
Romeo and Juliet, 99, 136, 159, 166, 212, 251, 319, 351; the echo in, 163-164.
Romeo and Juliet and de Vere's poetry compared, 164, 387.
Romeo and Juliet, The morning lark, 165; sonnets in, 387.
Ronsard, Sidney's plagiarism from, 250.
Roles, dramatic, of Shakspere, 62.
Royal Ward, Edward de Vere, as, 116.
Ruskin on Shakespeare, Burns and Dickens, 17; on Shakespeare's women, 100.Sadler, Hamlett, 28.
Savoy, Loftie's memorials of, 269-70; Oxford and literary men in the, 269-70.
Scepticism regarding Stratfordian view, 11.
Scepticism (religious) of Shakespeare 103; of Edward de Vere, 119-120; of Hamlet, 409-10.
School, free, at Stratford, William Shakspere, and, 16.
Scott, 17, 76, 299, 322.
Sea, the, in Shakespeare's plays, 303-5, 441.
Search for Shakespeare, 105-113.
Second folio of Shakespeare, 277-8, 419.
Secrecy and Hamlet, 48.
Secret, preservation of, 48, 49.
Secret occupations of Shakespeare, 179; of Oxford, 314.
"Sejanus," Jonson's, 60.
Sensational discovery, 233-35, 392.
"Shakespeare," different spellings of, xi, 44-45; and travel, 2; and money, 2, 98 and business, 2; and the Homeric poems, 3; and law, 14, 92, 197-98; education of, 14; and the French language, 14; his English, 14; as the poet of the educated classes, 17-18; first folio of, 26, 62; manuscripts of, 26; Sir G. Greenwood on Jonson's view of, 38; in actors' licenses, 45; contemporary notices 49-52; Edmund Spenser's silence respecting, 53-54; and Queen Elizabeth, 54; in the Treasurer of Chamber's accounts, 57; forgeries of, 59; "Mystery," 68-70.
"Shakespeare" problem, 68-72; solution required, 70; problem and literary experts, 72; and genius, 73-76; modernity of, 77-8; method of solution of, 79-83.
Shakespeare, general features, 84-92; mysteriousness of, 84-85; eccentricity of, 85-86; Byron and Shelley, 85; his literary interests, 87-88; and the drama, 88-90; as lyric poet, 90-91; classical education, 91-92; and feudalism, 93-94; an aristocrat, 94-95; and sport, 97; Scepticism of, 102-103; and music, 97-98; on woman, 99-101; on Catholicism, 102-103; search for, 105-113.
Shakespeare and de Vere's poetry 139-70; mental distraction, 151-2; use of interrogatives, 153-4; closing maledictions, 155; melancholy, 156-7.
Shakespeare, and high birth, 183-4; duality of, 252-3; Munday and Oxford, 257-61; and Lyly, 268-82; and Spanish Armada, 303-5; dramas, issue of, 311-21, 346-59; and Queen Elizabeth's death, 334; Publication arrested, 347, 352-3; publication revived, 353-7; second folio, 277, 419; later plays, 345-51, 365-6; contemporaries of, in the plays, 242-52, 390; as Hamlet, 390-414; in his dramas, 391-3.
Shakespeare and travel, 222-4; and France, 300-1; and politicians, 301-2.
Shakespeare's, poems, publication of, 43; plays, publication of, Sir S. Lee on, 49; Lancastrian sympathies, 96; Italian interests, 96-7; sonnets, 143; French and Latin, 200-1; method of production, 314-5, 321-2.
Shakspere, William, and the authorship, 2-3, 423; his early life, 16-21; parents of, 16; and the free school at Stratford, 16; and books, 18, 30; last years at Stratford, 21-5; absence of letters by, 23, 52; residence at Stratford, 25, 39-40; his Will, 25-33; his daughter, 25; his will and the unpublished dramas, 25-26, 358-9; bequests of, to Heming and Condell, 27; missing signatures of, 33; property of, 35; no obituary notice of, 37; his middle period, 39-67; and publication of Shakespeare's dramas, 39, 320, 322; residence in London, 40, 43;only letter addressed to, 42; Greene's attack on, 42, 49, 362; residence in Southwark, 42; business of, 43-44; lawsuit re Asbies, 44; anecdote respecting, 52; contemporary silence respecting, 52-53; as actor, 54-63; his income, 24, 56-57; in Ben Jonson's plays, 60; close of career in London, 60; his dramatic roles, 62; and Ben Jonson, 27-30, 37-38, 63; and municipal archives, 55, 65; and his contemporaries, 66-67; and the Essex rebellion, 329; and Chettle, 335; his retirement, 359-60, 366; role of, 361-2.
Shakspere's day, Stratford in, 16; penmanship, 20, 31; three periods, 21, 36; rate of living, 22; non-literary occupations, 24; business transactions, 24, 25, 360-1, 364; income, 25, 56-57; books, Doctor Hall and, 30; will, opening passage, 30.
Sharp, Wm., on Shakespeare's sonnet, 386.
Shepherd, Tony, 46, 208, 257-8.
"Shepherds' Calendar," 136; and Spenser's "Willie," 287.
Shooting, 117
Shoreditch, theatres at, 310.
Sidney, Sir Philip, 53, 122, 128,145, 178, 179, 213; betrothal to Anne Cecil, 213; travels of, 220; and Boyet, 246-251; affectation of, 248; debts of, 249; plagiarism of, 250; and literary men, 275; and Spenser's, "Willie," 285-94; death and funeral of, 295-300.
Signatures of Shakspere, Sir E. Maunde Thompson on, 32-33.
Silence, contemporary respecting Shakspere, 52, 53, 64-65.
Six-lined stanza, The, 108-109, 135-36.
Solution required for the Shakespearean problem, 70; of Shakespeare problem, method of, 79-83.
Solutions, competing, 112-13, 332-3, 367-8.
Somerset, Duke of, and Burleigh, 403.
Son of Ben Jonson, 29.
Sonnets, the, 100-101, 143, 152, 158, 161, 168, 253-4, 352, 353-4, 356, 366, 421; disrepute in the, 173; autobiography in the, 173-74, 369-72; Shakespeare's secret occupations, 179; and the Earl of Southampton, 333-4, 372-4; dedication, 355-6, 374-5; closing of the series, 365, 371-2; dedication of, 374-6; the "dark lady" in, 382; and Oxford's chief interests, 384-5; the Shakespeare, inventor of, 386; Petrarcan and Shakespeare's, 386; in "Romeo and Juliet," 387-8.
Southampton, Mary Countess of, 57, 373, 399; Earl of (see Wriothesley, H.). Southwark, Shakspere's residence in, 42.
Spanish ambassador and the Lord Chamberlain's company, 61, 65; Armada, Oxford and, 304, 406; Armada, Shakespeare and, 304.
Spellings of "Shakespeare," different, xi, 44-5.
Spenser, death of, Jonson and Dean Church on, 37.
Spenser. Edmund, silence respecting Shakespeare, 53, 65, 66, 136, 243; on de Vere. 123, 275; on Burleigh, 216, 240; Sidney's plagiarism from, 249;
Shepherd's Calendar, 275, "Teares of the Muse," 284, 287, 290-1; and Edward de Vere, 291.
Spenser, Gabriel, 60.
Spenser's "Aetion." 53; "Willie," 285-91, 371, 424. "Willie" and Sidney, 286-03.
Sport, Shakespeare's interest in, 97; Oxford's interest, 117; and "The Tempest," 445.
St. John, Lord, on Oxford's marriage, 211.
Stage plays and literature, 323-8; and poems, 326-8.
Stanley, William, 175; marriage with Elizabeth de Vere. 382; Mr. Greenstreet on, 381; M. Lefranc on, 381.
State papers, calendars of, 172, 336.
Staunton on date of "The Tempest," 432.
Stopes. Mrs., on death of Burbage, 37; on Treasurer of Chamber's accounts, 58-9; on Stratfordian traditions, 62; On "Burbage and Shakespeare's stage," 199, 261; on proposed marriage of Southampton, 379.
Stratford, in Shakspere's day, 16; last years of William Shakspere at, 21-5; Grammar School, 16; Shakspere's residence in, 25, 39-40; Oxford's company of players at, 257.
Stratfordian, view, doubtfulness of, 3, 377; authorities chiefly used, 6, 7; view, chapter on, interpolation of, 8; view, scepticism regarding, 11; incredibilities, 49.
Sturley, Abraham, 44.
Summary, biographical, 415-19; of evidence, 420-22.
Susanna and Judith Shakspere, 25."Taming of the Shrew," 136, 137, 140, 202, 226, 308.
Taxes, Shakspere's payment of, 39-40.
"Tempest, The." 351, 352; examination of, 429-53; Hunter on, 429, 431; date of, 429-32; compared with other comedies, 432-3; literary quality of, 433-4; philosophy of, 433-7; and Hamlet, 435-6, 437-8; versification compared, 448-50; "dumb-shows and noise," 437-8; unShakespearean details in, 439; absence of wit in, 439-40; coarse fun in, 439-40; magic in, 441-2; and Greek unities, 442; and Feudalism, 442; and Catholicism, 442-3; and woman, 443-4; and horsemanship, 444; and sport, 445; and human nature, 445; vocabulary of, 446-7; versification of, 447-51; weak endings in, 451; passage on music in, 444-5; and 'Cymbeline" compared, 451.
Testamentary irregularities, 34.
Theatres at Shoreditch, 310, 313; at Newington Butts, 312; at Bankside, 312.
Thesis, purpose of, 3.
Thompson, Sir E. Maunde, and Shakespeare's manuscripts, 26, 261; on Shakspere's signatures. 31-3, 34.
Three periods of Shakspere's life, 21, 35-7.
"Timon of Athens," 78, 317, 349.
"Titus Andronicus," 78, 352, 355, 363.
Tours, provincial, of Shakespeare's company 54-5
Tragedy and comedy combined, 167-70, 397-8.
Tradition Stratfordian. Sir W. Raleigh on, 21; Mrs. Stopes, on, 62.
Transactions, business, of W. Shakspere, 24, 43-4.
Travel and Shakespeare, 2, 96-7, 116, 178.
Treasurer of the Chamber, accounts of 58-9, 65, 340.
Trentham, Elizabeth, Second Countess of Oxford, 308-9, 361, 364, 375.
Trentham, Thomas, 375.
Trial and execution of Mary Queen of Scots 295, 302-3.
"Troilus and Cressida," 261-2, 313, 319, 352, 356.
"Twelfth Night," 302, 319, 352.
"Two Gentlemen of Verona," 149, 223 352.
Tyrell, Sir Charles, marries Oxford' mother, 399.University, Edward de Vere at, 116.
Universities, Oxford and, 201-2.Vaux, Lord, 155; poems of, 136-7.
Venus and Adonis, 107, 143, 162, 206, 316, 322, 329, 331, 351; Echo poem in, 162; The morning lark, 165.
Vere (de), Edward, poem on women, 108-9, 110; religion, 110, 119-20, 299-300, 409-10; Sir Sidney Lee on, 111-12; Webbe on, 112; eccentricity of, 114, 252, 396-7; musical taste of, 115; and money matters, 115; as dramatist, 115, 125-6; as Royal Ward, 116; at the University, 116; in Italy, 116, 223-29; interest in sport, 117; Lancastrian sympathies of, 118, 185-6; and woman, 118, 370; as lyric poet, 121, 135; W. J Courthope on, 121-2; Edmund Spenser on, 123, 291; Grosart on, 123-4; Arthur Collins on, 125; and the literary transition, 129; literary style of, 130-1; character of, 138-9, 342-3; letter to Bedingfield, 132-4; and Queen Elizabeth, 134.
Vere (de), Edward, and Shakespeare on Desire, 145-8; mental distraction of, 151; use of interrogatives, 153-4; closing maledictions of, 155-6; melancholy of, 156-7; loss of good name, 158-60, 371.
Vere (de), Edward, lyric poetry, comparison with "Romeo and Juliet," 164-5, 387-8; "The morning lark" poetry, 165-6; his childwife, 166; records of, 172-80; reputation of, 172, 342-3 (see character); and travel, 178, 220-30; false stories of, 179-80; and Charles Arundel, 181; ancestry of, 181-90; residences of, 188, 310; father of, 190-3; mother of, 194; and Queen Elizabeth, 195, 198-9, 204; and law, 199; letter to Sir Robert Cecil, 198; and Francis Bacon, 199; education of, 195-208; and the Universities, 202; and the Cecils, 202-3; marriage of, 210; and early tragedy, 218; hostility with Burleigh, 218-41; and Hatton, 228-30; and Othello, 228-30; poems of, 108-9, 135-70, 232-3, 237, 246, 260, 263-5, 289-90, 312, 383, 387; quarrel with Sidney, 247; antagonism with Sir T. Knyvet, 251; duality of, 252-3; dramatic activities of, 256-84; servants of, at Cambridge and London, 256; servants of, at Stratford, 257; Munday and Shakespeare, 257-61; play of Agamemnon, 261; letters of, 265, 313; in the Savoy, 269-70; and Lyly, 265, 269-82; and Spenser's "Willie," 287-93; and Phillip Sidney, 295-300; and his times, 299 302; and Spanish Armada, 303-4; retirement of, 309-14; money difficulties of, 308-9; second marriage of, 309, 382-3; and issue of Shakespearean dramas, 310-28; at Bishopsgate, 313; penmanship of, 323; and execution of Essex, 332-3; and Queen Elizabeth's death, 335; and presidency of Wales, 336; at the Boar's Head tavern, 337-9; and Prince Hal's escapades, 339; death of, 342, 366; burial at Hackney, 342; and Shakespeare's Sonnets, 369; outstanding interests in Sonnets, 384; inventor of Shakespeare Sonnet, 386; Sonnet by, 387; and Hamlet, 395; and life at court, 395-6.
Vere (de), Elizabeth, 378; marriage to William Stanley, 381-2.
Vere (de), John, 12th Earl, 118; 13th Earl, 118, 186; 16th Earl, 190-3.
Vere (de), Henry, 18th Earl, 176, 330; baptism at Stoke Newington, 331.
Vere (de), Horatio, 362-3, 407, 408-9.
Vere (de), Robert, and "Richard II" 182-3.
Veres, The Fighting, 408.
Verse by Ben Jonson in first folio, 38.
Versification in "The Tempest," 447-51; in Shakespeare's last plays, 349-51.
View, doubtfulness of Stratfordian, 3.
Visit of Ben Jonson to Shakspere, 28-30.
Vocabulary of "The Tempest," 446-7.Walden (de) Library, 454-5.
Wales, presidency of, Edward de Vere and, 336.
Walsingham, pays Sidney's debts, 249, 296; and Queen Mary's execution, 295-303.
Wars of the Roses, Earls of Oxford in, 185-7.
Weak endings in Shakespeare's last plays, 349-50, 451-2; in "The Tempest," 451.
Webb, Judge, 11; on proposed marriage of Southampton, 379.
Webbe, on Edward de Vere, 112, 124.
Welbeck Abbey, Oxford's portrait at, 456.
"Were I a King," 246-7, 288.
White, Grant, on Macbeth, 348.
Whitman, Walt, Emerson on. 77.
Will (Shakspere's), 25-34; and the unpublished dramas, 25-6, 358-9.
Will, The, sonnets, 292-3, 371-2.
"Willie," Spenser's, 285-93, 371.
Wit, absence of, from "Tempest," 439-40.
Woman, Shakespeare and. 99-101; Oxford and, 118-9; in "The Tempest," 443-4.
Worcester's, Earl of company of players, 337, 341.
Wright, History of Essex, 172; and climax to "All's Well" argument, 233-34.
Wriothesley, Henry, 194, 203, 362, 366, 423; and the Essex rebellion, 328-33; and the Sonnets, 333, 372-74; and Shakspere, 361; theatrical interests, 363; proposed marriage of, 378-81.