Bacon, Francis, philosophical method of, 143; on memorial monuments in _New Atlantis_, 234, 235 Bacon, Sir Nicholas, his fame in France, 204 Badger, Mr Richard, proposal for a Shakespeare monument, 219 Bannister, John, his music for _The Tempest_, 107 Barker, Mr Granville, as Richard II., 13 _n._ Basse, William, his tribute to Shakespeare, 50 Beeston, Christopher, Elizabethan actor, 64 Beeston, William the first, patron of Nash, 64 Beeston, William the second, his theatrical career, 65, 66; his gossip about Shakespeare, 65; his conversation, 66; Aubrey's account of, 67 Beethoven, statue of, 233 Beljame, Alexandre, on English literature, 201; death of, 201 Benson, Mr F.R., his company of actors, 111; his principles, 112 _seq._; list of Shakespeare plays produced by, 114 _n._; his production of _Hamlet_ unabridged, 116-118; his training of actors, 119; his services to Shakespeare, 121; his pupils on the London stage, 130 Berkenhout, John, 195 Betterton, Thomas, at Stratford-on-Avon, 73; contributes to Rowe's biography, 73, 76; his rendering of Hamlet, 101, 102 Biography, art of, in England, 51 Bishop, Sir William, 76 Bishopsgate (London), Shakespeare at, 226, 227 Blackfriars, Shakespeare's house at, 227 Boileau, and English literature, 199 Bolingbroke, in _Richard II._, patriotism of, 173 Bowman, John, actor, 69; at Stratford-on-Avon, 76 Boys in women's parts in Elizabethan theatres, 19, 41; abandonment of the practice, 43; superseded by women, 88, 89 Buchanan, George, his plays, 204 Burbage, Richard, Shakespeare's friend and fellow-actor, 33 Burns, Mr John, 131 Burns, Robert, French study of, 201; monument to, 233, 237 Byron, Lord, on Petrarch at Arqua, 225; statue of, 237 Calderon, 136; monument to, 233 Calvert, Charles A., his Shakespearean productions at Manchester, 12 _n._ Camoens, monument to, 233 Capital and the literary drama, 124, 126, 127, 128 Carlyle, Thomas, statue of, 237 _Cataline's Conspiracy_, by Ben Jonson, 30, 31 Ceremony, Shakespeare on, 157, 158 Chantrey, Sir Francis, and commemoration of Shakespeare, 216 Charlecote, Shakespeare's escapade at, 76 Chaucer, Geoffrey, French influence on, 199 Clarendon, Lord, on Shakespeare, 78 Cockpit theatre, Drury Lane, 65, 86 Cockpit theatre, Whitehall, 87 and _n._ Coleman, John, on the subsidised theatre, 132 Coleridge S.T., and commemoration of Shakespeare, 216 Congreve, William, 91 Coriolanus and the patriotic instinct, 178, 179 Cromwell, Oliver, statue of, 237 Davenant, Robert, Sir William's brother, 70 D'Avenant, Sir William: theatrical manager, 67; his youth at Oxford, 69; relations in boyhood with Shakespeare, 70; elegy on Shakespeare, 71; champion of Shakespeare's fame, 71; his story of Shakespeare and Southampton, 72; his influence on Betterton, 72; manager of the Duke's Company, 87 _n._; as dramatist, 91; his adaptations of Shakespeare, 103-105, 106 _n._, 108