Shakespeare and the Modern Stage; with Other EssaysLee, Sidney, Sir
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Shakespeare and the Modern Stage; with Other Essays
Lee, Sidney, Sir
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history
Deschamps, Eustace, on Chaucer, 199
Desportes, Philippe, and Elizabethan poetry, 199
D'Israeli, Isaac, on Steevens's forgery, 195
Downs, John, prompter and stage annalist, 63
Dramatic societies in England, 129
Dress, Shakespeare on extravagant, 185
Drunkenness, Shakespeare on, 185
Dryden, John, on William Beeston, 66;
as dramatist, 91;
his share in the adaptation of _The Tempest_, 105
Du Bellay, Joachim, and Elizabethan poetry, 199
Ducis, Jean Francois, his translation of Shakespeare, 207, 208
Dugdale, Sir William, 74
Dumas _pere_, on Shakespeare, 206;
his translation of _Hamlet_, 209-211
Dyce, Alexander, on Steevens's forgery, 196
Elizabeth, Queen, summons Shakespeare to Greenwich, 31
Elizabethan Stage Society, 13 _n._
England, Shakespeare on history of, 180
Ennius on poetic fame, 232
Etherege, Sir George, 91
Eton College, debate about Shakespeare at, 78
Euripides, statue of, 233
Evelyn, John, on _Hamlet_, 90
Farquhar, George, 91
Faulconbridge (in _King John_), patriotism of, 174
Fletcher, John, his _Custom of the Country_, 92, 93;
its obscenity, 93
Folio, the First [of Shakespeare's plays], actors' co-operation in, 59;
list of actors in, 61;
rejected by Pepys, 94
Folio, the Second [of Shakespeare's plays], in France, 205
Folio, the Third [of Shakespeare's plays], purchased by Pepys, 94
Folio, the Fourth [of Shakespeare's plays], in Pepysian library, 94
France, subsidised theatres in, 131, 134;
Shakespeare in, 198 _seq._;
English actors in, 203
Freedom of the will, Shakespeare on, 166
Fuller, Thomas, his _Worthies of England_, 52;
notice of Shakespeare, 52
Garrick, David, his stage costume, 18
_Gentleman's Magazine_ of 1801, 195
George IV. and commemoration of Shakespeare, 215
German drama, 129, 135, 136
Germany, subsidised theatres in, 131, 134
Goethe, 136;
monument to, 233
Greene, Robert, French translation of romance by, 199
Grendon, tradition of Shakespeare at, 77
"Grenovicus" contributes to _Gentleman's Magazine_, 195
Hales, John, of Eton, 78
Hall, Bishop Joseph, French translation of works by, 199
Hart, Charles, Shakespeare's grand-nephew, actor, 59, 68
Hauptmann, Gerhart, 135
Henry V., on kingly ceremony, 157;
patriotism of, 175, 182
Heywood, Thomas, projected _Lives of the Poets_, 54 _n._;
affection for Shakespeare, 65;
his _Apology for Actors_, 65
History plays of Shakespeare, character of, 180
Hobbes, Thomas, in France, 200
Howe, Josias, on a Shakespeare tradition, 77
Hugo, Victor, on Shakespeare, 206;
on Shakespeare memorial, 241
Imagination in the audience, 22, 47, 48
Ingres, Jean, his painting of Shakespeare, 206
Irving, Sir Henry, experience of Shakespearean spectacle, 10;
and the literary drama, 123;
and the municipal theatre, 132;
and French drama, 200
Irving, Washington, and commemoration of Shakespeare, 216
James I., his alleged letter to Shakespeare, 72
James II., statue of, 236
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