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
John of Gaunt in _Richard II._, dying speech of, 115-116, 181
Johnson, Dr, on false patriots, 171
Jonson, Ben, testimony to Shakespeare's popularity, 29;
his classical tragedies compared with Shakespeare's, 30;
his elegy on Shakespeare, 50, 232;
his dialectical powers contrasted with Shakespeare's, 53;
on the players' praise of Shakespeare, 60;
his son, Shakespeare's godson, 61;
Beeston's talk of, 67;
popularity of his plays at Restoration, 91, 92
Jusserand, Jules, on English literature, 202;
his _Shakespeare in France_, 203
Kean, Charles, experience of Shakespearean spectacle, 9;
Macready's criticism of, 14
Kemp, William, Elizabethan comedian, 33
Killigrew, Tom, manager of the King's Company, 87 _n._
Kingship, Shakespeare on, 155-160, 180-182
Kirkman, Francis, his account of William Beeston the second, 66
Lacy, John, actor, 67;
acquaintance with Ben Jonson, 68;
adaptation of _The Taming of the Shrew_, 108
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, and commemoration of Shakespeare, 216
Lessing, 136
Lincoln's Inn Fields (Portugal Row), Theatre at, 86, 87 and _n._
Literary drama, on the modern stage, 123;
antagonism of capital to, 126-128
_Lives of the Poets_ of the seventeenth century, 54
Locke, John, in France, 200
Locke, Matthew, Shakespearean music of, 105, 108
Logic, Shakespeare on, 146
London, Shakespeare's association with, 226 _seq._;
statues in, 236, 237;
proposed sites for Shakespeare monument in, 239
London County Council, and the theatre, 130, 131;
and subsidised enlightenment, 133;
and Shakespeare monument, 219
London Trades Council and the theatre, 132
Lowin, John, original actor in Shakespeare's plays, 61;
coached by Shakespeare in part of _Hamlet_, 63, 71, 72
Lycurgus, Attic orator, 233
Macready, W.C., his criticism of spectacle, 14
Marlowe, Christopher, Shakespeare's senior by two months, 37, 193
Massinger, Philip, his _Bondman_, 92, 93
Mathews, Charles, on a monument of Shakespeare, 214
Mercy, Shakespeare on, 152, 153
Metaphysics, Shakespeare on, 146-148
Mill, John Stuart, statue of, 237
Milton, his elegy on Shakespeare, 51, 231
Moliere, accepted methods of producing his plays, 16, 18, 136
Montaigne, Michel de, and Anthony Bacon, 203;
his essays in English, 204
Moore, Thomas, and commemoration of Shakespeare, 216
More, Sir Thomas, his _Utopia_ in France, 204
Municipal theatre, its justification, 122;
in Europe, 134
Musset, Alfred de, on Shakespeare, 206
Nash, John, and commemoration of Shakespeare, 216
Nash, Thomas, 64
Nodier, Charles, his _Pensees de Shakespeare_, 211-213
Norwegian drama, 129
Obedience, the duty of, 161
Oldys, William, antiquary, 68, 69
Opera in England, 131
Oxford, the Crown Inn at, 69;
Shakespeare at, 70;
visitors from, to Stratford, 75-77
Patriotism, Shakespeare on, 170 _seq._
Peele, George, alleged letter of, 189 _seq._
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