Shakespearean drama, attitude of students and actors to, 1; costliness of modern production, 2; the simple method and the public, 8; Charles Kean's spectacular method, 9; Irving's method, 10; plays produced by Phelps, 11; reliance on the actor, 13; in Vienna, 17; advantage of its performance constantly and in variety, 23; importance of minor roles of, 115; its ethical significance, 164, 165; in France, 198 _seq._; and British prestige, 229 ----, (separate plays):-- _Antony and Cleopatra_ in Vienna, 17 _Coriolanus_, political significance of, 164; and patriotism, 178 _Cymbeline_ (III. i., 16-22), on patriotism, 183 _Hamlet_, Shakespeare's performance of the Ghost, 27; early popularity of the play, 29; Pepys's criticism of, 95, 99-101; the stage abridgment contrasted with the full text, 117-119 _Henry IV._ (Part I.), Pepys's criticism of, 97, 98 _Henry V._, meaning of first chorus, 19, 46; quoted, 157, 158, 162 _Julius Caesar_, preferred by contemporary playgoers to Jonson's _Cataline_, 31; political significance of, 164 _Lear, King_, performed at Elizabeth's Court, 36; quarto of, 36 _Love's Labour's Lost_, performed at Court, 34; title-page of the quarto, 35 _Macbeth_, Pepys's criticism of, 104-105; quoted, 156 _Measure for Measure_, ethics of, 164 _Merry Wives of Windsor, The_, title-page of the quarto, 36; Pepys's criticism of, 97 _Midsummer Night's Dream, A_, Pepys's criticism of, 96 _Othello_, Pepys's criticism of, 95, 98, 99 _Richard II._, purport of John of Gaunt's dying speech, 115-116, 181 _Romeo and Juliet_, Pepys's criticism of, 96 _Tempest, The_, Pepys's criticism of, 105-108; spectacular production of, at Restoration, 107 _Troilus and Cressida_ (II. ii., 166), on Aristotle, 144, 145; (I. iii., 101-124), on social equilibrium, 163 _Twelfth Night_, Pepys's criticism of, 96 Sheffield, John, Earl of Mulgrave and Duke of Buckinghamshire, 72 Shoreditch, the theatre in, 227 Sidney, Sir Philip, French translations of _Arcadia_, 199, 204 Somerset, the "proud" Duke of, on Shakespeare, 79 Sophocles, statue of, 233 Southampton, Earl of, and Shakespeare, 72 Southwark, the Globe Theatre at, 227 Spenser, Edmund, Beeston's gossip about, 67 Steevens, George, character of, 191; a forged letter by, 192, 193 Sterne, Laurence, in France, 200 Stevenson, R.L., his imaginary discovery of lost works by Shakespeare, 25 Stratford-on-Avon, Shakespeare's tomb at, 50; Betterton at, 73; visitors from Oxford to, 75, 76, 77; Shakespeare tradition at, 75, 76; Shakespeare memorials at, 218; destruction of New Place, 221; the monumental committee of, 221; sale of Shakespeare's birthplace, 222; purchase of New Place site, 223; the Birthplace Trust, 223, 224 Suckling, Sir John, his love for Shakespeare, 71 Sudermann, Hermann, 135 Tate, Nahum, his adaptations of Shakespeare, 103, 104