"John Bull's Other Island," 200 Johnson, Dr.: on Shakespeare, 36, 38; and continuous performance, 43; on "Henry VIII.," 88; and "She Stoops to Conquer," 197 Jones, Inigo, 18, 96, 141 Jonson, Ben: and double story in plays, 14; and simplicity of representation, 17; and a good tragedy, 19; a "poet with principle," 23; and Latin comedy, 40; and "Sejanus," 41, 102; "Poetaster," allusion to Shakespeare in, 100 _et seq._; relations with Shakespeare, 102; "Every Man Out of His Humour," 112; and Inigo Jones's scenery, 141 "Julius Caesar," 13 Kean, Edmund: delivery of, 58; and Hamlet, 164 Kemp the clown, 21, 22, 24 "King John," 39 "King Lear": breaks in, 41; Steevens's comment on dialogue, 56; Rossi's rendering, 177; its period, 178; its modern production, 179; anachronisms and costumes, 179; excisions, 181, 184; Edmund's speech, 181; the putting out of Gloucester's eyes, 182; sympathy with poor, 183; its modern dramatic presentation, 185-189; misrepresentation of Lear, 186; and of Edmund, 188 "King's Company, The," 9, 27 Knight, Charles, 94 Lady Macduff, 61 Lamb, Charles, 196 Lee, Sir Sidney, 205 "Leicester's, Lord, Servants," 9 Lessing, G. E., 155, 194 Lewis, L. D., 196 Lillo, George, 196 London Corporation and theatres, 25 London County Council and Shakespeare Memorial, 228, 229 London life in Elizabethan drama, 15 London Shakespeare Commemoration League, 229 London theatres, seventeenth century, 13 Lord Chamberlain's company, 9, 12 Lorkin, Thomas, 86 "Love's Labour's Lost," 42 Lucas, Mr. Seymour, R.A., 232 "Lucrece," 113 Lyceum Theatre, 71 "Macbeth": perfect in design, 13; breaks in, 41; Bell's criticism of, 52; Garrick's version of, 52; when written, 68; Mr. Gordon Craig's designs for, 224-227 Macbeth, Lady: the character of, 61 _et seq._; Mrs. Siddons as, 61; her femininity, 65; the character misunderstood, 68; part overacted, 69 Macready, W. C., and the ladder, 43; Charlotte Bronte on his acting, 176 "Madras House, The," 201 Maeterlinck, M., 202 Malone, Edmund, as Shakespeare editor, 37 Marlowe, Christopher: "Barabas," 72, 80, 84; Jews and Christians in "Rich Jew of Malta" and "Merchant of Venice," 78; "Faustus," 80; and Christianity, 79-81 "Marrying of Ann Leete, The," 202 Marston, John, 103 Mary Stuart, 62, 63 Massinger, Philip, 93 Maugham, W. S., 195 "Measure for Measure," revival of, 205 "Merchant of Venice": breaks in, 42, 43; the early quarto, 47; story of the play, 123-133; the Prince of Morocco, 126; the Prince of Arragon, 128; the trial scene as now acted, 131. _See also_ Shylock "Misalliance," Shaw's, 199 Moneylenders in plays, 75 Mozart, W. A., 194, 200 Munich, Court Theatre, 177