Music in the Elizabethan theatre, 11 Nash, Thomas, "The Isle of Dogs," 112 National theatre, a, 198 New Shakespeare Society, 94 Noblemen and the maintenance of actors, 9 Oldcastle, Sir John, 112 Opinion, change of, effect on plays, 70 Ordish, Mr. T. Fairman, 228 "Othello," 13 Othello, Nathan Field as, 21 Painter, William, 133 Perfall, Baron, 18 "Pericles," 31 Personality in acting, 219 Playgoers, intolerant, 196 Plays, Elizabethan: not divided into acts, 11; lost, 15 Pollard, Mr. A. W., 98 Pope, Alexander: as Shakespeare editor, 33; and "The Tempest," 55 Popular taste in drama, 194 Portia, 81 Portland Place for Shakespeare Memorial, 231, 232 "Prattle," 57 Prompters, 24 Puritans, the: and actors, 21; and theatres, 25 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 112 Reformation, the, 68, 69 Renaissance, the, 69 Repertory theatre, the, 193; and a national theatre, 198 Restoration, the, drama, 196 "Richard II.," political significance of, 112 Robinson, Dick, 21 Roderick, Richard, on "Henry VIII.," 91 "Romeo and Juliet": second edition of, 31; breaks in, 41; early quarto, 47, 49; Garrick's version, 53; earliest acting version, 53; Shakespeare's prologue and change in the motive, 134; stage representation, 135; story of the play, 135-155; hostilities between the two houses, 135, 156; Rosaline's character, 137; Irving acting version, 137, 141, 146, 147, 151, 153, 155; Mercutio, 138; Capulet's character, 139; Garrick's version, 140; "balcony scene," 140; Shakespeare as Benvolio, 144; the Friar, 146; Juliet as wife, 147; her part overdone on stage, 148; scenes omitted, 149; "potion scene," 150; the catastrophe, 153; Cumberland version, 155; mixed nature of the play, 155 Rose Theatre, 40, 112 Rossi, Signor, as King Lear, 177, 187 Rowe's, Nicholas, edition of Shakespeare, 33 Royalty Theatre, Soho, 205 Ruskin, John, on poets and their courage, 5 Salvini as Othello, 127, 185 Sand, George, on popular taste, 194 Scenery: disadvantages of, 7; Mr. Gordon Craig's designs, 222-227 Schiller, J. C. F. von, 194 Schlegel on "Henry VIII.," 88 "Sejanus," 41, 102