Stage: the Elizabethan, and its contemporary dramatists, 3; ignorance concerning the relations between the theatre and the dramatists, 14; quality of the performances, 5; colour, 6; scenes, 6; disadvantages of scenery, 7; construction of theatres, 10; quality of the plays, 13; performance continuous, 14, 43; Flecknoe on changes after Shakespeare, 16; length of performance, 17; opposition, 25; educational value, 27; "business" on, 50; movement on, 95. _See also_ Theatre Stage: the modern, and Shakespeare, 119; how plays are now produced, 120 "Stage Player's Complaint," 57 Stationers' Register, the, 15, 98 Steevens, George: as Shakespeare editor, 36; comment on "King Lear," 56 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 18 "Stranger, The," 196 Students' theatre, a, 216 Swinburne, A. C., on "Henry VIII.," 93 Symonds, J. A., on the Elizabethan theatre, 7, 9 "Tempest, The," 41; the Gonzalo dialogue, 55 Tennyson, Lord, on the authorship of "Henry VIII.," 92 Theatre, National: as Shakespeare Memorial, 230, 232-240; its proposed management, 235-240 Theatre, the repertory, 193; and a national theatre, 198; a students' theatre, 216 Theatres: Elizabethan, construction and small size of, 10; musical interludes, 11, 40; length of performance, 17; the City Corporation and, 25; the Puritans and, 25. _See also_ Stage Theatres, English and Continental, 217 Tragedy, English, and the English stage, 176, 177 Tree Sir Herbert, 214, 231 "Troilus and Cressida": early quarto, 47; the mystery of, 98, 115, 116; in the first folio, 99; Jonson and, 100 _et seq._; Chapman and, 100 _et seq._; dislike of the play, 106; its satire, 107; and the Earl of Essex, 108-112; when written, 113, 114; Troy story in, 113; the word used in, 114; Globe players' rights in, 115 Troy story in "Troilus and Cressida," and in "Lucrece," 113 "Twelfth Night": constructive art in, 39; revival of, 205; mistakes in, at Earl's Court, 210-213; traditional errors, 214 "Two Gentlemen of Verona," 40 Ulrici on "Henry VIII.," 90 Valentine, 39 Venetian theatre in 1605, 12 Viola, 39 "Voysey Inheritance, The," 201 Ward, Dr. A. W., 73, 106 Webster, John, 11 Women players, effect of their introduction, 61 Women's parts, boy actors for, 9 Wotton, Sir Henry, 86 Wycherley, William, 196 THE END BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD Footnotes: [1] Part of a paper read before the Elizabethan Literary Society, November 1, 1893. [2] _The National Review_, August, 1890. [3] See "The Topical Side of the Elizabethan Drama" in the Transactions of the New Shakspere Society, 1887. [4] The first three articles of this chapter appeared in _The Nation_, March, 1912. [5] Sir Sidney Lee, "Dictionary of National Biography." [6] See quotation on p. 21.