Marlowe, Christopher (1-14), influence on Shelley, 1, 13; on Milton, 5; on Nathaniel Lee, 7; compared with Shakespeare, 7, 194, 208; comic spirit, 10, 11; translations of Ovid and Lucan, 12; lyric quality, 13; place in literature, 14; compared with Webster, 33, 58, 59; impostures of, 85; Bullen's edition, 151; Middleton compared with, 172; model for others, 178; first great poet of England, 189; treatment of couplet, 205, 260. Marmion, 222. Marston, John, (112-149), tragic spirit compared with Webster's, 17, 30, 59; collaboration with Webster, 22; relations with Jonson, 112, 113, 127; tragic style compared with Webster, Tourneur, Shakespeare, 114; characters, 115, 116; compared with Sophocles, Tacitus, Dante, 117, 119; influenced by Jonson, 122, collaboration with, 140, 141; place among poets, 144; compared, with Jonson, 146; satirist, 179; compared with Tourneur, 276, 277, 281; ridiculed by Jonson, 276. Mary Tudor, 207. "Massacre at Paris" (Marlowe), 7, 10. Massinger, 30, 87, 90, 194, 237. "Match at Midnight, A" (Rowley), 192. "Match Me in London" (Dekker), 84. "Mayor of Queenborough, The," 167. "Medea," the, 37. Meltun Society, 157 _note_. "Menaechmi, The," 217. "Michaelmas Term" (Middleton), 158. "Microcynicon," 179. Middleton, Thomas (150-187), place as tragic poet, 30; associated with Dekker, 75-77, 87; poet of city, 85; comic style, 158; associated with Rowley and Dekker, 161; "The Widow," 165; allegory compared with Dekker's, 168; obligations to Shakespeare, 172; compared with Chaucer, 177; a second poet by same name (?), 180; collaboration with Rowley, 182; comedy, 190; _cf._ "Meddletun," 237. "Midsummer Night's Dream," compared with "Old Fortunatus," 65. Millais, 203. Milton, indebted to Marlowe, 5, 38, 50, 95, 150; indebted to Middleton, 157, 170, 236, 199; indebted to Heywood, 217. Minto, on Chapman, 260. "Miseries of Enforced Marriage, The," 246. "Misery of a Prison and a Prisoner, The" (Dekker), 99. Molière, Dekker compared with, 107: Marston, 132, 133, 211; Heywood, 211, 216, 222. "Monsieur d'Olive" (Chapman), 259. Morality plays. 156. "More Dissemblers Besides Women" (Middleton), 164. Morris, William, 215, 223. "Mountebank's Masque," 138. Musaeus, 256. "Myrrha" (Barkstead), 136. Nash, Thomas, 8, 100, 180, 188. National characteristics on Heywood, Sidney, etc., 254. Nelson, 254. Newman, J.H., 89, 90. "News from Hell," 95. "New Wonder, A, etc." (Rowley), 191. "Northward Ho!", 20. "No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's" (Middleton), 165. "Odyssey," Chapman's translation, 256. "Old Fortunatus" (Webster), 21, 30; "Midsummer Night's Dream" compared with, 65. "Old Law, The" (Rowley), 167. _Old Plays_, Dilke's. 154, 195. One-part plays, 237. "Othello," 16, 31. Ovid, Marlowe's translations, 12; source for Heywood, 218; Dryden's translations, 221. Oxford, 255. Painter, William, 58.