Shakespeare, William. His “artistic discretion,” 174. His knowledge and use of the Bible, 176. Compared with Addison, 18, 91. Compared with Bacon, 168, 316. Compared with Fletcher, 92. Compared with Goethe, 158, 159. Compared with Homer, 82. Compared with Ben Jonson, 15, 53, 61, 69, 80, 92, 98, 104, 114. Compared with Milton, 131, 170. His creation of the fairy world, 83. Debased by interpolations, 15, 103. The effect of his genius on the taste of the nation, 129. His epitaph in Stratford-on-Avon Church, viii, 41. First Folio edition of his _Works_, 6, 42, 45, 46, 47. History of opinion of, its division into periods, 3. The “impersonality” of his writings, 155, 174. Influence of eighteenth century research on his reputation, ix. Jubilee celebration at Boston, 1824, 142. His learning, 79, 224. _Life._ By Sidney Lee, 216. _Life._ By Nicholas Rowe, 78. His monument in Westminster Abbey, 225. As a “philosophical aristocrat,” 132 _n._ Presentation of his plays on the stage, 10-12. His _Poems_, 55. Popular fallacies relating to his reputation, 6-12. Was he influenced by posthumous fame? 137. His use of prose, 195. His reputation in the seventeenth century, 4-12; in the eighteenth century, 12-26; in the nineteenth century, 27-30. Second Folio edition of his _Works_, 7, 10, 49, 50. The “Shakespearean Show,” 1884, 204 _n._ His “solecism of speech,” 68. His statue in Central Park, New York, 186. The Stratford-on-Avon Jubilee, 25. Tercentennial celebration, 177. His time compared with that of Augustus, 72. His neglect of the unities, 17, 18. _Shakespeare, an Epistle to Mr. Garrick._ By Robert Lloyd, 25. _Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist._ By G. Moulton, 271. _Shakespeare-Bacon Controversy, The._ By Judge Willis, 326. _Shakespeare in oral Tradition._ By Sidney Lee, 5. _Shakespeare’s Bedside_, 301. _Shakespeare’s Centurie of Prayse._ By Dr. Ingleby, vii, 4. Edited by L. Toulmin Smith, viii, 5. _Shakespeare’s Garland_, 113, 116, 298, 299, 301. _Shakespeare’s Knowledge and Use of the Bible._ By Bishop Charles Wordsworth, 176. _Shakespeare Sonnets._ By Mathilde Blind, 213. _Shakspere: A Critical Study of his Mind and Art._ By Edward Dowden, 28, 190, 267. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. _Lines written among the Euganean Hills_, 235. Shenstone, William. _The Schoolmistress_, 24. Sheppard, Samuel. _In Memory of our Famous Shakespeare_, from _Epigrams_, 59. _Shooting Niagara: and After?_ By Thomas Carlyle, 264. _Short Studies on Great Subjects._ By James Anthony Froude, 167. Sloane Manuscripts, Allusions to Shakespeare in, 5. Smart, Christopher. _Prologue to Othello_, 96.