Shadwell’s Lancashire Witches, [420]; founds his dramatic style on Jonson, [582].
Shakespeare, patronized by James I., [679]; indebted to Sidney’s Arcadia for some poetic passages,452; his early dramas, [518]—[523]; his predecessors and contemporaries, [514]—[528]; vicissitudes of his fame, [529]; his use of the plots, &c., of predecessors, [530]—[532]; incidents of his early life, [533], [534]; his dramatic career, [534]—[538]; his poems, [539]—[540]; his treatment by contemporaries, [541]; popularity with the public, [542]; careless of his own fame, [543]; first edition of his works, [545]; editions by Rowe, [557]; Pope, [558]; Theobald, [559]; Sir T. Hanmer, [561]; Warburton, [563]; Johnson, ib.; the Variorum edition, [567]; annotations by Rymer, [553]; Farmer, [567]; Reed, Steevens, Malone, [568]; Warton, [569]; Voltaire, [566].
Ship, the, of Fools, [285]—[288].
Sidney, Sir P., and his Arcadia, [451]—[453]; his chivalric manners, [454]; his appreciation of the female character, [455]; his great work published by his sister, [458]; the general regret at his death, [459]; critical injustice to Sidney from Horace Walpole, [451]—[458].
Skelton the poet, [276]—[284].
Skulls as drinking cups, [32], n.
Smith, Sir T., attempts to correct orthography, [383].
Sorcery, and its believers, [414].
Spanish Dramatic History, [526].