Shakespeare's Roman plays and their background

by Sir Mungo William MacCallum

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INDEX

• Acciaiuoli, additional lives to Plutarch, note [144].
• Agrippa (in Antony and Cleopatra), [346].
• Alexander (Sir William) [Earl of Stirling],
• Julius Caesar, [35];
• Julius Caesar compared with Garnier, [39];
• Julius Caesar and Shakespeare, [207].
• Alexas (Lord), (in Antony and Cleopatra), [348].
• Ammonius (the Philosopher), [95].
• Amyot (Jacques), [119-141];
• birth, etc., [120];
• translation of Heliodorus, [121];
• of Diodorus Siculus, [123];
• and Longus, [124];
• tutor to Dukes of Orleans and Anjou, [124];
• Grand Almoner of France, [124];
• Bishop of Auxerre, [125];
• Commander of Order of Holy Ghost, [126];
• various disasters, [126];
• Projet de l’Eloquence Royal, [128];
• modifications of Plutarch, [138].
• Antony and Cleopatra, [300-453];
• date of composition, [300];
• and Appian, [648-652].
• Antony and Cleopatra (the two characters), [439-453].
• Apius and Virginia, [2-10], [70].
• Appian and Antony and Cleopatra, [648-652];
• and Julius Caesar, [644-647].
• Appian’s Chronicle, translated by Bynniman, note [644];
• Sextus Pompeius, [333].
• Aufidius (Tullus), [in Coriolanus], [501], [584].
• B. (R.), [2], [9].
• Baker, Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist, note [267].
• Bernage (S.), on Julius Caesar and Cornélie, [60].
• Berners (Lord), part translation, Guevara (Antonio de),
• Marco Aurelio con el Relox de Principes, [148].
• Bidpai, Fables of, [150].
• Blignières (Auguste de), Essai on Amyot, [119].
• Blount (Edward), a printer, [300].
• Boas (F. S.), Shakespeare and his Predecessors, [426].
• Boner (Hieronymus), version of Plutarch’s Lives, note [132].
• Boswell (James), quotation from Plutarch, [116].
• Bower (Richard), ? author of a New Tragicall Comedie of Apius and Virginia, [2].
• Bradley (A. C.), on the Roman Plays, [80];
• Julius Caesar, note [267];
• Shakesperian atmosphere after Othello and Lear, [305];
• Antony and Cleopatra, note [312];
• Coriolanus, [462].
• Brandes (Dr. George), Julius Caesar, note [217];
• on Tieck’s Dramas (in Romantic School in Germany), note [280];
• Antony and Cleopatra, [307];
• Coriolanus, [464] and [466].
• Brandl (Professor Alois), Coriolanus, [464].
• Brandon (Samuel), Vertuous Octavia, [71].
• Brontë (Charlotte), on Coriolanus, [468], [472].
• Brooke (Lord), Antony and Cleopatra—destroyed tragedy on, [70].
• Buchanan (George), Baptistes and Jephthes, [21].
• Butler (Professor), on Appius and Virginia, note [9].
• Büttner, Zu Coriolan und seiner Quelle, [488].
• Caesar’s Fall, a play by Drayton, Webster and others, [170].
• Calvin (John), prose of, [135].
• Camden (William), Remaines, [455].
• Caractacus, Elizabethan Plays on, [1].
• Carlyle (Thomas), on the Historical Plays, [89].
• Casca (in Julius Caesar), [286].
• Cassius (in Julius Caesar), [275], [284].
• César, by Jacques Grévin, [31].
• César, by Grévin and Muretus, compared, [30-33].
• Chalmers (Alexander), on Coriolanus, [460].
• Chapman (George), French plays, [77];
• Bussy d’Ambois, [303];
• The Conspiracie and The Tragedie of Charles, Duke of Byron, [464].
• Charmian (in Antony and Cleopatra), [347].
• Chaucer (Geoffrey), on Brutus and Cassius, [27];
• Legend of Good Women, [308].
• Chenier (Marie-Joseph), Brutus et Cassius, Les Derniers Romains, [27].
• Cicero (in Julius Caesar), [287].
• Cinthio (Giovanni Battista Giroldi), play on Cleopatra, note [310].
• Cleopatra (in Antony and Cleopatra), [413-438];
• relations between Antony and Cleopatra, [439-453];
• “One Word,” [653-656].
• Cleopatra, by Samuel Daniel, [48].
• Coleridge (Samuel Taylor), Brutus (in Julius Caesar), [201], [202], [204], [205];
• Julius Caesar, [256];
• Antony and Cleopatra, [305], [317], [338];
• Coriolanus, [462], [473];
• on Aufidius (in Coriolanus), [486];
• “Inexplicable” passage in Coriolanus, [657-659].
• Collins (John Churton), Studies in Shakespeare, [180];
• Shakespeare’s Latinity, [653].
• Collischonn (G.A.O.), Introduction to Grévin’s Caesar, note [27];
• and Muretus’ Julius Caesar, note [27];
• coincidences between Grévin and Shakespeare, [34].
• Cominius (in Coriolanus), [498], [556].
• Complaint of Rosamond, by Samuel Daniel, [48];
• parallelisms with Romeo and Juliet and Rape of Lucrece, [56].
• Confrères de la Passion, [30].
• Coriolanus, [454-627];
• date of composition, [454];
• “Inexplicable” passage in, [657-659].
• Cornelia, by Thomas Kyd, [54].
• Cornélie, compared with Muretus, [37].
• Cory, translation of Leo, [333].
• Courier (P. L.), on Plutarch, [106], [119].
• Cruserius, Latin version of Plutarch, [133].
• Cymbeline, [312].
• Daniel (Samuel), Cleopatra, [48], [338], [451].
• Dante, on Brutus and Cassius, [26].
• Decius (in Julius Caesar), [286].
• Defence of Ryme, by Samuel Daniel, [50].
• de l’Escluse (Charles), additional lives to Plutarch, [144].
• Delia, by Samuel Daniel, [48].
• Delius (Nicolaus), Shakespeare and Plutarch, [165];
• on Coriolanus, [456], [487];
• Coriolanus and Plutarch, [493].
• Demogeot, on Amyot, [139].
• De Quincey (Thomas), on Plutarch, note [114].
• Diall of Princes, by Thomas North, [143].
• Digges (Leonard), on the Roman Plays, [85];
• on Julius Caesar, [255].
• Dodsley (Robert), Old English Plays, [4].
• Dolabella (in Antony and Cleopatra), [346].
• Doni (Antonio Francesco), Morale Filosofia
• (same as Bidpai’s Fables), [144], [150].
• Dowden (Professor Edward), Shakespeare’s Mind and Art, [214].
• Drayton (Michael), Mortimeriados or The Barons’ War, [169].
• Dryden (John), on Plutarch, [106];
• Life of Plutarch, [110];
• All for Love or The World Well Lost, [256], [340].
• Eccerinis, by Mussato, [11].
• Eedes (Dr.), lost Latin play, [180].
• English and Roman plays compared, [74].
• Enobarbus (in Antony and Cleopatra), [349-359].
• Eros (in Antony and Cleopatra), [366].
• Fabula Praetexta, [11].
• Faguet (Émile), on Cornélie, [37].
• Famous Victories of Henry V., [2].
• Farmer (John S.), reproduction of Appius and Virginia, [3].
• Favorinus (the Philosopher), [101].
• Fénelon (François de Salignac de la Mothe), on Amyot, [136].
• Ferrero (Professor Guglielmo), on Antony and Cleopatra, note [335];
• on Cleopatra, note [414] and [452].
• Filelfo, Latin version of Plutarch, [134].
• Florus (Mestrius) [friend of Plutarch], [97].
• French Senecans, [19-44].
• Fulvia (in Antony and Cleopatra), [396].
• Furness (Frances Howard), Antony and Cleopatra, note [59];
• on Charmian, note [347].
• Garnett (Dr. Richard), Date and Occasion of The Tempest, [466].
• Garnier (R.), Cornélie, [35];
• Drama about Portia, [35];
• Marc Antoine, [41];
• Antonius, English translation by Countess of Pembroke, [46];
• Antony and Cleopatra, [338];
• parallels between Cornélie and Julius Caesar, [628-630].
• Gassner (H.), edition of Kyd’s Cornelia, note [55].
• Geddes (Dr.), a lost Latin play, [180].
• Gellius (Aulus), on Plutarch, [101].
• Genée (Rudolph), Shakespeare’s Leben und Werke, [198].
• Gervinus (Georg Gottfried), Shakespeare Commentaries,
• Julius Caesar, [224];
• Antony and Cleopatra, [305], [307], [340];
• Plutarch’s Antony, [336];
• Coriolanus, [471].
• Goethe, on “love,” [446].
• Gorboduc, [45], [70].
• Goulard (Simon), Octavius Caesar Augustus, [648].
• Greene (Robert), James IV., note [62].
• Grévin (Jacques), César, note [27], [31].
• Grosart (Dr. Alexander), edition of Daniel’s Cleopatra quoted from, [51].
• Guevara (Antoniode), The Favored Courtier, [148];
• El Libro Aureo de Marco Aurelio, otherwise
• Emperador y eloquentissimo Orator,
• called Marco Aurelio con el Relox de Principes
• or The Diall of Princes, [147] and [148].
• Halliwell-Phillips (J. O.), Weever’s Mirror of Martyrs, [170].
• Hamlet, [78], [173].
• Hardy (Alexandre), Coriolan, [475].
• Hazlitt (W. Carew), notes [4] and [5].
• Heine (Heinrich), on Cleopatra, [441];
• on Rome, [547].
• Henry V., [172].
• Heywood (Thomas), Rape of Lucrece, [68].
• Holden (Rev. Dr. H. A.), on Plutarch, note [114];
• on Amyot, note [133].
• Holland (Philemon), translation of Pliny, [333], note [456];
• Livy on Coriolanus, [626].
• Hudson (Dr. Henry Norman),
• Shakespeare, his Life, Art and Characters, [224].
• Hughes (Thomas), Misfortunes of Arthur, [45].
• Hugo (Victor), Historical Plays, [87].
• Ingram (Professor), on “endings” (of verses), [304].
• Iras (in Antony and Cleopatra), [347], [438].
• Jacobs (Joseph), Fables of Bidpai, note [150].
• Jaggard (the Younger), a printer, [301].
• Jodelle (Étienne), Cleopatra Captive, [28], note [322];
• Antony and Cleopatra, [338];
• Cleopatra, note [435].
• Johnson (Dr. Samuel), Julius Caesar, [256];
• Coriolanus, [480], [482];
• Menenius Agrippa, [564].
• Jonson (Ben), Catiline, [54];
• Sejanus and Catiline, [85];
• Discoveries and Staple of News,
• on Julius Caesar, [174] and [175];
• Epicoene, note [303], [460].
• Jowett (Benjamin), Plato, Vol. I., note [237];
• Plato, Vol. II., [446].
• Julius Caesar, date of composition, [168];
• Plutarch, [180];
• the lives of Brutus, Caesar and Antony, [188];
• should it be named Marcus Brutus, [212];
• Julius Caesar is himself analogous to the
• King in the English Historical Plays, [213].
• Julius Caesar, character in other plays, [177].
• Julius Caesar and Appian, [644-647].
• Julius Caesar and Garnier’s Cornélie, [60];
• parallels between, [628-630].
• Julius Caesar, by Muretus, [11].
• Junius Brutus (in Coriolanus), [499].
• Kahnt (Paul), Gedankenkreis ...
• in Jodelle’s und Garnier’s Tragödien, note [19].
• Karsteg (Prof. von), in Harry Richmond, [393].
• King John, [82].
• King Lear, [78].
• Klein, on Cinthio’s Cleopatra and Antony and Cleopatra, note [310].
• Kreyssig (Friedrich Alexo Theodor), on Octavius, [378];
• on Volumnia, [553];
• on Virgilia, [570].
• Kyd (Thomas), translation of Cornélie
• (under name Cornelia), [54];
• Boas’ edition, note [55].
• Lamprias, brother of Plutarch, [98].
• Landman (Dr. Friedrich), on Euphues, [149].
• Lanson, on Amyot, [141].
• La Rochefoucauld (François, VI. Duc de), notes [420], [424] and [451].
• Lartius (in Coriolanus), [513].
• Le Duc (Viollet), Ancien Théatre François, note [28].
• Lee (Sidney), Shakespeare and Camden, [457].
• Lepidus (in Julius Caesar), [297].
• Lepidus (in Antony and Cleopatra), [368].
• Lessing (Gotthold Ephraim), Hamburg Dramaturgy on the Roman Plays, [86].
• Ligarius (in Julius Caesar), [286].
• “light” endings, [304].
• Lily (John), Euphues and The Diall of Princes, [149].
• Lloyd (Watkiss), on Coriolanus, [519].
• Lodge (Thomas), The Wounds of Civill War, [62];
• A Looking Glass for London and England, [62];
• translator of Josephus and Lucius Annaeus Seneca, [68].
• Lord Alexas, see Alexas.
• Lotze, on Historical Plays, [89].
• “Love,” in three plays, [342].
• Luce (Alice), edition of Countess of Pembroke’s
• translation of R. Garnier’s Antonius, note [46].
• Lucilius (in Julius Caesar), [285].
• Lucina, Elizabethan plays on, [1].
• Lucretia, Elizabethan plays on, [1].
• Macbeth, [78], and Antony and Cleopatra, [302].
• Malone (Edmund), date of Antony and Cleopatra, [303];
• date of Coriolanus, [454], [459], [460].
• “Mansions” (another name for “scenes”), [476].
• Marcius (in Coriolanus), [497], [549].
• Marcus Aurelius, [104].
• Mark Antony
• (in Julius Caesar), [289-298].
• (in Antony and Cleopatra), [390-412].
• Marlowe (Christopher), Edward II., [2];
• Tamburlaine, note [62],
• and Shakespeare, Henry VI., [93].
• Massinissa, Elizabethan plays on, [1].
• Mecaenas (in Antony and Cleopatra), [346], [361].
• Menas (in Antony and Cleopatra), [348], [376].
• Menecrates (in Antony and Cleopatra), [376].
• Menenius Agrippa (in Julius Caesar), [558].
• Meres (Francis), list of plays, [171];
• Palladis Tamia, [172].
• Messala (in Julius Caesar), [285].
• Méziriac (Bachet de), on Amyot, [128].
• Misfortunes of Arthur, by Thomas Hughes, [45].
• “Mixed” plays, [18].
• Moeller, Kleopatra in der Tragödien-Literatur, note, [310].
• Montaigne (Michael, Lord of), on Muretus, [20];
• on Amyot, [129].
• Montreuil, Cleopatre, note [310].
• Muretus, Julius Caesar, [11], [20].
• Mussato, Eccerinis, [11].
• Nashe (Thomas), use of word “lurched,” [460].
• Nicholson (S.), Acolastus his Afterwit, [171].
• North (Sir Thomas), [141-167];
• birth and education, [142];
• Diall of Princes, [143];
• Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely, [143];
• Doni’s Morale Filosofia, [144];
• command at Ely, [146];
• dignities and pensions, [146];
• his style in translating Plutarch, [154];
• ? as to the Greek text, note [155].
• Nuce (Thomas), English version of Octavia, [12].
• Octavia, ? by Seneca, [10-19].
• Octavia (in Antony and Cleopatra), [362-366].
• Octavius (in Julius Caesar), [298].
• Octavius (in Antony and Cleopatra), [373], [378].
• Othello, [78].
• Ovid, Epistle of Dido, [653].
• Pais (Ettore), on story of Coriolanus, [474].
• Pembroke (Countess of),
• translation of Garnier’s Antonius, [2];
• Mornay’s Discourse on Life and Death, note [46].
• Philotas, by Samuel Daniel, [49].
• Pindarus (in Julius Caesar), [284], [285].
• Plays named after two persons, [341].
• Plutarch and Shakespeare, [92] etc., [95-119];
• ancestry and education, [95];
• Isis and Osiris, [96];
• Moralia, [97];
• marriage, [98];
• priest of Apollo, [102];
• Archon of Chaeronea, [104];
• ? a consul, [104];
• ? governor of Greece, [104];
• and Plato, [108];
• Neo-Platonism, [108];
• his philosophy, [108];
• Praecepta gerendae Reipublicae, [113];
• Latin version of his Lives, published at Rome by Campani, [132];
• other translations, [132];
• editions of North’s version, [151];
• various versions and Volumnia’s speech, [631-643].
• Portia (in Julius Caesar), [271-274].
• Preston (Thomas), King Cambyses, [8].
• Proculeius (in Antony and Cleopatra), [346].
• Puschkin, parallel with Cleopatra’s “One Word,” [655].
• Quarterly Review (1861), on Plutarch, [162].
• Rabelais (François), prose of, [135].
• Racine (Jean), on Amyot, [136].
• Richard III., [177].
• Rigal (Eugène), on Alexandre Hardy, [476].
• Roman and English plays compared, [74].
• Romeo and Juliet, [177].
• Ronsard (Pierre de) Roman plays by the School of, [11];
• on Grévin’s César, [33].
• Rousseau (Jean Jacques), on Plutarch, [117].
• Ruhnken, edition of Muretus, note [27].
• Ruskin (John), on Virgilia, [497].
• Rusticus (Arulenus), friend of Plutarch, [97].
• Sachs (Hans), play on Cleopatra, note [310].
• St. Évremond, on Plutarch, [112].
• Scarus (in Antony and Cleopatra), [359].
• Schiller, historical plays of, [87].
• Schweighäuser (Johann), version of Appian quoted, [645].
• Scott (Sir Walter), on Dryden’s All for Love, [256].
• Seneca, ? author of Octavia, [10].
• Senecio (Sosius), friend of Plutarch, [97].
• Serapion, a poet, [101].
• Sextus of Chaeronea, [104].
• Sextus Pompeius (in Antony and Cleopatra), [346], [373].
• Shakespeare (William),
• Roman plays influenced by Senecan pieces, [56],
• and Thomas Kyd, [56];
• Midsummer-Night’s Dream and
• Merchant of Venice show traces of North’s Plutarch, [151];
• various editions of North’s Plutarch, note [152], and North, [163].
• Sicinius Vellutus (in Coriolanus), [499].
• Sidgwick (Henry), on Julius Caesar, [176].
• Silius (in Antony and Cleopatra), [345].
• Skelton (John), Garland of Laurel, [309].
• Sonnets—Daniel’s Delia, [56];
• sorrows in the, [313].
• Stahr (A.), on Cleopatra, [427].
• Stengel, Théatre d’Alexandre Hardy, [476].
• Stirling (Earl of), see Alexander (Sir William).
• Stokes (Henry Paine),
• Chronological Order of Shakespeare’s Plays, note [168].
• Stone (Boswell), Shakespeare’s Holinshed, note [180].
• Strato (in Julius Caesar), [285].
• Swinburne (Algernon Charles), Trilogy on Mary Stuart, [89].
• Taylor (Sir Henry), Philip van Artevelde, [89].
• Ten Brink (Bernhard), on Cleopatra, [443].
• Tennyson, Harold, [89].
• Thyreus (in Antony and Cleopatra), [346].
• Timaeus, treatise on the, by Plutarch, [101].
• Timon, [82], [307].
• Timon, brother of Plutarch, [98].
• Titinius (in Julius Caesar), [284], [285].
• Titus Andronicus, [177].
• Titus Lartius (in Coriolanus), [498], [556].
• Trench (Richard Chenevix), Archbishop of Dublin, on Plutarch, [114];
• on Shakespeare and Plutarch, [164];
• on Coriolanus, [600].
• Troilus and Cressida, [84].
• Tullus Aufidius, see Aufidius (Tullus).
• Turberville (George), translation of Ovid, [654].
• Vaugelas (Claude Favre de), on Amyot, [136].
• Ventidius (in Antony and Cleopatra), [345].
• Verity (A. W.), edition of Julius Caesar, [175];
• edition of Coriolanus, note [497].
• Viehoff, on Shakespeare’s Coriolan, [479].
• Virgilia (in Coriolanus), [497], [566].
• Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de), on Brutus, [239].
• Volumnia (in Coriolanus), [494], [549];
• her speech and various versions of Plutarch, [631-643].
• Warburton (William), a reading in Antony and Cleopatra, [411].
• Ward (Prof. A. W.),
• on Countess of Pembroke’s version of Garnier’s Antonius, note [46];
• on Lodge’s The Wounds of Civill War, note [62].
• Warning to Fair Women, [171].
• “weak” endings, [304].
• Weever (John), Mirror of Martyrs, [170], [172].
• Whitelaw, date of Coriolanus, [466].
• Wordsworth (William), on Plutarch, note [114].
• Wright (W. Aldis), edition of Julius Caesar, [172].
• Wyndham (the Right Honble. George), on Plutarch, [112];
• on Amyot’s Plutarch’s Morals, note [144];
• on Julius Caesar, [239].
• Xylander, Latin version of Plutarch, [133].
• Zielinski (Professor Thaddäus),
• Marginalia Philologus
• on Antony and Cleopatra, note [347];
• on Cleopatra’s “One Word,” [653].

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