Abbey, Mr. E. A., [342]
Abbott, Dr. E. A., [364]
Actor, Shakespeare as an, [43-45]
See also Rôles, Shakespeare’s
Actors: entertained for the first time at Stratford-on-Avon, [10]
return of the two chief companies to London in 1587, [33]
the players’ licensing Act of Queen Elizabeth, [34]
companies of boy actors, [34] [35] [38] [213]
companies of adult actors in 1587, [35]
the patronage of the company which was joined by Shakespeare, [35] [36]
women’s parts played by men or boys, [38] and n 2
tours in the provinces, [39-42]
foreign tours, [42]
Shakespeare’s alleged scorn of their calling, [44] [45]
‘advice’ to actors in Hamlet, [45]
their incomes, [198] [199] and n 2, [201]
the strife between adult actors and boy actors, [213-17] [221]
patronage of actors by King James, [232] and n 2
substitution of women for boys in female parts, [334] [335]
Adam, in As You Like It, played by Shakespeare, [44]
Adaptations by Shakespeare of old plays, [56]
Adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays at the Restoration, [331] [332]
Adulation, extravagance of, in the days of Queen Elizabeth, [137] [138] and n 2
Æschylus, Hamlet’s ‘sea of troubles’ paralleled in the Persæ of, [13] n
resemblance between Lady Macbeth and Clytemnestra in the Agamemnon of, [13] n
Æsthetic school of Shakespearean criticism, [333]