‘Bear Garden in Southwark, The,’ the poet’s lodgings near, [38]
Bearley, [6]
Beaumont, Francis, on ‘things done at the Mermaid,’ [177]
Beaumont, Sir John, [388]
Bedford, Edward Russell, third Earl of: his marriage to Lucy Harington, [161]
Bedford, Lucy, Countess of, [138] n 2, [161]
Beeston, William (a seventeenth-century actor), on the report that Shakespeare was a schoolmaster, [29]
on the poet’s acting, [43]
Bellay, Joachim du, Spenser’s translations of some of his sonnets, [101] [105] n, [432] [436] [443] [444]
Belleau, Remy, poems and sonnets by, [441] n 1, [444] [445] n
Belleforest (Francois de), Shakespeare’s indebtedness to the ‘Histoires Tragiques’ of, [14] [55] n 1, [208] [222]