Brooke, Ralph, complains about Shakespeare’s coat-of-arms, [192] [193]
Brown, C. Armitage, [406] n
Brown, John, obtains a writ of distraint against Shakespeare’s father, [12]
Browne, William, love-sonnets by, [439] and n 2
Buc, Sir George, [245]
Buckingham, John Sheffield, first Duke of, a letter from King James to the poet said to have been in his possession, [231]
Bucknill, Dr. John Charles, on the poet’s medical knowledge, [364]
Burbage, James, owner of The Theatre and keeper of a livery stable, [33] [36]
erects the Blackfriars Theatre, [38]
Burbage, Richard, erroneously assumed to have been a native of Stratford, [31] n
a lifelong friend of Shakespeare’s, [36]
demolishes The Theatre and builds the Globe Theatre, [37] [200]
performs, with Shakespeare and Kemp, before Queen Elizabeth at Greenwich Palace, [43]
his impersonation of the King in Richard III, [63]
litigation of his heirs respecting the Globe and the Blackfriars Theatres, [200]
his income, [203] [219]
creates the title-part in Hamlet, [222] [231]
his reputation made by creating the leading parts in the poet’s greatest tragedies, [264] [265]
anecdote of, [265]
the poet’s bequest to, [276]
as a painter, [292]