A Life of William Shakespeare / with portraits and facsimiles

by Sir Sidney Lee

Henry V, The Famous Victories of, the groundwork of Henry V and of Henry V, [167] [174]

Henry V: French dialogues, [1]
disdainful allusion to sonnetteering, [108]
date of production [173]
imperfect drafts of the play, [173]
First Folio version of 1623, [173]
the comic characters, [173]
the victory of Agincourt, [174]
the poet’s final experiment in the dramatisation of English history, [174]
the allusions to the Earl of Essex, [175]
For editions see Section xix. (Bibliography), [301-25]

Henry VI (pt. i.): performed at the Rose Theatre in 1592, [56]
Nash’s remarks on, [56] [57]
first publication, [58]
contains only a slight impress of the poet’s style, [59]
performed by Lord Strange’s men, [59]

Henry VI (pt. ii.): parallel in the Œdipus Coloneus of Sophocles with a passage in, [13] n
publication of a first draft with the title of The first part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster, [59]
performed by Lord Strange’s men, [59]
revision of the play, [60]
the poet’s coadjutors in the revision, [60]

Henry VI (pt. iii.): performed by a company other than the poet’s own, [36]
performed in the autumn of 1592, [57]
publication of a first draft of the play under the title of The True Tragedie of Richard, Duke of Yorke, &c., [59]
performed by Lord Pembroke’s men, [36] [59]
partly remodelled, [60]
the poet’s coadjutors in the revision, [60]
For editions see Section xix. (Bibliography), [301-25]

Henry VIII, [174]
attributed to Shakespeare and Fletcher, [259]
noticed by Sir Henry Wotton, [260]
first publication, [261]
the portions that can confidently be assigned to Shakespeare, [262]
uncertain authorship of Wolsey’s farewell to Cromwell, [262]
Fletcher’s share, [262]
For editions see Section xix. (Bibliography), [301-25]

Henryson, Robert, [227]

Henslowe, Philip, erects the Rose Theatre, [36]
bribes a publisher to abandon the publication of Patient Grissell, [48] n [180] n [225] [260]

‘Heptameron of Civil Discources,’ Whetstone’s, [237]

‘Herbert, Mr. William,’ his alleged identity with ‘Mr. W. H.’ (Appendix VI.), [406-10]