Love, treatment of, in Shakespeare’s sonnets,
[97] and n [98] [112] [113] and n 2
in the sonnets of other writers, [104-6] [113] n 2
‘Lover’ and ‘love’ synonymous with ‘friend’ and ‘friendship’ in Elizabethan English, [127] n
‘Lover’s Complaint, A,’ possibly written by Shakespeare, [91]
Love’s Labour’s Lost: Latin phrases in, [15]
probably the poet’s first dramatic production, [50]
its plot not borrowed, [51]
its characters, [51] and n [52]
its revision in 1597, [52]
date of publication, [52]
influence of Lyly, [62]
performed at Whitehall, [81]
examples of the poet’s first attempts at sonnetteering, [84]
scornful allusion to sonnetteering, [107]
the praise of ‘blackness,’ [118] [119] and n 2
performed before Anne of Denmark at Southampton’s house in the Strand, [384]
For editions see Section xix. (Bibliography), [301-25]
Love’s Labour’s Won, attributed by Meres to Shakespeare, [162]
See All’s Well
‘Love’s Martyr, or Rosalin’s Complaint,’ [183] [184] n [304]
Lowell, James Russell, [13] n [341]
Lucian, the Timon of, [243]
‘Lucrece:’ published in 1594, [76]
Daniel’s ‘Complainte of Rosamond’ reflected, [76] [77] and n 1
the passage on Time elaborated from Watson, [77] and n 2
dedicated to the Earl of Southampton, [77] [78] [126] [127]
enthusiastic reception of, [78-9]
quarto editions in the poet’s lifetime, [299]
posthumous editions, [300]
Lucy, Sir Thomas, his prosecution of Shakespeare for poaching, [27] [28]
caricatured in Justice Shallow, [29] [173]