Merchant of Venice: the influence of Marlowe, [63] [68]
sources of the plot, [66] [67]
the last act, [69]
date of, [69]
use of the word ‘lover,’ [127] n
For editions see Section xix. (Bibliography), [301-325]
Meres, Francis, recommends Shakespeare’s ‘sugred’ sonnets, [89]
his quotations from Horace and Ovid on the immortalising power of verse, [116] n
attributes Love’s Labour’s Won to Shakespeare, [162]
testimony to the poet’s reputation, [178] [179] [390]
Merry Devill of Edmonton, [181] [258] n 2
Merry Wives of Windsor: Latin phrases put into the mouth of Sir Hugh Evans, [15]
Sir Thomas Lucy caricatured in Justice Shallow, [29]
lines from Marlowe sung by Sir Hugh Evans, [64] [65]
period of production, [171]
publication of, [172]
source of the plot, [172]
chief characteristics, [173]
For editions see Section xix. (Bibliography), [301-325]
Metre of Shakespeare’s plays a rough guide to the chronology, [48-50]
of Shakespeare’s poems, [75-77]
of Shakespeare’s sonnets, [95] and n 2
Mézières, Alfred, [350]
Michel, Francisque, translation by, [350]
Middle Temple Hall, performance of Twelfth Night at, [210]
Middleton, Thomas, his allusion to Le Motte in Blurt, Master Constable, [51] n
his plagiarisms of Macbeth in The Witch, [240]