Prospero, character of, [257]

Provinces, the, practice of theatrical touring in, [39-42] [65]

Publication of dramas: deprecated by playhouse authorities, [48] n
only a small proportion of the dramas of the period printed, [48] n
sixteen of Shakespeare’s plays published in his lifetime, [48]

Punning, [418] [419] n

Puritaine, or the Widdow of Watling-streete, The, [180] [313]

Puritanism, alleged prevalence in Stratford-on-Avon of, [10] n [268] n 2
its hostility to dramatic representations, [10] n [212] [213] n 1
the poet’s references to, [268] n

‘Pyramus and Thisbe,’ [397]

Q

Quarles, John, ‘Banishment of Tarquin’ of, [300]

Quarto editions of the plays, in the poet’s lifetime, [301] [302]
posthumous, [302] [303]
of the poems in the poet’s lifetime, [299]
posthumous, [300]