Spanish Tragedy, Kyd’s, popularity of, [65] [221]
quoted in the Taming of the Shrew, [221] n
Spedding, James, [262]
Spelling of the poet’s name, [284-6]
Spenser, Edmund: probably attracted to Shakespeare by the poems ‘Venus and Adonis’ and ‘Lucrece,’ [79]
his description of Shakespeare in ‘Colin Clouts come home againe,’ [79]
Shakespeare’s reference to Spenser’s work in Midsummer Night’s Dream, [80]
Spenser’s allusion to ‘our pleasant Willy’ not a reference to the poet, [80] and n
his description of the ‘gentle spirit’ no description of Shakespeare, [81] and n 2
translation of sonnets from Du Bellay and Petrarch, [101]
called by Gabriel Harvey ‘an English Petrarch,’ [101] and cf. n 4
on the immortalising power of verse, [115]
his apostrophe to Admiral Lord Charles Howard, [140]
his ‘Amoretti,’ [115] [435] and n 5 [436]
dedication of his ‘Faerie Queene,’ [398]
‘Spirituall Sonnettes’ by Constable, [440]
Sport, Shakespeare’s knowledge of, [26] [27] and n [173]
Staël, Madame de,
Stafford, Lord, his company of actors, [33]
Stage, conditions of, in Shakespeare’s day: absence of scenery and scenic costume, [38] and n 2
the performance of female parts by men or boys, [38] and n 2
the curtain and balcony of the stage, [38] n 2
Stanhope of Harrington, Lord, [234] n