Representative English Comedies, v. 1. From the beginnings to Shakespeare - Unknown

FOOTNOTES:

[1949] On this subject, see The War of the Theatres, by Mr. J. H. Penniman, 1897, and The Stage-Quarrel between Ben Jonson and the so-called Poetasters by R. A. Small (Breslau, 1899).

INDEX OF HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL MATERIALS

Aberdeen, Records of, [xxxviii].
Acolastus, the, by Gnapheus (W. Fullonius), transl. by Palsgrave, [lxx], [lxxi], [lxxxi].
Acting and actors: in churches, [xiii], [xv], [xix], [xxi]; in schools, [xiv], [lxix]; in churchyards, [xii]; by crafts, [xviii], [xx], [xxxiii]; the councils against mimi, [xix], [xl]; actors of Wakefield, [xxv]; mummers, [xl]; English actors in Germany, [xlv]; acting at Cambridge, [lxxi], [197]; Udall and school actors, [98]; Lyly and boy actors, [265–268], [270], [279]; Greene and the companies, [399], [403], [408], [411], [418]; Porter and the companies, [515], [516], [519–522], [524], [526–527].
Admiral's men, the, (i.e. under patronage of Lord Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham, 1585–1603) and Greene, [403], [408], [410]; and Porter, [515–517], [520–528], et passim.
Agamemnon, Dekker and Chettle's, [523].
Agrippa, Henry Cornelius (von Nettesheim), [281].
Alberti, his Philodoxeos, [lxvii].
Albyon Knight, [lxxxvi].
Alcmæon, the play of, [268].
Alda, Latin play by William of Blois, [xvii].
Aldrich, Robert, and Udall, [92].
Alençon, the duc d', and Endymion, [268].
Alexander, the Life of by Plutarch, [269], [283], et seq.
Alexander and Campaspe, by Lyly, edition of, with essay, by Professor Baker, [263–333]; dates, sources, literary estimate, etc., [268–276].
Alexander and Lodowick, by Martin Slater, [523], [526].
Alexandrine, the Middle English, [189].
Allegory, and the drama, [xxxvii], [xl], [lxxxi], [xcii], [267].
Alleyn, Edward, and Greene's plays, [408], [410]; catalogue of his MSS. at Dulwich, [515]; acquaintance with Porter, [524].
Alleyn, Richard, an actor in the Admiral's company, [524].
All for Money, Lupton's, [xlviii], [li], [lxxxvi].
Allott, his England's Parnassus, [421].
All's Well that Ends Well, Shakespeare's, [191], [656].
Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany, by Chapman, attributed to Peele, [336].
Alphonsus, King of Arragon, Comicall Historie of, by Greene, [389], [403–405], [407], [410], [411], [421].
Andria, of Terence, the English translation of, [lxviii], [lxxi], [107].
Antichrist legend, Protestant version of the, [lxxv].
Apius and Virginia, The tragical comedy of, by R. B., [lxxxvi], [141], [336], [341].
Apollodorus Tarsensis, compared with Peele, [337]. Apuleius, Adlington's translation of his Metamorphoses of the Golden Ass, a possible source of Peele's 'Meroe,' [346], [383].
Arber, Professor E., his English Garner, [89]; his reprint of Roister Doister, [90], [104], [194]; his Transcripts of the Stationers' Registers, [97], [197], [347], et passim.
Archæologia, on Udall, [93].
Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen, on Peele, [348].
Aretino, his Poliscene, [lxvii].
Ariosto, his I Suppositi, [lxviii]; Gascoigne's translation of, [lxxv], [lxxxiv]; compared with Peele, [337]; his Orlando Furioso, [389].
Argumentative plays, debats, and controversial morals, [lxv], [lxvi], [lxxv], [xci]; Heywood's, [10].
Arraignment of Paris, The, by Peele, [336], [341].
Ascension, The, Wakefield play of, [xxvi], [xxvii].
Ascham, Roger, referred to, [135].
Asotus, the, by Macropedius, [lxx].
Ass, Feast of the, [xx], [xxi].
As You Like It, by Shakespeare, [lxv], [275], [645], [654], [655].
Babio, a Latin elegiac comedy, [xviii].
Baker, D. E. (with Reed and Jones), his Biographia Dramatica, [200], [348].
Baker, Professor G. P., Critical Essay on Lyly, his life and place in comedy, with special reference to Alexander and Campaspe, [263–277]; edition of A. and C., with notes, [278–333].
Bale, Bishop, his Catalogus, xviii, [89], [93]; translation of Pammachius, [lxx], [lxxi]; his Kyng Johan, [lxxii], [lxxv].
Ballad plays, [xli].
Bandello, [645].
Barclay, Alexander, and fool-literature, [lii], [liii].
Bardani, [xli].
Barry, Lodowick, the song of "Three merrie men" in his Ram Alley, [352].
Bartholomew Fayre, by Ben Jonson, Induction to, [410].
Basoche, clercs de la, [lxvi].
Battle of Alcazar, The, by Peele, [335], [337], [341].
Baucis, a Latin elegiac comedy, [xviii].
Bayne, on Henry Porter in Dict. Nat. Biog., [519].
Beaumont and Fletcher, and the play within a play, [343].
Beaux Stratagem, The, by Farquhar, referred to, [429].
Bernhardi, his R. Greene's Leben u. Schritten, [397], [411].
Bewick and Grahame, the ballad, referred to, [366].
Bibbiena, Cardinal de, bis Calandria, [lxviii].
Biblical miracles, [xiii–xxxvii]; genre drama, idyllic or heroic miracle, [lxxvi].
Bien-Avisé et Mal-Avisé, a French moralité, [liii], [lxxii].
Birde, William, and Henry Porter, [516].
Blacke Battman of the North, Porter's relation to the play, [515], [521], [522].
Blank Verse, Peele's, [339], [340]; Greene's, [404], [407], [414], [417]; on the rhetorical quality of dramatic; examination of Greene's practice, and a few general conclusions, [503–513].
Bloody Brother, The, by Fletcher, Jonson, et al., parodies "Three merry men," [352].
Blount, Edward, publisher of Lyly's plays, [269], [276].
Blyssyd Sacrament, The, Croxton play of, [xxxix].
Boase and Clark, Register of Univ. Oxford, and the two Henry Porters, [518].
Boccaccio, G., [645].
Bodel, Jean, his play of St. Nicholas, [xvi].
Bojardo, his Timone, [lxviii].
Bower, his Scotichronicon, on Robin Hood, [xli].
Bower, the R. B. of Apius and Virginia (Fleay's conjecture), [lxxxvi], [336].
Boy Bishop, the election of the, [xx], [xxi].
Bradley, Henry, mentioned, [lxxii]; his Critical Essay on Gammer Gurton's Nedle, [197–204]; date of Gammer Gurton's Nedle, and its authorship, by Wm. Stevenson, [197]; place of G. G. N. in the history of comedy, [202]; dialect, [203]; previous editions and the present text, [204]; edition of G. G. N., [205–257]; appendix, [259].
Brand, the Rev. John, his Popular Antiquities, [127], [192].
Brandl, Professor A., his Quellen u. Forschungen d. weltlichen Dramas in England, referred to, [lx], [lxxiii], [lxxiv], [lxxx], [lxxxii], [lxxxvii].
Brandt, Sebastian, his Narrenschiff, [lii], [liii].
Brasenose, the College Register of, and Henry Porter, [520].
Bridges, Dr. John, and Gammer Gurton's Nedle, [199]; his Defence of the Government of the Church, [200].
Briggs, the Rev. Thomas, his copy of Roister Doister, [97].
Broome, William, and Alex. and Camp., [276].
Brotherhood in Arms, Scott on the institution, [366].
Brown, Professor J. M., on Greene (An Early Rival of Shakespeare, Auckland, 1877), [402], [405], [410], [415], [417].
Brute Grenshillde, and Henslowe, [523].
Bücher, K., Arbeit u. Rhythmus, referred to, on songs of labour, [384].
Buffeting, The, Wakefield play of, [xxvii], [xxviii].
Bugbears, The, a comedy of intrigue, [lxxxviii].
Bulæus, on the Ludus de S. Katharina, [xiv].
Bullen, Mr. A. H., his edition of Peele, [346], [348]; see, also, notes to Gummere's edition of O. W. T.; on Henry Porter, [519].
Burby, Cuthbert, publisher, and Greene's plays, [418], etc.
Burlesque in church and festival plays, [xix–xxi]; in miracle cycles, [xxiv], [xxix], [xxxvi]; in farces, [lxv], [lxvi]; in school plays, [lxxi–lxxii], [lxxv].
Cadman, Thos., and Lyly's plays, [276].
Cain, the York play of, [xxv].
Calandria, the, by Bibbiena, [lxviii].
Calisto and Melibœa, by Cota and de Rojas, [lxviii]; the English play, [lxxii].
Cambyses, King of Percia, etc., by Thomas Preston, [lii], [liii], [lxxxvi], [342].
Camden's Proverbs, [108], [194], et passim.
Campaspe, by Lyly, [263–333].
Cante-fable, reminiscences of the, [356], [375].
Carde of Fancie, The, by Greene, the Dedication to, [403].
Carle off Carlile, the poem, [127].
Carmina Burana, referred to, [191].
Carpenter, Professor F. I., his edition of Wager's Marie Magdalene (University of Chicago Press), [xciv].
Castell of Perseverance, The, play of, [xlvii], [xlviii], [l], [li], [lviii].
Caxton, William, his translation of the Legenda Aurea, [xxxi], [xliv]; his Prol. Eneydos, [115].
Chaderton, William, his play and Gammer Gurton, [198].
Challenge for Beauty, A, by T. Heywood, [521].
Chalmers, Alexander, his English Poets, [191].
Chapman, George, [lxxxviii]; and Lyly, [275]; and Porter, [517], [524], [533]; his Humerous Dayes Mirth, [527]; and Shakespeare, [658].
Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time and the song of "Three merrie men," [352].
Character, portrayal of in miracles, [xxxi], [xxxiii]; in marvels, etc., [xxxix], [xli]; in morals, [lii–liv], [lxii–lxiii]; in other plays, [lxix], [lxxxvii], [xcii]; and see under Authors and Comedies.
Chaucer, [xix]; the episode after his style, [lxv], [lxvi]; and Heywood, [10–13]; referred to, [127], [398], [426]; and see notes to R. D.; on "hunting the letter," [374].
Chester Cycle, The, of miracle plays, [xxiii], [xxiv], [xxix].
Chettle, Henry, his relations with Greene: his Kind Hart's Dreame, [419]; his Robert Greene to Pierce Pennilesse, [422]; and the 'Groatsworth Group,' [423], [424]; his relations with Porter, [515–517], [522], [524]; his Troilus and Cressida, [657].
Child, Professor, on Robin Hood plays, [xl]; on St. George plays, xliii, [176].
Childe Maurice, reference to, [359].
Childe Rowland, a possible reference to, in O. W. T., [345], [354], [356].
Children as players, [14], [98], [266], [267], [270], [275], [276].
Christ led up to Calvary, the York miracle of, [xxvii].
Chronicle play, The English, [lxxvi], Lyly and, [270].
Cicero, Lyly's indebtedness to, [267].
Cinthio, Giraldi, Shakespeare's indebtedness to, [645].
Clergy, the, and miracle plays, [xiii], [xviii–xx].
Clown, the, [xlvii], [xlviii], [li], [lii], [liv], [388], [430], [644–646], [649], [651], [655].
Coliphizatio, one of the Wakefield plays, see [Buffeting].
Collier, J. Payne, references to his History of Dramatic Poetry and Annals of the English Stage, Illustrations of Old English Literature, Henslowe's Diary, Memoirs of Alleyn, etc., [xiv], [xx], [xl], [xlii], [xlix], [lvi], [lviii], [lxxiv], [lxxvii], [lxxix], [lxxxvii], [lxxxviii], [lxxxix], [97], [346], [409], [417], [515], [517], [518], [523], et passim; his Old Ballads, [167].
Colman, George, the elder, his Jealous Wife, [530].
Colwell, Thomas, publisher of Gammer Gurton, [197], [199], [201], and of the Disobedient Child.
Comedy in England, Beginnings of, by C. M. Gayley, [xiii–xcii]; liturgical fragments, early saints' plays and parodies, [xiii]; comedy of ridicule, [xx]; the miracle cycles in their relation to comedy, [xxi]; dramatic value of the English miracle plays, [xxxi]; the contribution of later "marvels" and early secular plays, [xxxvii–xxxviii]; the Devil and the Vice, [xlvi]; the indebtedness of comedy to the Vice, [liii–liv]; the relation between miracle, moral, and interlude, [liv]; the older morals in their relation to comedy, [lvii]; the dramatic contribution of the older morals, [lxii]; period of transition, farce and romantic interlude, [lxiv]; period of transition, school of interlude and controversial moral, 'Christian Terence' and comedia sacra, [lxix]; polytypic, or fusion, plays, [lxxvii]; survivals of the moral interlude, [lxxxv]; the movement toward romantic comedy, [lxxxvii]; conclusion regarding the requisites of comedy, [xci]; comedy compared with tragedy, [xxxi], [xxxvii–xxxviii], [lxi–lxiv], [639]; elements, kinds, and relation to society, [xci], [635], [648]; pastoral, [4], [268]; in miniature, [10]; emancipation from miracle and moral, [15]; Commedia dell' arte, [lxviii]; see also under [Allegory], [Romantic], [Manners], [Humours], [Latin], [Woman], [Prose], Plot, [Character].
Comedy of Errors, The, by Shakespeare, [648], [650].
Common Conditions, the play of, [lxxxiii], [lxxxviii], [336], [341], [342].
Comodey of Umers, The, [526], [528], [533].
Complaynt of Scotland, The, folk-tale in, [345].
Comus, The, of Milton, and Old Wives' Tale, [348], [364], [378].
Conflict of Conscience, The, by Nathaniel Woodes, [xlix], [li], [lxxxvi], [426].
Congreve, William, the character of 'Prue' in his Love for Love, [536].
Conny-Catching, Greene's pamphlets on, [398], [418]; The Defence of, [408].
Conscious Lovers, The, by Steele, 'Lucinda' in, [429].
Conspiracy, The, York and Wakefield, plays of, [xxv], [xxvi], [xlvi].
Contes, the French, [xvii], [lxv].
Conversion of St. Paul, The, Digby play of, [xxx], [l], [lxxxi].
Cooper, W. D., his Extracts from the Corpus Christi Register, [89]; his edition of Roister Doister, [104], [191], [194], and frequently in notes to R. D.
Copland, publisher of Robin Hood plays, [xl].
Cornish Plays, The, [xxiii], [xxiv], [xlvii].
Corpus Christi, Feast of, [xiv], [xx].
Cotgrave's Dictionary, [108], [194], et passim.
Council of the Jews, The, Coventry play of, [l].
Council of Treves, The, [xi].
Courthope, Mr. W. J., his History of English Poetry, [xxxvii], [lxiii], [lxiv].
Courtney, Bishop, vs. Feast of Fools, [xxi].
Coventry Gild Plays, The, [xxiii]; and see under [N-town].
Coventry, The Old Leet Book of, [xlvi].
Coventry Plays, The, so-called, of Corpus Christi, [xxiii], [xxiv], [xxix], [xlviii], [lviii], [lxxvii].
Crafts, in the religious drama, [xviii], [xxxi], etc.
Cranmer, Archbishop, on prayers for the dead, [193].
Creede, Thomas, publisher of some of Greene's plays, [403–405], [415], [420].
Creizenach, Professor Wilhelm, his Geschichte d. neueren Dramas, Bae. I, II, mentioned, [xvi], [xviii], [xix], [xxi], [xxxvi], [xlv], [lxx], [lxxiv].
Crocus, his play of Joseph, [lxx].
Croxton Play, The, of the Sacrament, [xxxix].
Crucifixion, The, play of, [xxii], [xxvii].
Cushman, Professor L. W., his Devil and Vice in English Dram. Lit., [xlvii–xlix], [liii].
Cycles, the English miracle, [xviii], [xxi], [xxxi], etc.
Cymbeline, Shakespeare's, [645], [659], [660]; the song, "Hark, hark, the Lark" suggested by one of Lyly's, [322].
Damon and Pithias, by Richard Edwardes, [lxxviii], [lxxxiv], [lxxxvii], [xcii], [268], [269].
Daniel, The History of, by Hilarius, [xv].
Daryus, King, [xlix], [lxxvi], [lxxxvi].
David and Bethsabe (The Love of King David, etc.), by Peele, [335], [336], [341].
Davidson, Professor Charles, his English Mystery Plays, [xxxviii].
Day, John, his intimacy with Porter, [524].
Débats, Dramatic, [lxv].
Dekker, Thomas, [lxxiii]; his Satiro-Mastix, [191]; and Lyly, [274]; "Three merrie men" in Westward Hoe, [352]; his Knight's Conjuring and the 'Groatsworth' group of poets, [423]; relations with Porter and Drayton, [522]; with Chettle, [523]; and the 'war of the theatres,' [657], [658].
Descensus Astrææ, by Peele, [416].
Despencers, The, by Porter and Chettle, [523]
'Devil,' The, and the 'Vice,' [xlvi–liv], [lvi], [lxxiii], [499].
Devil is an Ass, The, by Ben Jonson, [xlviii], [li], [liii].
Devil is in It, The, (If this be not a Good Play, etc.), by Dekker, [xlviii].
Dido, The, by the Master of St. Paul's, [lxxi].
Digby Plays, The, edited by Dr. Furnivall, [xv]; references to, [xxix], [xxx], [xxxi], [xlvii], [xlviii], [l], [lv].
Diogenes Laertius, his Lives of the Philosophers, [269], [280]; and elsewhere in notes to Campaspe.
Disguisings, [xl].
Disobedient Child, The, by Thomas Ingeland, [xlvii], [li], [liii], [lv], [lxxxii], [lxxv].
Disputations, [lxv].
Doctor Faustus, by Marlowe, the relation of Friar Bacon to it, [389], [413], [414].
Dodsley, Robert, his collection of Old English Plays, reëdited by W. Carew Hazlitt, [xx], [194], [430], et passim.
Don Quixote, an English:—'Ralph' of the Burning Pestle; foreshadowed by 'Huanebango,' [343].
Douce, Francis, his Illustrations of Shakespeare, [xxi], [xlix], [lii], [128]; on Porter, [518], [534].
Dowden, Professor, A Monograph on William Shakespeare as a Comic Dramatist, [635–661].
Downton [Dowton, Dunton, or Dutton], Thomas, an actor in the Admiral's Company in Porter's time, [515], [516], [517], [524].
Drayton, Michael, relations with Porter, Dekker, etc., [522].
Dream of Pilate's Wife, the York play of The, [xxv].
Dublin, the History of the City of, by Whitelaw and Walsh, [xxxviii].
Du Méril, E., Poés. Pop. lat. antiq. [191].
Dunbar, William, his Will of Maister Andrew Kennedy, [192].
Durandus, Rationale, [192].
Dyce, Alexander, his edition of Skelton, [259]; of Peele, [346], [348], and see notes to Gummere's edition of O. W. T., et passim; of Greene, [402], [415], [420], [430], and notes to Friar Bacon; of Porter's 2 A. W. A., [515], [517], [518], [535], [544], and frequently in notes to the present edition.
Ebbsworth, Roxburghe Ballads, and "O man in desperation," [351].
Ebert, Professor Adolf, his article on Die englischen Mysterien in the Jahrbuch für romanische und englische Literatur, [xxxii]; on the "ambiguous letter," [150].
Edward I, by Peele, [335], [337], [383].
Edward III, anonymous, and Greene's Orlando and Never Too Late, [410].
Edward VI, Injunctions under, on prayers for the dead, [193]; Statute of 1547 on vagrancy, [193].
Edwardes, Richard, and Godly Queen Hester, [lxxxiii]; his Damon and Pithias, [lxxxiv]; and Lyly, [271].
Elizabeth, and Edwardes' Palamon and Arcite, [lxxxiv]; prayers for the dead, under, and her relation to the later edition of Roister Doister, [193]; and Lyly, [266], [269]; and Greene, [408], [409], [416], [502].
Ellis, Mr. Havelock, his edition of Porter's 2 A. W. A., [515], [519], [531], [535], [554], and frequently in the notes to the present edition.
Ellis, his Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men, [89], [91].
Elze, Dr. Karl, on a verse in Friar Bacon, [510].
Encomium Lauri, by Gabriel Harvey, a line in, ridiculed by Peele, [373].
Endimion, by Lyly (edited by Professor Baker), [265], [267], [269], [272], [291].
Enfants de Maintenant, Les, a French moralité, [lxxxii].
Enfants sans souci, their sotties, [lxvi].
Englands Mourninge Gowne and Mourning Garment, [412].
England's Parnassus, by Allott, [420].
Eton, Udall at, [90].
Euphues and Euphuism, [265], [267], [297], [337], [646].
Eusebius, [xxxviii].
Everyman, the Moralle Play of, [l], [liii], [lv], [lvi], [lviii].
Every Man in his Humour, by Ben Jonson, its relation to Porter's work, [524], [530], [533].
Ezekias, by Udall, [93].
Fabliaux, [xvii], [lxv].
Faire Em and Greene's Friar Bacon, [411], [412], [418], [427].
Fairholt, F. W., his edition of Lyly's dramatic works, [276]; see also notes to Alexander and Campaspe.
Farce, and farce interlude, [xviii], [xxxvii], [lxiv], [lxvii]; French, [lxv], [15].
Farewell to Follie, one of Greene's pamphlets, [398], [411], [412].
Farewell to the Famous and Fortunate Generals, poem by Peele, [403].
Ferbrand, William, publisher of Porter's 2 A. W. A., [534].
Festival Plays, etc., [xxxvii–xlvi].
Fflagellacio, The, Wakefield miracle of, [xxvi–xxviii].
Fidei Defensor, use of the title, [184].
Fitzstephen, William, on saints' plays, [xiv], [xv].
Fleay, Mr. F. G., his Chronicle History of the English Stage, Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, and Life of Shakespeare, [lxxxii], [lxxxiii], [lxxxvi], [lxxxviii], [lxxxix], [xci], [336], [339], [347], [360], [383], [399], [403], [404], [406], [410], [412], [415], [418], [421], [424], [426], [521], [523], [527], [528], and other references.
Fletcher, John, his Bloody Brother, [352]; and Shakespeare, [660].
Fleury Plays, the, of St. Nicholas, [xvi].
Floegel, Geschichte d. grotesk-komischen, neuarbeitet von Ebeling, [xlv].
Flügel, Professor Ewald, Critical Essay on Udall, [89–104]; edition of Roister Doister, [105–189]; appendix to R. D., [189–194]; also [lxxviii]; his Lesebuch, [69], [91], [194].
Folk-lore, the background of, in O. W. T., [345–346].
Folk Lore Journal, specimens from, [xliii].
Fool, literature of the, [lii]; relation to the Vice, [xlvii–liv], [lxxxii]; in Roister Doister, [100], [101]; in Greene, [393], [430]; in Shakespeare, [644–646], etc.
Fools, The Feast of, [xx], [lxvi].
Four Elements, The, interlude by John Rastell, [lxi], [lxxi–lxxiv]; referred to, [109].
Four Kynges, [523].
Foure P.P., the play called The, by John Heywood, [9], [10].
Foster's Alumni Oxonienses, [518].
Frazer, J. G., The Golden Bough, on the "death-index," cf. O. W. T., [345].
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (The Famous Historie of Frier Bacon) by R. Greene, edition of, with essay and notes, by C. M. Gayley, [433–503]; appendix on the versification of, [503]; mention of, [xlviii], [li], [liv], [338], [389], [410], [413], [426].
"Friar Rush," [231].
Fulk Fitz Warine, The Story of, [127].
Fuller's Worthies, cited, [65].
Furnivall, Dr., his edition of the Digby Plays, [xxiii], [xxx], [xlvii], [lv]; his Polit. Rel. and Love Songs, [191].
Furnivall Miscellany, The, [xix].
Gallathea, by John Lyly, [268].
Gammer Gurton's Nedle, by William Stevenson, edition of, with essay on the authorship, date and qualities of the play, by Mr. Henry Bradley, [195–259]; other mention of, [lxxiii], [lxxviii], [lxx–lxxii], [xcii], [99], [121], [338], [342], [533].
Gayley, Professor C. M., Preface to this volume, [iii]; An Historical View of the Beginnings of English Comedy, [xiii–xcii]; regarding Roister Doister, [97], [104]; regarding Gammer Gurton, [198]; on the title of Old Wives' Tale, [347]; Critical Essay on Greene's Life and the Order of his Works, [397–431]; edition of Frier Bacon, [433–502]; appendix on Greene's versification, [503–511]: Critical Essay on Henry Porter's Life and his Place in English Drama, [513–536]; edition of Two Angry Women, [537–633].
Gascoigne, George, his Supposes, [lxxviii], [lxxxiv], [517]; his Glasse of Government, [lxxiv].
Gentylnes and Nobylyte, the dialogue of, [8].
Geoffrey, Abbot of St. Alban's, and the Ludus de S. Katharina, [xiv], [xvi].
George-a-Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield, [338], [392], [401], [533]; date and authorship, [418–420].
Germanic Philology, Journal of, [336].
Giant and the King's Daughter, the tale of the, in O. W. T. [354].
Gillette's Because She Loved Him So, mentioned, [529].
Giraldus Cambrensis, referred to, [426].
Glasse of Government, The, by Gascoigne, [lxxiv].
Gnapheus (W. Fullonius), his Acolastus, [lxx], [lxxi], [lxxxi].
Godly Queene Hester, a moral play, [xxxiv], [lxxvi], [lxxviii], [lxxxiii].
Godwin's Lives of the Necromancers, [281].
Golden Legend, The, of the Lives of the Saints, translated by Caxton, a source for plays, [xv], [xxxi], [xxxvii], [xliv].
Gosche's Jahrbuch, names of the Devil, [190].
Gosson, his Ephemerides of Phialo, [249]; on dramatic attractions, [341].
Gower, John, and 'Titivillus,' [190], and physique, [398].
Graf, Herman, Der Miles Gloriosus im englischen Drama, [190].
Greban, A., his play of the Passion, [xxxvi].
Greene, Robert, Monograph on his place in English Comedy, by Professor Woodberry, [387–394]; Critical Essay on his life and the order of his plays, with edition of his Frier Bacon, and appendix on his versification, by Professor Gayley, [395–511]; life, [397]; authorities on, [397]; misapprehensions concerning his career, [398]; development as dramatist and order of plays, [402]; plays conjecturally assigned to him, [418]; 'Young juvenall' and the comedie 'lastly writ,' [422]; Frier Bacon, composition, [411]; stage history and materials, [425]; dramatic construction, [427]; previous editions and the present text, [430]; Other mention, [lxxxii], [lxxxv], [lxxxvii], [xc]; and Lyly, [266]; and Peele, [338–339]; and Porter, [517]; and Shakespeare, [645], [647]; his Menaphon, [337]; dates of his Perimedes, Pandosto, Menaphon, Ciceronis Amor, Philomela, [398]; Arbasto, Morando, Planetomachia, printed, [400].
Greene's Vision, [400].
Gregory IX, against clerical participation in miracle plays, [xix].
Grim, the Collier of Croydon, [xlviii].
Grimm, J., Mythologie, cited, [373].
Grindal, Archbishop, [192], [400].
Gringoire, his l'Homme Obstiné, [xlix].
Griselda, play of, mentioned, [lxxi].
'Groatsworth' group of poets, the, [422–423].
Groatsworth of Wit, A, by Greene, [397], [398], [400], [402].
Grosart, Dr. A. B., his edition of Nashe's works, [337], [351]; of Harvey's, [359]; of Greene's works, [387], [397], [403], [410], [415], [416], [430]; article in Englische Studien, [418]; his edition of Selimus, [420]; on the authorship of A Knack, [424].
Guevara, Antonia de, his Dial of Princes, used by Lyly, [267], [337].
Gummere, Professor F. B., edition of Peele's Old Wives' Tale with Critical Essay on the author and the play, notes and appendix, [333–384].
Guy of Warwick, cited, [115].
Hackett, Thomas, licensed to print Roister Doister, [97].
Hales, Professor J. W., on the date of Roister Doister, Englische Studien, [95].
Halle, Adam de la, his opera of Robin et Marion, [xli].
Halliwell (and Wright), collection of Reliquiæ Antiquæ, [191].
Halliwell-Phillipps, Mr. J. O., [xli–xliii], [xlv], [liii], [171], [194], [528].
Hamlet, the early play attributed to Thomas Kyd, [427]; Shakespeare's, [534], [658].
Harrison's Description of England, [117], [167].
Hartmann's Iwein, a similarity in, to O. W. T., [373].
Harvester's song, the, in O. W. T., proposed restoration of, [383].
Harvey, Gabriel, and Lyly, [266], [348]; and Peele, [337], [340], [343]; and Nashe, in the Trimming of Thomas Nashe, [359]; and 'Huanebango,' [343], [345], [358–359], [373], [383]; and Greene, [398], [402], [423].
Haslewood, Joseph, his Ancient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poesy, [337].
Hathaway, R., and Porter, [517].
Haughton, W., and Porter, [524].
Hawkins, Thomas, his Origin of the English Drama, [lxxvi], [24].
Hazlitt, W. C., his edition of Dodsley's Old Plays, [104], [194], [204], [535], et passim.
Heber, Richard (Bibliotheca Heberiana in British Museum), on Porter, [517].
Henno, a play by Reuchlin, [lxix].
Henry IV., Parts I and II, Shakespeare's, [lxxxix], [534], [646].
Henry V., Shakespeare's, [653].
Henry VI., Parts I and II, [418], [427].
Henry VIII., Shakespeare's, [660].
Henry VIII., the usury statutes under, [95–97]; his song of "Pastime," [132].
Henslowe, Philip, his Diary, and Greene, [405], [408], [411], [415], [418]; and Porter, [515], [517], [518], [520], [522], [526–528].
Herford, Professor C. H., his Literary Relations of England and Germany, [lxx], [lxxiv], [lxxvi], [lxxxii], [lxxxv], [90].
Herod, the Wakefield play of, [xxvii].
Heywood, John, Critical Essay on his life and place in English comedy, with editions of his Play of the Wether, and his Johan, by Mr. A. W. Pollard, [19–85]; life, [3]; Heywood and Sir Thomas More, [5]; dramatic development and literary estimate, [6–12]; his Foure PP., Wether, Wit and Folly, Love, [6–11]; Pardoner and Johan, [6], assigned to him, [11]; Wether, early editions and the present text, [16]; his two achievements, [16]; Johan, previous editions and the present text, [61]; Other mention of H., [xvii], [xlix], [lvi], [lix], [lxi], [lxvl–xviii], [lxxviii], [lxxxii], [89], [95], [96]; his Proverbes, [110], [191], [194], [275].
Heywood, Thomas, and Henry Porter, [517], [521], [524], [526].
Hilarius, his plays, [xiv–xvi].
Hippe, Max, on the "Thankful Dead" theme, in Herrig's Archiv, [345].
Historia Histrionica, [lxxxi].
Histrio-Mastix (attributed to Marston), [xlviii].
Hohlfeld, Professor, Die altenglischen Kollectivmisterien, in Anglia, Bd. XIX, [xxv].
Hoker's Piscator, [lxxi].
Holinshed, R., Chronicles, on the dearth of corn in 1523, [40], [117].
Holland's Translation of Pliny, [279] et seq.
Homme Obstiné, l', [xlix].
Homme Pécheur, l', [xlix], [lxxii].
Hone, William, his Ancient Mysteries, [xxi], [xxxviii].
Horestes, by John Pikerynge, [xlix], [lii], [lxxxvii], [204].
Host, the miracle of the, [xxxix].
Hot Anger Soon Cold, by Porter (with Chettle and Ben Jonson), [522], [523].
Hox Tuesday play, the, mentioned, [xxxvii], [xli].
Hrosvitha, mentioned, [xvii].
'Huanebango' in O. W. T., and Gabriel Harvey, [343], [345], [359], [383].
Humanists, their drama, etc., [lxxiii], [lxxvi], [lxxxii], [98].
Humours, the comedy of, anticipations of, [lii], [liv], [lxiii], [lxxxvi], [532], et passim.
Hunt, Joseph, published Porter's 2 A. W. A., [534].
Hunter, Joseph, his Chorus Vatum Anglicanorum (in the British Museum), [518].
Hunting of Cupid, The, by Peele, [415].
Hyckescorner, a moral interlude, [lx], [lxxi], [lxxiv]; referred to, [133].
Ideal, the, in comedy, [xv], [xxi], [xxx], [xxxi], [xxxviii], [lviii], [lxi], [lxii], [lxix], [lxxviii], [lxxxii], [lxxxv], [lxxxvii], [xcii]; in Udall's, [99]; in Greene's, [390], [392], [394], [419], [428], [429]; in Shakespeare's, [637–643], [647], [648], [651], [654–661].
Induction, the use of, in Old Wives' Tale, [343]; in plays by Greene, Shakespeare, Nashe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher; Schwab's thesis on, [343–344].
Ingeland, Thomas, his interlude of The Disobedient Child, [lxxv].
Innocent III, against acting, [xix].
Interludes: Interludium de Clerico et Puella, [xvii], [xxxvii], [lxvi]; interludes in churches, [xx]; moral, [xl]; relation of miracle, moral, and interlude, [lv]; various kinds of interlude, [lvi]; causes of improvement in, [lvii]; farce and romantic interlude, [lxiv]; school and controversial, [lxxii]; Italian models, [lxxxviii]; See also under [John Heywood].
Intrigue and passion, plot of, [xcii].
Iphigenia, a children's play, [268].
Jacke Jugeler, play of, [xlix], [li], [lxxii], [lxxviii], [lxxix], [103], [107].
Jack the Giant-Killer, the story of, in connection with Old Wives' Tale, [345].
Jack Wilton, by Nashe, [266].
Jacob and Esau, The Historie of, a play, [lxxiv], [lxxvii], [lxxx], [lxxxii].
Jacobs, J., English Fairy Tales, [345], [359], [362].
James IV, The Scottish Historie of, by Greene, [lxxxiii], [389], [392], [404], [415], [418], [420], [427].
Jeffes, Anthony, and Humphrey, actors in the Admiral's company in Porter's time, [524].
Jew, the, in early comedy, [xc] (Jew of Malta, etc.).
Jobe, A History of, attributed to Greene, [418].
Johan Johan, Tyb, etc., A mery play betwene, assigned to John Heywood, an edition with critical essay and notes, by Mr. A. W. Pollard, [1–19], [59–87]; Other mention, [xvii], [lxix], [lxxxi], [533].
Johan, Kyng, by Bishop Bale, [xlix], [lxxii], [lxxv–lxxvii].
John, King of England, The Troublesome Raigne of, attributed to Greene, [418].
Jonson, Ben, [liii], [lxxiii], [lxxv], [lxxxviii]; his New Inn referred to, [109]; and Lyly, [274], [275]; his use of the induction, [343]; and Henry Porter, [515], [522], [533]; on the purpose of comedy, [637], [645]; in Troilus and Cressida, [638], [657], [658].
Joseph and Mary Plays, the, of York, Wakefield, and Coventry, chivalrous and romantic quality of, [xxix].
Juby, Ed., the actor, and Greene, [401].
Judicium, the Wakefield play of The, [xxvii], [xxix], [xlvi], [xlviii], [lxxxi].
Judith, by Macropedius, [lxx].
Jusserand, M. J. J., on Heywood's interludes, [lxvi].
Killing of the Children of Israel, the Digby play of the, [xxiii], [xxx].
Kind Hart's Dreams, by Chettle, [419], [422].
Kirchmayer (Naogeorgos), his Pammachius, [lxv], [lxx].
Kirkman, Francis, his catalogue of plays; Peele, [336]; Greene, [419]; Porter, [518].
Kittredge, Professor G. L., on Sir Clyomon, [336]; on a phrase in Alexander and Campaspe, [303].
Klein, Professor G. L., his Geschichte d. englischen Dramas, [xviii], [xxi], [xxxvi], [lii], [lxviii], [lxx].
Knack to Know a Knave, A, 'the comedie last writ' (?), compared with Friar Bacon, and with the Looking-Glasse, [418], [424], [425] and note, [427], [429], [457], [499]; mentioned, [xlviii], [xc].
Knight of the Burning Pestle, The, by Beaumont and Fletcher, [342], [343].
Koch, Englische Studien, note in, [190].
Kyd, Thomas, [lxxxviii]; and Lyly, [273]; and Greene, [410].
Lacuna, the metrical use of in dramatic blank verse, [510].
Lämmerhirt, G. P., Untersuchungen, u. s. w., concerning Peele, [341], [348].
Langbaine, G., his Account of the English Dramatick Poets, [518].
Langland, [xix]; his Piers Plowman, [xl], [108], [109], [191], etc.
Latimer, Bishop, his Sermons (on exorcising the devil), [192], [193].
Latin,—tropes, [xiii]; saints' plays, [xiv–xvi]; cultivation of Plautus and Terence in the Middle Ages and their impress on elegiac comedy, [xvii]; history of the later comedy, [lxv], [lxvii].
Leach, A. F., Some English Plays and Players (in the Furnivall Miscellany), [xix].
Lear, King, Shakespeare's, [418], [639], [660].
Lee, Mr. Sidney, his Life of Shakespeare, [406], [408].
Leicester, the Earl of, his relation to Endimion, [267]; to Alexander and Campaspe, [269]; his players, [399].
Legenda Aurea, by Jacobus Voragine, [xliv]; see also under [Caxton].
Legends, [xviii], [lxxxviii].
Leland, John, his relations with Udall, [89–92]; his Collectanea, [89], etc.
Leo X, and Heywood, [11].
Life-Index, the, instance of in O. W. T., [365].
Like wil to Like, quod the Devel to the Colier, by Ulpian Fulwel, [xlvii], [xlviii], [li], [lii], [lxxxiv], [lxxxvi], [108], [110], [342], [499].
Lillie's Light, [266].
Liturgical drama, the, [xiii], [xx].
Locher's translation of the Narrenschiff, [lx].
Lock, Henry, his Ecclesiastes, [266].
Lodge, Thomas, and Lyly, [266]; and Peele, [337]; and Greene; the Looking-Glasse, and their respective contributions to it, [405–407]; Lodge's Civil Wars, [405], [407], [409], [415], [418], [420–422]; and Porter, [517]; and Shakespeare, [645].
Longer thou Livest, etc., by W. Wager, [lxxxvi].
Look About You, published by Ferbrand, [534].
Looking-Glasse for London and England, A, by Greene and Lodge, [338], [352], [404]; the parts written by Lodge, [405]; characteristics of his verse, [407], [414], [415], [422], [425].
Lorenz, A.O.F., on the Miles Gloriosus and his Parasite, [190].
Loseley Mss., The, edited by A. J. Kempe, [90], [93], [94].
Love, The Play of, by John Heywood, [xlix], [liii], [lxvii], [lxix], [8–12].
Love's Labour's Lost, Shakespeare's, [xli], [275], [427], [644], [648], [649], [650], [654].
Love's Metamorphosis, by Lyly, [266], [268].
Love Prevented, by Porter, [521], [527].
Löwen, his Prinz Pickelhering, [xlv].
Ludi Sanctiores, mentioned by Fitzstephen, [xv].
Ludi Beatæ Christinæ, [xxxviii].
Ludus Coventriæ (seu Ludus Corporis Christi), the N-Town plays, commonly assigned to Coventry, which see.
Ludus de S. Katharina, by Geoffrey, [xiv], [xvi].
Ludus ludentem Luderum ludens, [lxxi].
Ludus super Iconia S. Nicolai, by Hilarius, [xiv], [xvi].
Lusty Juventus, by R. Wever, [xlvii], [li], [lxxii], [lxxvi].
Lydgate, John, [lii].
Lyly, John, Critical Essay on his life and place in English comedy, by Professor Baker, [263–276]; life of Lyly, [265]; place of Euphues in English literature, [266]; Lyly's plays, subdivision of them, [267]; date and sources of Alexander and Campaspe, [268]; literary estimate of A. and C., [269]; Lyly's development as a dramatist, [272]; place in English Comedy, [273]; previous editions of A. and C., and the present text, [275]; Professor Baker's edition of A. and C., [277–333]; Other mention, [lxxxvii], [xc], [348], [517], [646].
Lyndsay, Sir David, his Thrie Estatis, [lxxv].
Lyric, the, in the plays of Lyly, [274]; of Greene, [391].
Macbeth, Shakespeare's, [658].
Machiavelli, N., his Discourses, [200].
Macropedius, his Asotus and other plays, [lxx]; his Rebelles, [lxxiv].
Mactacio Abel, the Wakefield play of, [xxviii].
Magdalene, The Life of the, in Caxton's Golden Legend, [xxx].
Magnyfycence, a moral play by Skelton, [lviii], [168].
Maid's Metamorphosis, The, not by Lyly, [266].
Malone, Edmund, li, [430], [516], [518], [534].
Mamillia, by Greene, [397].
Mankynd, a moral play, [xlvii], [l], [li], [lvi], [lviii], [lix], [lx], [lxxi], [lxxiv], [lxxvi], [lxxvii].
Manly, Professor J. M., his Specimens of the Pre-Shakespearean Drama, [xiii], [xliii], [104], [204], [239], [276], [283]; and in notes to Roister, Gammer Gurton, and Campaspe.
Manners, of contemporary life as an element in drama, [xvi], [xvii], [xx], [xxi], [xxviii], [xxix], [xxxv], [xxxvi], [xxxix], [xli], [xlvi], [xlix–liv], [lviii–lxii], [lxiii], [lxv], [lxvii–lxix], [lxxii], [lxxviii] et seq., [xci]; in Heywood, [4], [11]; in Udall, [99], [103]; in Stevenson, [202–204]; in Lyly, [271], [275]; in Peele, [341–344], [347]; in Greene, [391–394], [428–430]; in Porter, [528], [530–533]; in Shakespeare, [639], [641–644], [648–661], passim.
Manuale ... ad usum insignis Ecclesiæ Eboracensis, [192].
Marie Magdalene, The Life and Repentaunce of, by Lewis Wager, [xxxi], [lxxxvi]. Edited by Professor F. I. Carpenter (Univ. Chicago Press).
Marlowe, Christopher, [lviii], [xc]; and Peele, [337], [339]; and Greene, [388], [389], [403–405], [414], [423]; and Porter, [523]; and Shakespeare, [652].
Marprelate Controversy, the, Lyly's part in, [265].
Marriage of Witte and Science, The, see under [Wit Plays].
Marston, John, and Henry Porter, [520].
Martin Marprelate, the Epistle and Epitome assign G. G. N. to Bridges, [200].
Martine Marsixtus, by R. W., and Greene, [401], [404].
Martin's Month's Minde (Nashe ?), cited, [353].
Marvels, or miracles of the saints, [xiv], [xv], [xvi], [xviii], [xx], [xxx], [xxxvii–xlvi], [lxii], [lxix], [lxxxvi].
Mary Magdalene, the Digby play of, and the importance of the character in romantic comedy, [xxx], [xxxi], [xxxvii], [xlviii], [l], [li], [lviii].
Mary, the Virgin, her importance as a romantic character, [xxix], [xxx].
Maskell, Monumenta Ritualia, [144], [192].
Masques, [xl], [lxxxix]; by Udall, [93], [94]; by Lyly, [267], [272]; by Shakespeare, [650], [651], [660], [661].
Measure for Measure, Shakespeare's, [657].
Medwall, H., his Goodly Interlude of Nature, [lx].
Menaphon, by Greene; his letter prefixed; and Nashe's Preface, [337], [389], [411], [412], [423], [424].
Merchant of Venice, The, Shakespeare's, xc, [305], [534], [583], [651], [652].
Meredith, Mr. George, on woman in comedy, [lxi]; on the comic spirit, [637].
Meres, Francis, his Palladis Tamia, on Peele, [337]; on Greene and Nashe, [422]; on Porter, [517], [528].
Merlin, similarities to the character of, in Old Wives' Tale, [345], [356].
Merrie conceited Jests of George Peele, [337].
Merry Wives of Windsor, The, Shakespeare's, [533], [645], [652], [654].
Meyer, E., Geschichte d. hamburgischen Schul-und-Unterrichtswesens im Mittelalter, [xxi].
Middleton, Thomas, his Game of Chess, [275]; his Trick to Catch the Old One, cited, [359].
Midsummer Night's Dream, A, Shakespeare's, [275], [389], [415], [427], [533], [534], [648], [651].
'Miles Gloriosus,' the, of Plautus, in English literature, lxxiv, [98], [189], [190].
Milton, John, his Comus compared with the Old Wives' Tale, [347].
Miracle plays, Biblical and legendary, [xiv–xvi], [xviii–xx]; the cycles in their relation to English comedy, [xxi–xxxi]; historical order of comic passages in the cycles, sequence of æsthetic values, [xxiv] et seq.; dramatic value of, [xxxi–xxxvii]; relation to the stage, and the theory of the English miracles, [xxxii], [xxxiv]; national note in, [xxxvi]; how they fall short of artistic comedy, [xxxvii]; nature of legendary, [xxxviii]; relation to moral and interlude, [lv].
Mirth plays, [lxxi], [lxxii].
Misogonus, by Thomas Richardes(?), [lxxviii], [lxxxi–lxxxiii], [191].
Missa Gulæ, in Halliwell and Wright's Reliquiæ Antiquiæ, [191].
Mock Requiem, the, in Roister Doister, sources, etc., [191–192].
Monachopornomachia, [lxxi].
Mone, F. J., Shauspiele des Mittelalters, [190].
Monox, Will, and Greene, [423].
Montemayor, Jorge de, his pastoral of Diana Enamorada and Two Gentlemen of Verona, [650].
Moral, the, or moral play, not properly called morality, [lv], note [61]; collective, of the fourteenth century, [xxxiv]; nature of the moral, [xlix]; the vice in, [xlvi], [xlviii–liv]; relation of moral, miracle, and interlude, [liv–lvii]; the older morals in their relation to comedy, [lvii–lxii]; their dramatic contribution, [lxii–lxiv]; school interlude and controversial moral, [lxix–lxxvii]; French moralities, [lxxii]; fusion plays, [lxxvii], [lxxviii]; moral interlude, [lxxx]; survival of rudimentary, decadent, functionless, [lxxxv], [lxxxvi]; variations of, and moral tragedies, [lxxxvi]; pleasant and stately, [lxxxviii]; other mention, [4], [5], [99], [103], [267], [407].
Morando, Greene's, [397].
More, Sir Thomas, [lxi], [lxxvii]; and Heywood, [5], [89].
Morley, Professor Henry, his English Writers, [lii].
Morris-dance, [xl].
Mortificacio, The, York play of, [xxv].
Morton, Cardinal, [5].
Mother Bombie, by Lyly, [266], [268], [272], [273], [338].
Mourning Garment, The, by Greene, [398], [406], [412], [416].
Movement, the, in comedy, compared with that of tragedy, [lxiii].
Mucedorus, by Lodge (?), [420], [499].
Much Ado about Nothing, Shakespeare's, [646], [654].
Mummings, [xl].
Munday, Anthony, his Two Italian Gentlemen, [lxxxviii]; and Lyly, [266]; and Porter, [518], [524].
Mundus et Infans, [lviii].
Mydas, by Lyly, [265], [267], [268], [272].
Myroure of oure Ladye, definition of 'Tytyvyllus,' [190].
Mysteries, Dodsley's imported name for miracles, [xxii]; Corpus of French, [xxxiv].
Myth, classical, as material for plays, [lxxxiv], [lxxxvii], [lxxxviii], [lxxxix], xcvi, [268], [657], [658], [660].
Naogeorgos (Kirchmayer), his Pammachius, [lxx].
Narcissus, a play, [268].
Narrenschiff, Locher's translation, [lx].
Nash's History of Worcestershire, [65].
Nashe, Thomas, on Gascoigne, [lxxxv]; his Jack Wilton, [266]; his Four Letters Confuted, [351]; on Peele in his letter prefixed to Greene's Menaphon, [337]; on Kyd, [410]; on Greene in Have with You to Saffron Walden, [337], [419]; on the Harveys in Strange Newes, [423]; also, [373]; that he was "young Juvenal," [422]; his relations with Greene proved by reference to Meres, Chettle, Dekker, his own Strange Newes, Anatomie of Absurditie, Astrological Prognostication, Summer's Last Will, [217], [422–424]; his Christe's Teares, [424]; his relations with the 'Groatsworth' group of poets, [403], [424]; with Porter (?), [515], [517].
Nativity, plays of the, [xxii], [xxxiv].
Nature, The Goodly Interlude of, by Medwall, [xlviii], [l], [lvi], [lix–lx], [lxxi], [lxxvi].
Never too Late, by Greene, [397], [398], [410].
New English Dictionary, The, by Dr. Murray, Mr. Bradley et al., frequent references in notes to plays here presented.
Newcastle Plays, the sensational in The, [xxiii], [xxix].
Newe Custome, a controversial moral, [lxxxvi].
Nice Wanton, the interlude of, [lxxii], [lxxiv].
Nicholas, his Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council, [91].
Nichols, John, The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, [93].
Nicholson, Dr. Brinsley, on Old Wives' Tale, [360], [370].
Nietzsche, F., his Geburt d. Tragödie, and Fröhliche Wissenschaft, [338].
Nigromansir, The, by Skelton, [xlvii], [xlix], [li], [lviii], [lix].
Noah, the York Play of, [xxv], [lxxxi]; the Wakefield play of, [xxvii], [xxviii].
North, Sir Thomas, his translation of Plutarch's Lives, [285], [290], [291], [292] et seq.
Notes and Queries, [xliii].
Novelle, adaptation of them to drama, [ix], [lvii].
N-town, The, or so-called Coventry or Hegge Plays, [xxiii], [xxiv], [xxix], [xxxiv], [xxxvii], [xlviii], [l], [lviii].
Officium Lusorum, [191].
Old Wives' Tale, The, by George Peele, edited with critical essay and notes by Professor Gummere, [333–382]; also Appendix on Sources of Characters, and the Harvesters' Song, by the same, [382–384]; Other mention, [409], [427].
Orlando Furioso, The, by Ariosto, [346]; used by Peele in O. W. T., [383]; by Greene, [409].
Orlando Furioso, The Historie of, by Greene, [342], [383], [389], [408–411], [414], [415], [417], [418].
Osborn, in Teufelslitteratur, names of the Devil, [190].
Ovid, Lyly's indebtedness to, [272], [281], [298], etc.
'Owleglasse,' mentioned in Two Angry Women, [613].
Palamon and Arcite, by Richard Edwardes, [lxxxiv].
Palladis Tamia, [528], and see under [Meres].
Palsgrave, John, his edition of the Acolastus, [lxx], [lxxii], [lxxxii]; Lesclarcissement de la Langue Francoyse, [109], [194], and frequently in notes to Roister.
Pammachius, by Naogeorgos, translated by Bale, [lxx], [lxxv].
Pamphilus, the comedy of, [xvii].
'Pancaste,' the real name of 'Campaspe,' [329].
Parasite, the domestic, [xvii], [lxxxii]; in ancient and modern comedy, [100], [101].
Pardoner, The, and the Frere, interlude assigned to Heywood, [lxvii], [lxix], [lxxxi], [10], [15].
Pardonneur, etc., Farce nouvelle d'un, [15].
Paris, Matthew of, his Lives of the Abbots of St. Albans, [xiv].
Parker, Archbishop, on Still, [201].
Parker Society Publications, on exorcism, [193].
Parodies, religious, [xiv–xx]; of church services, [191], [192].
Parsones, Thomas, and Porter, [516].
Passion, mystery play by A. Greban, [xxxvi].
Pastoral scenes and masques, [272], [391].
Paternoster Play, The, [xxxiv], [l].
'Pathelin,' [lxvi].
Patient Grissel, [191].
Paul, St., The Conversion of, in the Digby collection, [xxx], [xxxvii].
Peele, George, and Lyly, [lxxxvii], [xc], [275]; Critical Essay on, with edition of his Old Wives' Tale, by Professor Gummere, [333–384]; Peele's life, [335]; plays assigned to him, [335]; his place in the development of English drama, [336]; the O. W. T. an innovation, [341]; the background of folk lore in O. W. T., [345]; literary estimate of, [346]; sources, title, text of, [347], [382]; the Harvesters' song in, [383]; his Hunting of Cupid, [423].
Peile, Dr., and Gammer Gurtons Nedle, [198].
Pembroke, the Earl of, his players, and Porter, [520].
Penner, E., his Metrische Untersuchungen zu Peele, [348].
Percy, Dr., on Hyckescorner, [lx].
Pericles, probably Shakespeare's, [191], [659], [660].
Pernet qui va au vin, tresbonne et fort ioyeuse, Farse nouuelle de, [lxv], [lxvi], [12], [15].
Perymedes, by Greene, [403], [406], [409].
Petit de Julleville, La Comédie en France au moven âge, [xxi], [lxvi].
Petrarch, his Philologia, [lxvii].
Pettie, George, his Petite Pallace of Pettie His Pleasure, [267].
Philip II, and Mydas, [268].
Phillips, Edward, his Theatrum Poetarum on Faire Emm, [418].
Philogenia, an Italian play, [lxix].
Piccolomini, his Crisis, [lxvii].
'Pickelhering,' [xlv].
Piers Plowman, [xl], [108], [109], [191], etc.
Pikerynge, John, his Interlude of Vice concerning Horestes, [lxxv], [lxxxiii], [lxxxvii].
Pilkington, Exposition upon Aggeus, [191].
Pinner of Wakefield, The, see [George-a-Greene].
Planetomachia, by Greene, [397], [398].
Plautus, [xvi], [lxv], [lxvii], [lxviii], [lxxii], [lxxix], [lxxxii], [lxxxvi]; Udall and, [99]; Lyly and, [268]; Shakespeare and, [650]; also frequent references in notes to Roister Doister.
Play of Love, The, see [John Heywood].
Play of the Sacrament, The, [xxxix].
Play of the Wether, see [John Heywood].
Play within the play, the, in Peele, etc., [343]; in Greene, [426].
Players, see under [Acting].
Pliny, Lyly's indebtedness to, [267], [269]; his History of World, [279]; also frequently in notes to Campaspe.
Plutarch on Education, and on Exile used by Lyly, [267]; also his Life of Alexander, [269], [283]; and elsewhere in the notes to Lyly's Alexander and Campaspe.
Poliscene, an Italian play, [lxix].
Politics, in Lyly's allegories, [275].
Pollard, Mr. A. W., his edition of the Towneley Plays, [xxiii], [xxvi]; on the Towneley (Wakefield) master, [xxviii]; his English Miracle Plays, [xlix], [li], [lxvi]; A Critical Essay on John Heywood, with editions of his Play of the Wether and Johan, [1–86].
Polyhymnia, by Peele, [336].
Polytypic plays, [lvii], [lxxii], [lxxvii–lxxxv].
Popular festival plays, [xxxix–xlvi].
Porter, Henry, the dramatist, [lxxxviii]; Critical Essay on his life and dramatic work, with an edition of his Two Angry Women, by Professor Gayley, [513–633]; facts of Porter's life, [515]; early notices, [517]; conjectural identity, [518]; dramatic career, [520]; his associates, [522–524]; date of his extant play, [525]; its dramatic qualities and construction, [528]; portrayal of character, [530]; place in the history of comedy, [533]; previous editions and the present text, [535].
Porter, Henry, the musical composer, [518].
Porter, Walter, [518].
Prayer, the, at the end of early plays, [184]; and see close of other comedies in this volume.
Preston, Thomas, his Cambises, King of Percia, [lxxxvi].
Pride of Life, The, a moral, [liii], [lvi], [lviii].
'Priest of the Sun, The,' in Greene and Lodge's Looking-Glasse, [406].
Processus Crucis, story about a, by Bebel, [xxxvi].
Prodigal Son Plays, [lxxii–lxxiv], [lxxx], [lxxxii], [lxxxiii].
Prose, in Medwall's Nature, [lx]; in the Supposes, [lxxxv]; in plays of Lyly, [271], [274]; of Greene, [417].
Prouerbes in the Englishe Tonge, Dialogue Conteyneng the Number of the Effectuall, [3].
Publishers: of Heywood's plays, [5], [8], [10], [13], [16], [17], [63]; of Roister Doister, [97], [104]; of Gammer Gurton, [197]; of Lyly's plays, [276]; of Peele's Old Wives' Tale, [348]; of Greene's plays, [403], [404], [405], [408], [411], [415], [418], [420], [430]; of Porter's 2 A. W. A., [534], [535].
Puttenham, George, his Arte of English Poesie, [lxxxiii].
'Pyrgopolinices' in Plautus, [102].
Quadrio, F. S., Della Storia e della Ragione d'ogni Poesia, [xviii], [lxvii].
Queen's players (Elizabeth's, 1583–1592), Greene's relations with the, [408], [409], [411], [413], [417], [418].
Querolus, a Latin play, [xvii].
Quintus Fabius, a play, [268].
Quip for an Upstart Courtier, A, by Greene, [371], [398], [423].
Radcliffe, Ralph, his Griselde and other plays, [lxxi].
Ram Alley, by Barry, [352].
Rankins, William, a writer for Henslowe in Porter's time; author of Mulmutius Dunwallow; joint author of plays with Hathaway, [524].
Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune, The, an early romantic comedy, [lxxxviii]; the induction in, [343]; 'Lentulo' in, [430].
Rastell, John, reputed author of A New Interlude and Mery of the Nature of the Four Elements, [lxi], [lxxi]; publisher and perhaps author of Calisto and Melibœa, [lxviii]; relations with John Heywood, [5], [8].
Rastell, William, printer of four of Heywood's plays, [5], [6], [8], [10], [86].
Ray, J., English Proverbs, [108], etc., [194], [569], [595].
R. B. (Richard Bower?), Mr. Fleay's conjecture concerning, [336].
Realism in comedy: in Bodel's St. Nicholas, [xvi]; in late Latin comedies, [xviii]; in religious parodies, [xx]; in the miracle cycles, [xxiv–xxx], [xxxv–xxxvi]; in the later 'marvels,' [xxxix]; in popular festival plays, [xli–xlvi]; of the miracle Devil, [xlvi] et seq.; of the Vice, [xlix] et seq.; in the older moral plays, [lviii–lxii], [lxiii]; in the French and English farce, etc., [lxiv–lxvi]; in school plays, continental and English, [lxix–lxxvii]; in fusion plays, [lxxvii] et seq.; in survivals of the moral, [lxxxvi]; in the Rare Triumphs and in Wilson's 'Stately Morals,' [lxxxviii–xc]; comedy realistic or satirical, [xci]; In Heywood, [4] et seq.; in Udall, [99], [103]; in Stevenson, [202–204]; in Lyly, [275]; in Peele, [342–344]; in Greene, [388], [391–394], [419], [428–430]; in Porter, [528–533]; in Shakespeare, [644], [645], [648], [653] et seq.
Rebelles, by Macropedius, [lxx], [lxxiv].
Red Ettin, The, a fairy tale referred to in comment on O. W. T., [345], [362].
Redford's Wit and Science, [lxix], [lxxii]. Reed, Isaac, his edition of Baker's Dictionary of the Stage, on Gammer Gurton, [201].
Regularis Concordia Monachorum, [xiii].
Reinhardstoettner, Karl von, on Plautus, [117], [190].
Reliquiæ Antiquæ, by Halliwell and Wright, [xxxvi], [191].
Renaissance, the, effect upon drama, [lxiv]; upon Greene, [390].
Repentance of Robert Greene, The, [398], [418].
Respublica, a controversial moral, [xlix], [lxxii], [lxxiv], [lxxvi], [lxxvii].
Resurrection, The, miracle plays of, [xiv], [xix], [xxii].
Returne from Pernassus, The, on rivalry of Jonson and Shakespeare, [638].
Reuter, Kilian, his Latin play of St. Dorothea, [lxx].
Revels at Court, Accounts of the, [270]; Udall and the Revels, [93].
Rhetorical pause, the, methods of representing it in dramatic blank verse, [510–511].
Ribbeck, Otto, his Alazon, [189].
Richardes, Thomas, perhaps author of Misogonus, [lxxxi].
Ritson's Songs, [191].
Ritter, O., on Greene's Frier Bacon, [413], [426].
Rituale Romanum, the, and Udall's parody of, [192].
Ritwyse, John, author of a satiric interlude, [lxxi].
Robert of Gloucester, Robert of Brunne, their use of the septenarius, [189].
Robin et Marion, by Adam de la Halle, [xli].
Robin Hood plays, [xxxviii], [xl]; ref., [418]; The Lytell Geste of, [130].
Roister Doister, by Udall, [lix], [lxxii], [lxxvii], [lxxviii], [lxxix], [lxxx], [lxxxii], [xcii]. Edition with Critical Essay on the life of the author, the text, date, plot, characters of the play, with notes and appendix on various matters, by Professor Flügel, [87–194]; other mention, [202], [203], [204], [338].
Rojas, Fernando de (and Cota), their Calisto and Melibœa, [lxviii].
Rolls Series, [xix].
Romantic, the, in saints' plays, [xiv–xvi]; in Latin interludes and elegiac comedy, xvii, [xviii]; in miracle cycles, [xxiv], [xxix–xxx]; in various later 'marvels,' [xxxvii], [xxxviii]; in the older moral plays, [lviii–lix]; foreign influence and native romance, [lxv], [lxvii–lxix]; in the wit plays, [lxxiii]; in the plays of prodigals, [lxxiv–lxxv]; in fusion plays, [lxxvii] et seq.; especially in Damon and The Supposes, [lxxxiv–lxxxv]; the movement toward romantic comedy, [lxxxvii]; nature, subjects, and kinds of romantic comedy, [lxxxvii], [lxxxviii], [xci]; in Heywood, [lxix], [6]; in Lyly, [271–275]; in Peele, [338], [341–347]; in Greene, [390], [427]; in Greene and Shakespeare, [643], [645], [647] et seq.
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's, [533], [590], [603], [652].
Rosalynde, Euphues' Golden Legacie, by Thomas Lodge, [645].
Rose Theatre, the, and Greene, [408], [411]; and Porter, [519], [520], [521].
Ross, Mr. C. H., on the authorship of Gammer Gurton, [202].
Rowley, Samuel, intimacy of Henry Porter with, [524].
Royal entries, their dramatic significance, [xl].
Royal Exchange, by Greene, [398].
Rutebeuf, his play of Theophilus, [xvi].
R. W., his Martine Marsixtus, [424].
Rye's East Anglian Glossary, [211].
Sacrament plays, [xxxvii], [xxxix].
Saints' plays, the early, their nature and relation to comedy, [xiv–xxi]; the later, their contribution to drama, [xxvii]; a list of, and their connection with romantic plays, [xxxviii]; secularized as in St. George, [xli–xlv]; mentioned, [lxii], [lxxxiv], [lxxxviii]; The Play or Pageant of St. Anne, [xv]; St. Botulf, [xv], [xxxviii]; St. Christian, St. Christina, Sts. Crispin and Crispinian, [xxxviii]; St. Dorothea, [lxviii]; St. Edward and St. Fabyan, [xxxviii]; St. George, [xv], [xxxviii], [xli]; St. Katharine, [xiv], [xv], [xxxviii]; St. Laurence, [xxxviii]; St. Mary Magdalene, [xxx], [xxxvii], [lxxxvi]; St. Nicholas, [xv], [xvi]; St. Olave, [xxxviii]; St. Paul, [xxx], [xxxvii], [l]; St. Sebastian, [xxxviii]; St. Susanna, xv, [xxxviii].
St. Andrew's Day, note to mention in O. W. T., [358].
St. Augustine, against the mimi, etc., [xix].
St. Dyryk, perhaps Theodoric, [69].
St. James the More, Life of, [xliv].
St. Jerome, his attitude toward Plautus and Terence, [xvii]; and legendary miracles, [xxxviii].
St. John's, Beverley, Resurrection play at, [xiii], [xx].
St. Luke's Day, mentioned in O. W. T., [358].
St. Modwena, mentioned in Johan, [82].
St. Sithe (?), [213].
Satire, mediæval in drama, [xvii]; in religious parodies, [xx]; in the miracles, [xxiv], [xxviii–xxix], [xxxvi]; the Devil not primarily satirical, [xlvi], [xlviii]; the Vice in satirical literature, [li–liv]; in the interlude, [lvi], [lxv], [lxx], [lxxvi], [lxxvii], [lxxxiii], [lxxxvi], [xci]; in Heywood, [4] et seq.; See also articles on [Udall], [Lyly] ([265], [267]), [Peele], [Greene], [Shakespeare].
Scene, the, beside a scene, [424].
Schelling, Professor F. E., his English Chronicle Plays, [lxxvi]; his edition of Tom Tyler, [lxxxi].
Schick, Professor, his edition of Kyd's Spanish Tragedy, [410]; on Faire Emm, [411].
Schipper, Professor, his Neuenglische Metrik, applied to Greene's verses, [508–509].
School plays, [xiv], [lxv], [lxix–lxxv]; English for Latin, [90], [98], [197–198], [267], [270].
Schwab, Das Schauspiel im Schauspiel, [343].
Scillaes Metamorphosis, by Lodge, [406].
Scipio Africanus, the play of, [268].
Scott, Sir Walter, account of Shetland Sword Dance in The Pirate, [xliii], [xlv]; on "Brotherhood in Arms," [366].
Second and Third Blast of Retrait from Plaies and Theaters, Henry Denham's, on 'strange' comedies, [342].
Second Trial, The, the York play of, [xxv].
Secular plays, the early, and their contribution to comedy, [xx–xxi], [xxxvii–xlvi]; see also [Morals], [Farce], [Interludes], and [Romantic Comedy].
Secunda Pastorum, the Second Shepherds' Pageant of the Wakefield cycle, [xxvii], [xxviii], [xxxii], [lxix], [3], [202], [533].
Selimus, The First Part of the Tragical Raigne of, not by Greene, [418], [420], [482], [483].
Senarius, The, in Greene, [509]; and the Septenarius in Udall, [189].
Seneca, [lxxxv], [275].
Sequentia falsi Evangelii Secundum Marcam, in Du Méril, [191].
Seven Deadly Sins, the, [xxx], [xxxi], [xlix], [l], [lii], [liv].
Shakespeare, William, the Fool in his plays, [lii], [lxxxiii]; incidental mention, [lxxxv], [191] et passim; relation to Lyly's work, [271], [275], [287], [322]; to Peele's, [336], [343], [345]; to Greene's, [387–389], [393–394], [401–402], [415]; resemblances to, in Porter, [517]; Shakepeare as a Comic Dramatist, a monograph by Professor Dowden, [635–661]; the essentials of Shakespearian comedy, [637]; tragedy compared with comedy, [639]; comedy, the characters in, and their relation to incident, etc., [640–660]; punishment and rewards in Shakespeare's comedy, [641–642]; compared with Jonson's comedy, [641]; complication and resolution, love, laughter, satire, [642–643]; intrigue and treatment of materials, [644]; euphuism, [646]; his development as a comic dramatist, [648] et seq.; transformation plays, [648]; Love's Labour's Lost, [649]; The Comedy of Errors, [650]; The Two Gentlemen of Verona, [650]; A Midsummer Night's Dream, [651]; The Merchant of Venice, [652]; The Taming of the Shrew, [653]; the Falstaff plays, The Merry Wives of Windsor, King Henry V, [653–654]; Much Ado about Nothing, [654]; Twelfth Night, [655]; All's Well that Ends Well, [656]; Measure for Measure, [657]; Troilus and Cressida, [657]; his relation to Chapman, Dekker, Marston, Jonson, Southampton, [656–657]; the period of tragedy, [657–658]; Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, The Two Noble Kinsmen, [659–661].
Shaw, Robert, a player acquaintance of Henry Porter, [516], [524].
Shearmen and Taylors' Pageant, the Coventry Guild play of the, [xxiii].
Shepherd's Plays, The, of York, [xxv]; of Wakefield, [xxvii], [xxviii], [lxxxi]; and see [Secunda Pastorum].
Sherwood, Thomas, his Anglais et François Dictionaire, added to Cotgrave, [118], [194], etc.
Shipwrights' Play, The, of Newcastle, [xlviii], [lix].
Short Discourse of my Life, A, by Greene, [397].
Shows, dumb, [lxxxix].
'Shrew' plays, [lxxxi].
Shrewsbury, religious play at, [xiii].
Sidney, Sir Philip, [337]; his Arcadia, [389].
Simpson, R., his School of Shakespeare, [404], [422].
Singer, John, one of the Admiral's men in Porter's time.
Sir Armadace, the "Thankful Dead" in, and O. W. T., [345]
Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes, [lxxxviii], [335], [341], [342].
Sir John Oldcastell, by A. Munday and others, [523].
Six Hundred Epigrams, by John Heywood, [3].
Skeat, Professor W. W., [xiii], [110], [190], [374].
Skelton, John, contribution to Fool-literature, [lii]; his Magnyfycence, [lviii], [189]; his Nigromansir, [xlviii], [l], [lviii]; his Phyllyp Sparowe, [192].
Slater, Martin, an associate of Henry Porter, [521].
Smeken, his Sacrament Play, [xxxix].
Smith, Miss Lucy Toulmin, her edition of the York Plays, [xxiii], [xxvi].
Smith, Toulmin, his English Gilds, [xxxviii].
Solyman and Perseda, perhaps by Kyd, the source of Peel's 'Erestus' in O. W. T., [383].
Sonnets, the, of Shakespeare, [656], [658].
Sotties, the French, [lxv–lxvi].
Southampton, the Earl of, [646].
South English Legendary, The, [xliv].
Spanish Masquerado, The, by Greene, [398], [409].
Spanish Tragedy, The, by Thomas Kyd, [410], [427].
Spencers, The, or Despencers, a tragedy by Porter and Chettle, [516], [523]. Spenser, Edmund, Lyly compared with, [274]; Harvey's characterization of, [340]; his Tears of the Muses, [405]; other mention, [421], [426].
Spenser, Gabriel, the actor, [524].
Spider and the Flie, The, by Heywood, [3].
Stansby, William, printer of Lyly's plays for Blount, [269], [276].
Stanyhurst, Richard, his hexameters and Harvey's ridiculed in O.W.T., [373].
Staple of News, The, by Ben Jonson, [xlv].
Steevens, George, his letter on Comus, [348].
Stevenson, William, the author, according to Mr. Henry Bradley, of Gammer Gurtons Nedle; Critical Essay on his life and the play assigned to him, with an edition of G.G.N., notes and an appendix, by Mr. Bradley, [205–259]. Other mention, [lix], [lxxx], [lxxxii].
Still, Dr. John, not the author of Gammer Gurtons Nedle, [199–202].
Storojenko, Professor, his Life of Greene (in Dr. Grosart's edition of Greene), [397], [406], [415].
Stow, John, his Survey, [xxxviii]; on mummings, [xl].
Strange, Lord, his players (1589-1593), and Greene's Orlando, [408]; and Frier Bacon, [411].
Studentes, see [Stymmelius].
Stymmelius, the author of the play of Studentes, [lxx], [lxxiv], [lxxxii].
Summer's Last Will and Testament, by Thomas Nashe, [384], [424].
Supposes, The, by George Gascoigne, [lxxviii], [lxxxii], [lxxxv], [lxxxvii], [lxxxviii].
Suppositi, I, by Ariosto, adapted by Gascoigne, [lxviii].
Susanna, a play by Macropedius, [lxx]; see also [St. Susanna].
Sussex, the Earl of, his players (1591-1594), and Friar Bacon, [411]; and George-a-Greene, [413].
Swoboda, Dr., his John Heywood als Dramatiker, [12].
Sword Plays, [xliii], [xlv].
Symonds, J.A., his Predecessors of Shakespeare, [lxviii], [339], [346], [422].
Talents, The, the Wakefield play of, called Processus Talentorum, [xxviii].
Tamburlaine the Great, by Marlowe, and Greene's Alphonsus, [403]; and the Looking-Glass, [406]; and Orlando, [410]; and George-a-Greene, [418].
Taming of a Shrew, The, example of a play within a play, [343].
Taming of the Shrew, The, Shakespeare's, [lxxxv], [415], [652].
Tempest, The, Shakespeare's, lxxxix, [644], [659], [660].
Ten Brink, Professor B., on the priority of legend to Scripture in English comedy, [xiii–xiv]; on the dramatic value of the miracle plays, [xxxii]; on the characteristics of tragedy and comedy, [lxii].
Terence, indebtedness of modern comedy to, [xvi], [xvii], [lxvii], [lxviii]; the 'Christian Terence,' [lxxii], [lxxxii]; Udall's Flowers from Terence, [89], [98], [101], [102]; notes to Roister Doister, [288].
Tertullian, against acting, [xix].
Thankful Dead, the, a popular motif, [345], [365].
That Will Be Shall Be, a play, [521], [526].
Theophilus, by Rutebeuf, [xvi].
Thersytes, A Newe Interlude called, [lix], [lxxi], [lxxii], [lxxviii]; the authorship of, and date, [12–14], [108], [112], [191] et passim.
Three Heads of the Well, The, a fairy tale referred to in O.W.T., [345], [359], [372].
Three Ladies of London, The, by R.W., probably Robert Wilson, [lxxxviii], [xc], [xci].
Three Lordes and Three Ladies of London, The, by the R.W. of the Three Ladies, [lxxxviii], [xc], [xci].
Thrie Estatis, A Satire of the, by Lyndsay, [xlix].
Thümmel, Julius, on the Miles Gloriosus in Shakespeare, [190].
Tyde Taryeth no Man, The, by George Wapull, [lxxxvi].
Timon of Athens, Shakespeare's, [659].
Tindale, on the use of the holy candle, [192]; also cited, [142], [154].
'Titiville,' in Roister Doister, [190]; 'Titivillus' in Mankynd, [xlvii], [xlviii].
Titus Andronicus, [418].
Tityrus and Gallathea, by Lyly, [265].
Tobias, the Play of, mentioned, [xxxiv].
Tom Tyler and his Wife, the play of, (edited by Professor Schelling), [lxxxi]; Kirkman's edition, [336]; mentioned, [530], [533].
Topsell's History of Four-footed Beastes, [280], [281].
Towne, Thomas, an actor in the Admiral's company in Porter's time, [524].
Towneley Plays, The, edited by A.W. Pollard and George England, [xxiii], [xxiv], etc. See [Wakefield].
Tragedy, compared with comedy, [xxi], [xxii], [lxii], [639].
Train's Geschichte d. Juden in Regensburg, [xxxi].
Transition, of plays from miracle and moral to comedy, [lvii], [lxii], [lxiv], [lxix].
Travesties of religious services, [xx], [xxi].
Trial before Herod, The, in the York plays, [xxv].
Triall of Treasure, The, [lxxxvi], [121], [123].
Trimeter, in Roman comedy, [189].
Troilus and Cressida, Shakespeare's, a satire on Ben Jonson, [638], [657], [658].
Tullie's Love, by Greene, [410]; similarity to Friar Bacon, [414].
Turberville, on Richard Edwardes, [lxxxiv]; Turberville's Venerie, reference to [440].
'Tutivillus' in the Wakefield Judicium, [xxix], [xlvi], [xlviii].
Tusser, Thomas, his 500 Pointes, and Udall, [90].
Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's, [352], [646], [655], [656].
Two Angry Women of Abington, The Pleasant Historie of the, by Henry Porter, edited with critical essay and notes by C.M. Gayley, [513–633]; The Second Parte of the Two Angrey Women, [516], [522], [524], [525].
Two Gentlemen of Verona, The, Shakespeare's, [648], [650].
Two Italian Gentlemen, or Fidele and Fortunio, by Anthony Munday, [lxxxviii].
Two Mery Wemen of Abenton, The, by Porter, [516], [523], [535].
Two Noble Kinsmen, The, by Shakespeare and Fletcher, [660].
Udall, Nicholas, mention of his Roister Doister, [lix] et passim; his Flowers from Terence, [lxxi], [89]; text of his Roisier Doister, edited with critical essay, notes, and appendix, by Professor Flügel, [87–194]; life of Udall, [89]; date of the play, [95]; date of the early edition, [97]; place of R.D. in English literature, [98]; the plot and characters, [100]; the present text and earlier reprints, [104]; his Apophthegms, [142], etc.; Appendix, [188–194]; the metre of R.D., [189]; the figure of the Miles Gloriosus in English literature, [189]; 'Titiville,' [190]; 'Mumblecrust' and the maids, [191]; the mock requiem and other parodies, [191]; Roister as 'Vagrant,' [192]; the prayer and 'song' at the end, [193]; works quoted in the notes, [194].
Ugolino, his Philogenia, [lxvii].
Ulrici, H., on Greene, [408].
Usury statutes of Henry VIII and Edward VI, [96].
Valentine and Orson, [418], [426].
Vanbrugh, Sir John, his character of 'Hoyden,' [531].
Vergerio, his Paulus, [lxvii].
Versification, alleged irregularities in the, of Friar Bacon, a study by C. M. Gayley, [503–513].
'Vice,' the rôle of the, in early plays, [xlvi], [xlviii–liv]; [lxxiii], [lxxvi], [lxxxii], [lxxxiii], [lxxxvi], [lxxxix]; in Heywood, [li] and [10], etc. ('Mery Reporte'); Udall, [100]; in Stevenson, [203]; in Peele, [342]; in Greene, [393], [430].
Viel Testament, le Mistère du, [xxxiv].
Vitalis of Blois, his dramatic poems, [xvii].
Voragine, Jacobus de, his Legenda Aurea, [xxx], [xliv].
Wadington, William of, his Manuel des Pechiez, [xix].
Wager, Lewis, his Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene, [xxxi], [lxxxvi].
Wager, William, his The Longer thou Livest, etc., [lxxxvi], [533].
Wagner, Professor W., on Friar Bacon, [440], [446], [459], [510].
Wakefield Plays, The (ordinarily called, from the family owning the MS., the Towneley), [xxiii], [xxiv]; indebtedness to the York cycle, [xxv–xxvi].
Wakefield, the Playwright of, [xxv–xxix]; his peculiar stanza, [xxv–xxvi]; his improvements upon the second and third York schools of dramatic composition and his original productions, [xxvii–xxix].
Wapull, Geo., The Tyde Taryeth no Man, [lxxxvi].
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Transcriber's Note.

Variable spelling and hyphenation have been retained. Minor punctuation inconsistencies have been silently repaired. Footnotes were sequentially numbered and placed at the end of each section. On pages [xlii] and [434] footnote references are missing in the original. Misnumbered footnotes in pp. [xlvii], [lxxvi], [124] were corrected.