loved him with an inalterable personal affection, must each, as they pass the way that he went, pay him their tribute of praise. His living brood have survived him, to be the companions and friends of men and women as yet unborn. His monument is still a feasting presence, full of light. When he was alive he may sometimes have smiled to think that the phantoms dancing in his brain were as real to him as the sights and sounds of the outer world. The population of that delicate shadowland seemed to have but a frail hold on existence. The one was taken, and the other left; this character served for a play, that phrase or sentence fitted a speech; the others died in their cradles, or lived a moment upon the air, and were dissolved. Those that found acceptance were made over to the tender mercies of the players, for a week's entertainment of the populace. But now three centuries have passed since King Lear was written; and we begin to rub our eyes, and wonder. "Change places, and, handy-dandy, which is the ghost, which is the man?" Is the real man to be sought in that fragmentary story of Stratford and London, which, do what we will to revive it, has long ago grown faint as the memory of a last year's carouse? That short and troubled time of his passage, during which he was hurried onward at an ever-increasing pace, blown upon by hopes and fears, cast down and uplifted, has gone like a dream, and has taken him bodily along with it. But his work remains. He wove upon the roaring loom of Time the garment that we see him by; and the earth at Stratford closed over the broken shuttle. INDEX A Account of the Life &c. of Mr. All's Well that Ends Well, 138-9, с Canning, a story of, 37. Apollonius and Silla (Barnabe Comedies (Shakespeare's), criti- Riche), 68. Arcadia (Sidney), 66. Arden, Forest of, 32. cisms on, 157-61, 164, 209. Comedy of Errors, The, 38, 52, Arden, Mary (mother), 31; death Condell, Henry, 23, 59, 108, 131. of, 59. See Heminge. Coriolanus, 102, 192, 197. Critics, Romantic, 4, 152; char- Cymbeline, 47, 56, 67, 128, 140; D Davenant, Sir William, 44. Devil on the Highway to Heaven, Dialogue of Dives, The, 104. Dowdall, John, 44. Dowden, Prof., 87, 166. E Edward II. (Marlowe), 106, 181. 100. drama, beginnings of, 97; Essays of Elia, The (Lamb), 74. Essex, Earl of, 56. Euphues (Lyly), 66. F Fate, 159-62, 179, 226. Hathaway, Anne (wife), 42. Hecatommithi, the (Cinthio), 74. Henry IV., 47, 66, 139-40, 146, 151, Henry VI., 47; parodied, 107-8; Henry VIII., 56, 99. I Fechter, the actor, in Othello, 145. Il Pecorone (Ser Giovanni Fioren- Globe theatre (Southwark), 54, 59, Jameson, Mrs., 179. Jew of Malta, The (Marlowe), 106. Gorboduc, first English tragedy, Julius Caesar, 7, 47, 73, 121-2, 103. 128, 192. K Lodge, Thomas, 103-5. N London, City of, 1, 42, 45, 48, 52, New English Dictionary, 217. 56. taverns in, 7, 52–3. theatres, 100, 112; descrip- Love's Labour's Lost, 38, 39, 56, 95, 132, 220. M Macbeth, 4, 17, 24, 56, 58, 67, 69- 112, 160-1, 173. Measure for Measure, 19, 53, 55; Merry Wives, The, 38; origin of, 45; 56, 158; Falstaff in, 190-1. Quiney, Thomas (son-in-law), 59. Midsummer Night's Dream,32-4, 48, 56, 95, 96-7, 156, 160, 171, 181-2, 195. Milton, 2, 21. Miracle Plays, 96. Montgomery, Philip, Earl of, 56. More, Hannah, 70. Morris dance, The, 95. Much Ado About Nothing, 53, 75, 126, 139, 157, 224. |