h Middleton, 172, 176;
poetic passion, 182;
allegory, 180;
reflective quality, 263;
dialogue compared with Shakespeare, Webster, 263;
shows influence of age, 268;
verse quality, 269, 270;
dramatic quality, 271, 272;
revenge as theme, 273;
master-work, 273;
comparable only with Shakespeare, 276, 277, 280, 281, 282, 288;
sublimity, 280;
akin to Juvenal, Persius, 281;
tragic style, 285;
moral passion, 289.

"Transformed Metamorphosis, The" (Tourneur), 180, 279.

Travel, motive for drama, 242.

"Travels of Three English Brothers, The," 242.

"Trial of Chivalry, The" (Heywood), 228, 229, 235.

"Traitor, The," 30.

"Trick to Catch the Old One, A" (Middleton), 158, 160.

"Troilus and Cressida," 220, 223, 277.

"Troja Britannica" (Heywood), 212.

Troy "Histories" of, 213.

Tupper, Martin, 228.

Turner, 285.

Twain, Mark, 228.

"Two Foscari, The," 267.

"Two Gentlemen of Verona," 155.

"Two Noble Kinsmen, The," Shakespeare's part in, 20.

"Tyrannic Love," 226.

Vanini, Tourneur successor of, 266.

Vere, Sir Francis, Tourneur's elegy on, 277.

"Venus and Adonis," 238.

Villon, Francois, Dekker compared with, 61.

Vindice, 60.

Virgil, source for "Dido, Queen of Carthage," 8;
love of country, 202.

"Virgin Martyr, The" (Dekker), 88, 194.

"Volpone," 144.

Voltaire, 199.

Watson, 141.

Webster, John (15-67), tragic imagination compared with Shakespeare,
15, 29, 30, 58, 59, 176, 190;
collaboration with Dekker, 19;
with Rowley, 23, 24;
independent of other poets, 32;
tragic quality, 46;
lyric quality, 51;
metrical faults, 53, 54;
compared with Marlowe, 58;
with Marston, 59;
with Middleton, 172, 182;
foreign words, 246;
compared with Tourneur, dialogue, 263;
verse, 270;
style, 276, 280;
tragic heroes, 281.

"Westward Ho!", 20.

"What you Will" (Marston), 127, 128, 146.

"White Devil, The" (Webster), 16, 32, 37, 40, 270.

"Whore of Babylon, The," 168.

"Widow, The" (Middleton), 164.

"Widow's Tears, The" (Chapman), 259.

Wilkins, George, 244.

"William Eps his death" (Dekker), 95.

"Wisdom of Solomon, The," 180.

"Wise Woman of Hogsdon, The" (Heywood), 245.

"Witch, The" (Middleton), relation to Macbeth, 171, 172.

Witchcraft, 251.

"Witches of Lancashire, The," 250, 251.

Wither, 50.

"Woman Killed with Kindness, A" (Heywood), 212, 238, 240, 249.

"Women Beware Women" (Middleton), 175, 177.