lleged scorn of their calling, 44 45
'advice' to actors in _Hamlet_, 45
their incomes, 198 199 and _n_ 2, 201
the strife between adult actors and boy actors, 213-17 221
patronage of actors by King James, 232 and _n_ 2
substitution of women for boys in female parts, 334 335

Adam, in _As You Like It_, played by Shakespeare, 44

Adaptations by Shakespeare of old plays, 56

Adaptations of Shakespeare's plays at the Restoration, 331 332

Adulation, extravagance of, in the days of Queen Elizabeth, 137 138 and
_n_ 2

AEschylus, Hamlet's 'sea of troubles' paralleled in the _Persae_ of, 13
_n_
resemblance between Lady Macbeth and Clytemnestra in the _Agamemnon_
of, 13 _n_

AEsthetic school of Shakespearean criticism, 333

Alexander, Sir William, sonnets by, 438

Alleyn, Edward, manages the amalgamated companies of the Admiral and Lord
Strange, 37
pays fivepence for the pirated Sonnets, 90 _n_
his large savings, 204

Allot, Robert, 312

_All's Well that Ends Well_: the sonnet form of a letter of Helen, 84
probable date of production, 162
plot drawn from Painter's 'Palace of Pleasure,' 163
probably identical with _Love's Labour's Won_, 162
chief characters, 163
its resemblance to the _Two Gentlemen of Verona_, 163
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

America, enthusiasm for Shakespeare in, 341 342
copies of the First Folio in, 308 310 _n_

Amner, Rev. Richard, 321

'Amoretti,' Spenser's, 115 435 and _n_ 5, 436

'Amours' by 'J. D.,' 390 and _n_

_Amphitruo_ of Plautus, the, and a scene in _The Comedy of Errors_, 54

'Amyntas,' complimentary title of, 385 _n_ 2

Angelo, Michael, 'dedicatory' sonnets of, 138 _n_

'Anthia and Abrocomas,' by Xenophon Ephesius, and the story of Romeo and
Juliet, 55 _n_

_Antony and Cleopatra_: allusion to the part of Cleopatra being played by
a boy, 39 _n_
the youthfulness of Octavius Caesar, 143 _n_ 2
the longest of the poet's plays, 224
date of entry in the 'Stationers' Registers,' 244
date of publication, 245
the story derived from Plutarch, 245
the 'happy valiancy' of the style, 245
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

_Apollonius and Silla_, _Historie of_, 210

'Apologie for Poetrie,' Sidney's, allusion to the conceit of the
immortalising power of verse in, 114
on the adulation of patrons, 138

'Apology for