Actors,' Heywood's, 182

Apsley, William, bookseller, 90 304 312

'Arcadia,' Sidney's, 88 _n_, 241 and _n_ 2, 429

Arden family, of Warwickshire, 6 191

Arden family, of Alvanley, 192

Arden, Alice, 7

Arden, Edward, executed for complicity in a Popish plot, 6

Arden, Joan, 12

Arden, Mary. See Shakespeare, Mary

Arden, Robert (1), sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire in 1438, 6

Arden, Robert (2), landlord at Snitterfield of Richard Shakespeare, 3 6
marriage of his daughter Mary to John Shakespeare, 6 7
his family and second marriage, 6
his property and will, 7

Arden, Thomas, grandfather of Shakespeare's mother, 6

_Arden of Feversham_, a play of uncertain authorship, 71

Ariel, character of, 256

_Ariodante and Ginevra_, _Historie of_, 208

Ariosto, _I Suppositi_ of, 164
_Orlando Furioso_ of, and _Much Ado about Nothing_, 208

Aristotle, quotation from, made by both Shakespeare and Bacon 370 _n_

Armado, in _Love's Labour's Lost_ 51 _n_, 62

Armenian language, translation of Shakespeare in the, 354

Arms, coat of, Shakespeare's, 189 190 191 193

Arms, College of, applications of the poet's father to, 2 10 _n_, 188-92

Arne, Dr., 334

Arnold, Matthew, 327 _n_ 1

Art in England, its indebtedness to Shakespeare, 340 341

_As You Like It_: allusion to the part of Rosalind being played by a boy,
38 _n_ 2
ridicule of foreign travel, 42 _n_ 2
acknowledgments to Marlowe (III. v. 8), 64
adapted from Lodge's 'Rosalynde,' 209
addition of three new characters, 209
hints taken from 'Saviolo's Practise,' 209
its pastoral character, 209
said to have been performed before King James at Wilton, 232 _n_ 1
411 _n_.
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

Asbies, the chief property of Robert Arden at Wilmcote, bequeathed to
Shakespeare's mother, 7
mortgaged to Edmund Lambert, 12
proposal to confer on John Lambert an absolute title to the
property, 26
Shakespeare's endeavour to recover, 195

Ashbee, Mr. E. W., 302 _n_

Assimilation, literary, Shakespeare's power of, 61 109 _seq._

Aston Cantlowe, 6
place of the marriage of Shakespeare's parents, 7

'Astrophel,' apostrophe to Sidney in Spenser's, 143 _n_ 2

'Astrophel and Stella,' 83
the metre of, 95 _n_ 2
address to Cupid, 97 _n_
the praise of 'blackness' in, 119 and _n_ 153 _n_ 1
editions of, 428 429

Aubrey, John,