e-Heath, 12
identical with the 'Burton' in the _Taming of the Shrew_, 164

Bathurst, Charles, on Shakespeare's versification, 49 _n_

Baynes, Thomas Spencer, 365

Beale, Francis, 389

'Bear Garden in Southwark, The,' the poet's lodgings near, 38

Bearley, 6

Beaumont, Francis, on 'things done at the Mermaid,' 177

Beaumont, Sir John, 388

Bedford, Edward Russell, third Earl of: his marriage to Lucy Harington,
161

Bedford, Lucy, Countess of, 138 _n_ 2, 161

Beeston, William (a seventeenth-century actor), on the report that
Shakespeare was a schoolmaster, 29
on the poet's acting, 43

Bellay, Joachim du, Spenser's translations of some of his sonnets, 101
105 _n_, 432 436 443 444

Belleau, Remy, poems and sonnets by, 441 _n_ 1, 444 445 _n_

Belleforest (Francois de), Shakespeare's indebtedness to the 'Histoires
Tragiques' of, 14 55 _n_ 1, 208 222

Benda, J. W. 0., German translation of Shakespeare by, 344

Benedick and his 'halting sonnet,' 108 208

Benedix, J. R., opposition to Shakespearean worship by, 345

Bentley, R., 313

Berlioz, Hector, 351

Bermudas, the, and _The Tempest_, 252

Berners, Lord, translation of 'Huon of Bordeaux' by, 162

Bernhardt, Madame Sarah, 351

Bertaut, Jean, 443

Betterton, Mrs., 335

Betterton, Thomas, 33 332 334 335 362

Bianca and her lovers, story of, partly drawn from the 'Supposes' of
George Gascoigne, 164

Bible, the, Shakespeare and, 16 17 and _n_ 1

Bibliography of Shakespeare, 299-325

Bensley, Robert, actor, 338

Bidford, near Stratford, legend of a drinking bout at, 271

Biography of the poet, sources of (Appendix I.), 361-5

Birmingham, memorial Shakespeare library at, 298

Biron, in _Love's Labour's Lost_, 51 and _n_

_Birth of Merlin_, 181

Birthplace, Shakespeare's, 8 9

'Bisson,' use of the word, 317

Blackfriars Shakespeare's purchase of property in, 267

Blackfriars Theatre, built by James Burbage (1596), 38 200
leased to 'the Queen's Children of the Chapel,' 38 202 213
occupied by Shakespeare's company, 38
litigation of Burbage's heirs, 200
Shakespeare's interest in, 201 202
shareholders in, 202
Shakespeare's disposal of his shares in, 264

'Blackness,' Shakespeare's praise of, 118-120 cf. 155

Blades, William, 364

_Blind Beggar of Alexandria_, Chapman's, 51 _n_

Blount, Edward, publisher, 92 135 _n_, 183 244 304 305 312 393 394 and
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