slates Bandello's story of _Romeo and
Juliet_, 51 _n_

Boaden, James, 406 _n_

Boar's Head Tavern, 170

Boas, Mr. F. S., 365

Boccaccio, Shakespeare's indebtedness to, 163 249 251 and _n_ 2

Bodenstedt, Friedrich von, German translator of Shakespeare, 344

Bohemia, allotted a seashore in _Winter's Tale_, 251
translations of Shakespeare in, 354

Boiardo, 243

Bond against impediments respecting Shakespeare's marriage, 20 21

Bonian, Richard, printer, 226

Booth, Barton, actor, 335

Booth, Edwin, 342

Booth, Junius Brutus, 342

Booth, Lionel, 311

Borck, Baron C. W. von, translation of _Julius Caesar_ into German by,
343

Boswell, James, 334

Boswell, James (the younger), 322 405 _n_

Boswell-Stone, Mr. W. G. 364

Bottger, A., German translation of Shakespeare by, 344

Boy-actors, 34 35 38
the strife between adult actors and, 213-217

Boydell, John, his scheme for illustrating the work of the poet, 341

Bracebridge, C. H., 364

Brach, Pierre de, his sonnet on Sleep echoed in Daniel's Sonnet xlix.,
101 and _n_ 1 431 445 _n_

Brandes, Mr. Georg, 365

Brassington, Mr. W. Salt, 290 _n_

Brathwaite, Richard, 269 _n_ 1, 388 398

Breton, Nicholas, homage paid to the Countess of Pembroke in his poems,
138 _n_ 2
his play on the words 'wit' and 'will,' 417

Brewster, E., 313

Bridgeman, Mr. C. 0., 415 _n_

Bright, James Heywood, 406 _n_

_Broken Heart_, Ford's, similarity of theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet
cxxvi. to that of a song in, 97 _n_

Brooke or Broke, Arthur, his translation of the story of Romeo and
Juliet, 55 322

Brooke, Ralph, complains about Shakespeare's coat-of-arms, 192 193

Brown, C. Armitage, 406 _n_

Brown, John, obtains a writ of distraint against Shakespeare's father, 12

Browne, William, love-sonnets by, 439 and _n_ 2

Buc, Sir George, 245

Buckingham, John Sheffield, first Duke of, a letter from King James to
the poet said to have been in his possession, 231

Bucknill, Dr. John Charles, on the poet's medical knowledge, 364

Burbage, Cuthbert, 37 200

Burbage, James, owner of The Theatre and keeper of a livery stable, 33 36
erects the Blackfriars Theatre, 38

Burbage, Richard, erroneously assumed to have been a native of Stratford,
31 _n_
a lifelong friend of Shakespeare's, 36
demolishes The Theatre and builds the Globe Theatre, 37 200
performs, with Shakespeare and Kemp, before Queen Elizabeth at
Greenwich Palace, 43