his impersonation of the King in _Richard III_, 63
litigation of his heirs respecting the Globe and the Blackfriars
Theatres, 200
his income, 203 219
creates the title-part in Hamlet, 222 231
his reputation made by creating the leading parts in the poet's
greatest tragedies, 264 265
anecdote of, 265
the poet's bequest to, 276
as a painter, 292

Burgersdijk, Dr. L. A. J., translation in Dutch by, 352

Burghley, Lord, 375 376 378

Burton, Francis, bookseller, 399 _n_ 2, 400

Butter, Nathaniel, 180 241

C

'C., E.,' sonnet by, on lust, 153 _n_ 1
his collection of sonnets, 'Emaricdulfe,' 436

Caliban, the character of, 253 256 257 and _notes_

Cambridge, _Hamlet_ acted at, 224

Cambridge edition of Shakespeare, 324

Camden, William, 191

Campbell, Lord, on the poet's legal acquirements, 364

Campion, Thomas, his opinion of Barnes's verse, 133
his sonnet to Lord Walden, 140
sonnets in Harleian MS., 437 and _n_ 3

Capell, Edward, reprint of _Edward III_ in his 'Prolusions,' 71 224
his edition of Shakespeare, 319
his works on the poet, 320

_Cardenio_, the lost play of, 181 258 259

Carter, Rev. Thomas, on the alleged Puritan sympathies of Shakespeare's
father, 10 _n_

_Casteliones y Montisis_, Lope de Vega's, 55 _n_ 1

Castille, Constable of, entertainments in his honour at Whitehall, 233
234

Castle, William, parish clerk of Stratford, 34

Catherine II of Russia, adaptations of the _Merry Wives_ and _King John_
by, 352 353

Cawood, Gabriel, publisher of 'Mary Magdalene's Funeral Tears,' 88 _n_

Cecil, Sir Robert, and the Earl of Southampton, 143 379 381 382

'Centurie of Spiritual Sonnets, A,' Barnes's, 132

'Certain Sonnets,' Sidney's, 153 _n_ 1

Cervantes, his 'Don Quixote,' foundation of lost play of _Cardenio_, 258
death of, 272 _n_ 1

Chamberlain, the Lord, his company of players. _See_ Hunsdon, first Lord
and second Lord

Chamberlain, John, 149 261 _n_

Chapman, George, plays on Biron's career by, 51 _n_, 395 _n_ 1
his _An Humourous Day's Mirth_, 51 _n_
his _Blind Beggar of Alexandria_, 51 _n_
his censure of sonnetteermg, 106
his alleged rivalry with Shakespeare for Southampton's favour, 134
135 _n_, 183
his translation of the 'Iliad,' 227
his sonnets to patrons, 388 440 _n_
sonnets in praise of philosophy, 441

Charlecote Park, probably the scene of the poaching ep