isode, 27 28

Charles I and the poet's plays, 329
his copy of the Second Folio, 312

Charles II, his copy of the Second Folio, 312

Chateaubriand, 349

Chatelain, Chevalier de, rendering of _Hamlet_ by, 351

Chaucer, the story of 'Lucrece' in his 'Legend of Good Women,' 76
hints in his 'Knight's Tale' for _Midsummer Night's Dream_, 162
the plot of _Troilus and Cressida_ taken from his 'Troilus and
Cresseid,' 227
plot of _The Two Noble Kinsmen_ drawn from his 'Knight's Tale,' 260

Chenier, Marie-Joseph, sides with Voltaire in the Shakespearean
controversy in France, 349

Chester, Robert, his 'Love's Martyr,' 183 184 _n_

Chettle, Henry, the publisher, his description of Shakespeare as an
actor, 43 48 _n_
his apology for Greene's attack on Shakespeare, 58 277 225
appeals to Shakespeare to write an elegy on Queen Elizabeth, 230

Chetwynde, Peter, publisher, 312

Chiswell, R., 313

'Chloris,' title of William Smith's collection of sonnets, 437 and _n_ 4
Chronology of Shakespeare's plays 48-57 59 63-72
partly determined by subject-matter and metre, 48-50 161 _seq._,
207 _seq._, 235 _seq._, 248 _seq._

Churchyard, Thomas, his _Fantasticall Monarcho's Epitaph_, 51 _n_
calls Barnes 'Petrarch's scholar,' 133

Cibber, Colley, 335

Cibber, Mrs., 336

Cibber, Theophilus, the reputed compiler of 'Lives of the Poets,' 32 and
_n_ 3, 33

Cinthio, the 'Hecatommithi' of, Shakespeare's indebtedness to, 14 53 236
his tragedy, _Epitia_, 237

Clark, Mr. W. G., 325

Clement, Nicolas, criticism of the poet by, 347 348

Cleopatra: the poet's allusion to her part being played by a boy, 38 _n_
2
compared with the 'dark lady' of the sonnets 123 124
her character, 245

Clive, Mrs., 336

Clopton, Sir Hugh, the former owner of New Place, 193

Clopton, Sir John, 283

Clytemnestra, resemblance between the characters of Lady Macbeth and, 13
_n_

Cobham, Henry Brooke, eighth Lord, 169

'Coelia,' love-sonnets by William Browne entitled, 439 and _n_ 2

'Coelia,' title of Percy's collection of sonnets, 435

'Coelica,' title of Fulke Greville's collection of poems, 97 _n_

Cokain, Sir Aston, lines on Shakespeare and Wincot ale by, 166

Coleridge, S. T., on the style of _Antony and Cleopatra_, 245
on _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, 259
representative of the aesthetic school, 333
on Edmund Kean, 338 365

Collier, John Payne, includes _Mucedorus_ in