_n_

Dumas, Alexandre, adaptation of _Hamlet_ by, 351

Duport, Paul, repeats Voltaire's censure, 350

Dyce, Alexander, 259 _n_ 1
on _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, 259
his edition of Shakespeare, 323

E

Ecclesiastes, Book of, poetical versions of, 441 and _n_ 1

Eden, translation of Magellan's 'Voyage to the South Pole' by, 253

Edgar, Eleazar, publisher, 390

Editions of Shakespeare's works.
_See under_ Quarto and Folio

Editors of Shakespeare, in the eighteenth century, 313-22
in the nineteenth century, 323-5
of variorum editions, 322 323

Education of Shakespeare: the poet's masters at Stratford Grammar School,
13
his instruction in Latin, 13
no proof that he studied the Greek tragedians, 13 _n_
alleged knowledge of the classics and of Italian and French
literature, 13 14 15 16
study of the Bible in his schooldays, 16 17 and _n_ 1
removal from school, 18

_Edward II_, Marlowe's, _Richard II_ suggested by, 64

_Edward III_, a play of uncertain authorship, 71
quotation from one of Shakespeare's sonnets, 72 89 and _n_ 2

Edwardes, Richard, author of the lost play _Palaemon and Arcyte_, 260

Edwards, Thomas, 'Canons of Criticism' of, 319

Eld, George, printer, 90 180 399 _n_ 2 401 402

Elizabeth, Princess, marriage of, performance of _The Tempest_, etc. at,
254 258 262 264

Elizabeth, Queen: her visit to Kenilworth, 17
Shakespeare and other actors play before her, 43 70 81
shows the poet special favour, 81 82
her enthusiasm for Falstaff, 82
extravagant compliments to her, 137
called 'Cynthia' by the poets, 148
elegies on her, 147 148
compliment to her in _Midsummer Night's Dream_, 161
her objections to _Richard II_, 175
death, 230
her imprisonment of Southampton, 380

Elizabethan Stage Society, 70 _n_ 1 210 _n_ 2

Elton, Mr. Charles, Q.C., on the dower of the poet's widow, 274 _n_

Elze, Friedrich Karl, 'Life of Shakespeare' by, 364
Shakespeare studies of, 345

'Emaricdulfe,' sonnets by 'E.C.,' 153 _n_ 1 436

_Endymion_, Lyly's, and _Love's Labour's Lost_, 62

Eschenburg, Johann Joachim, completes Wieland's German prose translation
of Shakespeare, 343

_Error_, _Historie of_, and _Comedy of Errors_, 54

Essex, Robert Devereux, second Earl of, company of actors under the
patronage of, 33
an enthusiastic reception predicted for him in London in _Henry V_,
174
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