longest of all the poet's plays, 224
the humorous element, 224 225
its central interest, 225
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

Hanmer, Sir Thomas, 224
his edition of Shakespeare, 318

Harington, Sir John, translates Ariosto, 208

Harington, Lucy, her marriage to the third Earl of Bedford, 161

Harness, William, 324

Harrison, John, publisher of 'Lucrece,' 76

Harsnet, 'Declaration of Popish Impostures' by, 241

Hart family, the, and the poet's reputed birthplace, 8

Hart, Joan, Shakespeare's sister, 8
his bequest to her, 276
her three sons, 276 283

Hart, John, 283

Hart, Joseph. C., 371

Harvey, Gabriel, bestows on Spenser the title of 'an English Petrarch,'
101
justifies the imitation of Petrarch, 101 _n_ 4
his parody of sonnetteering, 106 121 and _n_
his advice to Barnes, 133
his 'Four Letters and certain Sonnets,' 440

Hathaway, Anne. See Shakespeare, Anne

Hathaway, Catherine, sister of Anne Hathaway, 19

Hathaway, Joan, mother of Anne Hathaway, 19

Hathaway, Richard, marriage of his daughter Anne (or Agnes) to the poet,
18 19-22
his position as a yeoman, 18 19
his will, 19

Haughton, William, 48 _n_ 418

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 371

Hazlitt, William, and Shakespearean criticism, 333 364 365

Healey, John, 400 403 _n_ 2 408 409

'Hecatommithi,' Cinthio's, Shakespeare's indebtedness to, 14 53 236

Heine, studies of Shakespeare's heroines by, 345

Helena in _All's Well that Ends Well_, 163

Heming, John (actor-friend of Shakespeare), wrongly claimed as a native
of Stratford, 31 _n_ 36 202 203 264
the poet's bequest to, 276
signs dedication of First Folio, 303 306

Henderson, John, actor, 337

Heneage, Sir Thomas, 375 _n_ 3

Henley-in-Arden, 4

Henrietta Maria, Queen, billeted on Mrs. Hall (the poet's daughter) at
Stratford, 281

_Henry IV_ (parts i. and ii.): passage ridiculing the affectations of
_Euphues_, 62 _n_
sources drawn upon, 167
Justice Shallow, 29 168
references to persons and districts familiar to the poet, 167 168
the characters, 68 169 170
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-325

_Henry V_, _The Famous Victories of_, the groundwork of _Henry V_ and of
_Henry V_, 167 174

_Henry V_: French dialogues, 1
disdainful allusion to sonnetteering, 108
date of production 173
imperfect drafts of the play, 173