First Folio version of 1623, 173
the comic characters, 173
the victory of Agincourt, 174
the poet's final experiment in the dramatisation of English history,
174
the allusions to the Earl of Essex, 175
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

_Henry VI_ (pt. i.): performed at the Rose Theatre in 1592, 56
Nash's remarks on, 56 57
first publication, 58
contains only a slight impress of the poet's style, 59
performed by Lord Strange's men, 59

_Henry VI_ (pt. ii.): parallel in the _OEdipus Coloneus_ of Sophocles
with a passage in, 13 _n_
publication of a first draft with the title of _The first part of
the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster_, 59
performed by Lord Strange's men, 59
revision of the play, 60
the poet's coadjutors in the revision, 60

_Henry VI_ (pt. iii.): performed by a company other than the poet's own,
36
performed in the autumn of 1592, 57
publication of a first draft of the play under the title of _The
True Tragedie of Richard_, _Duke of Yorke_, _&c._, 59
performed by Lord Pembroke's men, 36 59
partly remodelled, 60
the poet's coadjutors in the revision, 60
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

_Henry VIII_, 174
attributed to Shakespeare and Fletcher, 259
noticed by Sir Henry Wotton, 260
first publication, 261
the portions that can confidently be assigned to Shakespeare, 262
uncertain authorship of Wolsey's farewell to Cromwell, 262
Fletcher's share, 262
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

Henryson, Robert, 227

Henslowe, Philip, erects the Rose Theatre, 36
bribes a publisher to abandon the publication of _Patient Grissell_,
48 _n_ 180 _n_ 225 260

'Heptameron of Civil Discources,' Whetstone's, 237

'Herbert, Mr. William,' his alleged identity with 'Mr. W. H.' (Appendix
VI.), 406-10

Herder, Johann Gottfried, 343

'Hero and Leander,' Marlowe's, quotation in _As You Like It_, from, 64

Herringman, H., 313

Hervey, Sir William, 375 _n_ 3

Hess, J. R., 342

Heyse, Paul, German translation of Shakespeare by, 344

Heywood, Thomas, his allusion to the dislike of actors to the publication
of plays, 48 _n_
his poems pirated in the 'Passionate Pilgrim,' 182 301 328

Hill, John, marriage of his widow, Agnes or Anne, to Robert Arden, 6

Holinshed's 'Chroni