onnets,
97 and _n_ 98 112 113 and _n_ 2
in the sonnets of other writers, 104-6 113 _n_ 2

'Lover' and 'love' synonymous with 'friend' and 'friendship' in
Elizabethan English, 127 _n_

'Lover's Complaint, A,' possibly written by Shakespeare, 91

_Love's Labour's Lost_: Latin phrases in, 15
probably the poet's first dramatic production, 50
its plot not borrowed, 51
its characters, 51 and _n_ 52
its revision in 1597, 52
date of publication, 52
influence of Lyly, 62
performed at Whitehall, 81
examples of the poet's first attempts at sonnetteering, 84
scornful allusion to sonnetteering, 107
the praise of 'blackness,' 118 119 and _n_ 2
performed before Anne of Denmark at Southampton's house in the
Strand, 384
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

_Love's Labour's Won_, attributed by Meres to Shakespeare, 162
See _All's Well_

'Love's Martyr, or Rosalin's Complaint,' 183 184 _n_ 304

Lowell, James Russell, 13 _n_ 341

Lucian, the _Timon_ of, 243

'Lucrece:' published in 1594, 76
Daniel's 'Complainte of Rosamond' reflected, 76 77 and _n_ 1
the passage on Time elaborated from Watson, 77 and _n_ 2
dedicated to the Earl of Southampton, 77 78 126 127
enthusiastic reception of, 78-9
quarto editions in the poet's lifetime, 299
posthumous editions, 300

Lucy, Sir Thomas, his prosecution of Shakespeare for poaching, 27 28
caricatured in Justice Shallow, 29 173

Luddington, 20

Lydgate, 'Troy Book' of, drawn upon for _Troilus and Cressida_, 227

Lyly, John, 61
followed by Shakespeare in his comedies, 61 62
his addresses to Cupid, 97 _n_
his influence on _Midsummer Night's Dream_, 162

Lyrics in Shakespeare's plays, 207 250 255 and _n_

M

'M. I.' 306 _See also_ 'S., I. M.'

Macbeth: references to the climate of Inverness, 41 _n_ 3 42
date of composition, 239
the story drawn from Holinshed, 239
points of difference from other plays of the same class, 240
Middleton's plagiarisms, 240
not printed until 1623, 239
the shortest of the poet's tragedies, 239
performance at the Globe, 239
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-25

Macbeth, Lady, and AEschylus's Clytemnestra, 13 _n_

Mackay, Mr. Herbert, on the dower of the poet's widow, 274

Macklin, Charles, 336 337

Macready, William Charles, 339 35