1

Madden, Rt. Hon. D. H., on Shakespeare's knowledge of sport, 27 _n_ 168
364

Magellan, 'Voyage to the South Pole' by, 253

Magny, Olivier de, 443

Malone, Edmund, on Shakespeare's first employment in the theatre, 34
on the poet's residence, 38
on the date of _The Tempest_, 254 332 333
his writings on the poet, 321 322 362

Malvolio, 211

Manners, Lady Bridget, 378 379 and _n_

Manningham, John (diarist), a description of _Twelfth Night_ by, 210

Manuscript, circulation of sonnets in, 88 and _n_
(Appendix ix.), 391 396

Marino, vituperative sonnet by, 122 _n_ 1 442 _n_ 2

Markham, Gervase, his adulation of Southampton in his sonnets, 131 134
387

Marlowe, Christopher, 57
his share in the revision of _Henry VI_, 60
his influence on Shakespeare, 61 63-4
Shakespeare's acknowledgments, 64
his translation of Lucan, 90 393 399

Marmontel and the Shakespearean controversy in France, 349

Marot, Clement, 442

Marriage, treatment of, in the Sonnets, 98

Marshall, Mr. F. A., 325

Marston, John, identified by some as the 'rival poet,' 136 183
his quarrel with Jonson, 214-20

Martin, one of the English actors who played in Scotland, 41 and _n_ 1

Martin, Lady, 298 339 365

Masks worn by men playing women's parts, 38 _n_ 2

Massey, Mr. Gerald, on the Sonnets, 91 _n_ 1

Massinger, Philip, 258
portions of _The Two Noble Kinsmen_ assigned to, 259
and _Henry VIII_, 263 and _n_ 2

'Mastic,' use of the word, 228 _n_

Masuccio, the story of Romeo and Juliet told in his _Novellino_, 55

Matthew, Sir Toby, 375 383

_Measure for Measure_: the offence of Claudio, 23 _n_
date of composition, 235
produced at Whitehall, 235
not printed in the poet's lifetime, 235
source of plot, 236
deviations from the old story, 237 238
creation of the character of Mariana, 238
the philosophic subtlety of the poet's argument, 238
references to a ruler's dislike of mobs, 238
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-325

Melin de Saint-Gelais, 442

Memorials in sculpture to the poet, 297

_Menaechmi_ of Plautus, 54

Mendelssohn, setting of Shakespearean songs by, 347

_Merchant of Venice_: the influence of Marlowe, 63 68
sources of the plot, 66 67
the last act, 69
date of, 69
use of the word 'lover,' 127 _n_
_For_ editions _see_ Section xix. (Bibliography), 301-325

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