e-page of a copy of the
'Metamorphoses' in the Bodleian Library, 15

Oxford, the poet's visits to, 31 265 266
_Hamlet_ acted at, 224

Oxford, Earl of, his company of actors, 35

'Oxford' edition of Shakespeare, the, 325

P

Painter, William, his 'Palace of Pleasure' and _Romeo and Juliet_, 55
_All's Well that Ends Well_, 163
_Timon of Athens_, 243
and _Coriolanus_, 246

_Palaemon and Arcyte_, a lost play, 260

_Palamon and Arsett_, a lost play, 260

Palmer, John, actor, 337

'Palladis Tamia,' eulogy on the poet in, 178

'Pandora,' Soothern's collection of love-sonnets, 138 _n_ 2

_Pandosto_ (afterwards called _Dorastus and Fawnia_), Shakespeare's
indebtedness to, 251

Parodies on sonnetteering, 106-8 122 and _n_

'Parthenophil and Parthenophe,' Barnes's, 132

Pasquier, Estienne, 443

Passerat, Jean, 443

'Passionate Centurie of Love,' Watson's, the passage on Time in, 77
plagiarisation of Petrarch in, 101 _n_ 4 102 427 _n_ 2 428

'Passionate Pilgrim,' piratical insertion of two sonnets in, 98 182 437
the contents of, 182 _n_ 299
printed with Shakespeare's poems, 300

Patrons of companies of players, 35
adulation offered to, 138 and _n_ 2 140 141 440 and _n_

Pavier, Thomas, printer, 180

'Pecorone, Il,' by Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, Shakespeare's indebtedness
to, 14 66 and _n_ 3 172
W. G. Waters's translation of, 66 _n_ 3

Peele, George, 57
his share in the original draft of _Henry VI_, 60

Pembroke, Countess of, dedication of Daniel's 'Delia' to, 130 429
homage paid to, by Nicholas Breton, 138 _n_ 2

Pembroke, Henry, second Earl of, his company of players, perform _Henry
VI_ (part iii.), 36 59
and _Titus Andronicus_, 66

Pembroke, William, third Earl of, the question of the identification of
'Mr. W. H.' with, 94 406-15
performance at his Wilton residence, 231 232 _n_ 1 411
dedication of the First Folio to, 306
his alleged relations with Shakespeare, 411-15
the identification of the 'dark lady' with his mistress, Mary
Fitton, 123 _n_ 409
the mistaken notion that Shakespeare was his _protege_, 123 _n_
dedications by Thorpe to, 399 and _n_ 1 403 _n_ 2

Penrith, Shakespeares at, 1

Pepys, his criticisms of _The Tempest_ and _Midsummer Night's Dream_, 329

Percy, William, his sonnets, entitled 'Coelia,' 435

Perez, Antonio, and Antonio in _The Merchant of Venice_, 68 _n_

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