Alcibiades, practical wisdom of,

390.

All's Well that ends Well, date of,
85.

Antony and Cleopatra, contrasted
with Julius Cæsar, 307; linked
with Coriolanus, 279.
Antony, character of, 289; failure
of, 309.

As You Like It, characteristics of,
80; and Winter's Tale, date of, 76.
Aufidius and Coriolanus, 333.
Autolycus, 376.

Bacon and Shakspere compared, 18.
Bagehot, W., on Shakspere's politics.
327; on religious teaching of
Shakspere, 39.

Beauty, feeling for, in last plays,
414.

Berowne as exponent of Shakspere's
mind, 64.

Bolingbroke, causes of success of,
204; strength of, and weakness
of Richard II. contrasted, 196.
Bottom and Titania, humour and
fancy combined in, 361.
Broglie, Duc de, on Iago, 238.
Brutus, mistakes of, 305.
Brutus and Cassius, 302; contrasted,
283; speeches of, apologetic, 301.

Cæsar, character of, 284; weakness
of, 285.

Capulet and Montague, strife of,

105.

Chasles, M., criticism of Romeo and
Juliet, by, 101.
Chronological, arrangement, value
of, 379; study of Shakspere, 6;
groups of plays, Preface.
Clarke, C. C., on notes of time in
Romeo and Juliet, 119.

Cleopatra, and Cæsar, 315; death
of, 316; feeling of, to Antony,
312.
Coleridge, on cause of failure of

Richard II., 200; on Hamlet, 131.
Comedy of Errors, source of, 57.
Cordelia, Shakspere's fidelity to fact
in, 227.

Coriolanus, egoism of, 335; himself
central point of play, 328; pride
of, twofold, 329.

Culture, Shakspere's idea of, 65.

Denmark, state of, in Hamlet's time,
136.

De Quincey, on the knocking in
Macbeth, 372.

Desdemona, love to Othello of, 232;
weakness of, 235.

Dickens, Charles, humour of, 341.

Early and later writings of Shak-
spere, difference between, 282.
Early plays, characteristics of, 59.
Edmund, inhumanity of, 266.
Edward IV., Shakspere's opinion of,
192.

Elizabethan drama, as remedy for
cynicism, 29; ethics and effect of,
27; realistic quality of, 9; vigour
of, 25.

Environment, influence on the man
of his, 7.

Experiments, dramatic, of Shak-
spere, 56.

External nature, treatment of, by
Shakspere, 103.

Faerie Queene, object of, self-culture,
15; exponent of Renascence ideas,
14.
Falstaff, ethics of, 365; view of
life of, 79.

character of, 136.
Goethe, criticism of Hamlet of, 128.
Goneril and Regan compared, 263.
Great minds, belief in supernatural
of, 248.

Greatness of Shakspere's heroes,
317.

Grotesque, perception of, useful, 354.

Hamlet, indications of later style in,
125; literature, 160; turning
point in career of Shakspere, 222.
Hamlet, compared with Romeo,
132; causes of failure of, 156;
cause of weakness of, 146; con-
duct of, at the play, 155; effect
of Ghost on, 143; fatalism of,
157; love of truth of, 151; mad-
ness of, 144; mind of, incapable
of certitude, 133; position of, at
opening of play, 134; Shakspere's
own character illustrated by, 160.
Hazlitt, W., on love of Desdemona,
233; on Venus and Adonis and
Lucrece, 52.

Hebler, on symmetry of some plays,
61.

Helena, Bertram's good, sole aim of,
86; energy of, 86.

Henry V., conduct in war of, 219;
double character of, 212; hearty
piety of, 215; hero of historical
plays, 219; his realization of fact,
212; inner character of, 210;
relentlessness of wrath of, 218;
Shakspere's ideal of practical
character, 74.

Henry VI., authorship of first part,
173; origin of second part and of
third part, 180.

Henry VI., as a prisoner, 179;
causes of failure of, 174; timid
saintliness of, 175; vacillation of,
177.

Henry VIII., authorship of, 413.
Hermione, calm justice of, 412.
Hogarth, study of laughter by, 338.
Hooker, influence of, on Reformation,

22.

Horatio and Hamlet, 153.
Hudson, Mr., on Fool in Lear, 273.
Humour of Shakspere, influence of,
337; innocence of, 359; two
stages of, 355,

Iago, personification of fraudful evil,
237.

Ideal and Real, conflict of, in mind
of Shakspere, 36, 47.
Imogen, 413.

Impartiality of Shakspere, source
of, 345.

Incongruity, tragic and comic, 351.
Ingram, Professor, on chronology of
Last plays, 380.

Interest of Shakspere in his art
diminishing, 404.
Interpenetration of humour, pathos,
and tragedy, 374.
Isabella, energy and will of, 82.

Jameson, Mrs., on Cleopatra, 314.
Juliet, state of mind of, when taking
the poison, 115.

Julius Cæsar, date of, Preface;
dominant power of, 287.
Julius Cæsar, apparent inconsistency
of character of, 291.

Katharine, love of Henry V. to, 191.
King John, substance of, misery and
failure, 172

King John, fails from weakness of
his wickedness, 169; strength in
early scenes not real, 170.

King Lear, creed of leading persons
in, 269; ethics of, 268; greatest
Teutonic poem, 257; irony of,
258; Shakspere's treatment of
history in, 261; significance of
secondary plot in, 265; teaching
of, 260.