TO THE MEMORIE

of the deceased Authour Maister

W. SHAKESPEARE

_Shake-speare_, at length thy pious fellowes giue The world thy Workes: thy Workes, by which, out-liue Thy Tombe, thy name must: when that stone is rent, And Time dissolues thy _Stratford_ Moniment, Here we aliue shall view thee still. This Booke, When Bra.s.se and Marble fade, shall make thee looke Fresh to all Ages: when Posteritie Shall loath what's new, thinke all is prodegie That is not _Shake-speares_ eu'ry Line, each Verse Here shall reuiue, redeeme thee from thy Herse.

Nor Fire, nor cankring Age, as _Naso_ said, Of his, thy wit-fraught Booke shall once inuade.

Nor shall I e're beleeue, or thinke thee dead (Though mist) vntill our bankrout Stage be sped (Jmpossible) with some new straine t'out-do Pa.s.sions of _Iuliet_, and her _Romeo_; Or till J heare a Scene more n.o.bly take, Then when thy half-Sword parlying _Romans_ spake.

Till these, till any of thy Volumes rest Shall with more fire, more feeling be exprest, Be sure, our _Shake-speare_, thou canst neuer dye, But crown'd with Lawrell, liue eternally.

L. DIGGES.

To the memorie of M. _W. Shake-speare_.

WEE wondred (_Shake-speare_) that thou went'st so soone From the Worlds-Stage, to the Graues-Tyring-roome.

Wee thought thee dead, but this thy printed worth, Tels thy Spectators, that thou went'st but forth To enter with applause. An Actors Art, Can dye, and liue, to acte a second part.

That's but an _Exit_ of Mortalitie; This, a Re-entrance to a Plaudite.

I. M.

_The Workes of William Shakespeare, containing all his Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies; truely set forth according to their first Originall._--_The names of the Princ.i.p.all Actors in all these playes._--William Shakespeare; Richard Burbadge; John Hemmings; Augustine Phillips; William Kempt; Thomas p.o.o.pe; George Bryan; Henry Condell; William Slye; Richard Cowly; John Lowine; Samuell Crosse; Alexander Cooke; Samuel Gilburne; Robert Armin; William Ostler; Nathan Field; John Underwood; Nicholas Tooley; William Ecclestone; Joseph Taylor; Robert Benfeld; Robert Goughe; Richard Robinson; John Shancke; John Rice.

_A Catalogue of the severall Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies contained in this Volume._--COMEDIES. The Tempest, folio 1; The Two Gentlemen of Verona, 20; The Merry Wives of Windsor, 38; Measure for Measure, 61; The Comedy of Errours, 85; Much adoo about Nothing, 101; Loves Labour lost, 122; Midsommer Nights Dreame, 145; The Merchant of Venice, 163; As You Like it, 185; The Taming of the Shrew, 208; All is well that Ends well, 230; Twelfe-Night, or what you will, 255; The Winters Tale, 304.--HISTORIES. The Life and Death of King John, fol. 1; The Life and Death of Richard the Second, 23; The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, 46; The Second Part of K. Henry the fourth, 74; The Life of King Henry the Fift, 69; The First part of King Henry the Sixt, 96; The Second part of King Hen. the Sixt, 120; The Third part of King Henry the Sixt, 147; The Life and Death of Richard the Third, 173; The Life of King Henry the Eight, 205.--TRAGEDIES. The Tragedy of Coriola.n.u.s, fol. 1; t.i.tus Andronicus, 31; Romeo and Juliet, 53; Timon of Athens, 80; The Life and death of Julius Caesar, 109; The Tragedy of Macbeth, 131; The Tragedy of Hamlet, 152; King Lear, 283; Oth.e.l.lo, the Moore of Venice, 310; Anthony and Cleopater, 346; Cymbeline King of Britaine, 369.

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II. SOURCES OF TRADITIONAL MATERIAL

Fuller's Worthies of England. 1662.

Aubrey's Lives of Eminent Men, 2 vols. Ed. A. Clark. Oxford, 1895.

Diary of Rev. John Ward (1661-1663). Ed. C. A. Severn, 1839.

Rev. William Fulman's and Rev. Richard Davies's Mss. Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

John Dowdall's Travels in Warwickshire (1693). London, 1838.

William Hall (1694), Letter in Bodleian Mss. London, 1884.

William Oldys, Ms. Adversaria in British Museum, printed in Appendix to Yeowell's Memoir of Oldys, 1862.

Archdeacon Plume's Ms. memoranda at Maldon, Ess.e.x. See Lee, _Nineteenth Century_, May, 1906, and Preface to New Edition (1909) of _Life_.

For the anecdote of the Bidford Drinkers, see H.-P. and Greene's Legend of the Crab Tree, 1857.

Antony Wood. Athenae Oxonienses, 1692.

Appendix B

INDEX TO THE CHARACTERS IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS

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This Index records the act and scene in which each character first speaks, not necessarily the same as that in which he first appears. Only persons who speak are included, except a few marked with asterisk.

Aaron. TA. II. i.

Abbess, Lady. CofE. V. i.

Abergavenny, Lord. H8. I. i.

Abhorson. Meas. IV. ii.

Abraham. R&J. I. i.

Achilles. T&C. II. i.

Adam. AYLI. I. i.

Adrian. Tmp. II. i.

Adriana. CofE. II. i.

aedile, an. Cor. III. i.

aegeon. CofE. I. i.

aemilia. CofE. V. i.

aemilius. TA. IV. iv.

aeneas. T&C. I. i.

Agamemnon. T&C. I. iii.

Agrippa. A&C. II. ii.

Aguecheek, Sir Andrew. TwN. I. iii.