Palladis Tamia, 370 Partheniades, the, 84 n. Pedantius, 277 n.
Pelham, Sir William, 32, 558; alleged poem by, 314
Pembroke, Henry Herbert, Earl of, 186, 503
Pembroke, Mary, Countess of, relations with Spenser, 160, 349, 351, 502- 504; with Daniel, 335, 342, 343, 347, 360, 361; and with Nashe, 360; perhaps at Kenilworth, 276 n. ; her translation of Antonius, 342; paraphrase of the Psalms, 343; marriage, 503; the additions to the Arcadia, 362, 504; epitaph on, 504 Perrot, Sir John, in Faerie Queene, 78, 82; in the View, 571 n., 578 n.; in Bryskett's Discourse, 578 Plato, the soul, 109; poets, 119; effect on character of dramatic work, 146; his ideal and the modern State, 147; Atlantis," 305; Bryskett on, 581, 588, 589
Poetry-I. In the age of Elizabeth:
publication of by people in good position not well regarded, 9, 48, 49; complaints of the contempt for, 13, 24 prejudice against, 160; the "new," 7, 47, 255, 340, 347; English metres, 226; strictures on contemporary "rymers": "E. K.," 7. "Immerito," 8, Webbe, 11, 12, Puttenham, 12 n., Gascoigne, 225- 227, Bryskett, 589; allusions to popular tales and ballads, 12 n., 266, 267
II. General: imagination and experience, 54: French criticism of English, 105; "invention" in, 105'; feigned history," 105 n., 149, 152-54 Sidney on, 148 sq.; Bacon on, 152 sq.; Puttenham on the "artificial" and the "natural" in, 157, 158; Gascoigne on, 225 sq.; the sonnet and blank verse, 347 new metres, 354, 447, 454; imagination and reason, 387; as a feature of Court life, 388, 442; correspondency between an author's poetry and his other writings, 415;
the difficult art of, 433; myths and the poetry of antiquity: Bacon on, 123 n., Sidney on, 124 n., Gascoigne on, 288, Bryskett on, 590
Poets, the inspiration of: "E. K.," 13. Puttenham, 137, 157, Sidney, 149 sq., Bacon, 388; honour and rewards for, 25, 26, 99; Plato on, 119, 147; "right,' 105 n., 147, 150;
effect on character of "imitation (dramatic), 146; Sidney on the historian and the poet, 151
Pope, Alexander, precocity of, 204, 206
Ralegh, Sir Walter, his estates in Munster, 38, 374, 565; his retreat from the Court and visit to Ireland in 1589, and his denial of loss of favour, 38, 333, 350, 418, 445; consulted by the Queen in Irish matters, 38, 420, 564; denounced to the Queen by Essex, 44 [see further under Essex]; his position at Court, 47; his relations with the Queen, 73, 74, 421-27, 443; exploration of the Orinoco, 77 n., 460 sq.; verses in Gascoigne's Steele Glas, 243; his early life, 244, 304 m., 372, 416; an "adventurer in Gilbert's New- foundland voyage, 304, 323; con- nection with Hakluyt, 321, 506 n.; and Colin Clout, 332-35, 350; scurrilous epitaph on Cecil attributed to, 332 n.; elegy on Sidney attributed to, 355; his verses to Spenser in Faerie Queene, 367, 459; and "Ignoto," 367-69; his " 'Cynthia," 369, 370, 442 sq.; Spenser's inti- macy with considered, 371-74; at Smerwick, 371, 560; differences with Lord Grey, 373, 419, 420; as a retainer of Leicester, 373, 417: Devonshire antiquaries on his lineage, 376, 378 n.; jealousy at his rise, 378; his marriage and loss of favour, 392, 414; his prospects on the death of the Queen, 395, 435; his attitude towards the succession of
James, 396, 439, 465; his influence on Bacon, 396; charged with atheism, 414, 487; his style of writing, 416, 433; the spelling of his name, 416; descriptions of, 419; his unpopularity, 419, 420, 432; his arrogance, 419. 420, 445; charged with unscrupulous ambition, 420, 428; the Queen's respect for his opinion, 420; grants to by the Queen, 423; and the Madre de Dios, 423, 431, 432, 505, 506 n.; reports of his marriage, 424; committed to the Tower, 425; gross flattery of the Queen, 426, 435; his relations with his wife, 427-29; on piracy, 431; his respect for Cecil, 432, 437 ; as a man of action, 432, 433; allusion by to Richard the Second, 436; the "Bothwell" letter, 438-41; his imprisonment under James, 439, 465; the verse petition to Queen Anne, 454; his epitaph, 457, 458; assistance rendered by others in his History of the World, 458-60; his exaggerations, 463; intrigues against him by Northampton and Cecil, 465; paper explaining Faerie Queene allegories given to, 470 n.; his proposals for garrisoning Ireland, 563, 564; suggested poetical allusions to in Faerie Queene, 73-76, 94, 468 [see also under Timias], and in Shakespeare, 378, 397, 465 Rich, Penelope, Lady, her relations with Mountjoy, 75, 346, 356; and "Stella," 190, 349, 351-64, 502504
Scott, Sir Walter, autobiographical element in, 230 Shakespeare, William, claim to immortality, 5 n. ; the play Sir Thomas More, 49; absence of manuscripts, 53; the alleged "unconscious" order of his work, 55; on Essex, 64 n., 437; some characters in the Winter's Tale, 96; his attitude towards the people, 101, 106; sense of mutability, 104, 132, 331; his "invention," 105; Tolstoi's hatred of, 106; the Tempest examined, 121-33; his use of the term " 'spirits," 121 sq., 134137; and of the term "simple," 141; his " inaccuracy," 142, 587; his
"anachronisms," 143-45; the "impersonality" of, 147; the complaints of Hamlet, 148, 163, 331; his plays and Bacon's remarks on the drama, 155; a description applicable to his genius and art, 157, 158; the allusions in the Teares of the Muses, 164; "Yorick," 171; early Shakespearian humour, 224, 269; the "autobiographical" element in, 230, 231; Midsummer Night's Dream and the Queen's entertainment at Kenilworth, 248, 255, 268, 273; the impetuous sequence of his ideas, 287, 463: on drunkenness, 291, 292; the style of Lucrece, 341; the "argument" of Antony and Cleopatra, 342; his prose, 415; The Phoenix and Turtle, 422; an allusion by Ralegh to Richard the Second, 436; Othello, 465; some parallels with Spenser, 494-99; his way of using law terms, 500; absence in love, 501; and the Countess of Pembroke, 502; the sonnets of, 502, 503; Ben Jonson on, 515
Passages quoted from, or references to Othello (Iago's age), 3: King Lear (the gods and old age), 18; Richard III. (and "E. K."), 21; Measure for Measure (the people), 106; Troilus (reference to), 106; Hamlet("the groundlings"), 106 n. ; Tempest ("spirits"), 124-33; Macbeth ("mutability "), 132 n. ; L.L.L., Lear, Troilus, Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Sonnet cxxix. ("spirits"), 134, 135; Antony and Cleopatra (transmission of impressions), 136; L. L.L., Troilus and Cressida ("simple"), 141, 142; King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline ("anachronisms"), 144, 145; Hamlet ("Yorick"), Merry Wives (reference to), 171; Hamlet ("mighty opposites"), 180n.; Macbeth (ambition), 200; Hamlet (man and nature), 238 n., 331; Midsummer Night's Dream (acting), 255 n., 268; ibid. (moonlight), 273 n.; Hamlet, Othello (drunkenness), 291; Romeo and Juliet (beauty's ensign"), 341; Othello (feminism"), 342; ibid. (his ancestry), 378; Hamlet (on Horatio), 397; Much ado (reference to), 403; Coriolanus (the child and the butterfly), 407 n.; Macbeth (prose letter), 415; Henry V. (Essex), 437; Sonnet lxxiii. (reference to), 454; Othello ("Anthropophagi"), 464;
ibid. (Othello and his courtship), 465-67; Othello, King Lear, Venus and Adonis, Romeo and Juliet, (parallels), 494; Romeo and Juliet, L.L.L. (legal metaphors), 500 n. ; As you like it, Antony and Cleopatra, (absence in love), 501; Timon (last words), Cymbeline (reference to), 519; King Lear (men blaming the stars for their own follies), 535 Shepheards Calender, The, contem- porary ignorance as to the authorship of, 4, 5; the archaic language of, 6, 7, 28; new style for the year adopted in, 12; evidence for the author's youth, 15, 20, 24, 27-29; a probable allusion to Queen Elizabeth, 28 [cf. 260] Sidney, Sir Henry, connection with Spenser, 19, 31, 40; recalled from Ireland, 32; advises Lord Grey, 32 n.; Irish policy of, 70; death of, 163; on the state of religion in Ireland, 549; his description of Munster, 559
Sidney, Mary. See Pembroke Sidney, Sir Philip, his early connection
with Spenser, 2, 3, 19, 31; author- ship of The Shepheards Calender attributed to, 4, 5; his Apologie for Poetrie and Spenser's English Poete, 10, 14, 148; his correspondence, 3 n., 186 sq.; his desire to succeed his father in Ireland, 32 n., 64; his death, 163; letter to the Queen on the French marriage, 84 n., 185 sq.; his marriage and relations with his wife, 357; in Faerie Queene, 95, 96, 487, 488; his reply to Leicester's Common- wealth, 186, 193, 194; his character, 187, 189, 190; his Protestant sym- pathies, 190, 353, 487; letter on travel, 191; at Kenilworth, 276 n.; as an "adventurer" in Gilbert's voyage, 328; verses to in Daniel's works, 338, 342; his betrothal to Penelope Devereux, 356; account of with Bryskett abroad, 590. See also under the several works
Sizars, 2 n., 3, 43, 102 Soul, the, imprisoned in the body, 18,
151; Bacon's ideas as to, 99, 108 sq.; Aristotle on, 109 sq.; sense of com- pleteness, a passion of, 104; attitude towards in writings of Spenser, Shakespeare and Bacon, 331 Southampton, Earl of, 75
Spencer, Sir John, of Althorpe, 1, 65, 184, 378
Spencer, Sir John, merchant and Lord Mayor of London, 89
Spenser, Edmund-I. As an official and settler in Ireland: his identity and early life, 1-4, 31, 33 n.; his supposed friendship with Sir Philip Sidney, 3 n.; first mention of his name as a writer of poetry, 5 n. ; the external evidence for his identity, 30 sq.; his appointment as secretary to Lord Grey, 31, 34; perhaps in Ireland earlier, 33; evidence for an early marriage, 31, 34, 375, 568 [and see under II.]; his death, interment and monument, 34, 38, 39. 46, 88; appointments and grants of land in Ireland, 35, 36, 374, 574, 577; his life as a settler, 36-38, 548, 570; fate of in the Munster rising, 38, 39; his petition to the Queen, 39, 41, 42, 569; his connection with Ralegh, 36, 38, 44, 73, 371-74: his alleged friendship with Essex, 39-46, 554 his pension, 40, 41; the visits to London, 41-44, 159; absence of manuscripts and corre- spondence, 53; Faerie Queene con- Isidered in relation to his circum- stances, 55, 56, 76-82; evidence that he was secretary to the Bishop of Rochester, 572
II. As a writer: his habit and methods of concealment, 6, 9, 14, 55, 58; his methods of "advertising and reviewing" his works, 6, 369, 576 [cf. 169]; his habit of self-praise, 7, 28, 58, 166, 330, 334, 369; on love, 8, 15, 18, 99, 507; his com- plaints and suggested explanation for, 50, 148, 162, 173, 331; charac- teristics as a writer, 57-60, 80, 89, 98, 142, 143, 147, 494, 533; repre- sentations of his genius, 62, 182, 480; his aristocratic standpoint, 101, 103, 164, 507, 534; primitiveness of spiritual feeling, 113 n., 490, 585; his use of the term "spirits," 134. 135; and of the term 'simple," 138, 140, 141; his “inaccuracy," 143; references to his poetry by Daniel, 340; his sonnet to Harvey, 369; on Ralegh's Cynthia," 370; the inference that he was at Smerwick, 371, 561; his marriage and the poems, 365 n., 374 sq., 385 n.; his family and the Spencers of Althorpe, 378; his attitude towards Church questions, 548
For his habit of writing about the Queen, see Elizabeth. See also Bryskett, "Immerito," Leicester, and the several works
Spenser, Sylvanus, petition by, 374, 569; his name used for a dialogue on Irish outrages, 566
"Spirits," Baconian meaning of, 107, 114 sq., 591
Stage, the, writing for not well regarded,
9; Daniel on, 9 n., 133 n., 340; players licensed, 51; theory of superior imaginative powers of the audience questioned, 105, 106; absence of the historical sense, 144; Bacon on the contemporary and the possible uses of, 154, 155; Spenser's complaint about, 165; representation of the "dumb show" in Faerie Queene, 99, 100; the fashion at Court for the masque, 133; descrip- tion of Tarlton on, 171; allusions to in metaphor, 368 Stanley, Ferdinando, fifth Earl of
Derby, as Amyntas," 65, 66, 349 "Stella," 3 n., 349, 350 sq., 502
Tarletons Newes out of Purgatorie, 168-71
Tarlton, Richard, 166, 168, 171
Teares of the Muses, The, 43, 44, 161, 164-67, 171, 350
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, the metre of
In Memoriam, 354 Throgmorton, Elizabeth, in Faerie Queene, 74, 483; her marriage with Ralegh, 392, 393; courtship, 423, 465; committed to the Tower, 425; her relations with her husband, 427- 429
Tides and sea currents, theories of, 300, 301, 306; Bacon on, 307-10 Tyrone, rebellion of, 70, 75 n., 82,
Warwick, Anne, Countess of, 88, 163, 349 n.
Webbe, William, 5, 9, 479 n. See A Discourse of English Poetrie "White and red," 390 n. Whitgift, Archbishop, censorship of the press by, 51; and the Martin Marprelate" attack, 52; connection with Bacon, 52, 61; Upton's sugges- tion that he is in Faerie Queene, 61, 62
Wilson, A., account of Bacon by, 516 "Wit" and "will," 18, 118 n., 177 n., 231, 487, 491
Wordsworth, William, a student of Daniel, 344
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