Shakespeare, Marlowe compared with, 2, 10, 14;
  translated by Hugo, 4;
  indebted to Marlowe, 5, 14, 36;
  Webster compared with, 15-17, 29, 30, 33, 38, 44-46, 52, 54, 57, 58;
  collaboration with Rowley, 24;
  doctrine compared with Aeschylus, 31;
  lyric quality, 50;
  greatest contemporary of, 55;
  light comedy, 64;
  Webster on, 65;
  Dekker compared with, 67, 71,
    in humor, 108;
  burlesqued by Dekker, 68, 81;
  admonitory style in dialogue, 98;
  “Venus and Adonis,” 136;
  obscurity like Marston’s, 137, 144;
  above Milton, Coleridge, and Shelley, 150;
  Middleton compared with, 154, 155,
    in humor, 158;
  characters, 166, 182, 184;
  obligations to Middleton, 172;
  tragic invention, 176;
  method of work, 178;
  compared with Rowley, verse quality, 191, 194;
  patriotism, 202;
  treatment of couplet, 205;
  on chronicle plays, 206, 209;
  “Richard II.,” 208;
  Heywood compared with, blank verse, 224;
  national qualities in, 236;
  Dr. Johnson on, 237;
  humanity, 243;
  use of foreign words, 246;
  quoted in Heywood’s plays, 249;
  reference to Chapman, 260;
  Tourneur compared with, in dramatic dialogue, 263;
  verse music, 270;
  tragic hero, 274;
  poetic style, 276.

Shakespeare Society, 19.

Shelley, Marlowe’s influence on, 1, 16, 38;
  Dekker compared with, 72;
  Marston, 137, 141, 177, 258.

Shirley, 30, 38, 163, 194, 221.

“Shadow of Night, The” (Chapman), 255.

“Shoemaker, a Gentleman, A” (Rowley), 193.

Sidney, Sir Philip, 18, 66, 68, 224, 254, 258.

Sigurd, 214.

“Silver Age, The,” 216.

“Sir Giles Goosecap,” 128.

“Sir Peter Harpdon’s End,” 215.

“Sir Thomas More,” 19.

“Sir Thomas Wyatt, The Famous History of,” 19, 22.

“Sir Tristrem,” 153.

Slang, Rowley’s, 195.

Socrates, 169.

Somerset, Earl of, 256.

Sophocles, Webster compared with, 35-37, 52, 218, 221.

“Sophonisba” (Marston), 116.

Southey, on Rowley, 199.

Sovereign of modern poets, 35.

Spain in drama, 168, 194, 210, 234.

“Spanish Gipsy, The,” 177, 179.

“Spanish Moor’s Tragedy, The,” 85.

Spenser, 1.

Stanihurst’s Virgil, 280.

Sterne, Dekker’s style compared to, 107;
  morbidity, 121.

“Strange Horse-race, A” (Dekker), 102.

Strozzi, Ercole, 209.

Study of Shakespeare, A, 11.

Suckling, Sir John, 157.

Sue, Eugene, 33.

Swift, Jonathan, prose, 8, 17, 121, 220;
  Tourneur compared to, 264.

Tacitus, Marston’s dialogue compared with, 119.

“Tamburlaine,” 2, 4, 11.

“Taming of the Shrew, The,” Marlowe’s part in, 11.