from Minneapolis in being a capital city of an old monarchy, with manifold metropolitan interests, and a perpetual come-and-go of all manner of notables. Above all, it was not more than half cut free from the code of feudalism; and the exultant belletrists of the time were really not taken by outsiders at their mutual valuation. What Shakespeare (at times) thought and felt of his theatrical calling we know from himself. In many a sonnet does he tell how his "name receives a brand" from his life, how "vulgar scandal" has clung to his brow, how he is "made lame by fortune's dearest spite," how he must keep apart from his friend lest he carry discredit with him. In view of it all, we are not entitled even to assume that he was fortified against disregard or disesteem by consciousness of real superiority, much less that his superiority was generally recognised in the spirit of Meres. Nay, we cannot even decisively lay the suspicion that with his transcendent gift there went a certain psychic weakness, perhaps definitely physiological. But however that may be, it is clear that we shall understand him, if at all, by defining his psychic cast and the culture he had, not by surmising acquirements and status that he had not. INDEX Acting, effect of, in Shakespeare's | Baconian controversy, 28, 141 sq., 295 $9., 304, 339 sq., 341, 342 sq., 349 Bagehot, cited, 144, 157 m., 319 Baynes, Dr., cited, 122, 305 sq., 318, 319, 339, 347 and Fletcher, 268 Bede, cited, 93 Bellenden, 129 n. Benedix, 141 n. Beyersdorff, Dr., cited, 82 n. Bradley, Prof. A. C., 6, 28 n., 141 n., Brandl, Prof., cited, 112 sq., 129, Brooke, C. F. Tucker, quoted, 6 Buchanan, 113 Butler, 152 n. Atalanta, 345 Cæsar, character of, 55-7 Caliban, 229, 230-31 Augustine, supposed study of, by Calisto and Melebea, cited, 9 Clarke and Wright, 141 n., 251 spearean problems, 1 sq. speare on, 74 "Consummation," 48, 73 Coriolanus, 33, 39, 158, 162, 181, Cornelius Agrippa, cited, 77 Craik, cited, 245. Crawford, Mr. Charles, cited, 100 n. Cymbeline, 214, 260, 327 Destutt de Tracy, 209 282 sq., 283 n. Donnelly, 339, 343-4 Flaubert, 175-6 Fleay, 117, 141 n., 152 cited, 80, 144, 151, 152, 238, 245, Florio, translation of Montaigne's probably known to Shakespeare, mistranslations by, 115 m., 172 215 "Foppery," 109 Fortune, Montaigne's doctrine of, 43 sq., 171, 178, 193 "Discourse of reason," 46 sq., 213, Furnivall, 140, 197, 250, 252 Dowden, 140 m., 141 n., 146 n., 188 n. Gascoigne, cited, 10 Dream-life, 66-67, 225, 275 sq. Drihthelm, cited, 93 Drunkenness, Montaigne and Shake- speare on, 56 Bruno on, 135 Galen, 210 Gervais, F. P., cited, 84, 111, 295-6 Gervinus, 139, 140, 229 Gilbert, 346 Goethe, 268, 290 Golding, 104, 308 sq. Greekisms, supposed, in Shake- speare, 13 Green, 141 n. Greene, quoted, 11, 12, 262 sq. probable share of, in Henry VI plays, 11 |