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simple verses should have protected his ashes from sacrilege. The nearest approach to an excavation into the grave of Shakespeare was made in the summer of the year 1796, in digging a vault in the immediate locality, when an opening appeared which was presumed to indicate the commencement of the site of the bard's remains. The most scrupu

lous care, however, was taken not to disturb the neighboring earth in the slightest degree, the clerk having been placed there, until the brickwork of the adjoining vault was completed, to prevent anyone making an examination. No relics whatever were visible through the small opening that thus presented itself, and as the poet was buried in the ground, not in a vault, the chancel earth, moreover, formerly absorbing a large degree of moisture, the great probability is that dust alone remains. This consideration may tend to discourage an irreverent opinion expressed by some, that it is due to the interests of science to unfold to the world the material abode which once held so great an intellect. It is not many years since a phalanx of troubletombs, lanterns and spades in hand, assembled in the chancel at dead of night, intent on disobeying the solemn injunction that the bones of Shakespeare were not to be disturbed. But the supplicatory lines prevailed. There were some among the number who, at the last moment, refused to incur the warning condemnation, and so the design was happily abandoned.

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Jonson, Volpone....

1605

1607

Marston, Chapman, and Jonson, Eastward Hoe.. 1605

1605

Chapman, Bussy d'Ambois..

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Tourneur, The Revenger's Tragedy.

1607

Chapman, Conspiracy and Tragedy of Byron...

Webster, The White Devil....

Dekker, The Honest Whore. Part II....
Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess.

Jonson, The Silent Woman.

Beaumont and Fletcher, Philaster.

Jonson, The Alchemist...

Beaumont and Fletcher, The Maid's Tragedy..
Beaumont and Fletcher, A King and No King..
Beaumont and Fletcher, The Knight of the Burn-

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ing Pestle....

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Field, A Woman is a Weathercock.

1611

1612

Fletcher (and Shakespeare?), The Two Noble
Kinsmen

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INDEX OF CHARACTERS

AARON, a Moor, beloved by
Tamora, Titus Andronicus:
Act I, sc. i; Act II, sc. i,
iii; Act III, sc. 1; Act IV, sc.
ii; Act V, sc. i, iii
ABERGAVENNY, LORD, King Henry
VIII: Act I, sc. i
ABHORSON, an executioner, Meas-
ure for Measure: Act IV, sc.
ii, iii
ABRAHAM, servant to Montague,

Romeo and Juliet: Act I, sc. i
ACHILLES, a Grecian commander,
Troilus and Cressida: Act II,
sc. i, iii; Act III, sc. iii; Act
IV, sc. v; Act V, sc. i, v, vi,
vii, viii

ADAM, servant to Oliver, As You
Like It: Act I, sc. i; Aet II,
sc. iii, vi, vii
ADONIS, Passionate

Venus and Adonis

Pilgrim;

ADRIAN, a lord, The Tempest:

Act II, sc. i; Act III, sc. iii;
Act V, sc. i

ADRIANA, wife to Antipholus of
Ephesus; The Comedy of Er-
rors: Act II, sc. i, ii; Act IV,
sc. ii, iv; Act V, sc. i
ÆGEON, a merchant of Syracuse,
The Comedy of Errors: Act I,
sc. i; Act V, sc. i
ÆMILIA, wife to Egeon, an Ab-
bess of Ephesus, The Comedy
of Errors: Act V, sc. i
EMILIUS, a noble Roman, Titus
Andronicus: Act IV, sc. iv;
Act V, sc. i, iii
ENEAS, a Trojan commander,

Troilus and Cressida: Act I,
sc. i, ii, iii; Act IV, sc. i, ii,
iii, iv, v; Act V, sc. ii, x
AGAMEMNON, the Grecian gen-
eral, Troilus and Cressida:
Act I, sc. iii; Act II, sc. iii;
Act III, sc. iii; Act IV, sc. v;
Act V, sc. i, v, ix
AGRIPPA, friend to Cæsar, Antony

and Cleopatra: Act II, sc. ii,
iv, vii; Act III, sc. ii, vi; Act
IV, sc. i, vi, vii; Act V, sc. i
AGRIPPA, MENENIUS, friend to
Coriolanus, Coriolanus: Act
I, sc. i; Act II, sc. i, ii, iii;
Act III, sc. i, ii, iii; Act IV,
sc. i, ii, vi; Act V, sc. i, ii, iv
AGUECHEEK, SIR ANDREW, Twelfth

Night: Act I, sc. iii; Act II,
sc. iii, v; Act III, sc. i, ii, iv;
Act IV, sc. i; Act V, sc. i
AJAX, a Grecian commander,
Troilus and Cressida: Act II,
sc. i, iii; Act III, sc. iii; Act
IV, sc. v; Act V, sc. i, v, vi,
ix
ALARBUS, Son to Tamara, Titus
Andronicus: Act I, sc. i
ALBANY, DUKE OF, King Lear:
Act I, sc. i, iv; Act IV, sc.
ii; Act V, sc. i, iii
ALCIBIADES, an Athenian captain,
Timon of Athens: Act I, sc.
i, ii; Act II, sc. ii; Act III,
sc. v; Act IV, sc. iii; Act V,
sc. iv
ALENCON, Duke of, King Henry
VI: Part 1, Act I, sc. ii, vi;
Act II, sc. i; Act III, sc. ii,
iii; Act IV, sc. vii; Act V,
sc. ii, iv

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