common INDEX

Agrippa, Cornelius, De Incertitudine et Vanitate Scientiarum, 84

All’s Well That Ends Well, 252, 293

Antony and Cleopatra, 148, 296

Aristophanes, 1, 5, 6, 10, 40, 62, 63, 271

Arnold, Matthew, 87

As You Like It, xv, 3, 5, 8, 9, 11, 72, 75, 131, 188, 216, 253–271, 281

Bacchus, xvi, 6, 28, 35, 66, 70, 71, 75–81, 91, 103, 120, 225

in relation to Falstaff, 75–81; see also Carnival, Lord of Misrule, Shrove Tuesday

Bacon, Sir Francis, 57

Baird, Theodore, 239n

Baker, Howard, 88n

Baskervill, C. R., 17, 31n, 49n, 57, 59n, 63n

Bear Garden, 60

Bergson, Henri, Le Rire, 209

bill of defiance, burlesque, 53, 54, 58

bonefires, 140

Bonner, Edmund, Catholic bishop of London, 56, 59n

Book of Common Prayer, The, 94

Bradbrook, M. C., 123, 173n, 282

Brand’s Antiquities, 27

Browne, William, 165n

buffoon, 225, 244

Burke, Kenneth, 41

Campbell, Lily Bess, 232

Campbell, O.J., 98–99

Campion, Thomas, 37n

Candlemas, 4

Capell, Edward, 133n

Carew, Richard, Survey of Cornwall, 26

Carnival, related to Falstaff, 235, 242, 243; see also Bacchus, Lord of Misrule, Shrove Tuesday

Castiglione, Baldassare, 282

Cecil, Sir Robert, 42–43

Chambers, Sir Edmund, The Mediaeval Stage, 6, 30n, 157

The Elizabethan Stage, 32n, 34n, 35n, 36, 63n, 157

Chaucer, Geoffrey, Troilus and Criseide, 267

Christmas, 1, 4, 6, 11, 18, 26, 27, 28, 49n, 51, 66, 84, 103, 107, 185–186, 213, 272, 284

songs sung at, 131, 154, 256

chronicle play, 219

clown, 3, 11, 12, 13, 14, 37, 49, 57, 58, 109–110, 124, 168–169, 172, 176–179, 196, 219, 222, 231

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 161

Comedy of Errors, The, 10, 273, 290

commedia dell’arte, 124

Cornford, F. M., 5

courtesy, 194, 277–290

Craig, G. Armour, 239n

Crosse, Henry, Virtues Common-wealth, 39 298

dances, in Love’s Labour’s Lost, 100, 106

in Midsummer Night’s Dream, A, 146, 158

in Twelfth Night, 272n

Davies, Sir John, Orchestra, 100

“Death of the Lord of Kyme, The,” 39–40, 48, 59

débat, 67, 90, 131

Debates or Stryfes Betwene Somer and Wynter, The, 132–134

Descartes, René, 184

dirge, burlesque, 48, 49, 59

disguising, 4, 6, 18, 33, 74, 106, 145, 187, 212, 264, 274, 281, 288

Dodsley, Robert, A Select Collection of Old Plays, 174n

Drayton, Michael, Nymphidia, 159

Dryden, John, 116, 117n

Dymoke, Sir Edward, 39, 43–56, 284, 287

Dymoke, Talboys, 39, 43–56, 62, 65, 270, 284

Eliot, T. S., 252, 266, 268

Elizabeth, Queen, 32, 33, 34, 55, 56, 65, 94, 95, 96, 125, 137, 138, 139, 168, 202, 216

Empson, William, 12n, 234

entertainments, aristocratic, 10, 17, 32–38, 65, 98, 135, 168, 272n

at Bisham, 35n

at Elvetham, 34, 35, 37n, 138

at Kenilworth, 33, 35, 37, 138, 172, 176

Erasmus, Desiderius, 3n

Apophthegmes, 49n

Praise of Folly, 75, 85, 104, 210

Euphuism, 108, 266

Everyman, 67

fairies, xvi, 37, 52, 135, 136, 139, 140, 151, 156–168

passim, 170, 180, 181

Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, The, 223

Farnham, Willard, 3n

Ferrers, George, 71n

flyting, 5, 57, 85

fool, 3, 13, 18, 27, 30, 48, 68, 73, 101, 102, 103, 255–264

passim, 286, 287, 294, 295–296

Frazer, Sir James, The Golden Bough, 140, 190, 235

Freud, Sigmund, 6, 78, 179, 238

Psychopathology of Everyday Life, 238

Friar and the Boy, The, 52, 53

Frye, Northrop, 10n

Gardiner, Stephen, bishop of Winchester, 50

Gascoigne, George, 37

Georges, Sir Arthur, 42

Gl’Inganni, 273

Golding, Arthur, translation of the Metamorphoses, 173, 174n

Googe, Barnabe, The Popish Kingdome, translated from Thomas Naogeorgus, 81n

Gosson, Stephen, School of Abuse, 23

Granville-Barker, Harley, 191, 217

Greg, Sir Walter, 133n

Gresham, Sir Thomas, 216

Grindal, Edmund, archbishop of Canterbury, 6, 7

Hamlet, 1, 24, 252, 282, 292, 295, 296

harvest festival, 4, 5, 17–18, 26, 35, 73–74

Harvey, Gabriel, 60

Hazlitt, W. Carew, 27, 30

Hazlitt, William, 159–160

I Henry IV, 2, 3, 11, 13, 77, 81, 188, 211, 219–251, 284

II Henry IV, 2, 3, 14, 42n, 70, 79, 80, 103n, 175n, 188, 219–251, 252

Henry V, 171n, 175n, 188, 226

II Henry VI, 12, 31, 232

Herrick, Robert, 26

Corinna’s Going a Maying, 19

Hobbyhorse, 29, 30, 50, 70, 73

Hocktide, 4, 5, 35–36

Hotson, Leslie, The First Night of “Twelfth Night,” 272

Hugo, Victor, 234

Hunsdon House, dance, 100

Jack a Lent, 42n, 50

James I, King, 17, 90

James, Henry, 179

jig, 10, 56, 58

“Jig of Rowland, The,” 175n

Johnson, Samuel, 117, 157

Jonson, Ben, 88, 89, 209, 244, 260

Joyce, James, 93

Julius Caesar, 188

Kempe, William, 169

King Lear, 217–218

Kirbye, George, 33

knighting, burlesque, 58, 71

Knights, L. C., 89, 234

Kyd, Thomas, 10

The Spanish Tragedy, 182

La Rochefoucauld, 76

Lamb, Charles, 290

Laneham, Robert, 35, 37, 172

Latham, Minor White, 164

Latimer, Hugh, Bishop, 16

Leicester, Lord Robert Dudley, Earl of, 33, 138

Lewis, C. S., 93

Lincoln, Henry Fiennes de Clinton, Earl of, 39–40, 42–55, 270

Lodge, Thomas, Rosalynde, 253, 254, 258, 261

Lord of Misrule, xiii, 3, 6, 13, 19, 25–31, 35, 40–56, 57, 61, 71n, 75–81, 223, 225, 243, 285; see also Bacchus, Carnival, Mardi Gras, Shrove Tuesday

Love’s Labour’s Lost, 2, 3, 10, 12, 13, 86, 98–134, 141, 144, 148, 149, 150, 164, 188, 253, 264, 281

Lyly, John, 10, 62, 98, 124

McKerrow, R. B., 63n, 73n, 93n, 95

Machyn, Henry, 50

Maid Marian, 30, 36, 59

Manningham, John, 273

Mardi Gras, related to Falstaff, 235; see also Bacchus, Carnival, Lord of Misrule, Shrove Tuesday

Marlowe, Christopher, 10, 209

Dr. Faustus, 11, 221n

Jew of Malta, 202, 203

Tamburlaine, 174n, 221n

Marprelate controversy, 40, 50, 56–63

Marriage festival, 4, 10, 37, 142, 150, 158, 184

Marvell, Andrew, 268, 270

masque, 4, 5, 33, 37, 98, 105, 106, 128, 187, 268

Master of the Revels, 63, 142

May Day, 4, 9, 18, 19, 136, 158

May game, 5, 19–25, 36, 39, 45, 53, 55, 56–63

passim, 135, 136, 150

May Game of Martinism, The, 59

May King and Queen, see May game and Summer Lord and Lady

Measure for Measure, 252, 282, 293, 294

Merchant of Venice, The, 7, 185–218, 252, 277, 281, 282, 283, 285, 287

Merry Wives of Windsor, The, 176, 252

Midsummer Eve, 4, 18, 136, 139, 140, 150

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A, 2, 3, 10, 11, 37n, 52, 64, 95, 98, 99, 118, 131n, 132, 134, 135–184, 188, 190, 253, 281, 296

Molière, 209

Tartuffe, 102

Le Misanthrope, 102

morality play, 10, 67, 223, 245

More, Sir Thomas, 3n

Morgan, Maurice, 223, 226

morris dance, 3, 4, 18, 28, 30, 35, 36, 59, 60, 70, 73

Much Ado About Nothing, 5, 8, 129, 252, 253, 266

mumming, 3, 14, 18, 158, 172

Murray, Gilbert, 221n

Murry, John Middleton, 191

Naogeorgus, Thomas, 81n

Nashe, Thomas, Summer’s Last Will and Testament, 23, 24, 49, 59, 60, 65–97, 103, 128, 185, 186, 191, 213, 216, 225, 259, 270

New Comedy, 39

Nichols, John, 37

Nicholson, B., 72n

Noble, Richmond, 157n

O’Conor, Norreys Jephson, Godes Peace and the Queenes, 42, 52, 53, 55

Old Comedy, 1, 39, 40, 61, 62; see also Aristophanes

Ovid, Metamorphoses, 137, 139, 172

Pagit, Eusebius, 60

pastoral, xv, 12n, 17, 33, 165, 254–260, 261, 286

Paul, St., 210

Peele, George, Arraignment of Paris, 34

Plautus, 1, 10, 273

Menaechmi, 273

praise of folly, 75, 82, 103, 104, 210, 225, 257

prodigal, 75, 76, 87, 191, 223, 281, 283

Proust, Marcel, 161

Puritanism, xiii, xiv, xv, 16, 17, 21, 24, 40, 55, 56–63

passim, 291

Pyramus and Thisby, 170, 172–176

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 217

Reinhardt, Max, 170

Rembrandt, 218

repartee, 108, 113–114

Restoration comedy, 283

resurrection, burlesque, 175n, 234

Rich, Barnabe, Of Apolonius and Silla, 273

Richard II, 181, 183, 188, 207, 222, 224, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 250

Richard III, 179

Richards, I. A., 117n

Robin Hood, 5, 19

Romeo and Juliet, 52, 105, 106, 143, 148, 165, 173n, 180, 181, 182, 188, 296

Saint George plays, 14, 175n, 234; see also mumming, sword-dance

Saturnalia, xii, 28, 31, 39, 40, 56, 156, 234, 235–238, 271

Savage Man, 35, 176

scapegoat, 190, 191, 235, 247

Scott, Sir Walter, Kenilworth, 37

Second Shepherds’ Play, The, 11

Selden, John, 28

Seneca, 175n

sermon, burlesque, 50, 76

Sharp, Cecil, 31n

Shrove Tuesday, 4, 26, 41, 50, 80, 81, 129, 188; see also Bacchus, Carnival, Lord of Misrule, Mardi Gras

Sidney, Sir Philip, 12, 141n, 222

“The Lady of the May,” 125

songs, festive and seasonal motives in, 21, 74, 128–134, 154–155, 256

in As You Like It, 256

in Love’s Labour’s Lost, 128–134

in Summer’s Last Will and Testament, 74

sotties, 101, 260

Spens, Janet, An Essay on Shakespeare’s Relation to Tradition, 221n

Spenser, Edmund, Epithalamion, 149

The Shepherds’ Calendar, 19

Spurgeon, Caroline, Shakespeare’s Imagery and What It Tells Us, 152

Stevens, Wallace, 88n

Stoll, E. E., Shakespeare Studies, 191, 192, 202, 226

Stubbes, Phillip, Anatomie of Abuses . . . in the Country of Ailgna, 21–24, 28–29, 31, 44, 135, 136

Summer Lord and Lady, 3, 6, 18, 22, 26, 34, 94–95, 135–136, 137, 150

sword-dance, 3, 35

Taming of the Shrew, The, 1, 11

Tarleton, Robert, 58

Tawney, R. H., 16

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, 291

Taylor, John, the water poet, Jack a Lent His Beginning and Entertainment, 42n, 81n

Tempest, The, 146n, 183

Terence, 1

testament, burlesque, 47–48, 49, 50, 59, 65

Thersites, 175n

Tillyard, E.M.W., 239

Titus Andronicus, 181, 182

Toschi, Paolo, Le origini del teatro italiano, 243n

Toy, professional actor, 68, 73n

transvestism, 274, 278

Triumphes of Oriana, The, 33

Troilus and Cressida, 252, 292, 293

Twelfth Night, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 81, 130, 141, 188, 210, 252, 262, 272–296

Twelfth Night, 4, 5, 9, 26, 56, 130, 272

Two Gentlemen of Verona, 10, 14, 36, 282

Udall, Nicolas, 49n

Ulrici, Hermann, 234

Urquhart, Sir Thomas, 27

Van Doren, Mark, 194, 282, 285

Venezky, Alice S., 98–99, 99n, 193

Vertumnus, sive Annus Recursus, or The Year About, 90

Vice, 3, 48, 49, 58, 61, 223, 241

Vox Graculi, or Jack Dawes Prognostication, 80

wake, 4, 17, 23, 28, 115

wassail, 3, 4, 28, 115

Webster, John, The Duchess of Malfi, 26n

Welsford, Enid, 3n, 101n, 145

Whitgift, John, archbishop of Canterbury, 65

Whitsun pastorals, 144

Will Summers, 68–97

passim, 259

Wilson, John Dover, 57, 132, 244

Wilson, Robert, Three Ladies of London, Three Lords and Three Ladies of London, 189, 190

Winter’s Tale, The, xiii–xiv, 144, 154n, 296

wit, 78–79, 85, 112–116, 266, 268–269

Wordsworth, William, 21

Wright, Louis, 164n

Yeats, W. B., 2, 93, 270