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
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
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
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
Debates or Stryfes Betwene Somer and Wynter, The, 132–134
Descartes, René, 184
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
Dymoke, Sir Edward, 39, 43–56, 284, 287
Dymoke, Talboys, 39, 43–56, 62, 65, 270, 284
Elizabeth, Queen, 32, 33, 34, 55, 56, 65, 94, 95, 96, 125, 137, 138, 139, 168, 202, 216
entertainments, aristocratic, 10, 17, 32–38, 65, 98, 135, 168, 272n
at Bisham, 35n
at Kenilworth, 33, 35, 37, 138, 172, 176
Erasmus, Desiderius, 3n
Apophthegmes, 49n
Praise of Folly, 75, 85, 104, 210
Everyman, 67
fairies, xvi, 37, 52, 135, 136, 139, 140, 151, 156–168
Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, The, 223
Farnham, Willard, 3n
Ferrers, George, 71n
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, 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
Herrick, Robert, 26
Corinna’s Going a Maying, 19
Hobbyhorse, 29, 30, 50, 70, 73
Hotson, Leslie, The First Night of “Twelfth Night,” 272
Hugo, Victor, 234
Hunsdon House, dance, 100
James, Henry, 179
“Jig of Rowland, The,” 175n
Jonson, Ben, 88, 89, 209, 244, 260
Joyce, James, 93
Julius Caesar, 188
Kempe, William, 169
King Lear, 217–218
Kirbye, George, 33
Kyd, Thomas, 10
The Spanish Tragedy, 182
La Rochefoucauld, 76
Lamb, Charles, 290
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
McKerrow, R. B., 63n, 73n, 93n, 95
Machyn, Henry, 50
Manningham, John, 273
Mardi Gras, related to Falstaff, 235; see also Bacchus, Carnival, Lord of Misrule, Shrove Tuesday
Marprelate controversy, 40, 50, 56–63
Marriage festival, 4, 10, 37, 142, 150, 158, 184
masque, 4, 5, 33, 37, 98, 105, 106, 128, 187, 268
May Day, 4, 9, 18, 19, 136, 158
May game, 5, 19–25, 36, 39, 45, 53, 55, 56–63
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
morris dance, 3, 4, 18, 28, 30, 35, 36, 59, 60, 70, 73
Much Ado About Nothing, 5, 8, 129, 252, 253, 266
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
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
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
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
Scott, Sir Walter, Kenilworth, 37
Second Shepherds’ Play, The, 11
Selden, John, 28
Seneca, 175n
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
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
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
Terence, 1
testament, burlesque, 47–48, 49, 50, 59, 65
Thersites, 175n
Tillyard, E.M.W., 239
Toschi, Paolo, Le origini del teatro italiano, 243n
Toy, professional actor, 68, 73n
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
Webster, John, The Duchess of Malfi, 26n
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