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Lee, Sidney, Sir, 1859-1926

"Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays"

, his alleged letter to Shakespeare, 72
James II., statue of, 236
John of Gaunt in _Richard II._, dying speech of, 115-116, 181
Johnson, Dr, on false patriots, 171
Jonson, Ben, testimony to Shakespeare's popularity, 29;
his classical tragedies compared with Shakespeare's, 30;
his elegy on Shakespeare, 50, 232;
his dialectical powers contrasted with Shakespeare's, 53;
on the players' praise of Shakespeare, 60;
his son, Shakespeare's godson, 61;
Beeston's talk of, 67;
popularity of his plays at Restoration, 91, 92
Jusserand, Jules, on English literature, 202;
his _Shakespeare in France_, 203

Kean, Charles, experience of Shakespearean spectacle, 9;
Macready's criticism of, 14
Kemp, William, Elizabethan comedian, 33
Killigrew, Tom, manager of the King's Company, 87 _n._
Kingship, Shakespeare on, 155-160, 180-182
Kirkman, Francis, his account of William Beeston the second, 66

Lacy, John, actor, 67;
acquaintance with Ben Jonson, 68;
adaptation of _The Taming of the Shrew_, 108
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, and commemoration of Shakespeare, 216
Lessing, 136
Lincoln's Inn Fields (Portugal Row), Theatre at, 86, 87 and _n.


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