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Peele, George, alleged letter of, 189 _seq._
Pepys, Samuel, his play-going experience, 81-86;
on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, 91-93;
on Shakespeare, 94 _seq._;
his attitude to poetic drama, 95, 96;
his musical setting of "To be or not to be," 100
Petrarch, his tomb at Arqua, 225
Phelps, Samuel, at Sadler's Wells, 11;
list of plays produced by, 11, 114 _n._;
his mode of producing Shakespeare, 12;
on a State theatre in London, 120;
on public control of theatres, 140, 141
Philosophy, Shakespeare's attitude to, 143 _seq._
Pindar on poetic fame, 232
Platter, Thomas, journal of his London visit (1599), 38
Playhouses in London, Blackfriars, 227;
Drury Lane, 86, 87 and _n._;
"The Globe," 38, 227;
"The Red Bull," 86;
Sadler's Wells, 11;
Salisbury Court, Whitefriars, 66, 86;
"The Theatre" at Shoreditch, 37, 227
Pope, Alexander, and French literature, 199;
on the Shakespeare cenotaph, 216
Richardson, Samuel, in France, 200
Robinson, Richard, actor, 68
Ronsard, Pierre de, and Elizabethan poetry, 199;
in England, 203
Rousseau, J.J., and English literature, 200
Rowe, Nicholas, Shakespeare's first formal biographer, 54;
his acknowledgment to Betterton, 73;
his biography of Shakespeare, 79, 80
Royal ceremony, irony of, 158
Russell, Lord John, on patriotism, 172
Sadler's Wells Theatre, 11
Sand, George, on Shakespeare, 206
Sardou, Victorien, work of, 200
Scenery, its purpose, 5;
uselessness of realism, 23
Schiller, on the German stage, 136;
monument to, 233
Scott, Sir Walter, and commemoration of Shakespeare, 216, 232;
Edinburgh monument of, 238
Sedley, Sir Charles, 91
Seneca on mercy, 153 _n.
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