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Lee, Sidney, Sir, 1859-1926

"Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays"

_, purport of John of Gaunt's dying speech, 115-116,
181
_Romeo and Juliet_, Pepys's criticism of, 96
_Tempest, The_, Pepys's criticism of, 105-108;
spectacular production of, at Restoration, 107
_Troilus and Cressida_ (II. ii., 166), on Aristotle, 144, 145;
(I. iii., 101-124), on social equilibrium, 163
_Twelfth Night_, Pepys's criticism of, 96
Sheffield, John, Earl of Mulgrave and Duke of Buckinghamshire, 72
Shoreditch, the theatre in, 227
Sidney, Sir Philip, French translations of _Arcadia_, 199, 204
Somerset, the "proud" Duke of, on Shakespeare, 79
Sophocles, statue of, 233
Southampton, Earl of, and Shakespeare, 72
Southwark, the Globe Theatre at, 227
Spenser, Edmund, Beeston's gossip about, 67
Steevens, George, character of, 191;
a forged letter by, 192, 193
Sterne, Laurence, in France, 200
Stevenson, R.L., his imaginary discovery of lost works by Shakespeare,
25
Stratford-on-Avon, Shakespeare's tomb at, 50;
Betterton at, 73;
visitors from Oxford to, 75, 76, 77;
Shakespeare tradition at, 75, 76;
Shakespeare memorials at, 218;
destruction of New Place, 221;
the monumental committee of, 221;
sale of Shakespeare's birthplace, 222;
purchase of New Place site, 223;
the Birthplace Trust, 223, 224
Suckling, Sir John, his love for Shakespeare, 71
Sudermann, Hermann, 135

Tate, Nahum, his adaptations of Shakespeare, 103, 104
Theatres in Elizabethan London, 36;
seating arrangements, 39;
prices of admission, 39;
the scenery, 40;
the costumes, 41;
contrast between their methods of production and those of later
date, 44
Theatres, at Restoration, 86;
characteristics of, 87-90.


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