PLATO, bis Minos explained, 106, 107.
Republic corrected, 17, n.
explained, 110, n.
Laws corrected, 281, 282.
explained, 237, 238.
PLATONIUS, corrected, 103, 104, n.
PLAUTUS, explained, 116, 323, n. 344, 357.
Pleasure arifing from scene of diftrefs, B. I. Sect. VIII.
PLUTARCH, paffages explained, 185, 236, 255, n. Cor
rected, 191, 192, & n. 219, 220, n. 247, n.
Poet, meaning and force of the word, 135, & n.
Ποιεῖν, 135, 11.
Probability, poetic, 27, & n. A probable lye, ibid.
PROPERTIUS, explained, 307.
Пgoσwπопoría, beauty of the figure, 84, 85.
Puns, in Shakespeare and in the ancient writers, 258, &c.
Puritans, their taft, and hatred of literature, 16, & n.
Repetition of the fame letters in verfes, fee Alliteration.
Refolution, 32.
RICHARD III, a character not proper for the stage, 67.
Ridicule, proper subjects for it, 112, & n.
Rimes, whether avoided by Homer, Virgil, Milton, 12, 13, n.
Romans, how their government influenced their manners and
learning, 122. Their fall and barbarity, 18. Roman au-
thors, 130, n.
Rose, under the rofe, xlviii.
SARESBEKIENSIS, Joannes, cited, 18, 19, n..
Satyric drama, 100, 101, & n.
SCALIGER impofed on by Muretus, 290, n.
Sentiments, poetic, B. I. Sect. XII.
SEXTUS EMPIRICUS, corrected, 114, n.
SHAFTSBURY, Earl, wrongly criticizes Shakespeare, 9. Mif
taken in his etymolgy of Defdimena, 303.
SHAKESPEARE, bis learning, paffim. wherein faulty, 67,
125, 126. His boneft character, B. I. Sect. II. A ftria
obferver of decorum, 97. His gravity and humour, 97,
98. His plays explained, defended, corrected.
All's well that ends well, corrected, 229, 230. Defended,
χχχίν.
Antony and Cleopatra, the character of Mark Antony, and
his manner of Speech, 89, 90. Dramatis perfonae varied
from Plutarch, 302. Paffoges explained, 187, 188, 327, n.
Defended, 200, n. 316, 317, 328, 330, 335, 360. Cor-
rected and explained, 183, 184, 235, 236, 246, 247, 248,
249, 254, 255, 275, 276, 333.
As you like it, passages explained, 257, 258. Corrected,
208, 209, 257, 273, 274.
Comedy of errors, passages explained and defended, 146,147,
323, 324, 326, n. xxxvii. Corrected, 233, 234.
Coriolanus, character of Coriolanus, 78. Passages explain-
ed and defended, 163, 170, 171, 328, 329, 331, 351.
Corrected and explained, 208, 211, 212.
Cymbeline, paffages explained, 21, 331. Defended and ex-
plained, 171, 348. Corrected, 204, 205, 215, 240, 241.
Hamlet, the play criticized, 43, &c. In what light the play
introduced before the King, is to be confidered, 48, 49, 120,n.
Paffages explained, 27, n. 48, 49, n. 320, 321, 322, 327,
343, 345, 395, 396. Explained and corrected, 177, 178,
382, 383.
ift Part of K. Henry IV, wrongly fo called, 58.
and defended, 162, 334, 335, 338, 351, 395.
2d Part of K. Henry IV, wrongly fo called, 58. Paffages
explained, 77, 78, 150, n. Corrected, 240, 274, 380,n.
Henry V. Fluellin's character, 72. Passages explained, 90, n.
222. Defended and explained, 149, 150. xli. Correct-
ed, 274, 275, 381, n. 406, 407.
K. Henry VI, the ftory faulty, 25, n.
in the firft part, explained, 151, 216.
plained, 300, 301. xxi.
59, 60. Paffages
Second part, ex-
K. Henry VIII, wrongly called the life of K. Henry VIII,
57. Wherein faulty, ibid. Paffages explained and de-
fended, 22, 23, 329, & n. 350. Corrected and explained,
K. John, wrongly called, The life and death of K. John, 56,
57. Paffages explained and defended, 173, 174. Cor-
rected, 252.
Julius Caefar, the plot vindicated, 58, 59. Its length of
time, 61, n. The characters, 74, &c. Paffages explain-
ed, 78, 79, 186, 187. Defended, 157, 314, 315, 331.
Explained and corrected, 176, n. 229, 244, 245, 246,
258. xiv.
K. Lear, explained and corrected, 195, 196, 199, 203, 235-
Defended, 332. ix, xxv. Passages explained, 224, 225,
346, 362, 363. xiv, xix, xxv.
Love's labour's loft, fpurious, 289. Corrected, 231, 232.
Macbeth, the play criticized, 27, &c. Its length of times,
61, n. The poet's art in deviating from history in the
character of Banquo, 40. Passages explained, 21, 31,
32, 33, 37, 38, n. 39, n. 41, 42, n. 164, 179, n. 326.
Defended and explained, 155, & n. 339, 345. xxii, xxiii,
xlix. Corrected, 34, 204, 277.
Measure for Meafure, paffages explained, 148, n. 215. Its
unity and moral, 59. Explained and defended, 169, 217,
343, 407. Explained and corrected, 239.
Merchant of Venice, the Jew's character not proper for
the ftage, 67. Passages explained, 163, 354.
Merry Wives of Windfor, paffages explained and defended,
161, 323, 380, n. xx, xxxiv. Corrected, 278, 279.
A Midfummer Night's Dream, paffages defended, 157, 309,
407. Explained and corrected, 205, 251, 252, 333.
372, n. Ridicules, the affectation of repeating the fame
letters, 268.
Much ado about nothing, paffages explained, 212.
rected, 230, 231, 242.
Othello, the play criticized, 51, &c. Paffages explained,
162, 164, 224. Explained and defended, 171, 172, 303,n.
336, n. 341, 342, 355. Explained and corrected, 181,
182, 202, 203, 269, 270, 306. Meaning of the word
Desdemona, 303.
K. Richard II, passages explained and defended, 305, 342.
K. Richard III, the character improper for the ftage, 67.
Explained and defended, 347, n. 395:
Romeo and Juliet, a play founded upon hiftory, 74. Mer-
cutio's character, 91. Paffages explained and defended,
148, 357, n. Corrected, 243, 244.
Taming of a Shrew, passages defended and explained, 169,
170, 304.
The Tempest, the unity of its action, 59. Caliban's cha-
racter, 91. Paffages explained, 223, 224, 226, 227, 339.
Corrected, 199, 200, 238, 239, 249, 250, 251, 273,
379.
Timon of Athens, paffages defended, 311, 362. Corrected,
197, 198, 199, 239, 240.
Titus Adronicus, fpurious, 284, 285.
Troilus and Creffida, paffages explained and corrected, 213,
214, 232, 233, 254. Explained, 148, n. 182, 222,
223, 337.
Twelfth-Night, or What you will, explained and defended,
341. Corrected, 196, 197.
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Spurious, 289.
Winter's tale, the flory faulty, 25, n. Explained, 307.
Shent, 193.
SOCRATES, 97, 98, 294.
SOPHOCLES, his improvement of the ftage, 105, & n. His
Electra, 49, 50, 392. Oedipus, 58. Ajax, 58, 321.
Philoctetes explained, 259, Defended, 29, n.
SPENCER, paffages explained, 47, n. 136, 180, 191, 205, n.
305, 310. xxv, xxvi. Explained and corrected, 184,
186, 193, 336, n. 404.
Stage, fee Tragedy, Comedy.
STRABO, cited and illuftrated, B. I. Sect. II.
Sublime, true, 87.
Subscribe, subscription, 312, 313.
Superftition and wickedness united, 36.
Swearing on the fword, 47, n.
SYDNEY, Sir Philip, his remarks on our tragedies and come-
dies, 62, 63. His bad metre, 384, 385.
Σχῆμα παρ' ὑπόνοιαν, a figure in rhetoric ufed by Shake-
Speare, 161.
Table books, fee Pugillares.
Tangere, meaning of the word, 306.
Tast, modern, B. I. Se&t. III. & IV. Taft corrupted intro-
duces depravity of morals, 18. Critical taft, how to be
acquired, B. II. Se&t. I. 385, 386.
TERENCE, in what fenfe the Roman Menander, 121, 112,
282. His art in drawing the character of Demea, 76, 77.
Explained, 356, 358.
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