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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
[Appendix
| VI | ||
| 'MR. WILLIAM HERBERT' | ||
| PAGE | ||
| Origin of the notion that Mr. W. H.' stands for William Herbert | 422 | |
| The Earl of Pembroke known only as Lord Herbert in youth | 423 | |
| Thorpe's mode of addressing the Earl of Pembroke | 424 | |
| VII | ||
| SHAKESPEARE AND THE EARL OF PEMBROKE | ||
| PAGE | ||
| Shakespeare with the acting company at Wilton in 1603 | 427 | |
| The dedication of the First Folio in 1623 | 428 | |
| No suggestion in the 'Sonnets' of the youth's identity with Pembroke | 429 | |
| Aubrey's ignorance of any relation between Shakespeare and Pembroke | 431 | |
| VIII | ||
| THE 'WILL' SONNETS | ||
| PAGE | ||
| Elizabethan meanings of 'will' | 432 | |
| Shakespeare's uses of the word | 433 | |
| Shakespeare's puns on the word | 434 | |
| Arbitrary and irregular use of italics by Elizabethan and Jacobean printers | 435 | |
| The conceits of Sonnets cxxxv-vi interpreted | 436 | |
| Sonnet cxxxv | 437 | |
| Sonnet cxxxvi | 439 | |
| Sonnet cxxxiv | 441 | |
| Sonnet cxliii | 442 | |
| IX | ||
| THE VOGUE OF THE ELIZABETHAN SONNET, 1591-1597 | ||
| PAGE | ||
| 1557 | Wyatt's and Surrey's sonnets published | 443 |
| 1582 | Watson's Centurie of Love | 444 |
| 1591 | Sidney's Astrophel and Stella | 444 |
| I. | Collected sonnets of feigned love | 445 |
| 1592 | Daniel's Delia | 446 |
| Fame of Daniel's sonnets | 447 | |
| 1592 | Constable's Diana | 447 |
| 1593 | Barnabe Barnes's sonnets | 448 |
| 1593 | Watson's Tears of Fancie | 449 |
| 1593 | Giles Fletcher's Licia | 449 |
| 1593 | Lodge's Phillis | 449 |
| 1594 | Drayton's Idea | 450 |
| 1594 | Percy's Cœlia | 451 |