Critics, incompetence, 37, 38.

“Cure for a Cuckold, A,” 24.

Daniel, “Defence of Rhyme,” 107.

Dante, Webster compared with, 33, 52;
  Marston compared with, 119;
  love of country, 202.

Day, 87, 205.

“Dead Term, The” (Dekker), 102.

Decameron, 93.

“Defence of Rhyme,” 107.

Dekker, Thomas (61-112);
  collab. with Webster, 19;
  part in “Westward Ho!”, 20;
  comic style, 21, 158;
  collab. with Marston and Middleton, 30;
  Francois Villon compared with, 61, 62;
  tenderness like Shakespeare, 62;
  compared with Jonson, 69-71;
  with Blake and Shelley, 72;
  moral force, 73;
  satirist, 75;
  Hunt and Hazlitt on, 78;
  compared with Webster, Ford, and Middleton, 81;
  with Massinger, 87;
  Coleridge on, 88;
  Kingsley on, 89, 90;
  compared with Dickens, 102, 107;
  modern writers compared with, 106-108;
  humorist, 106;
  style compared with Dryden, 107;
  likened to Boccaccio, 108;
  as man and poet, 112;
  plays unedited, 152;
  collab. with Middleton, 161;
  allegory compared with Middleton, 168;
  Rowley compared with, 191, 193;
  faults, 194;
  imitated by Rowley, 195;
  use of foreign words, 247.

Deloney, Thomas, 91, 92.

Demonology, 161.

Desdemona, type of heroine, 57.

Devereux, Robert, 256.

“Devil’s Answer to Pierce Penniless, The” (Dekker), 95.

“Devil’s Law-case, The” (Webster), 25, 27, 30, 32, 49, 53.

“Dick of Devonshire,” 235.

Dickens, Dekker compared with, 102, 107, 160;
  Middleton compared with, 163.

Diderot, 266.

“Dido, Queen of Carthage” (Marlowe), 8.

Dilke, Old Plays, 154.

“Dr. Faustus” (Marlowe), 2, 4, 6, 11.

Dodsley’s Old Plays, 195.

Don Juan, 214.

Donne, John, 126, 257.

Don Quixote, 229.

“Double PP, The, etc.,” 97.

Drake, Sir Francis, 18.

Dramatic poetry, evolution of, 216.

“Dream, The” (Dekker), 100.

Drue, Thomas, 207.

Dryden, 82;
  Dekker compared with, 107, 157, 221, 226.

“Duchess of Malfy, The” (Webster), 16, 32, 37, 53, 55, 270.

“Duchess of Suffolk, The,” 207.

“Duke of Milan, The,” 30.

“Dutch Courtesan, The” (Marston), 122, 130-133, 146.

Dyce, 11, 22, 23, 76, 151, 153, 180;
  on Webster, 40;
  on Middleton, 154, 157, 172;
  on Heywood, 232.

“Earthly Paradise, The,” 215.

“Eastward Ho!”, 129, 130.

“Ecole des Maris,” 134.

“Edward II.” (Marlowe), 6, 208.

Elegies, Ovid’s, 12;
  Tourneur’s, 277;
  Tennyson’s, 278.

“Englishmen for My Money,” 85.

English language, dignity, 228.