“English Traveller, The,” 240.

“Entertainment” (Marston), 136.

Essex, Earl of, 256.

Euphuism, 147.

Euripides, 37, 169.

“Fair Maid of the Exchange, The,” 237.

“Fair Maid of the Inn, The” (Fletcher), 26.

“Fair Maid of the West, The” (Heywood), 212, 241, 243.

“Fair Quarrel, A” (Middleton), 165, 167.

Falstaff, 179.

“Family of Love, The” (Middleton), 159, 181.

“Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyatt, The,” 19.

“Fatal Curiosity” (Heywood), 239.

First great English poet, 1, 189.

Flamineo, 48, 52.

Fleay, Biographical Chronicle, 205;
  on Heywood, 228, 246, 249.

Fletcher, “Fair Maid of the Inn, The,” 26;
  Webster compared with, 26;
  tragic poet, 30;
  compared with Shakespeare, 65;
  comic style, 165;
  metrical beauty, 172, 174;
  Middleton compared with, 172, 174, 178;
  collab. with Beaumont, 182;
  realism, 214;
  Heywood compared with, 232;
  faults, 234;
  “Flitcher,” 237;
  Chapman’s feeling toward, 260.

Ford, 81, 172, 177.

Foreign words, abuse of, 246.

“Fortune by Land and Sea,” 243, 244.

“Four Brides of Noah’s Ark,” 106.

“Four Prentices of London, The,” 193, 225, 228.

Francis I., 258.

Franklin, 254.

French comedy, 133.

French history, source for Chapman, 258.

Froissart, 229.

“Game at Chess, A,” 157, 171.

Gautier, 231.

“Gentle Craft, The” (Dekker), 64.

“Gentleman Usher, The” (Chapman), 259.

German criticism, 19.

Gifford, on Dekker and Jonson, 69, 70, 90;
  on Marston, 122, 276.

Gil Blas, 210.

Giocondo, 110.

“Gloriana” (Lee), 82.

Glover, 38.

God, as term in literature, 286.

Goethe, on Marlowe, 2, 3.

“Golden Age, The” (Heywood), 216.

Goldsmith, Dekker compared with, 106.

Greene, Robert, 50, 73, 101.

Grenville, Richard, 18.

“Grim the Collier of Croydon,” 84.

Grosart, Barnfield, 51;
  on Dekker, 91, 99;
  on Marston, 126.

“Gull’s Hornbook, The” (Dekker), 97.

Hall, 125.

Hallam on Heywood, 3, 199, 232.

“Hamlet,” 144, 176, 179;
  influence on Tourneur, 276, 282, 284.

Haughton, 73, 87.

Hazlitt, on Dekker, 78, 79, 181, 190;
  on Heywood, 201.

Hebrew Bible, influence of, 281.

“Heliogabalus,” 231.

Henry IV., reign of, 258.

Henry, Prince of Wales, 256.

“Hero and Leander” (Marlowe), 13, 136, 256.

Heroine, orthodox ideal of, 247;
  cf. also 157 note.

Hesiod, 256.