“King Richard II.,” 6, 208.

Kingsley, on Webster, 42;
  on Dekker, 89, 90.

“Knight’s Conjuring, A,” 95.

Knox, John, 267.

La Fontaine, 110.

Lamb, Charles, 21, 151, 190;
  on Dekker, 63, 66, 78, 162;
  on Marston, 122, 123;
  on Webster, 140;
  on Heywood, 152, 200, 202, 205, 211, 214, 219, 225, 226, 237;
  on Middleton, 153, 165, 167, 177;
  on Rowley, 187, 197-199, 202;
  on Chapman, 258, 259;
  on Tourneur, 284.

Landor, Walter Savage, 120, 166;
  on Marston, 137;
  Rowley compared with, 199.

“Lantern and Candle-light” (Dekker), 101.

“La Reine d’Espagne,” 232.

Latin comedy, 133.

“Latter-day Pamphlets,” 93.

Latouche, Henri de, 232.

“Laugh and Lie Down,” 278.

Lee, “Gloriana,” 82.

“Life of Merlin, surnamed Ambrosius” (Heywood), 112.

Lillo, 239.

“Lingua,” 170.

Little Dorrit, 100.

London, 11, 203, 214, 245.

“London’s Tempe,” 84.

Longfellow, 38.

“Love’s Mistress,” 222.

Lowndes, 278.

“Loyal Subject, The” (Fletcher), 232.

Lucrezia Borgia, 209.

“Lust’s Dominion,” 85, 152.

“Lycidas,” 157.

Lyly, parody on “Antonio and Mellida,” 147.

Lyric poetry before Shakespeare, 242.

Macaulay, on Milton, 104.

“Macbeth,” relation to “The Witch,” 172, 252.

Machiavelli, 84.

“Mad World, My Masters, A” (Middleton), 160.

“Maid’s Tragedy, The,” 30.

“Maidenhead Well Lost, A,” 231.

“Malcontent, The” (Marston), 22, 116;
  Webster’s part in, 124, 129.

Mallory, 229.

“Manfred,” 3.

Mantalini, 24.

Marlowe, Christopher (1-14),
  influence on Shelley, 1, 13;
  on Milton, 5;
  on Nathaniel Lee, 7;
  compared with Shakespeare, 7, 194, 208;
  comic spirit, 10, 11;
  translations of Ovid and Lucan, 12;
  lyric quality, 13;
  place in literature, 14;
  compared with Webster, 33, 58, 59;
  impostures of, 85;
  Bullen’s edition, 151;
  Middleton compared with, 172;
  model for others, 178;
  first great poet of England, 189;
  treatment of couplet, 205, 260.

Marmion, 222.

Marston, John, (112-149),
  tragic spirit compared with Webster’s, 17, 30, 59;
  collaboration with Webster, 22;
  relations with Jonson, 112, 113, 127;
  tragic style compared with Webster, Tourneur, Shakespeare, 114;
  characters, 115, 116;
  compared with Sophocles, Tacitus, Dante, 117, 119;
  influenced by Jonson, 122,
  collaboration with, 140, 141;
  place among poets, 144;
  compared, with Jonson, 146;
  satirist, 179;
  compared with Tourneur, 276, 277, 281;
  ridiculed by Jonson, 276.