Shakespeare, Edmund: the poet’s brother, 2, 56–57.
Shakespeare, Gilbert: the poet’s brother, 2, 41–42, 64–65.
Shakespeare, Hamnet: the poet’s son, 6–7, 15.
Shakespeare, Joan: two sisters of the poet so named, 2; younger married William Hart, 2, 88; bequests to her in Shakespeare’s will, 83, 84; her death, 87.
Shakespeare, John: the poet’s father, 1, 5–6, 7–9, 15–18, 32–34, 88.
Shakespeare, Judith: the poet’s daughter, 6–7, 81, 82–84, 86.
Shakespeare, Richard: the poet’s grandfather (?), 1.
Shakespeare, Richard: the poet’s brother, 2, 70.
Shakespeare, Susanna: the poet’s daughter, 6, 18, 45; married to John Hall, 55; chief beneficiary under Shakespeare’s will, 83, 85, 86; named executrix, 86.
Shakespeare, William: parents and ancestry, 1–2; his brothers and sisters, 2; actor in two of Jonson’s plays, 27–28; gives Jonson a purge, 38–39; William the Conqueror to Burbage’s Richard III, 39; his London residences, 18–20, 65–70; his Stratford monument, 94; spurious records about, 98–100; avoids contemporary English characters in his plays, 136–137; his romanticism, 137–140; compared with Lyly, Marlowe, and Jonson, 139–140; his varied contacts with the theatre, 140–141; his Toryism in politics, 144–148; feeling for the sea, 148–150; recent political interpretations of his plays, 150–151; his treatment of rustic and of city types, 151–152; his religion, 152–153; distinguished from other Elizabethans, 153, 154–157; a thinker, rather than emotionalist or pragmatist, 157–160.
Shakespeare, William: contemporaries of the poet, 99.
Shank, John: actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
Shaw, Julius: witness of Shakespeare’s will, 87.
Shaxberd (Shakespeare): 51,
Sheldon, William: witness to Combes’ deed to Shakespeare, 42.
Shoreditch (or Finsbury Fields): theatres in, 20, 130.
Shottery: Richard Hathway’s home, 5; Shakespeare contemplates purchase of land in, 22–23.
Sidney, Sir Philip: 137, 159.
Silver Street (London): Shakespeare a resident in, 65–70.
