Index to the Works of Shakespeare

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. IT has been my intention to refer, in the following pages, to every passage of any importance under the word that best expresses its subject, whether that word is in the text or not, and in cases of doubt as to what word a pas sage would be looked for under, I have entered it under two or more. But, that significant expressions may be found readily, I have also indexed under their most prominent word all that seemed to me to be such. To have indexed all expressions under their principal words, would have been to make a phrase-concordance, which we already have, and would defeat the aim of this book by overloading it and wearying the student with references to a mass of unimportant allusions. Here the question of judgment necessarily comes in, and I may have omitted some references that a better editor would deem as sig nificant as many that are included. I trust, however, that references to passages of importance under each topic will not be found wanting.