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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

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by Stephen Greenblatt

Ulysses (Joyce), 144

  Unfortunate Traveler, The (Nashe), 203

  Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancaster and York, The (Hall), 169, 195

  university wits, 199–216, 218, 257, 294

  usury, see moneylending

  Vagabond Act of, 88, 1604

  vagabonds, 74–75, 87–88, 188

  Vautrollier, Thomas, 193–94, 195

  Venice, 261

  Venus (char.), 72, 126, 241–45, 389

  Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare), 72, 207, 240–46, 256, 257, 311, 389

  dedication of, 240, 243, 246

  popularity of, 245

  publication of, 240–41

  Shakespeare’s presence in, 243–44

  Vernon, Elizabeth, 254

  Vertumnus (Gwinn), 332

  Vice, the, 32, 33–34, 220–21

  Vincentio, Duke (char.), 33, 136

  Viola (char.), 47, 81–82, 104, 135, 136, 166, 238–39

  Virgil, 109

  Wales, 166

  Walpole, Henry, 115–16

  Walsingham, Frances, 129

  Walsingham, Sir Francis, 268

  Ward, John, 387

  Warwick, 42

  Warwick, Earl of, 60, 96

  Warwick Jail, 76

  Warwickshire, 58, 98, 101, 124, 150, 155, 156–57, 159, 160, 191, 387

  Warwick’s Men, 30

  Watson, Thomas, 200–201, 202, 207, 208, 211–12

  weapons, 73–74, 75, 182, 292

  Webbe, William, 236

  Westminster Abbey, 91

  Westminster Palace, 262

  Whatley, Anne, 124–25

  Wheeler, Margaret, 384

  whippings, 178

  Whitaker, William, 115

  Whitechapel, 165

  Whitehall, 164

  Whitsunday, 38

  whorehouses, 176, 180–81, 182

  Wilkins, George, 369

  William (char.), 64–65

  William the Conqueror, 58, 164

  “willing suspension of disbelief,” 248

  Willis, 30–32

  Wilmcote, 59, 61, 80, 344

  Winchester, bishop of, 96

  Wincot, 68–69

  Windsor, 115

  Winter’s Tale, The (Shakespeare), 11, 33, 40, 55–56, 57, 84, 85, 112–13, 131–32, 140, 144, 207, 248, 290–91, 389

  retirement contemplated in, 370–72

  Wit and Science, 32

  witches:

  common belief in, 343–44

  James I’s fear of, 342–48

  in Macbeth, 334–35, 346, 348–55

  in The Winter’s Tale, 371–72

  Wit’s Misery and the World’s Madness (Lodge), 215

  wodewoses (wild men), 39

  women:

  childbirth deaths of, 133

  corruption of, 186

  dangers of travel for, 87

  gender inferiority ascribed to, 253

  in Hock Tuesday play, 37, 44

  literacy and, 25–26, 125–26

  mistrust of, 355

  wool, “brogging” of, 56–57, 63, 80, 166

  Worcester, 124, 384

  Worcester, Edwin Sandys, bishop of, 60, 120

  Worcester’s Men, 28, 30

  Wounds of Civil War, The (Lodge), 201

  wrestling, 176

  Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 200, 234

  yeomen, 76–77

  York, 80

  York, Duke of (char.), 41–42, 196

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