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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