"Dramatic Censor," 1811, ii. 57, _note_ 1, ii. 79, _note_ 2.
Drury Lane Theatre, i. 92, _note_ 1; opened by King's Company, i. xxxii.; built for Killigrew's Company, i. 88; sometimes called "the theatre in Covent Garden," i. 88, _note_ 1; desertion from in 1733, i. 283; Company (1695), their improvement, i. 314; its Patent, ii. 31; its original construction, ii. 81; why altered, ii. 81; under W. Collier's management, 1709, ii. 91; report on its stability, ii. 176-177.
Dryden, John, ii. 163, _note_ 1, ii. 210, ii. 251; his prologue on opening Drury Lane, 1674, i. 94, _note_ 2, i. 322, _note_ 1; a bad elocutionist, i. 113; his Morat("Aurenge-Zebe"), i. 124; his high praise of Mrs. Elizabeth Barry, i. 158; his prologue to "The Prophetess," i. 187, _note_ 1; his "King Arthur," i. 187, _note_ 2; a sharer in the King's Company, i. 197; his address to the author of "Heroic Love" quoted, i. 231, _note_ 1, ii. 238, _note_ 3; his indecent plays, i. 267; his epilogue to "The Pilgrim," i. 268; his "Secular Masque," i. 268, _note_ 1; his prologue to "The Prophetess" vetoed, ii. 13; his prologues at Oxford, ii. 134, ii. 136, _note_ 1, ii. 137, _note_ 1; expensive revival of his "All for Love," ii. 175.
Dugdale, Sir William, his "Antiquities of Warwickshire" quoted, i. xxxvi.; mentions the "Ludus Coventriæ," i. xxxviii.
Duke's Servants, The, i. 87, _note_ 1, i. 88.
Duke's Theatre, ii. 336; first theatre to introduce scenery, i. xxxii.
Dulwich College, built and endowed by Edward Alleyn, i. xxviii.
"Dunciad, The," i. 36, _note_ 1, ii. 181, _note_ 1, ii. 182, _note_ 1, ii. 270; on Italian opera, i. 324, _note_ 1.
Edicts to suppress plays, 1647-1648, ii. 322.
Edward, son of Henry VI., pageant played before, i. xl.
---- son of Edward IV., pageant played before, i. xlii.
Edwin, John, his "Eccentricities" quoted, ii. 78, _note_ 1.
E----e, Mr. [probably Erskine], his powers of raillery, i. 13, i. 14, _note_ 1, i. 16.
Egerton, William, his memoirs of Mrs. Oldfield, i. 5, _note_ 1.
"Egotist, The," i. lv., _note_ 1, i. 36, _note_ 2, i. 41, _note_ 2, i. 43, _note_ 1, i. 45, _note_ 1, i. 46, _note_ 1, i. 53, _note_ 1, ii. 265.
Elizabeth, Queen, and the Spanish Armada, allusion to, i. 64; her rule of government, i. 65.