Works
editMonographs
edit- The Autobiography Of Edward Lord Herbert Of Cherbury (1886) (external scan)
- A Life of William Shakespeare (1898) (transcription project)
- Shakespeare's Handwriting: Facsimiles of the Five Authentic Autograph Signature of the Poet (1899) (external scan)
- Lives of the 'lustrious: A Dictionary of Irrational Biography (1901) (external scan)
- Stratford-on-Avon: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Shakespeare (1902) (external scan)
- The alleged vandalism at Stratford-on-Avon (1903) (external scan)
- Elizabethan Sonnets (1904) in 2 vols. (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
- Queen Victoria: A Biography (1904) (external scan)
- Shakespeare's Life and Work: Being an Abridgment, Chiefly for the Use of Students, of A Life of ... (1904) (external scan)
- Shakespeares Venus and Adonis: Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the ... (1905) (external scan)
- Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century (1907) (external scan)
- Shakespeare And The Modern Stage With Other Essays (1907) (external scan)
- The impersonal aspect of Shakespeare's art (1909) (external scan)
- The Chronicle History of King Leir: The Original of Shakespeare's 'King Lear' (1909) (external scan)
- A Shakespeare reference library (1910) (external scan)
- Principles of Biography: The Leslie Stephen Lecture delivered in the Senate House, Cambridge, on 13 May 1911 (1911)
- Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance (1915) (external scan)
- The perspective of biography (1918) (external scan)
- King Edward VII, a biography (1925)
- Elizabethan and other essays (1929), edited by Frederick Samuel Boas
Contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography
editA
edit- Abbot, George (1562-1633)
- Abbot, Maurice
- Abel (d.764)
- Abell, William
- Abershaw, Louis Jeremiah
- Acton, John
- Adam, William Patrick
- Adams, John (1750?-1814)
- Adams, John (fl.1680)
- Adela
- Agard, Arthur
- Aguilar, Grace
- Aird, Thomas
- Alcock, Simon
- Alday, John
- Alexander of Ashby
- Alfred of Beverley
- Allan, Peter (1798-1849)
- Allan, Peter John
- Allen, Bennet
- Allibond, Peter
- Almack, William
- Ames, Joseph (1619-1695)
- Ancell, Samuel
- Anderson, Anthony
- Anderson, Edmund
- Annesley, Alexander
- Annesley, Francis
- Anstey, Thomas Chisholm
- Apsley, Allen (1616-1683)
- Armine, Mary
- Armine, William
- Armstrong, Archibald
- Arnold, Richard
- Arnold, Thomas Kerchever
- Arthur (1187-1203)
- Arundell, Henry
- Ascham, Roger
- Ashby, George (d.1475)
- Ashby, George (1724-1808)
- Ashe, Thomas (fl.1600-1618)
- Ashton, John
- Ashwell, John
- Atkyns, Edward (1587-1669)
- Atkyns, Edward (1630-1698)
- Atslowe, Edward
- Atwater, William
- Aust, Sarah
- Austin, William (1587-1634)
- Austin, William (fl.1662)
- Awdelay, John (fl.1559-1577)
- Aylesbury, Thomas (fl.1622-1659)
- Aylesbury, William
- Ayloffe, Joseph
- Ayloffe, William
- Ayreminne, Richard de
- Ayreminne, William de
- Ayrton, Matilda Chaplin
B
edit- Babington, Anthony
- Bacon, Anthony
- Bacon, Nicholas
- Bagard, Thomas
- Bagot, Richard
- Bainbrigg, Reginald
- Baker, Richard (1568-1645)
- Bald, Alexander
- Baldwin, Timothy
- Balfour, Francis (fl.1812)
- Banks (fl.1588-1637)
- Baret, John
- Bargrave, Isaac
- Barker, Christopher (d.1549)
- Barnardiston, Nathaniel
- Barnardiston, Samuel
- Barnardiston, Thomas (d.1669)
- Barnham, Benedict
- Barnham, Francis
- Barret, Robert
- Barry, John Milner
- Barthlet, John
- Barton, Edward
- Barton, Elizabeth
- Basse, William
- Basset, Peter
- Battine, William
- Bawdwen, William
- Baynard, Ann
- Beach, John
- Beale, Francis
- Bearblock, John
- Becke, Edmund
- Becket, William
- Becon, Richard
- Beeard, Richard
- Belson, Thomas
- Belt, Thomas
- Bendish, Bridget
- Benisch, Abraham
- Bertie, Peregrine
- Bertie, Willoughby
- Billingsley, Henry
- Bingham, Richard (1528-1599)
- Biondi, Giovanni Francesco
- Bird, James
- Blaauw, William Henry
- Blakeney, Richard Paul
- Blanchard, Samuel Laman
- Blandie, William
- Blencow, John
- Blenerhasset, Thomas
- Blount, Charles (d.1545)
- Blount, Charles (1563-1606)
- Blount, Christopher
- Blount, Edward
- Blount, Mountjoy
- Blount, Thomas (d.1400)
- Blount, Walter (d.1403)
- Blount, Walter (d.1474)
- Blount, William
- Bocher, Joan
- Bocking, Edward
- Bocking, Ralph
- Bokenham, Osbern
- Bold, John
- Bollard, Nicholas
- Bomelius, Eliseus
- Bond, Nicholas
- Booth, Robert (1626-1681)
- Bosworth, William
- Bourchier, John (1467-1533)
- Bourne, Immanuel
- Bourne, Nehemiah
- Bowdler, Henrietta Maria
- Bowdler, Jane
- Bowdler, John (1746-1823)
- Bowdler, John (1783-1815)
- Bowdler, Thomas (1754-1825)
- Bowdler, Thomas (1782-1856)
- Bowen, Thomas
- Bowes, Marmaduke
- Bowes, Martin
- Bowle, John (d.1637)
- Bowne, Peter
- Boys, John (1614?-1661)
- Bradley, Thomas (1597-1670)
- Bradshaw, John (1602-1659)
- Bradshaw, Thomas
- Braham, Robert
- Brancker, Thomas
- Brandon, John (fl.1687)
- Brandon, Richard
- Brasbridge, Thomas
- Brass, John
- Brent, Nathaniel
- Bretnor, Thomas
- Breton, Nicholas
- Brice, Thomas
- Bridges, John (d.1618)
- Brinknell, Thomas
- Broke, Arthur
- Brooke, Christopher
- Brooke, Henry (d.1619)
- Brooke, Samuel
- Brooke, Zachary
- Brough, William (d.1671)
- Brouncker, William
- Brown, Charles Armitage
- Brown, Rawdon Lubbock
- Browning, John
- Bruce, David (fl.1660)
- Bryan, Francis
- Brydges, Grey
- Brydges, John
- Bryskett, Lodowick
- Buchan, Peter
- Buckmaster, William
- Budden, John
- Bull, John (fl.1636)
- Bulloch, John
- Burbage, James
- Burbage, Richard
- Burhill, Robert
- Burke, John
- Burnaby, Andrew
- Burthogge, Richard
- Burton, Thomas
- Bushnell, Walter
- Butler, Eleanor
- Butler, Samuel (1774-1839)
- Butler, Thomas (1532-1614)
- Butter, Nathaniel
- Button, Ralph
- Byng, Thomas
- Bynneman, Henry
- Bysshe, Edward (fl.1712)
C
edit- Cadell, Thomas
- Cæsar, Henry
- Caius, John (fl.1480)
- Caius, Thomas
- Caldecott, Thomas
- Callcott, Maria
- Calverley, Walter
- Calvert, Thomas (1606-1679)
- Cambell, James
- Canning, Richard
- Cannon, Robert
- Capon, William (d.1550)
- Carew, George (1555-1629)
- Carey, Henry (1524?-1596)
- Carliell, Robert
- Carlos, William
- Carpenter, John (1370?-1441?)
- Carpenter, John (d.1476)
- Carter, Francis
- Carter, John (1554-1635)
- Carter, John (d.1655)
- Catherine of Valois
- Cave, Ambrose
- Cavendish, William (1505?-1557)
- Cavendish, William (d.1626)
- Cavendish, William (1591?-1628)
- Cavendish, William (1617-1684)
- Caxton, William
- Chaloner, —
- Chaloner, Thomas (1521-1565)
- Chamber, John (1546-1604)
- Chamberlain, Robert (fl.1640-1660)
- Chamberlayne, Edward (1616-1703)
- Chamberlayne, James
- Champneys, John
- Chandos, John
- Charles, Nicholas
- Charnock, Robert
- Cheeke, William
- Chertsey, Andrew
- Chestre, Thomas
- Chevallier, Anthony Rodolph
- Chibald, William
- Chute, Anthony
- Clopton, Hugh
- Colet, Henry
- Colet, John
- Collins, Samuel (1619-1670)
- Collins, Thomas
- Collop, John
- Colt, Maximilian
- Compton, Henry (1632-1713)
- Condell, Henry (d.1627)
- Coningsby, Harry
- Coningsby, Thomas (d.1625)
- Constable, Henry (1562-1613)
- Cooke, Anthony
- Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
- Cooper, Andrew
- Copley, Godfrey
- Coppin, John
- Corbet, Richard
- Cornish, Henry
- Cornwallis, Charles (d.1629)
- Cosby, Francis
- Cosin, Edmund
- Cosin, Richard
- Cosworth, Michael
- Cotgrave, John
- Cotterell, Charles
- Cotton, Robert Bruce
- Courten, William (1572-1636)
- Courtenay, Edward
- Courtenay, Henry (1496?-1538)
- Coventry, Anne
- Coventry, Thomas (1578-1640)
- Coventry, William
- Cowell, John
- Cradock, Matthew
- Cradock, Zachary
- Crane, Ralph
- Cranford, James
- Crashaw, Richard
- Crawford, William Sharman
- Crichton, James (1560-1585?)
- Croft, James
- Crofts, Elizabeth
- Croke, Alexander
- Croke, George
- Croke, John (d.1554)
- Croke, John (1553-1620)
- Croke, Richard
- Croker, Thomas Crofton
- Crompton, Hugh
- Cromwell, Edward
- Crouch, Humphrey
- Crouch, John
- Crouch, William
- Cuff, Henry
- Culpeper, Nicholas
- Culpeper, Thomas
D
edit- Dancer, John
- Danett, Thomas
- Daniel, Alexander
- Daniel, George (1789-1864)
- Daniel, Samuel
- Danvers, Charles
- Danvers, John
- Darcy, Abraham
- Davenant, William
- Davies, John (1627?-1693)
- Davies, William (fl.1614)
- Davison, William (1541?-1608)
- Degge, Simon
- Denham, John (1615-1669)
- Devereux, Robert (1567-1601)
- Devereux, Walter (1541?-1576)
- Digby, Everard (fl.1590)
- Digby, Kenelm (1603-1665)
- Digges, Leonard (1588-1635)
- Diodati, Charles
- D'Israeli, Isaac
- Dodsworth, Roger
- Domett, Alfred
- Dowriche, Anne
- Drummond, William (1585-1649)
- Duck, Stephen
- Dudley, Ambrose
- Dudley, Edmund
- Dudley, Jane
- Dudley, John de
- Dudley, Robert (1532?-1588)
- Dudley, Robert (1573-1649)
- Dudley, William
- Dymoke, John
E
editF
edit- Fairfax, Henry (1634-1702)
- Fane, Ralph
- Fanshawe, Henry
- Fanshawe, Richard
- Fanshawe, Thomas (1596-1665)
- Farmer, Anthony
- Farnaby, Thomas
- Farnham, Richard
- Fastolf, John
- Fauconberg, Thomas
- Faunt, Nicholas
- Fawkes, Guy
- Fell, Samuel
- Felton, John (1595?-1628)
- Fermor, Richard
- Ferrers, Edward
- Ferrers, George
- Ferris, Richard
- Finch, Thomas
- Finet, John
- Fitton, Mary
- Fitzgerald, Elizabeth
- Fitzgerald, James (1570?-1601)
- Flammock, Thomas
- Fletcher, Giles (1588?-1623)
- Fletcher, Joseph (1582?-1637)
- Fletcher, Phineas
- Fletcher, Robert
- Florio, John
- Foley, Samuel
- Foley, Thomas (1617-1677)
- Ford, Edward (fl.1647)
- Ford, Emanuel
- Ford, Simon
- Forde, Thomas (fl.1660)
- Forman, Simon
- Foulis, David
- Foulis, Henry
- Fowler, Abraham
- Foxe, John
- Fraunce, Abraham
G
edit- Gager, William
- Gahagan, Usher
- Gainsford, Thomas
- Gale, Roger
- Garbrand, John (1542-1589)
- Gardiner, Thomas (1591-1652)
- Garter, Bernard
- Gascoigne, George
- Gascoigne, Richard (1579-1661?)
- Gascoigne, Thomas (1596?-1686)
- Gayton, Edmund
- Geddes, William
- Gee, John
- Gifford, Gilbert
- Gill, Alexander (1565-1635)
- Gill, Alexander (1597-1642)
- Glynne, Stephen Richard
- Goddard, William (fl.1615)
- Godfrey, Edmund Berry
- Golding, Arthur
- Goodman, Gabriel
- Goodman, Godfrey
- Goodwin, Christopher
- Gosson, Stephen
- Gower, John
- Grafton, Richard
- Grant, Edward
- Greville, Fulke
- Grey, Thomas (d.1614)
- Griffith, Richard (d.1788)
- Grimald, Nicholas
- Grocyn, William
- Grogan, Cornelius
- Grove, Mathew
- Guy of Warwick
H
edit- Habington, Edward
- Hacket, Roger
- Hacket, William
- Hall, Arthur
- Hall, Edmund
- Hall, Jacob
- Hall, John (1575-1635)
- Hall, Westley
- Halliwell, James Orchard
- Halyburton, Thomas
- Hammond, George
- Hammond, John (1542-1589)
- Hanson, John
- Hardyng, John
- Harington, Henry (1755-1791)
- Harley, Brilliana
- Harman, Thomas
- Harris, George (1722-1796)
- Harris, Samuel
- Hart, Aaron
- Hartog, Numa Edward
- Harvey, John (1563?-1592)
- Hastings, Francis (1514?-1561)
- Hayward, John
- Hayward, Thomas
- Haywood, Eliza
- Head, Richard
- Hellowes, Edward
- Helwys, Gervase
- Heneage, Thomas
- Henslowe, Philip
- Herbert, Edward (1583-1648)
- Herbert, George (1593-1633)
- Herbert, Henry (1534?-1601)
- Herbert, Henry (1595-1673)
- Herbert, Henry (1654-1709)
- Herbert, Henry Howard Molyneux
- Herbert, Mary
- Herbert, Philip (1584-1650)
- Herbert, William (d.1469)
- Herbert, William (1501?-1570)
- Herbert, William (d.1593)
- Herbert, William (fl.1604)
- Herbert, William (1580-1630)
- Hicks, Michael
- Higgins, John
- Hill, Adam
- Hoddesdon, John
- Holinshed, Raphael
- Holland, Henry (1583-1650?)
- Holland, Philemon
- Hood, Robin
- Hooker, Richard
- Howard, Henry (1517?-1547)
- Howard, Henry (1540-1614)
- Howell, James
- Howes, Edmund
- Hungerford, Edward (1632-1711)
- Hungerford, Robert
- Hungerford, Thomas
- Hungerford, Walter (d.1449)
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editK
edit- Keightley, Thomas (1650?-1719)
- Keightley, Thomas (1789-1872)
- Kemp, William (fl.1590)
- Kemp, William (fl.1600)
- Kendall, Henry Clarence
- Kennedy, James (1793-1864)
- Ker, John (1740-1804)
- Kinwelmersh, Francis
- Kirke, Edward
- Kirke, John
- Knevet, Ralph
- Knightley, Richard (d.1639)
- Knolles, Richard
- Knollys, Francis
- Knollys, William (1547-1632)
- Kyd, Thomas
L
edit- Lake, Thomas
- Lambe, John (d.1628)
- Lane, John (fl.1620)
- Laneham, Robert
- Langbaine, Gerard (1609-1658)
- Langbaine, Gerard (1656-1692)
- Lauder, William (1520?-1573)
- Lauder, William (d.1771)
- Lee, Nathaniel
- Leland, John (1506?-1552)
- L'Estrange, Nicholas
- L'Estrange, Roger
- Lever, Thomas
- Levi, David
- Ley, James (1550-1629)
- Lilly, William
- Lisle, Alice
- Lodge, Thomas (1558?-1625)
- Lok, Henry
- Lok, William
- London, William
- Lopez, Roderigo
- Lucar, Cyprian
- Lucy, Thomas
- Lydgate, John
- Lyly, John
M
edit- Machin, Henry
- Mahony, Francis Sylvester
- Malone, Edmund
- Malory, Thomas
- Manningham, John
- Marbeck, John
- Marlowe, Christopher
- Marmion, Shackerley
- Marshall, George
- Mary I (1516-1558)
- Maunsell, Andrew
- Mayne, Jasper
- Merbury, Charles
- Meres, Francis
- Meyrick, Gelly
- Meyrick, John (d.1638)
- Michelborne, Edward (1565-1626)
- Mildmay, Walter
- Miller, Joseph
- Moffett, Thomas
- Mompesson, Giles
- Montagu, Elizabeth
- Montagu, Frederick
- More, Edward
- More, John (1453?-1530)
- More, Thomas (1478-1535)
- Morgan, Thomas (1543-1606?)
- Morwen, Peter
- Moryson, Fynes
- Mountain, Didymus
- Moxon, Edward
- Murford, Nicholas
- Murrell, John
N
edit- Nabbes, Thomas
- Napier, Richard
- Nash, Thomas (1567-1601)
- Nash, Thomas (1588-1648)
- Naunton, Robert
- Needham, Peter
- Nethersole, Francis
- Neville, Alexander (1544-1614)
- Niccols, Richard
- Nichols, Thomas
- Norris, Edward (d.1603)
- Norris, Francis
- Norris, Henry (1525?-1601)
- Norris, John (1547?-1597)
- North, George (fl.1580)
- Norton, Thomas (1532-1584)
- Nott, George Frederick
O
editP
edit- Pace, John
- Painter, William
- Palfreyman, Thomas
- Parfre, Jhan
- Parker, Henry (1476-1556)
- Parker, William (1575-1622)
- Parkhurst, John (1512?-1576)
- Paulet, Amias (1536?-1588)
- Peacham, Edmond
- Peacham, Henry
- Peckham, Edmund
- Penry, John
- Percy, Henry (1532?-1585)
- Percy, Henry (1564-1632)
- Percy, Thomas (1528-1572)
- Percy, Thomas (1560-1605)
- Percy, William (1575-1648)
- Perne, Andrew
- Pestell, Thomas
- Pettie, George
- Peyton, Edward (1588?-1657)
- Phaer, Thomas
- Philip, John (fl.1566)
- Phillips, Edward (1630-1696?)
- Phillips, John (fl.1570-1591)
- Phillips, John (1631-1706)
- Pickering, William (1796-1854)
- Pike, Richard (fl.1625)
- Pilkington, Gilbert
- Plat, Hugh
- Ponsonby, William (1546?-1604)
- Preston, Thomas (1537-1598)
- Pricket, Robert
- Prowse, William Jeffery
- Psalmanazar, George
- Puckle, James
- Puttenham, George
- Pye, Henry James
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edit- Ralegh, Walter (1552?-1618)
- Ramsay, Laurence
- Randolph, Thomas (1605-1635)
- Rankins, William
- Ratsey, Gamaliel
- Rawley, William
- Reed, Isaac
- Reed, Joseph (1723-1787)
- Rich, Barnabe
- Rich, Penelope
- Rider, John
- Ridley, Nicholas
- Ridolfi, Roberto di
- Ritson, Joseph
- Robinson, Clement
- Robinson, Ralph (fl.1551)
- Rogers, Daniel (1538?-1591)
- Rogers, John (1500?-1555)
- Roper, William
- Rous, John (1411?-1491)
- Rowe, Elizabeth
- Rowe, Nicholas
- Rowlands, Samuel
- Rowley, Samuel
- Roydon, Matthew (anonymous, attribution by Fenwick)
- Ruggle, George
- Rymer, Thomas
S
edit- Sabie, Francis
- Sackville, Thomas
- Sala, George Augustus Henry
- Sampson, William (1590?-1636?)
- Sancho, Ignatius
- Sandford, James
- Sandys, George
- Savage, John (d.1586)
- Saviolo, Vincentio
- Scogan, Henry
- Scott, Reginald
- Shakespeare, William
- Shelton, Thomas (fl.1612)
- Shipton, Mother
- Shirley, Anthony
- Shirley, Robert (1581?-1628)
- Shirley, Thomas
- Sidney, Philip (1554-1586)
- Sidney, Robert (1563-1626)
- Silver, George
- Singer, Samuel Weller
- Smith, Edmund
- Smith, James (1605-1667)
- Smith, John (1534?-1607)
- Smith, Walter
- Smith, William (fl.1596)
- Skelton, John (1460?-1529)
- Somers, George
- Sommers, William
- Sotheby, William
- Southern, John
- Southwell, Robert (1561?-1595)
- Speght, Thomas
- Spenser, Edmund
- Stanhope, Philip Dormer
- Stanley, Thomas (1625-1678)
- Stanyhurst, Richard
- Staunton, Howard
- Steevens, George
- Sterne, Laurence
- Stevenson, John Hall-
- Still, John
- Stow, John
- Strode, William (1602-1645)
- Stubbs, John
- Studley, John
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editW
edit- Wadeson, Anthony
- Waldegrave, Robert
- Walker, William Sidney
- Walkington, Thomas
- Walsingham, Edmund
- Walsingham, Francis (1530?-1590)
- Warner, William
- Warren, Arthur
- Warton, Joseph
- Warton, Thomas (1688?-1745)
- Warton, Thomas (1728-1790)
- Watson, Thomas (1557?-1592)
- Weaver, Thomas (1616-1663)
- Webster, John (1580?-1625?)
- Weever, John
- Wharton, George
- Whetstone, George
- Whitchurch, Edward
- White, Henry Kirke
- Whitelocke, Edmund
- Whitgift, John
- Wilkins, George (fl.1607)
- Williams, Roger (1540?-1595)
- Willoughby, Henry
- Wilmot, John (1647-1680)
- Wilson, Robert (d.1600)
- Winstanley, William
- Winwood, Ralph
- Wise, John Richard de Capel
- Withals, John
- Wither, George
- Wolfe, Reyner
- Wotton, Henry
- Wright, Leonard
- Wright, Robert (1560-1643)
- Wright, Thomas (1810-1877)
- Wriothesley, Henry
- Wriothesley, Thomas (1607-1667)
- Wroth, Mary
- Wroth, Robert
- Wyatt, Thomas (1503?-1542)
- Wyatt, Thomas (1521?-1554)
- Wyer, Robert
- Wyrley, William
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edit- Collins, John Churton
- Craig, William James
- Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa
- Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong
- Ebsworth, Joseph Woodfall
- Edward VII
- Fleay, Frederick Gard
- Furnivall, Frederick James
- Garnett, Richard
- Jeaffreson, John Cordy
- Kent, Charles
- Knight, Joseph (1829-1907)
- Knowles, James Thomas
- Leader, John Temple
- Massey, Gerald
- Proctor, Robert George Collier
- Smiles, Samuel
- Smith, Goldwin
- Stephen, Leslie
As editor
edit- Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1900), 63 vols.
- Dictionary of National Biography, Supplement (1901), 3 vols.
Works about Lee
edit- "Obituary: Sir Sidney Lee," in The Times (1926)
- "Lee, Sidney," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Lee, Sidney, D.Litt., LL.D.," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- Mr. Sidney Lee and the Baconians (1904) by George Stronach
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