INDEX

Achilles Shield, 120 Admiral's company, the Lord, 6, 10, 12, 50, 51, 52, 53; at Dover, 54; 56, 57, 59; identity between 1585 and 1589, 60; 65; under Henslowe, 73; 78, 81, 82, 84, 14 Agamemnon, 114 Allen, Giles, 39, 43, 45, 75 Alleyn, Edward, 6, 8, 9, 10, 14, 38, 61, 62, 65, 70; manager of Strange's men, 77; 82, 85; as Roscius, 98; 100, 101 Alleyn, John, 8, 62; servant to the Lord Admiral, 63, 102 Alleyn, Richard, 105 All's Well that Ends Well, 163, 170, 171, 193, 194, 195, 205 Anatomy of Absurdity, 98, 99 Anna, Queen, 222 Antonio, 134 Arden, Mary, 21, 23 Arden, Robert, 21 Arden, the name, 21 Ardens of Parkhill, the, 21-22 Armada, the, 2, 131, 132 Armado, 18, 182, 206 Armin, Robert, 114 n. Arundell's players, Lord, 44, 48 Ave Cæsar, 99 Avisa, 129 Aylmer, Bishop, 140 Bacon, Sir Francis, 185 Barnes, Barnabe, 127 Barnstaple, 9 Biron, 134 Blacke Bookes Messenger, The, 47 n. Bodleian Library, 128 Brandes, Georg, 8 n. Brayne, John, 39, 43, 75 Brown, John, 26 Brown, Ned, 47 Browne, Robert, 8, 62, 65, 102 Browning, Robert, 19 Bryan, George, 29, 55, 60, 83 Burbage, Cuthbert, 44, 45, 75 Burbage, James, 5, 9, 11, 38; as theatrical manager, 38, 42, 43, 45, 52, 53, 58, 63, 65, 67, 70, 75, 106, 126 Burbage, Richard, 5, 8, 14, 55, 66, 70, 75, 77, 83, 126 Burbie, Cuthbert, 96 n. Burghley, Lord, 11, 17, 73, 154, 155, 173, 174 Carey, Henry, Lord Hunsdon, 50 Castle, William, parish clerk of Stratford, 68 Cecil-Howard faction, 73 Cecil, Sir Robert, 17, 154, 175, 194, 216 Cecil, Sir William, 157 Censor, Public, 17 Chamberlain's company, the Lord, 10, 12, 13, 14, 38, 42, 52, 57, 59, 84; leave Henslowe, 86 Chamberlain's musicians, the Lord, 54; at Coventry, 50, 60 Chambers, E.K., 56 Chandos portrait, the, 110 Chapman, George, 15, 23, 31, 92, 93, 109, 114, 115, 119, 128, 167, 184, 185, 186 Chettle, Henry, 93, 110, 151 Choice of Valentines, The, 128 Chrisoganus, 120 Classical allusions, 79 Cobham, Lord, 215, 217 Comedy of Beauty and Housewifery, A, 49 Comedy of Errors, The, 8, 17, 83, 148, 152, 172 Contention, and True Tragedie, The, 80, 147 Cornwallis, Sir William, 221 Coronet for my Mistress Philosophy, A, 124, 130 Court performances, 82 Court records, 13 Coventry, 9 Coventry records, 54 Cowdray House, 37, 165, 166 Cranmer, Archbishop, 157 Crosskeys, the, 51, 53, 55, 70, 72, 73, 77, 81 Curtain Theatre, the 6, 14, 39, 44, 46, 48, 50, 51, 72, 74 Cymbeline, 3 Dame Pintpot, 198 Daniel, Samuel, 159, 162 Davenant, Mistress, 123, 125, 184 Davenant, Sir William, 36, 127 Davies, John, 81, 90-91 Davison, William, 178 De Guiana Carmen Epicum, 116 Dekker, Thomas, 93, 218 Delphrygus, 103, 104 Derby, Countess of, 55 Derby, Earl of, 55, 115, 179 Devereux, Dorothy, 139 Dialogue of Dives, 104 Diary, Henslowe's, 7, 8, 67, 68, 75, 77, 80, 127 Doll Tearsheet, 197 Dulwich College, 99 "Duttons, The Two," 74 Edward I., 78, 80, 81, 101 Edward II., 85, 88, 131 Edward III., 101, 105, 131 Edward VI., 135, 143 Elizabeth, Queen, as Cynthia, 119 English Dramatic Companies, 41 n., 96 n. Ephemeris Chrisometra, 120 Essaies of Montaigne, 191, 222 Essex, Earl of, 140, 154, 175-78, 216 Essex faction, 73 Euthymia Raptus, 120 Every Man out of his Humour, 108, 220 Faerie Queen, The, 161 Fair Em, 95, 105 Falconbridge, as Sir John Perrot, 133-34 Falstaff, Sir John, 181, 182, 206, 215 Famous Victories of Henry V., 200, 202, 215 Farewell to Folly, 95, 168 Feis, Jacob, 74 Field, Theophilus, Bishop of Llandaff, 160 First Fruites, 92, 196 Fleay, F.G., 66, 74, 80, 95, 96, 107 Fleetwood, Recorder, as an enemy of the players, 11, 44, 46; as Burghley's gossip, 49 Florio, John, 15; as Falstaff's original, 18; 91, 92, 108; as Landulpho, 122, 123; 125, 157-60, 183-91; as Parolles, 171, 193, 201; signs as "Resolute," 221 Fluellen, 182, 191 Four Plays in One, 87 Froude, James Anthony, 1, 16 Gardiner, S.R., 1, 16 Golding, Arthur, 118 Gray's Inn, 156, 172 Greene, Robert, 5, 12, 13, 14, 15, 30, 35, 69, 80, 85, 88, 92, 94; as Roberto, 103; 106, 110, 117, 130, 151, 169 Greg, W.W., 101 n. Groatsworth of Wit, A, 5, 15, 102, 110, 117, 150 Grooms of the Privy Chamber, 58 Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O., 43, 45, 50, 60 Hall's Chronicles, 141 Halpin, Rev. J.H., 15, 159, 161 Hamlet, 4, 81, 86, 105, 107, 198 Harriot, Thomas, 115, 120 Hart, Joan, 36 Hart, John, Lord Mayor of London, 72 Harvey, Gabriel, 92 Hatton, Sir Christopher, 138-39, 140 Heneage, Sir Thomas, 36; as Lafeu, 171, 189 Henry IV., 80, 198 Henry IV., Part I., 199, 200, 202, 203, 204 Henry IV., Part II., 32, 197, 199, 203 Henry V., 80, 121 Henry VI., Part I., 7, 14, 77, 78, 131, 147 Henry VI., Part III., 7, 87, 88 Henry VIII., 134, 135 Henslowe, Philip, 6, 8, 10, 11, 38, 59, 61, 69, 70, 82 Heralds, The College of, 32, 90, 92 Highway to Heaven, The, 104 Histriomastix, 93, 108, 114, 116, 117, 118, 119, 167 Holinshed's Chronicles, 141 Honour of the Garter, 92, 113, 115, 117 Howard of Effingham's company, Lord Charles, at Ipswich, 1591, 60 Howe's Additions to Stowe's Chronicles, 58 "H.S.," 217-18, 219 Hunsdon, Lord, 9, 10, 43, 46, 50 Hunsdon's company, Lord, 42, 45, 48; at Ludlow, 49, 53, 55; disappear from records, 55 Hyde, John, 43, 45 Hymns to the Shadow of Night, 93, 115, 116, 118, 124, 128, 186 Iliad, Homer's, 197 Intonsi Catones, 125, 126, 219 Jacques, 134 Jacquespierre, 21 "J.F.," 217-18, 219 James I., 186, 221 Jaquenetta, 206 Jeffes, Humphrey, 87, 147 Jones, Richard, 8, 62, 65, 102 Jonson, Ben, 90, 93, 108, 109, 147, 186, 220 Keats, John, 19, 31 Kempe, William, 29, 55, 60, 83, 126 Kildare, Countess of, 166 Kinde Heartes Dreame, 150, 152 King John, 8, 17, 34, 80, 83, 131, 132, 133, 139, 146, 152, 172 King Lear, 3 King of the Fairies, The, 103, 104 Kyd, Thomas, 107, 117, 131 "Lanam and his fellowes," 51 Laneham, John, 43, 51, 58 Langley, William, 13 Leases, Elizabethan, 43 Lee, Sir Sidney, 6 n., 46 n. Leicester's company, Earl of, 5, 9, 13; at Stratford, 29, 43, 45; 52; at Dover, 54; disappear from records, 55, 55, 57, 58, 59, 66, 67, 84 Leicester, Earl of; death, 29; 49, 154, 173-75 Leicester's musicians, Earl of, 9, 54 Leicester Records, City of, 8 Life of Jack Wilton, 128 Lodge, Thomas, 114 n. Loftus, Archbishop, 138 Love's Labours Lost, 8, 83, 116, 119, 121, 152, 166, 168, 170, 197, 206 Love's Labour's Won, 8, 83, 123, 162, 170, 171 Lucrece, 13, 82; dedication, 128, 153 Lucy, Sir Thomas, alleged deer preserves, 32 Malvolio, 182 Manners, Roger, 156, 179 Markham, Gervase, 128 Marlowe, Christopher, 12, 30, 80, 85, 88; as "Merlin," 95; as "the cobbler," 101, 107, 131 Marston, John, 93, 109, 119, 185, 186 Martin Marprelate Controversy, 72 Martin's Month's Mind, 51 Mary, Queen, 135-36 Mary, Queen of Scots, 178 Master of the Revels' company, the, 64 Measure for Measure, 198 Menalcas, 161 Menaphon, Greene's, 67, 98, 102, 107, 118 Merchant of Venice, The, 121 Meres, Francis, 31, 193, 199 Merry Wives of Windsor, 171 Metamorphosis of Ajax, 51 Midsummer Night's Dream, A, 8, 83, 121, 152, 168 Miles, Robert, 76 Minto, Prof. William, 126 "Mirabella," 161, 162 Montague, Lady, 169-70 Montague, Viscount, 155, 169-70 Moral of Man's Wit, 104 Morgann, Maurice, 181, 202 Murray, John Tucker, 9 n., 41 n. Nashe, Thomas, 7, 12, 14, 67, 69, 78, 80, 92, 94, 98, 100, 102, 104, 107, 108, 117, 128, 130, 169 Never too Late to Mend, 98, 109 News Out of Purgatory, 51 Nichol's Progresses, 168-69 Nightwork, Jane, 213 Nine Worthies, The, 195, 197 Northumberland, Earl of, 115 Nottingham's company, Lord, 127 Oldcastle, Sir John, 200, 215, 217 O'Roughan, Denis, 138 Outlines for the Life of Shakespeare, 45 Ovid's Banquet of Sense, 120, 124, 130 Ovid's Elegies, 118 Oxford, Earl of, 190 Palladis Tamia,199 Parolles, 18, 171, 206 Peckham, Edward, 75 Peele, George, 12, 31, 78, 79, 80, 81, 92, 98; as Tully, 98, 99; 101, 113, 117, 131 Pembroke, Earl of, 136, 148 Pembroke's company, Earl of, 7, 12, 13, 14, 57, 71, 75, 76, 84, 85; pawn their apparel, 86; plays, 86, 107, 113 Penelope's Web, 106 Perrot, Sir John, 134-39; recalled from Ireland, 138; death of, 139 Perrot, Sir Thomas, 139 Phillip II. of Spain, 138, 139 Pierce Penniless, 51 Pipe Rolls, the, 56, 73 Plague, the, 85 Planetomachia, 106 Pope, Thomas, 29, 55, 60, 83 Privy Council, Acts of the, 56, 73 Prodigal Child, The, 120, 123 Prodigal Son, The, 123 Puritanism, 132 Queen's company, Old Plays of the, 14, 74 Queen's company, the, 6, 11, 43, 46, 48, 50, 51, 53, 55, 59, 75, 84, 131,146, 147 Queen's progress to Cowdray and Tichfield, the, 37, 119, 165 Queen's tumblers, the, 56 n. Quickly, Mistress, 200, 204 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 115, 154, 175, 185 Richard II., 8, 80, 83, 88, 131, 146 Richard III., 8, 80, 83 Romeo and Juliet, 152 "Rosalinde," 160, 161, 162 Roscius, 98, 102 Rose, Edward, 142 Rose Theatre, the, 6, 10, 11, 51, 59, 61, 69, 70, 76, 81, 146 Rowe, Nicholas, 67, 127, 215, 216 Roydon, Matthew, 15, 31, 93, 109, 114 n., 124, 125, 167, 168, 184, 200, 218 Saexberht, 20 Saunder, Nicholas, 158 Scapula, 24 Schlegel, 198 School of Shakespeare, 95 Second Fruites, 123, 164, 196, 203, 205, 206; extracts from, 207-14 Seven Deadly Sins, The, 147 Shakespeare families, 19; the name, 19 Shakespeare, Hamnet, 26 Shakespeare, John, 21, 25; applies for grant of arms, 32 Shakespeare, Judith, 26 Shakespeare, Richard, of Snitterfield, 21 Shakespeare, William; as Burbage servitor, 13; brothers and sisters of, 19; Norman origin, 19; his mother, 22; as Johannes factotum, 22; boyhood, 24; marriage, 26; leaves Stratford, 28; alleged poaching adventure, 30; return to Stratford in 1597, 30; grant of arms, 30; "Shakespeare's boys," 35; "rude groome," 35; a bonded servitor, 67; early training with Lord Hunsdon's and the Lord Admiral's companies, 68; in kingly parts, 81; co-operates with Marlowe, 88; leader of Pembroke's company, 88; Groom of the Privy Chamber, 91; as an "idiot art-master," 105; alluded to as a serving man, 108; as Mullidor in Never too Late, 109; Chandos portrait of, 110; rejoins Chamberlain's company, 126; indicated as "W.S.," an "old actor," 129; distrust of Florio, 187 Shallow, Justice, 213 Shaxper, 19 Sheffield's company, Lord, 62, 63 Shepheards Calendar, The, 159, 160, 163 Shepherd's Slumber, The, 168 Sidley, Ralph, 109 Sidney, Lady, 140, 178 Sidney, Sir Robert, 216 Simpson, Richard, 74, 95, 114, 116 Sinkler, John, 87, 147 Smith, Mr. J.M., 36 Smithe, Humprey, 47 Sonnets, The, 17, 82 Southampton, Countess of, 171, 189 Southampton, Earl of, 13, 17, 18, 36, 74, 91; as Mavortius, 121; 124, 126; bounty to Shakespeare, 127; 153, 156, 164, 167, 172; early relations with Essex, 176; as Bertram, 189; 194, 216 Spencer, Gabriel, 86, 87; death of, 90; 147 Spenser, Edmund, 30, 162 Spicer, Rose, 159-60 Stanhope, Sir Thomas, 155 Stanley, Sir William, 138 Star Chamber, the, 45 Stopes, Mrs. C.C., 39 n., 76 Strange, Lord, 55 Strange's company, Lord, 6, 9, 11, 12, 52, 53, 57, 59, 74, 82, 83, 95, 107, 126, 147 Strange's tumblers, Lord, 6, 55, 56, 59, 67, 84 Stratford Free Grammar School, 23 Stratford-on-Avon, 5, 25 Sussex's company, Earl of, 12, 14, 57; disrupted, 86-87 Swan Theatre, the, 13 "Symons and his fellowes," 56 Talbot Scenes, 7, 14, 78, 80 Taming of a Shrew, The, 86, 102, 105, 107 Tarleton, Richard, 43, 50, 96 Tears of Peace, The, 116, 120, 121 Tempest, The, 3 "Temple Garden" Scene, the, 79 Theatre, the, 6, 9, 11, 36, 39, 44, 46, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 72, 75, 77, 81, 106 Three Ladies of London, The, 95 Three Lords and Three Ladies, The, 95 Tichfield House, Queen's progress to, 37, 165 Tilney, Edmund, Master of the Revels, 43, 59, 96 Timon of Athens, 3 Titus Andronicus, 12, 14, 86 Titus and Vespasian, 12 Troilus and Cressida, 114, 120, 195, 197 Troublesome Raigne of King John, The, 132, 140, 143, 146 True Tragedie of the Duke of York, The, 7, 85, 87, 88, 113, 147 Twelfth Night, 121 Twelve Labours of Hercules, The, 103 Two Gentlemen of Verona, The, 8, 83, 152 Tyburn "T," 90 Valdracko, 106 Venus and Adonis, 13, 82, 114, 118, 119, 127, 128, 151, 152, 153, 180 Venus' Tragedy, 106 Vere, Lady Elizabeth, 155, 179 Vernon, Elizabeth, 177, 180, 194, 198 Volumnia, a reflection of Shakespeare's mother, 23 Wallop, Sir Henry, 138 Walsingham, Sir Francis, 178 War of the Theatres, the, 15 Wars of the Roses, 79 Williams, Sir Roger, as Fluellen, 191, 192 Willobie his Avisa, 93, 125, 129, 184, 186, 187 Wilson, Robert, 43, 58, 95, 96, 98 Winter's Tale, A, 3 Wood, Anthony, 157 Woodward, Joan, 9 Worcester, Earl of, 61, 63, 64 Worcester's company, Earl of, 8, 9, 10, 61, 62; in trouble at Ipswich and Leicester, 63 Worlde of Wordes, A, 15, 94, 108, 158, 185, 188, 196, 217 Wriothesley, Henry. See Earl of Southampton Wriothesley, Thomas, Earl of Southampton, 153 Yorke, Edmund, Jesuit, 180

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