a
- Act for the Punishment of Rogues and Vagabonds (1598)
- Act for the Punishment of Vagabonds (1572)
- acting styles
- Act of Abuses (1606)
- Act of the Common Council (1574)
- actors, hired
- Actors’ Remonstrance, The (unk.)
- Adams, John
- adaptability
- Admiral’s Men; see also Prince Henry’s Men
- Alleyn see Alleyn, Edward
- costumes
- court performances
- court privileges
- duopoly with Chamberlain’s Men
- at the Fortune
- at Greenwich Palace
- hired men, women and boys
- leaving Theatre
- musical instruments
- at Newington Butts
- number of players
- patronage
- Pembroke’s Men, rivalry with
- petitions against
- props
- purchase of plays
- repertoire
- at the Rose
- sharers
- Sir John Oldcastle
- Slater, Martin
- special licences
- turnover of plays
- advertising
- Alchemist, The (Jonson)
- “Alice Layston and the Cross Keys” (Kathman)
- Allen, Giles
- Alleyn, Edward
- acting style
- in Admiral’s Men
- Admiral’s Men property lists
- apprentices
- back‐stage plots
- Fortune construction contract
- gatherers
- Henslowe, relationship with
- hired men
- letters
- portrait
- retirement
- stature
- in Strange’s Men
- as theater owner
- in Worcester’s Men
- Alleyn, Joan Henslowe
- Alleyn, John
- All’s Well that Ends Well (Shakespeare)
- Almond for a Parrot, An (unk.)
- amphitheater model
- animals, live
- Annals (Stow)
- Anne of Denmark; see also Queen Anne’s Men and Children of the Queen’s Revels
- Antipodes (Brome)
- Antonio and Mellida (Marston)
- Antonio’s Revenge (Marston)
- Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)
- Apology for Actors (Heywood)
- apprentices
- Architettura (Serlio)
- Armin, Robert
- apprentices
- background
- in Chandos’s Men
- comedies by
- comic style
- Malcontent, The (Marston)
- motley
- multiple minor roles
- musical abilities
- in Phillips’ will
- portrait
- replacement for Kemp
- retirement
- royal licence
- Shakespeare’s writing for
- trade guild associations
- Arthur, Prince of Wales
- Arundel’s Men
- ascent / descent machinery
- Assheton, Nicholas
- Astington, John H.
- Astraea (Mary Herbert)
- As You Like It (Shakespeare)
- Aubrey, John
- audiences; see also seating
- accidents
- diversity
- as participants
- women
b
- Bacon, Francis
- Barnavelt, Sir John Van Olden
- Barnes, Barnabe; see also Devil’s Charter, The (Barnes)
- Baron, The (Buc)
- Bartholomew Fair (Jonson)
- Baskerville, James
- Baskerville, Susan
- bear‐baiting
- Beare, James
- Beaumont, Francis
- Beckerman, Bernard
- Beeston, Christopher
- Bell inn, Gracechurch Street, London
- Bell Savage inn, Ludgate Hill, London
- below‐stage space; see also trapdoors
- Belte, Thomas
- Benfield, Robert
- Bentley, G. E.
- Bentley, John
- Bereblock, John
- Berkeley, Henry, 7th Baron
- Berkeley, Sir Thomas
- Berkeley’s (Bartlett’s) Men
- Berry, Herbert
- Birch, George
- Birch, Thomas
- Bird (Borne), William
- bird whistles
- Blackfriars Boys
- as competition for Men’s companies
- disbanded
- entry fees
- fall from favor
- Jonson’s plays
- Malcontent, The (Marston)
- Queen Anne’s patronage
- revenge plays
- revival
- transition to Men’s companies
- Blackfriars playhouse (Burbage’s)
- apprentices
- boxes
- Boys company see Blackfriars Boys
- business plan and failure
- Chamberlain’s Men
- Condell’s shares
- court records
- descents
- discovery space
- entry fee
- freehold passed to Richard Burbage
- galleries
- Globe plays performed at
- Heminge’s shares
- housekeepers
- housekeeper shares
- King’s Men see Blackfriars residency of King’s Men
- liberties
- lighting
- music and musicians
- night‐time scenes
- political writing and consequences
- protests against
- purchase
- Queen Henrietta Maria’s attendance
- seating
- size and structure
- stage
- time of performances
- tiring house
- trapdoors
- upper stage
- Blackfriars residency of King’s Men
- Alchemist, The (Jonson)
- Blackfriars Boys joining
- delayed by plague
- entry fees
- Globe/Blackfriars adjustments
- Globe/Blackfriars arrangement
- Henry VIII (Shakespeare)
- hired men and women
- lighting
- Macbeth (Shakespeare)
- Malcontent, The (Marston)
- music and musicians
- night‐time scenes
- performances of Shakespeare’s plays
- reacquisition
- repertoire
- revenge plays
- romances and tragicomedies
- Shakespeare writing for
- sharers
- Tempest, The (Shakespeare)
- Two Noble Kinsmen, The (Shakespeare/Fletcher)
- Blackfriars theater (1576, Farrant’s)
- Boar’s Head playhouse, Whitechapel
- book‐keepers
- Book of Martyrs (Fox)
- boy actors
- boys companies; see also specific companies
- Bradbrook, M. C.
- Braithwait, Richard
- Brayne, John
- Brayne, Margaret
- Brayne, Thomas
- Bristow, James
- Brome, Richard
- Brown, Edmund
- Brown, Henry
- Browne, Anne
- Browne, Robert
- Browne, William
- Bryan, George
- Buc, Sir George
- Bullard, Alexander
- Bull inn, Bishopsgate Street, London
- Burbage, Cuthbert
- Burbage, Ellen Brayne
- Burbage, James
- Admiral’s Men, tensions with
- apprentices
- background
- Blackfriars playhouse see Blackfriars playhouse (Burbage’s)
- Brayne, partnership with
- Brayne’s widow, lawsuit by
- Chamberlain’s Men
- death
- family
- Fleetwood, confrontation with
- Hind brothers
- Lanman, arrangement with
- Leicester’s Men
- stubbornness
- Theatre see Theatre, Shoreditch
- Burbage, Richard
- acting style
- background
- birth
- Blackfriars Boys
- Blackfriars consortium
- Chamberlain’s Men sharer
- Cuthbert, cooperation with
- death
- doubling roles
- Duchess of Malfi, The (Webster)
- and father’s creditors
- King’s Men sharer
- Malcontent, The (Marston)
- portrait
- Prince Henry’s water pageant
- revenge plays
- as Richard III
- Seven Deadly Sins, 2 The (Tarlton)
- Shakespeare, friendship with
- Shakespeare writing for
- swordsmanship
- Tarlton’s influence
- Burbage, Robert
- Burghley House, Lincolnshire
- Byland, Ambrose
c
- Callaghan, Dympna
- Cambridge University
- cannons
- canopies see “heavens”
- Captain, The (Beaumont and Fletcher)
- Cardenio (Shakespeare)
- Carey, Elizabeth
- Carey, George see Hunsdon, George Carey, 2nd Baron
- Carey, Henry see Hunsdon, Henry Carey, 1st Baron
- Carey, Sir George
- Cary, Elizabeth
- Catherine of Aragon
- Catholicism
- Catiline (Jonson)
- Cecil, Sir Robert
- Cecil, William
- censorship of plays see licensing and censorship of plays
- Chamberlain’s Men
- from 1603 see King’s Men
- apprentices
- boys companies, competition from
- comics/clowns/fools
- costumes and properties
- Derby‐Oxford wedding
- dismantling Theatre
- duopoly with Admiral’s Men
- formation
- founder‐members
- hired men and women
- actors
- book‐keepers
- gatherers
- musicians
- stage‐keepers
- tiremen
- tirewomen
- jigs
- Kemp’s departure
- as Lord Hunsdon’s Men
- loss of 1st Lord Hunsdon
- number of players
- ordinary poets
- petitions against
- Phillips
- private commissions
- repertoire
- salaries
- Shakespeare as “ordinary poet”
- sharer/housekeeper issues
- sharers
- special licences
- turnover of plays
- venues
- Chambers, E. K.
- Chambers, William
- Chandos’s Men
- Chapman, George
- Chaste Maid in Cheapside, A (Middleton)
- Chettle, Henry
- Children of Bristol
- Children of Paul’s
- Children of the Blackfriars see Blackfriars Boys
- Children of the Chapel see Blackfriars Boys
- Children of the King’s Revels
- Children of the Queen’s Chapel
- Children of the Queen’s Revels see Blackfriars Boys
- Children of the Whitefriars
- Cholmely, Sir Richard
- Chomley, John
- Christ Church Hall, Oxford
- Christmas Revels
- City of London authorities; see also Lord Mayor of London
- civic venues
- Clegg, Cyndia Susan
- clocks
- clothing; see also costumes
- clowns; see also fools
- Cobham, Henry Brooke, 11th Baron
- Cobham, William Brooke, 10th Baron
- cockfighting
- Cohen, Ralph Alan
- Collins, Jeffery
- color
- Comedy of Errors, The (Shakespeare)
- composers
- concession stands
- Condell, Henry
- bequest to servant
- Blackfriars consortium
- Chamberlain’s Men apprentice
- compilation of First Folio
- Duchess of Malfi, The (Webster)
- Every Man In His Humour (Jonson)
- Globe housekeeper
- King’s Men sharer
- Malcontent, The (Marston)
- in Phillips’ will
- retirement
- Seven Deadly Sins, 2 The (Tarlton)
- in Shakespeare’s will
- continental companies
- contracts
- hired men’s/boy’s
- Shakespeare’s
- sharers’
- Cook, Ann Jennalie
- Cooke, Alexander
- Cope, Sir Walter
- Coriolanus (Shakespeare)
- costs
- costumes
- Alleyn’s list
- as characterizations
- color
- costs
- leased from theater
- owned by company
- storage
- supplied by Master of Revels
- tiremen
- Cottam, John
- Countess of Montgomery’s Urania, The (Wroth)
- Court Beggar, The (Brome)
- court performances; see also Masters of the Revels
- Chamberlain’s Men
- court records
- Greenwich Palace
- increase under James I
- King’s Men
- lighting
- masques
- monarch’s centrality
- payment for
- Queen’s Men
- sets, luxurious
- Shakespeare’s plays
- court/playhouse interactions
- Coventry, Warwickshire
- Cowley, Richard
- cross‐dressing
- Cross Keys inn, Gracechurch Street, London
- currency
- Curtain residency of Chamberlain’s Men
- beginning
- duration
- Every Man In His Humour (Jonson)
- Every Man Out of His Humour (Jonson)
- Henry V (Shakespeare)
- Kemp, Will
- Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
- Seven Deadly Sins, 2 The (Tarlton) see Seven Deadly Sins, 2 The (Tarlton)
- A Warning for Fair Women (unk.)
- Curtain theater, Shoreditch
- archeological excavations
- bird whistle
- Burbage ‐ Fleetwood confrontation
- Chamberlain’s Men see Curtain residency of Chamberlain’s Men
- destruction
- destruction order
- discovery space
- fencing matches
- layout
- protests against
- Queen’s Men
- Theatre, arrangement with
- touring companies
- women in audience
- Cutts, John P.
- Cymbeline (Shakespeare)
- Cynthia’s Revels (Jonson)
d
- Daborne, Robert
- Daniel, John
- Daniel, Samuel
- Daphnis Polystephanos (Buc)
- Dawes, Robert
- dead bodies, removal of
- Dekker, Thomas
- Gull’s Hornbook, The
- payment for plays
- Roaring Girl, The (Middleton and Dekker)
- Satiromastix
- Seven Deadly Sins of London, The
- War of the Theaters
- Derby, Countess Elizabeth de Vere
- Derby, Earls of see Stanley family
- Derby’s Men; see also Strange’s Men
- Dering, Sir Edward
- descent machinery
- Devil is An Ass, The (Jonson)
- Devil’s Charter, The (Barnes)
- author
- black magic
- discovery space
- entry points
- firearms
- fireworks
- music
- night‐time scenes
- performed at court
- Prologue
- stage devils
- story
- trapdoors
- upper stage
- De Witt, Johannes
- discovery spaces
- Ditchfield, James
- Downton, Thomas
- Dr Faustus (Marlowe)
- drums
- announcing performance
- in performances
- Duchess of Malfi, The (Webster)
- duels
- Duke, John
- Dulwich College
- Dunkenhalgh Hall, Lancashire
- Dutton, John
- Dutton, Laurence
e
- Eastward Ho! (Jonson, Chapman, Marston)
- Ecclestone, William
- Edinburgh Kirk
- Edwardes, Richard
- Elizabeth I
- Christmas courts
- cultural presence
- Derby‐Oxford wedding
- at Kenilworth Castle
- monopolies, granting of
- at Palamon and Arcite performance
- Queen’s Men
- Queen’s “reward”
- on the stage
- English Traveller, The (Heywood)
- entry fees
- Epigrams (Davies)
- Essex, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl
- Essex’s Men
- Evans, Henry
- Evans, Thomas
- evensong
- Every Man In His Humour (Jonson)
- Every Man Out of His Humour (Jonson)
- Every Woman In Her Humour (anon.)
- Excellent Actor, An (Webster)
f
- Fair Maid of Bristow, The (anon.)
- Falstaff, character of
- Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, The (unk.)
- Farrant, Richard
- fencing matches
- Ferrabosco, Alphono
- festival holy‐days
- Field, Nathan
- firearms
- fires
- fireworks
- First Book of Consort Lessons (Morley)
- Flecknoe, Richard
- Fleetwood, William
- Fletcher, John
- Fletcher, Lawrence
- Flower of Friendship (Tilney)
- Foakes, R. A.
- Follie’s Anatomy (Hutton)
- fools; see also clowns
- Forman, Simon
- Fortune theater, Shoreditch
- audiences
- construction contract
- fire
- galleries
- Globe as model
- Henslowe Diary
- jigs
- Privy Council licence
- repertoire
- seating
- size and structure
- stage
- women
- Four Plays in One (unk.)
- Franklin, John
- Funeral Elegy for Richard Burbage, March 1619, A
g
- Gascoigne, George
- Gascoyne, William
- gatekeepers
- gatherers
- Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire
- George, David
- Gerschow, Frederic
- Gesta Grayorum
- Gibbons, Brian
- Gillies, John
- Gillom, Fulke
- Globe playhouse
- acting style
- Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)
- archeological excavations
- Armin
- audiences
- Blackfriars, plays performed at
- blazing star
- cannons and other arms
- celebrity culture
- color
- contentions about
- costumes
- Cymbeline (Shakespeare)
- descent machinery
- Devil’s Charter, The (Barnes) see Devil’s Charter, The (Barnes)
- discovery space
- entry fees
- Every Man Out of His Humour (Jonson)
- financial success
- fire
- galleries
- “heavens” and posts
- hell mouth
- Henry VIII (Shakespeare)
- housekeepers
- housekeeper shares
- impression on visitors
- Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
- lease of site
- live animals
- London Prodigal, The
- Lord’s rooms
- Malcontent, The (Marston)
- Merry Devil of Edmonton, The
- Miseries of Enforced Marriage, The (Wilkins)
- as model for Fortune
- Mucedorus
- music and musicians
- night‐time scenes
- Privy Council licence
- rebuilding
- repertoire
- Revenger’s Tragedy, The (Middleton)
- romances and tragicomedies
- “roof‐house”
- seating
- severed head
- Shakespeare’s plays
- sharers
- sightlines
- size and structure –237
- soundings
- space below stage
- spoken word
- stage
- stage directions
- Devil’s Charter, The (Barnes)
- live animals
- London Prodigal, The
- Merry Devil of Edmonton, The
- Mucedorus
- Revenger’s Tragedy, The (Middleton)
- Thomas, Lord Cromwell
- Thomas, Lord Cromwell
- timbers from Theatre
- time of performances
- tiring house
- trapdoors
- upper stage
- War of the Theaters
- Winter’s Tale, The (Shakespeare)
- Goodale, Thomas
- Gough, Robert
- Gouthwaite Hall, Yorkshire
- Gowrie (anon.)
- Graham, Elspeth
- Gray’s Inn, London
- Greene, Robert
- Greene, Thomas
- Greenwich Palace
- Griggs, John
- Guild Hall, Stratford
- Gull’s Hornbook, The (Dekker)
- Gurr, Andrew
- audience, Shakespeare’s
- Christmas Revels
- duopoly, Admiral’s Men and Chamberlain’s Men
- inns as venues
- Kemp
- King Lear (Shakespeare)
- sitting on the stage
- Slater
- social hierarchy
- Tempest, The (Shakespeare)
- touring
- women in theaters
h
- Halsall, Sir Cuthbert
- Halsall’s Men
- Hamlet (Shakespeare)
- acting style
- arras
- Burbage in title role
- connection to other plays
- dumb shows
- Henslowe’s diary
- Kemp, references to
- little eyases
- music
- mystery plays
- night‐clothes
- removal of body
- revenge play
- re‐writings
- sword‐fights
- trap door
- Hampton Court
- Harbage, Alfred
- Harington, Sir John
- Harrington, Percival
- Harrington, Richard
- Harte, Sir John
- Harvey, George
- Hatton, Sir Christopher
- hautboys
- “heavens”
- hell mouths
- Heminge, John
- apprentices
- Blackfriars housekeeper
- Chamberlain’s Men
- business manager
- payee
- sharer
- co‐executor of Phillip’s will
- compilation of First Folio
- Globe housekeeper
- Globe tapster
- King’s Men sharer
- lawsuit by daughter
- marriage
- roles in Seven Deadly Sins
- in Shakespeare’s will
- Strange’s Men
- Heminge, Thomasin
- Henrietta Maria of France
- 1 Henry IV (Shakespeare)
- 2 Henry IV (Shakespeare)
- Henry V (Shakespeare)
- 1 Henry VI (Shakespeare and others)
- 2 Henry VI (Shakespeare)
- 3 Henry VI (Shakespeare)
- Henry VIII (Shakespeare)
- Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales
- Henslowe, Agnes
- Henslowe, Philip; see also Henslowe Diary
- Henslowe Diary
- costumes and properties
- dates
- dealings with companies
- “Harey the vi”
- loan to nephew
- Lord’s rooms
- new plays
- overview
- performances in Lent
- plague, impact of
- repertoires
- Slater
- Strange’s Men at Rose theater
- Swan theater rivalry
- takings
- tiremen
- tirewomen
- turnover of plays
- Herbert, Mary, Countess of Pembroke
- Herbert, Sir Henry
- Hertford’s Men
- Hesketh, Sir Thomas
- Hewes, Joan
- Heywood, Thomas
- Hind brothers
- hired men and women
- actors
- book‐keepers
- gatherers
- musicians
- stage‐keepers
- tiremen
- tirewomen
- History of King Richard the Third (Buc)
- history plays before Shakespeare
- Hoghton, Alexander
- Hoghton, Thomas
- Holcombe, Thomas
- Holland, Aaron
- Holland, John
- Holland, Peter
- Holland, Thomas
- Hollar, Wenceslas
- Hope theater, Southwark
- Hosley, Richard
- Hotson, Leslie
- housekeepers
- Howard, Charles, 1st Earl of Nottingham, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham; see also Admiral’s Men
- Howard‐Hill, T. H.
- Hunsdon, George Carey, 2nd Baron; see also Chamberlain’s Men
- Hunsdon, Henry Carey, 1st Baron; see also Chamberlain’s Men
- Burbage ‐ Fleetwood confrontation
- Cross Keys permission request
- death
- duopoly, Admiral’s Men and Chamberlain’s Men
- overview
- portrait
- Hunsdon’s Men
- Hutchinson, Elizabeth
- Hymenaei (masque, Jonson)
i
- Ichikawa, Mariko
- Ill May Day riots
- Ingram, William
- inns as venues
- Act of the Common Council (1574)
- indoor and outdoor performances
- Lancashire
- London
- the Bell
- the Bell Savage
- the Bull
- the Cross Keys
- Gray’s
- payment
- profitability
- Stratford
- Inns of Court
- Isle of Dogs, The (Nashe and Jonson)
j
- James I; see also King’s Men
- Jephtha (unk.)
- Jew of Malta, The (Marlowe)
- jigs
- Johnson, Robert
- Jonson, Ben; see also specific plays
- Alleyn, Edward
- background
- Blackfriars, writing for
- court masques
- legal cases
- London theaters, references to
- music
- Robinson, Richard
- Satiromastix (Dekker)
- Shakespeare, relationship with
- Spenser, Gabriel, duel with
- Tarlton, Richard
- tirewomen
- trade guild associations
- turnover of plays
- War of the Theaters
- writing for patrons
- Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
k
- Kathman, David
- Kemp, Will
- Armin’s difference from
- Chamberlain’s Men
- Chamberlain’s Men, departure from
- Every Man In His Humour (Jonson)
- experience
- jigs
- Kemp’s Nine Days’ Wonder
- language inadequacies
- morris dance from London to Norwich
- motley
- in Romeo and Juliet
- in Seven Deadly Sins
- Shakespeare roles
- Strange’s Men
- Tarlton’s influence
- Worcester’s Men
- Kendall, William
- Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire
- Keys, Isabel
- Kiechel, Samuel
- King, Ros
- King and No King, A (Beaumont and Fletcher)
- King Edward VI School, Stratford‐upon‐Avon
- King John (Shakespeare)
- King Lear (Shakespeare)
- King Leir (unk.)
- King’s Men
- before 1603 see Chamberlain’s Men
- 1624 “Protection List”
- actors, hired
- after Shakespeare
- apprentices
- at Blackfriars see Blackfriars residency of King’s Men
- book‐keepers
- court performances
- court‐playhouse interactions
- Duchess of Malfi, The (Webster)
- Edinburgh performances
- Fletcher, John
- formation
- at Globe see Globe playhouse
- Globe/Blackfriars arrangement
- housekeepers, quarrels with
- in court masques
- Inns of Court performances
- Malcontent, The (Marston)
- Masters of the Revels, relationship with
- music and musicians
- ordinary poets
- patent from James I
- Pericles for French Ambassador
- plague, impact of
- private homes, performances in
- repertoire
- revenge plays
- romances and tragicomedies
- royal livery
- salaries
- sharers
- Knack to Know a Knave, A (unk.)
- Knell, William
- Knight, Edward
- Knutson, Roslyn
- Korda, Natasha
- Kyd, Thomas
l
- Lady Elizabeth’s Men
- Lake, Sir Thomas
- Lambarde, William
- Lane, Sir Ralph
- Laneham, John
- Langham, Robert
- Langley, Francis
- Lanman, Henry
- Larum for London, A (anon.)
- Lathom House, Lancashire
- lawsuits
- Layston, Alice
- Layston, William
- Lea Hall, Lancashire
- Legh, Sir Peter
- Legh’s Men
- Leicester, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl
- Leicester’s Men
- Act for the Punishment of Vagabonds, response to
- Burbage, James
- dissolution
- founding
- number of players
- payment for performances
- players lost to Queen’s Men
- royal patent
- the Theatre
- touring
- Lessons for Consorts (Rosseter)
- Letting of Humour’s Blood, The (Rowlands)
- liberties, the
- licensing and censorship of plays
- lighting
- Lincoln, Admiral Edward Clinton, 1st Earl
- Lodge, Thomas
- Lodger, The (Nicholl)
- London from the Bankside (Hollar)
- London playhouses, map of
- London Prodigal, The (anon.)
- Long, William B.
- Long View of London (Hollar)
- Lord Mayor of London
- banning of bills
- Lord Hunsdon’s request
- persecution of players
- prayers for
- Privy Council requests
- Show
- Warwick, letter to
- Lord Strange’s Men and their Plays (Manley and MacLean)
- Love Restored (Jonson)
- Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare)
- Lowin, John
- Lyly, John
- Lyzard, William
m
- Macbeth (Shakespeare)
- MacLean, Sally‐Beth
- Maggett, Steven
- Mago, William
- Maid in the Mill, The (Fletcher and Rowley)
- Maid’s Tragedy, The (Beaumont and Fletcher)
- Malbon, Thomas
- Malcontent, The (Marston)
- Malloy, Christopher
- managers
- Manley, Lawrence
- Manningham, John
- Marston, John
- Antonio’s Revenge
- Children of Paul’s, writing for
- Dutch Courtesan, The
- Eastward Ho! (Jonson, Chapman, Marston)
- Malcontent, The
- Scourge of Villainy
- Sophonisba
- War of the Theaters
- What You Will
- Martholme, Lancashire
- Martin Marprelate scandal
- Masque of Blackness, The (Jonson)
- Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn (Beaumont)
- Masque of Oberon (Jonson)
- Masque of Queens (Jonson), 287‐288
- Massey, Charles
- Massinger, Philip
- Masters of the Revels
- benefits, personal
- Buc
- censorship of plays
- court performances, approving/censoring
- editing plays
- expenses, reducing
- failure to censor plays
- Herbert, Sir Henry
- history
- public performances, licensing/censorship of
- Queen’s Men
- Revels calendar allocations
- Tilney see Tilney, Edmund
- Maurice of Nassau (later Prince of Orange)
- Mayne, Jasper
- McLuskie, Kathleen
- McMillin, Scott
- Mead, Thomas
- Meade, Jacob
- Measure for Measure (Shakespeare)
- Menzer, Paul
- Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare)
- Merry Devil of Edmonton, The (anon.)
- Merry Wives of Windsor, The (Shakespeare)
- Meyrick, Sir Gelly
- Middleton, Thomas
- Black Book, The
- Chaste Maid in Cheapside, A
- Mad World A
- Revenger’s Tragedy, The
- Roaring Girl, The (Middleton and Dekker)
- Robinson, Richard
- Witch, The
- Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare)
- acts
- Brooke’s influence
- Burbage as Theseus
- Chamberlain’s Men
- cultural presence of the monarch
- Kenilworth, reference to
- marriages associated with
- music
- plays‐within‐plays
- at Red Lion
- Titania
- traveling players
- Miles, Robert
- Miseries of Enforced Marriage, The (Wilkins)
- monarch, the; see also Elizabeth I; James I
- authority
- centrality of
- cultural presence of
- prayers for
- Montrose, Louis
- More, Sir Thomas
- More, Sir William
- “motley”
- Mountjoy, Marie
- Mount Tabor (Willis)
- Mucedorus (anon.)
- Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare)
- Mulryne, J. R.
- Munday, Anthony
- Munro, Lucy
- musical instruments; see also drums; trumpets
- musicians
- ambiguity in records
- at Blackfriars
- boys
- at the Globe
- household
- housing for
- Musicorum Chorus
- women
- music rooms
- mystery plays
n
- Nashe, Thomas
- Nelson, Alan H.
- Newington Butts theater, Southwark
- Nicholson, George
- night‐time scenes
- Northbrooke, John
- Northumberland, Henry Percy, 5th Earl
- Norton, Thomas
o
- occasional drama
- Oldcastle, Sir John; see also Falstaff, character of
- Old Wives Tale, The (Peele)
- ordinary poets
- Orlando Furioso (Greene)
- Orrell, John
- Ostler, Thomasine
- Ostler, William
- Othello (Shakespeare)
- Overthrow of Stage Plays, Th’ (Rainolds)
- Oxford, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl
- Oxford’s Boys
- Oxford’s Men
- Oxford University
p
- Palamon and Arcite (Edwardes)
- Palladis Tamia (Meres)
- Pallant, Robert (the Elder)
- Pallant, Robert (the Younger)
- Palsgrave’s Men
- Pant, Thomas
- parts
- Patrick, William
- patronage
- aristocratic, exclusively
- of companies
- defining
- economic impact
- falsification
- hereditary duty
- of individuals
- loss of
- protection
- royal; see also King’s Men; Queen’s Men
- Shakespeare and the Stanleys
- writing for patrons
- Paul’s Boys see Children of Paul’s
- payment for performances; see also entry fees; salaries, sharers’
- at court
- at inns
- at playhouses
- on tour
- Pembroke, William Herbert, 3rd Earl
- Pembroke’s Men
- penny‐by‐penny entrance system
- Perambulation of Kent (Lambarde)
- performances, typical
- performing rights
- Pericles (Shakespeare)
- Perkins, Richard
- Phillips, Augustine
- apprentices
- Chamberlain’s Men
- examination by Chief Justice
- family and residence
- Globe sharer
- King’s Men
- Phillips His Slipper jig
- Seven Deadly Sins, 2 The (Tarlton)
- Strange’s Men
- will and bequests
- Phillips, Mary
- Philotas (Daniel)
- Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Devil (Nashe)
- Pig/Pyk, John
- plague
- concerns about spread of
- impact on companies
- number of deaths
- Platter, Thomas
- Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London (Gurr)
- Play of St Christopher, The (trad.)
- plays‐within‐plays
- plots/plats, back‐stage
- Pope, Thomas
- Chamberlain’s Men
- Globe sharer
- Phillips’ stepbrother
- retirement
- Seven Deadly Sins, 2 The (Tarlton)
- Strange’s Men
- will and bequests
- portability
- Prescot playhouse, Lancashire
- Prince Henry’s Men
- private commissions
- private homes as venues
- Privy Council
- 1600 theater restrictions
- Blackfriars Boys disbanded
- Blackfriars petitions
- Burbage ‐ Fleetwood confrontation
- vs. City of London authorities
- duopoly, Admiral’s Men and Chamberlain’s Men
- festival holy‐days
- Gowrie, displeasure with
- plague, responses to
- playhouse destruction orders
- prayers for
- Queen’s Men
- special licences
- propaganda, national/religious
- properties; see also costumes
- acquisition
- Alleyn’s list
- emblematic nature
- storage
- supplied by Master of Revels
- supplied by playhouse owners
- public vs. private playhouses
- Puritan attacks
- Puttenham, George
q
- Queen Anne’s Men; see also Worcester’s Men
- formation
- Greene, Robert
- Heywood, Thomas
- jigs
- manager
- Prescot playhouse, Lancashire
- Red Bull
- special licence
- Queen Henrietta’s Men
- Queen’s Men (i.e. Queen Elizabeth’s)
- decline
- dominance
- formation
- holy days petition
- “houses”
- at inns
- Laneham‐Dutton split
- London venues
- number of players
- sale of plays
- Shakespeare’s association with
- Shakespeare’s plots, influence on
- Tarlton
- at the Theatre
- touring
- violence among players
- Queen’s “reward”
- Quest for Shakespeare’s Globe, The (Orrell)
r
- Rackin, Phyllis
- Rainolds, John
- Rape of Lucrece, The (Shakespeare)
- Records of Early English Drama project
- Red Bull playhouse, Clerkenwell
- Red Lion, Aldgate
- rehearsals
- Revels season
- revenge plays
- Revenger’s Tragedy, The (Middleton)
- Rhodes, John
- Rice, John
- Richard II (Shakespeare)
- Richard III (Shakespeare)
- Burbage in title role
- King’s Men repertoire
- metatheatricality
- music
- music rooms
- popularity
- Queen’s Men repertoire
- Stanley
- sword‐fights
- the Theatre, Shoreditch
- Richmond Palace
- Rickner, George
- Roaring Girl, The (Middleton and Dekker)
- Robinson, Bishop Nicholas
- Robinson, Richard
- romances
- Roman theaters, imitation of
- Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
- actors and roles
- balcony scene
- bird whistle
- book‐keeper
- Brooke’s influence
- Curtain discovery space
- A Day at the Theatre
- prompter
- stage directions
- sword‐fights
- the Theatre, Shoreditch
- upper acting space
- Romeus and Juliet (Brooke)
- Rosenberg, Marvin
- Rose theater, Southwark
- 1592 refurbishment
- Admiral’s Men
- Admiral’s Men departure
- concession stands
- days open
- destruction order
- duopoly, Admiral’s Men and Chamberlain’s Men
- investment and profit
- location benefits
- Lord’s room
- management
- purchase
- repertoire
- size and structure
- Strange’s Men
- Worcester’s Men
- Rosseter, Philip
- royal patents
- Royce, Jacalyn
- Rufford Hall, Lancashire
- Russell, John
s
- St Saviour’s Church, Southwark
- St Werburgh Street playhouse, Dublin
- saint’s plays
- salaries, sharers’
- Salisbury Court playhouse
- Satiromastix (Dekker)
- Saunders, William
- Savage, Jerome
- Schoenbaum, Samuel
- Schoone‐Jongen, Terence G.
- Scourge of Villainy (Marston)
- seating
- at court performances
- entry fee variations
- Globe and Fortune
- at inns
- social hierarchy
- on‐stage
- Sejanus (Jonson)
- Seven Deadly Sins of London, The (Dekker)
- Seven Deadly Sins, 1 The (Tarlton)
- Seven Deadly Sins, 2 The (Tarlton)
- adult actors
- authorship
- boy actors
- Chamberlain’s Men
- dating
- four plays in one
- hired actors
- “plot”
- purpose
- text
- transcription
- scenes
- stories
- severed head props
- Shackerly, Edward
- Shakespeare, Edmund
- Shakespeare, John
- Shakespeare, Mary Arden
- Shakespeare, William; see also specific play
- acting
- Blackfriars, writing for
- Blackfriars management, condemnation of
- Blackfriars property
- Blackfriars sharer
- Burbage, friendship with
- Catholicism
- Chamberlain’s Men
- contract as ordinary poet
- sharer
- turnover of plays
- early experiences, possible
- Kenilworth
- mystery plays
- Stratford Guild Hall
- Stratford inns
- early life
- education
- festive comedies
- First Folio published
- Fletcher, collaboration with
- Globe, plays written for the
- histories
- Jonson, relationship with
- Kemp, jibes at
- Kemp, roles for
- King’s Men sharer
- “lost years”
- Hoghton Theory
- Queen’s Men Theory
- Strange’s Men theory
- marriage and children
- monarch, centrality of
- motley
- patronage
- private house performances, references to
- problem comedies
- reading
- retirement
- romances and tragicomedies
- selling shares
- Seven Deadly Sins, role in
- Strange’s Men
- tirewomen
- War of the Theaters
- will and bequests
- work as teacher/tutor/school master
- in written records
- Shakespeare’s Motley (Hotson)
- Shakespeare’s Wooden O (Hotson)
- Shank, John
- Shapiro, Michael
- sharers
- Sharers’ Papers
- Sharpe, Richard
- Sherman, William
- Shirley, James
- Shrewsbury, Francis Talbot, 5th Earl
- Simpson, Christopher and Robert
- Sincler (Sinklo), John
- Singer, John
- Singing Simpkin jig (Kemp)
- Sir John Oldcastle (unk.)
- Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt (Fletcher and Massinger)
- Sir Thomas More (Munday)
- Skialetheia (Guilpin)
- Slater, Martin
- Sly, William
- Blackfriars sharer
- Every Man In His Humour (Jonson)
- executor of Phillips’ will
- Globe sharer
- Malcontent, The (Marston)
- Seven Deadly Sins, 2 The (Tarlton)
- sharer
- Smith, Irwin
- Smithills Hall, Lancashire
- social hierarchy
- Somerset, Alan
- Sophonisba (Marston)
- soundings
- Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl
- Spanish Curate, The (Fletcher)
- Spanish Tragedy, The (Kyd)
- Spenser, Edmund
- Spenser, Gabriel
- Stafford’s Men
- stage‐keepers
- Staging of Plays before Shakespeare, The (Southern)
- staging practices
- Stanley family
- Ferdinando, 5th Early of Derby, 13th Baron Strange
- Henry, 4th Earl of Derby, 12th Baron Strange
- Lathom House hall screen
- patronizing players; see also Derby’s Men; Strange’s Men
- Prescot and Knowsley
- Shakespeare’s treatment of
- Thomas, 1st Earl of Derby
- William, 6th Earl of Derby
- Staple of News, The (Jonson)
- starting time of plays
- Stepmothers’ Tragedy, The (Chettle)
- Stern, Tiffany
- Stockwood, John
- Strange’s Men; see also Derby’s Men
- 1593/94 tour
- Admiral’s Men, association with
- ascendancy of
- become Derby’s Men
- contempt for Lord Mayor
- Four Plays in One
- hired men
- leaving Theatre
- loss of patron
- number of performances
- number of players
- plague, impact of
- repertoire
- Rose theater
- Shakespeare’s association with
- special licences
- touring
- Stratford‐upon‐Avon
- Guild Hall
- “Mayor’s play”
- performances in inns
- theater companies performing in
- Street, Peter
- Surrenden Dering, Kent
- Sussex’s Men
- Swan theater, Bankside
- Swinnerton, Thomas
- sword‐fights
- Syme, Holger Schott
t
- Tamer Tamed, The (Fletcher)
- Taming of the Shrew, The (Shakespeare)
- Tanner of Denmark, The (unk.)
- tapestries
- Tarlton, Richard; see also Seven Deadly Sins, 2 The (Tarlton)
- Tarlton’s Jests (Tarlton)
- Tawyer, William
- Taylor, John
- Taylor, Joseph
- Tempest, The (Shakespeare)
- theater, types of
- Theatre, Shoreditch
- apprentices
- Burbage ‐ Fleetwood confrontation
- canopy, lack of
- concession stands
- costumes and properties
- Curtain, association with the
- decoration
- destruction order
- discovery space
- dismantling
- early use
- entry fees
- everyday work
- fencing matches
- financial difficulties
- galleries
- house‐rent
- impression on visitors
- lease of land
- Leicester’s Men
- location
- protests/complaints against
- Puritan attacks
- Queen’s Men
- rehearsals
- Romeo and Juliet performance
- seating
- size and structure 92
- stage
- Strange’s Men
- tiring house
- trapdoor
- upper acting space
- Theatre residency of Chamberlain’s Men
- advantages of residency
- duopoly with Admiral’s Men
- jigs
- naturalistic acting
- repertoire
- Shakespeare’s importance
- typical day
- Thomas, Lord Cromwell (unk.)
- Thompson, Peter
- Thomson, John
- Thomson, Leslie
- Tilney, Edmund
- attendance fees
- Chamberlain’s Men
- Elizabeth I, relation to
- expenses, reducing
- Flower of Friendship
- licensing and censorship of plays
- performing rights
- Queen’s Men
- Shakespeare, collaboration with
- special licences
- Strange’s Men
- Topographical Descriptions, Regiments, and Policies
- Timon of Athens (Shakespeare)
- tiremen
- tirewomen
- tiring houses
- canvas booths
- costumes and properties storage
- Swan sketch
- Tittler, Robert
- Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare)
- Titus and Vespacia (unk.)
- Tooley, Nicholas
- Topcliffe, Richard
- Topographical Descriptions, Regiments, and Policies (Tilney)
- touring
- Towne, John
- trade guilds
- Tragedy of Mariam (Carey)
- tragicomedies
- trapdoors
- Trigge, William
- Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare)
- Troublesome Reign of King John, The (unk.)
- True Tragedy of Richard III, The (unk.)
- trumpets
- announcing performance
- in performances
- Tuckfield, Thomas
- turnover of plays
- Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
- Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (Shakespeare)
- Two Noble Kinsmen, The (Shakespeare/Fletcher)
- Two Wise Men And All The Rest Fools (unk.)
- Tyler, Rosemary
u
- Underhill, Nicholas
- Underwood, John
- universities
v
- Valentinian (Fletcher)
- Valiant Welshman, The (R.A.)
- van Buchell, Arendt
- Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare)
- Vernon, George
- Verreyken, Louis
- Vincent, Thomas
- Volpone (Jonson)
w
- Walmesley, Thomas
- Walsingham, Sir Francis
- Warning for Fair Women, A (anon.)
- War of the Theaters
- Warren’s Men
- Warwick’s Men
- Webster, John
- What You Will (Marston)
- Whitehall, Palace of
- widows of actors/owners
- Wiles, David
- Wilkins, George
- Willis, R.
- Wilson, Henry
- Wilson, John
- Wilson, Thomas (Robert)
- Windsor, Miles
- Winter’s Tale, The (Shakespeare)
- Witch, The (Middleton)
- wives of actors/owners
- Wolsey’s Men
- women in theaters
- Worcester, Edward Somerset, 4th Earl
- Worcester’s Men; see also Queen Anne’s Men
- Beeston
- Boar’s Head
- Henslowe’s loan to
- Kemp, Will
- Lowin, John
- Oxford’s Men, merger with
- Rose theater
- touring
- Wotton, Sir Henry
- Wroth, Lady Mary
y
- Yorke, Sir John and Lady Juliana
- Yorkshire Tragedy, A (Middleton)