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, 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, 63, 64
Worcester's company, Earl of, 217
Wriothesley, Henry. See Earl of Southampton
Wriothesley, Thomas, Earl of Southampton, 153
Yorke, Edmund, Jesuit, 180

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