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Bold numbers refer to entries in Appendix B (Repertory data and analysis) or Appendix C (Biographical summary). Chapel and Queen’s Revels plays are given their own entries. Names of scholars are included where they are cited or quoted in the main text; they are also included where their work receives sustained discussion in the endnotes.

Abuses, 104 Aston, Sir Walter, 36, 172 Adams, Thomas, 65, 69 Attewell, Hugh, 41, 179, 185 Admiral’s Men, 148, 170, 174 audiences employment of Queen’s Revels actors and Children of the Queen’s Revels and, 10–11 dramatists, 180–2 comedy and, 70–3, 95 Aeschylus, 107 composition, 61–5, 72 Allen, Richard, 179, 185 gallants in, 63–5 Alleyn, Edward, 43 genre and, 7–8, 9 All Fools (Chapman), 45, 167, 170 in private playhouses, 61–5 age transvestism in, 42 in Blackfriars playhouse, 62, 63, 65, audience and, 65 66, 72, 95 court performance, 189 in Whitefriars playhouse, 62, 63, 65, 72, 95 neo-classical farce and, 112 in public playhouses, 61–2 publication, 32 reception of plays, 62, 65–6, 71–3, revival of, 17, 112 79–80, 95 social status and, 68 sitting on stage, 7, 16 title-page, 6 social status and, 56, 61–4 Amends for Ladies (Field), 25, 52, 74, 169, 170, 224 social status and, 67, 70 Bacon, Francis, 35 cross-gender disguise in, 51 Barksted, William, 25, 53, 154, 165, 179 Whitefriars playhouse and, 24 arrested, 41 Andrews, Michael, 117 Robert Browne and, 180 Anna of Denmark, Queen of England, 179, 182 in cast lists, 185 George Chapman and, 205 Children of the King’s Revels and, 173, 229 Samuel Daniel and, 53 Children of the Queen’s Revels and, 173 Italian literature and, 98, 102–3, 105 Hiren, 155, 179, 201 patronage of Children of the Queen’s Revels, Robert Keysar and, 24–5, 31, 41 ix, 19, 21, 27, 33–4, 165 Mirrha, 155, 179, 182 patronage of drama at court, 205 plays Morose in Epicoene, 41, 42 Spenserian poets and, 207 see also Insatiate Countess, The Archer, Edward, 196 Barnes, Barnabe, 125, 126 Aristophanes, 53 Barnﬁeld, Richard, 99 Aristotle, 55, 58, 70 Barrenger, William, 32 Armin, Robert, 147 Barroll, Leeds, 201 Armitage, David, 106 Barry, Lording Arundel, Earl of see Howard, Thomas Ram Alley, 59, 87, 114, 224

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254 Index Barton, Ann, 216 price of admission to, 61 Basse, Thomas, 185 see also audiences Baxter, Robert, 179, 185 Blaney, John, 179, 185 beards, 41–2, 47 Bliss, Lee, 112, 113, 116, 131 Beaumont, Francis, 179, 204, 206 Bloom, Gina, 49 dedicatory verses Blount, Charles, Earl of Devonshire, 20, 34, 142 Catiline ( Jonson), 33 Blount, Edward, 142, 226 Epicoene ( Jonson), 33, 92 Blount, Thomas, 148, 148–9 The Faithful Shepherdess (Fletcher), 7, 33, Bly, Mary, 3, 5 124, 132 Bodenham, John, 77 Volpone ( Jonson), 33 Boderie, Antoine Lefe`vre de la, 29, 146, Earl and Countess of Huntingdon and, 36 171, 176 Nathan Field and, 32 Bonian, Richard, 32, 204 Huntingdon circle and, 36 Bradbury, Thomas, 32 Inns of Court and, 35, 63 Brathwait, Richard, 69–70 King’s Men and, 3, 133 Brecht, Bertold, 53 The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray’s Brewyn, Ralph, 62 Inn, 35 Bristol, 195 The Woman Hater, 9, 87 Bristol, Michael, 72 see also Knight of the Burning Pestle, The; Brooke, Christopher, 35, 36, 99 Beaumont, Francis, and John Fletcher The Ghost of Richard III, 35 Beaumont, Francis, and John Fletcher Brooke, Nicholas, 156, 228 A King and No King, 122, 153 Browne, John, 21, 179 Comedies and Tragedies (1647), 166 Browne, Robert, 28, 29, 180, 209 Comedies and Tragedies (1679), 41 Browne, Sir Thomas, 55–6 The Maid’s Tragedy, 154 Browne, William, 36–7, 99, 223 Philaster, 105, 122, 124, 133, 153 Buc, Sir George, Master of the Revels, 146 see also Cupid’s Revenge; Coxcomb, The; Bullokar, John, 59, 148 Scornful Lady, The Burbage, Cuthbert, 24–5, 197 Beaumont, John, 36 Burbage, James, 15, 197 Beckett, Samuel, 98 Burbage, Richard, 40, 42 Bedford, Countess of see Russell, Lucy Blackfriars playhouse and, 14, 15, 19, 21, 197 Bednarz, James P., ix sued by Robert Keysar, 24 Beeston, Christopher, 6 The Malcontent and, 104, 135, 136 Beeston’s Boys (the King and Queen’s Young Burns, Raymond S., 119 Company), 166, 171, 174 Burre, Walter, 31–2, 165, 174, 204 Benﬁeld, Robert, 41, 179, 185, 186 Bussy D’Ambois, 3, 137, 167, 170 Benjamin, Walter, 4 ‘A’ Text, 156–7, 160–2, 231–2 Bennett, Alan, 96 ‘B’ Text, 49, 156, 157–9, 160–1, 162 Bentley, G. E., 3, 4 Children of Paul’s and, 30, 145, 156, Bergson, Henri, 70–1 170, 203 Betts, Hannah, 126 demands on actors, 53 Billing, Christian, 91, 93 eroticism and performance of, 49, 50, 51 Billington, Michael, 229–30 Nathan Field and, 49, 136, 152, 160, 170 Blackadder, 213 Queen’s Revels repertory and, 19, 134, Blackfriars playhouse (ﬁrst), 15, 17, 181 139, 165 Blackfriars playhouse (second), 72 revision and, 11, 134, 137, 139, 156–62 built by James Burbage, 15 revival of, 49, 166, 231–2 capacity, 16, 61 at Whitefriars, 50, 134, 139, 156 characteristics, 15–16, 23 tragicomedy and, 156–9, 160–1, 162 Elizabeth I and, 199 Butler, Kathleen, 102 King’s Men and, 132–3 lease, 15, 18, 19, 21, 28, 202 Camden, William, 73, 74 location, 13 Campion, Thomas, 28, 34, 35, 206 ownership, 2, 14, 197 Carew, Thomas, 35

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Carey, George, Lord Hunsdon, 15, 18 Edward Kirkham and, 21, 30, 170, 177, Carleton, Dudley, 199 182, 200 Cary, Giles, 24, 39, 180, 185 licensing, 199 Case is Altered, The ( Jonson), 168, 170–1 Love’s Metamorphosis and, 175 conclusion of, 118 management, 37–8 laughter and, 71 see also Gyles, Thomas; Pearce, Edward; neo-classical farce and, 113 Woodford, Thomas publication of, 32 Parasitaster, or The Fawn and, 30, social status and, 216 173, 203 Castelvetro, Giacomo, 102 performance style, 2–3 Cavendish, Sir William, 61, 62–3 popularity, 17 Cawdrey, Robert, 69, 77 playhouse, 16, 61, 63, 72 Cecil, Sir Robert, Earl of Salisbury, 30, 39, tragedy and, 134 140, 146 tragicomedy in repertory, 104 Cervantes, Miguel de, 171 Thomas Woodford and, 184 Chamberlain, John, 103, 199 A Trick to Catch the Old One and, 30, 177 Chamberlain, Robert, 58 The Woman Hater and, 9 Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimzies, Children of the Chapel 57, 74 choir school see Chapel Royal Jocabella, or a Cabinet of Conceits, 211 Children of the Chapel (1580s–early 1590s), 15, Chamberlain’s Men, 150, 170, 181 17, 98, 181 Chambers, E. K., 3 Children of the Chapel (1600–3), ix, 1, 16–18, Chapel Royal, 17, 19, 37, 48 172, 173, 175, 176, 224 Chapman, George, 6, 53, 98, 125, 180 actors, 40 dedicatory verses, 33, 35 impressment, 16–18, 37–9 described by Ben Jonson, 204 see also names of individual actors (listed in Eastward Ho controversy and, 9, 73, 74 Appendix C) The Memorable Masque of the Middle Temple age transvestism in plays of, 42–3 and Lincoln’s Inn, 35 cast lists, 185 The Old Joiner of Aldgate, 199 Chapel Royal and, 17, 19, 37 patronage connections of, 34, 35 class transvestism in plays of, 51–2 publication of The Revenge of Bussy D’Ambois court performances, 175, 188 and, 151, 153 lawsuits cited publication of The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Clifton v. Robinson, Evans et al. Star Charles Duke of Byron and, 136, 145–7 Chamber, December 1601, 17, 37–8, translation of Iliad, 34, 205 185 See also All Fools; Bussy D’Ambois; Conspiracy Evans v. Kirkham, Court of Chancery, and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron, May–July 1612, 18 The; Eastward Ho; Gentleman Usher, Kirkham v. Paunton et al., Court of The; May Day; Monsieur D’Olive; Chancery 1612, 17, 38 Revenge of Bussy D’Ambois, The; Sir Giles Rastell & Kirkham v. Hawkins, King’s Goosecap; Widow’s Tears, The Bench, Easter 1609, 18 Chappell, John, 37, 40, 180, 185 Love’s Metamorphosis and, 106, 175 Charles, Prince, 192–3 performance style, 2–3, 52–3 Chettle, Henry, 6 repertory, 1 Children of Paul’s, 224 see also names of individual plays (listed in actors, 16, 37, 40 Appendix A and Appendix B) Bussy D’Ambois and, 30, 145, 156, 170, 203 Children of the Chapel at Windsor (choir), choir school, 38 17, 47–8 court performances, 104, 175 Children of the King’s Revels, 5, 180, 182, 224 criticised by William Crashaw, 47 actors, 38, 207 dead rent paid to, 31 commerce and, 37 disappearance, 21 disappearance, 21, 65 employment of Queen’s Revels actors and Law Tricks and, 174 dramatists, 180, 182 lawsuits cited

256 Index Children of the King’s Revels (cont.) licensing, 19–20 Andrews v. Slater, Court of Chancery, patronage, 19, 21, 25–27, 33–7 February 1609, 207 see also Anna of Denmark The Insatiate Countess and, 173, 229 performance style, 2–3, 43–7, 48–51, 53 tragedy and, 134 playhouses see Blackfriars playhouse; Whitefriars playhouse and, 23, 24 Whitefriars playhouse Children of the Queen’s Chamber of political controversy, 9, 20–1, 72, 94–5 Bristol, 204 see also Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Children of the Queen’s Revels Duke of Byron, The; Eastward Ho; Isle actors, 27, 37–53 of Gulls, The; Philotas; Silver age, 39–42, 208 Mine, The apprenticeship, 38–9 print culture and, 31–2, 136 in Blackfriars and Whitefriars companies, repertory summarised, 3, 19, 25 24–5 responsibility for plays performed by, 29–31 perform in The Key Keeper, 23, 24, 39 revival of Blackfriars plays at Whitefriars, 25 perform in The Magniﬁcent see also Bussy D’Ambois; Coxcomb, The; Entertainment, 19, 43, 45 Cupid’s Revenge; May Day; Widow’s erotic appeal of, 48 Tears, The see also names of individual actors (listed in royal patents, 19–20, 27, 28, 34 Appendix C) shareholders, 18, 25, 27–31, 38–9 amalgamation with Lady Elizabeth’s Men, 23, see also names of individual shareholders 40, 201 (listed in Appendix C) Chapel Royal and, 19, 37, 198 touring, 23, 192–3 class transvestism in plays of, 51–2 see also audiences continuity between Blackfriars and Children of the Revels (Caroline), 166, 177 Whitefriars companies, 24–5 Children of the Revels see Children of the costumes, 27–8, 219 Queen’s Revels court performances by, 21, 24, 29, 31, 33, 111, children’s companies 123, 188–93 effect of playhouse closures on, 19 cross-gender disguise in plays of, 50–51 frequency of performances, 61, 213 dramatists, licensing, 20 see also names of individual dramatists (listed performance style, 2–3 in Appendix C) popularity of, 17 frequency of performances by, 61, 215 Cholmley, Sir Richard, 62 Inns of Court and, 35 Christian IV, King of Denmark, 104 known as Children of the Revels, 21, 173, 174 Christian Turned Turk, A (Daborne), 3, 169, 171 lawsuits cited audience reaction, 62, 138, 153, 154 Edmund & Anne Kendall v. Peerson, Court epilogue, 164 of Requests, January–February 1609, factual material and, 149–50, 150–1, 160 38, 202 publication, 11, 138 Evans v. Kendall, King’s Bench, Easter Queen’s Revels repertory and, 25, 134, 163 1608, 199 Cicero, 67 Evans v. Kirkham, Court of Chancery, Claudian, 228 May–July 1612, 21, 27, 30 Cleland, James, 57, 89 Kendall v. Cooke, King’s Bench, Clifton, Henry, 17, 37–8, 51 Michaelmas 1607, 38–9 Clifton, Thomas, 17, 37–8, 40, 180 Keysar v. Burbage et al., Court of Requests, Cockeram, Henry, 148 February–June 1610, 24, 31, 40 Cockpit (Phoenix) playhouse, 63 Kirkham & Kendall v. Daniel, Court of collaboration, institutional, 4 Chancery, May 1609, 20 Colman, George, 217 Kirkham v. Paunton et al., Court of comedy, 10–11, 55–95 Chancery, 1612, 19, 21, 30, 38, The Coxcomb and, 84–5 41, 199 Eastward Ho and, 74–82 Rastell & Kirkham v. Hawkins, King’s Epicoene and, 88–94 Bench, Easter 1609, 198, 202 The Fleer, 86–7

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induction to The Isle of Gulls and, 7–8 cast, 38, 40, 185 jokes and, 56–7, 57–60 court performance, 188 The Knight of the Burning Pestle and, 79, 80 licensed by Edmund Tilney, 20 language and, 56–7 performance style, 2–3, 52–3 narrative structures, 56, 95 publication, 32 prodigal son narrative and, 58–9, 80–1, revival of old plays and, 106 90–2 Cyprian, 47 Queen’s Revels repertory and, 56, 165 romantic comedy, 84–8 Daborne, Robert, 53, 151, 180 sexuality and performance of, 48 Robert Keysar and, 28, 31 theatre audience and, 70–3, 95 Queen’s Revels company and, 28, 171 Your Five Gallants and, 82–5, 85–6, 87 royal patent (1610) and, 28 see also jokes; jest-books; laughter verses on The Ghost of Richard III (Brooke), 35 commissioning of plays, 4 see also Christian Turned Turk, A Condell, Henry, 40, 135, 227 Daniel, John, 32, 199, 204 Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron, Daniel, Samuel, 180, 199, 220 The (Chapman), 3, 168, 171 Children of the Queen’s Chamber of Bristol censorship and, 11, 138, 145–7 and, 204 involvement of actors in, 138, 145–7 Cleopatra, 142 political controversy, 14, 20–1, 138 A Defence of Rhyme, 102, 141 publication, 32, 136, 138, 145–7 Delia, 102 Queen’s Revels repertory and, 19, 134, 163 Florio’s Montaigne and, 220 responsibility for, 30 ‘A Funeral Poem Upon the Death of the […] Contention Between Liberality and Prodigality, Earl of Devonshire’, 142 The, 167, 175, 188 Hymen’s Triumph, 34 Cook, Ann Jennalie, 62 Italian literature and, 98, 102, 103, 132 Cooke, Abel, 38–9, 40, 180 Ben Jonson and, 105, 204 Cooke, Alice, 38–9 licenser of Children of the Queen’s Revels, ix, Coryat, Thomas, 204 19–21, 32 Cotton, Charles, 35 Musophilus, 34, 142, 205 Coventry, 195 ‘A Panegyric Congratulatory’, 141 Coxcomb, The (Beaumont and Fletcher), 19, 136, patronage connections of, 33–4, 35, 53, 205 168, 169, 171, 224 payee at court, 189 cast list, 41, 185 Philotas controversy and, 20, 29, 34, court performance, 190 140–1, 142 revival of, 25, 88 publication of works, 166 romantic comedy and, 84–5, 87 Certain Small Poems, Lately Printed, with social status and, 70, 85 the Tragedy of Philotas (1605), 141 Crashaw, William, 47 Certain Small Works Heretofore Divulged by Crocker, John, 180 Samuel Daniel (1607), 103, 142 Crosse, Henry, 66–7 collection with no general title (1607), Cuffe, Henry, 39 141–2 Cupid’s Revenge (Beaumont and Fletcher), 124, Certain Small Works Heretofore Divulged by 155, 168, 169, 171, 224 Samuel Daniel (1611), 226 court performances, 132, 190 The Whole Works of Samuel Daniel Esq. in inﬂuence on King’s Men, 133 Poetry (1623), 32, 226 Queen’s Revels repertory and, 3, 19, 132, 134, The Works of Samuel Daniel,(1601), 102 163, 164 The Queen’s Arcadia (Arcadia Reformed), 33, revival of, 25, 111, 134, 153, 166 103, 124, 128, 132, 142, 219 sources, 97, 119–20, 125, 160 Spenserian poets and, 36–7, 99 The Arcadia, 117, 120, 121–2, 123, 229 The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses, 33 tragicomedy and, 117, 120–4, 138 verses on II Pastor Fido (Guarini), 102 Cynthia’s Revels ( Jonson), ix, 167, 172, 224 Simon Waterson and, 32 age transvestism in, 42–3 see also Philotas actors and, 40 Davell, Christopher, 209

258 Index Davies, John, of Hereford, 63, 80, 182–3 Eastward Ho (Chapman, Jonson and Marston), Davies, Sir John, 63 3, 74–82, 135, 168, 172 Davis, Jessica Milner, 112 jokes and comic narrative structures, 57, 75, Day, John, 180 79–82, 94, 165 The Black Dog of Newgate, 6 language and, 11, 76–78 described by Ben Jonson, 204 political controversy, 14, 20, 29, 72, 73, 94 The Isle of Gulls controversy and, 29 prodigal son narrative and, 59, 80–81, 90 The Silver Mine and, 176 relationship with playhouse audience, 75–6, see also Day, John, William Rowley and 79–80 George Wilkins; Isle of Gulls, The; revival of, 25, 166 Law Tricks; social status and, 68, 69, 70, 77–8, 79–80 Day, John, William Rowley and George Wilkins Ecclestone, William, 186 The Travels of the Three English Edmondes, Sir Thomas, 29, 174 Brothers, 174 Edwards, Richard, 97, 106 Day, Thomas, 181, 185 Egerton, Alice (ne´e Spencer), dowager Countess Dekker, Thomas, 4, 77, 204, 224 of Derby, 35 Blurt Master Constable, 224 Egerton, Sir Thomas, Baron Ellesmere, The Gull’s Horn Book, 48, 61, 63, 69–70, 20, 199 76–7, 175 Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 19, 99, 102, If It Be Not Good, The Devil Is In It, 149 188, 199 The Magniﬁcent Entertainment, 43 Elizabeth, Princess, 35, 111, 192–3, 207 see also Dekker, Thomas, and John Webster; Epicoene ( Jonson), 3, 11, 168, 172, 176 Dekker, Thomas, and Thomas cast of, 24, 40, 185 Middleton Hugh Attewell, 41 Dekker, Thomas, and John Webster William Barksted, 24, 41, 42 Northward Ho, 87 comedy and, 88–94 Satiromastix, 224 comic narrative structures and, 57, 165 Westward Ho, 224 controversy caused by, 92–3, 95 Dekker, Thomas, and Thomas Middleton cross-gender disguise in, 50, 51 The Roaring Girl, 56, 170 dedicatory verses, 33 Derby, Countess of see Egerton, Alice eroticism and, 48 Derrida, Jacques, 3–4, 10 performance style, 42 De Vere, Susan, 34 publication, 32 Devereux, Robert, third Earl of Essex, 34, 205 Queen’s Revels repertory and, 25, 164 Devonshire, Earl of see Blount, Charles revivals Digges, Leonard, 16 Restoration, 166 Donne, John, 35, 36, 99 RSC (1989), 88, 93 Drant, Thomas, 100 University of Warwick (2000), 91, 93 Drayton, Michael, 36–7, 99, 132 social status and, 69, 88–94 Drummond, Jean, 34 Whitefriars playhouse and, 24 Drummond, William, of Hawthornden, 73–5, epyllia, 97, 125–6 93, 172 Erne, Lukas, 135, 224 Duke, John, 6 Essex, Earl of see Devereux, Robert Dunsworth, Felicity, 27 Euripides, 100, 107 Dutch Courtesan, The (Marston), 3, 19, 85, 167, 172 Evans, Henry, 21, 25, 181, 183 age transvestism in, 46–7 1580s children’s companies and, 15, 98 court performance, 187 Blackfriars lease and, 15, 18, 21, 200 eroticism and performance of, 48 impressment of actors and, 16–17, jokes about Scots and, 95 17–18, 37–8 revival of, 25, 166 King’s Men’s sharers agreement and, 200 use of Montaigne’s Essays in, 105 payee at court, 187 Dutton, Richard, 14, 29, 199 Queen’s Revels patent (1604) and, 27 Dymock, Sir Edward, 32, 102 responsibility for Queen’s Revels Dymock, Tailboys, 32 plays, 30 Dyson, Humphrey, 202 Evans, Thomas, 200

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Fair Maid of Bristow, The, 104 Battista Guarini and, 32, 97, 98 Faithful Shepherdess, The (Fletcher), 3, 168, The Humorous Lieutenant, 122 172–3, 223 Huntingdon circle and, 35–6 Cupid’s Revenge and, 121–2 King’s Men and, 3, 132–3 failure on first performance, 7, 96–7, 132–3 see also Beaumont, Francis, and John influence of, 37, 223 Fletcher; Faithful Shepherdess, The; prefatory material, 7, 33, 36, 62, 96–7, Field, Nathan, and John Fletcher 124–5, 132 Fletcher, Phineas, 36–7, 99, 219 publication, 32, 153 Fletcher, Richard, 207 Queen’s Revels repertory and, 19, 98, Florio, John, 103, 105, 148, 172, 173 124–5, 165 Foakes, R. A., 138, 210 revival of, 131, 166 Ford, John, 147 sources, 97, 119–20 Fortune playhouse, 62 The Faerie Queene, 125, 128–9, 130 Foucault, Michel, 4, 98 The Shepherd’s Calendar, 125, 126 Fox, Adam, 57 tragicomedy and, 11, 96–97, 124–33 Frederick, Elector Palatine, 35, 111, 192–3 Farrant, Richard, 15 Frederick Lewis of Wu¨rttemberg, Prince, 62 Fawn, The, see Parasitaster, or The Fawn Fripp, Edgar J., 31 Ferryman, Peter, 206 Frost, John, 181, 185 Field, Nathan, 25, 39, 53, 147, 165, 181 Frye, Susan, 129 Bussy D’Ambois and, 49, 136, 152, 160, 170 in Cambridge, 32, 40, 208 Gabel, John B., 146–7 in cast lists, 38, 185–6 Gair, W. Reavley, 3 dedicatory verses, 33 Garrick, David, 217 impressed by Chapel Managers, 37 Gawdy, Philip, 48 jokes against, 51–2, 213 genre Ben Jonson and, 37, 204 effect of repertory system on development of, The Key Keeper and, 24 9–10 The Revenge of Bussy D’Ambois and, 152, 160 formalism and, 5 see also Amends for Ladies; Field, Nathan, generic instability, 8–10, 136–9 and John Fletcher; Woman is a generic terms in prologues and inductions, Weathercock, A 7–8, 9 Field, Nathan, and John Fletcher Queen’s Revels repertory and, 3 The Honest Man’s Fortune, 186 playhouse audience and, 7–8, 9 Field, Theophilus, 32, 211 used in commissioning plays, 5–6 Finkelpearl, Philip, 36, 123, 206 used in marketing plays, 6, 198 First Part of Jeronimo, The, 135, 174 see also comedy; pastoral; satire; tragedy; Fisher, Will, 41 tragicomedy; tragical comedy Fleer, The (Sharpham), 19, 168, 173 Gentleman Usher, The (Chapman), 18, 32, 42, Ann Barton on, 218 111, 167, 173 disguised ruler narrative and, 3, 46, 107 Gerrard, John, 20 jokes and, 58 Gibbyns (first name unknown), 181 narrative structure and, 58, 86–7 Gifford, William, 172 romantic comedy and, 87 Giles, Nathaniel, 181, 183 title-page, 21, 26, 35, 173, 174 forbidden to use choristers in plays, 47–8 Fletcher, Giles, the Elder, 205, 207 impressment of actors and, 17–18, 37, 38 Fletcher, Giles, the Younger, 36–7, 99 payee at court, 188 Fletcher, John, 7, 181, 206, 219 Globe playhouse, 13, 62, 63, 104, 180 dedicatory verses, 33 Go¨rlach, Manfred, 69 described by Ben Jonson, 204 Graves, Richard, 41 Earl and Countess of Huntingdon and, 25–7, Gray’s Inn, 35 35–6 Greville, Fulke failure of The Faithful Shepherdess and, 96–7, George Chapman and, 34 132–3 Samuel Daniel and, 34, 205 family, 36–7, 205, 207 Mustapha, 225

260 Index Greville, Fulke (cont.) Hobbes, Thomas, 70 Martin Peerson and, 35 Hoby, Sir Edward, 29, 94, 118, 174 Queen’s Revels company and, 27 Hoenselaars, A. J., 149 Spenserians and, 36–7, 99 Holbrooke, William, 63 Grey, Lady Elizabeth (neé Talbot), 220 Holdsworth, R. V., 201 Groto, Luigi, 102, 103, 105, 112 Holland, Hugh, 206 Grymes, Thomas, 37, 181, 185 Holme, Randle, 39, 41, 45 Guarini, Battista, 105 Horace, 100 ‘Compendio della poesia tragicomica’, 97, How a Man May Choose a Good Wife From a 100, 105, 110, 111 Bad, 104, 118 influence on Queen’s Revels plays, 107, 119, Howard, Thomas, Earl of Arundel, 151, 153 124–5 Howell, Thomas, II Pastor Fido, 97, 105, 128 ‘Women are Words, Men are Deeds’, 88 Anna of Denmark and, 102 Hunt, Richard, 28–9, 41, 52, 181 English translation of, 32, 102, 107, 175 Hunter, G. K., 100, 107, 110 influence on Huntingdon, Earl and Countess of John Fletcher, 97 see Hastings The Malcontent, 105, 107, 109–10, 132 Hutson, Lorna, 88 The Queen’s Arcadia, 103 Queen’s Revels plays, 98, 112, 165 Ingram, William, 15, 53 Latin translation, 102 Inner Temple, 35 publication in England, 102 Inns of Chancery see Thavies Inn Guistinian, Zorzi, 62 Inns of Court, 35, 36, 63, 66, 99, 125–6 Gurr, Andrew, 3, 16, 30, 194 see also Gray’s Inn; Inner Temple; Lincoln’s Gyles, Thomas, 37, 38 Inn; Middle Temple Insatiate Countess, The (Marston, Barksted and Hackett, Helen, 105 Machin), 25, 134, 163, 169, 173 Hall, Joseph, 82 company attribution, 229 Hallam (first name unknown), 63 publication, 229 Hannah, John, 93 revision and, 11, 154–5, 163 Harbage, Alfred, 13, 56, 61, 62, 63–5 tragicomedy and, 138, 154–6, 163 Harington, Lady Anne (neé Keilwey), 220 Whitefriars playhouse and, 24 Harlay, Christophe de, comte de Beaumont, 33 Isle of Gulls, The (Day), 9, 19, 120, 124, 132, 168, Harrison, Stephen, 43–5, 64 174, 212 Harrison, William, 55 induction, 7–8, 16, 71 Hastings, Henry, fifth Earl of Huntingdon, 25, political controversy, 14, 20, 29, 72, 94, 117 35–6, 37, 207 sources, 97 Hastings, Lucy (neé Stanley), Countess of The Arcadia, 117, 118, 119 Huntingdon, 25, 35–6, 37 title-page, 21, 173, 174 Hathway, Richard, 6 tragicomedy and, 117, 118–20, 123 Hawkins, Alexander, 25, 27, 181 Hawkins, Margaret (neé Evans), 25 James VI and I, King of Scotland and England, Hayden, Liza, 93 19, 53, 73, 80, 182, 207, 224 Heminges, John, 227 entry into London (1604), 19, 43–5, 64 Henrietta Maria, Queen of England, 33, 131 mocked in Queen’s Revels plays, 21, 29–30, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, 34, 103, 142, 80, 117 188–90, 205 patron of court performances, 188–92 Henslowe, Philip, 5–6, 23, 61, 148 reaction to Queen’s Revels plays, 21, 30, 176 Herbert, Sir Henry, Master of the Revels, 166 speech in Parliament, 118 Herbert, William, Earl of Pembroke, 228 Jenkins, Elijah Herrick, Marvin, 104 Joe Miller’s Jests: Or the Wits Vade-Mecum, 73 Hertford, Countess of see Seymour, Frances ‘Jeronimo’, 135, 167, 174 Heywood, Thomas, 14, 98–99, 108, 137, 145 jest-books, 56, 57–8, 71, 73–4 Hillebrand, H. N., 3, 31 jokes, 51–2, 56, 57–60, 95, 210–11 Histrio-Mastix, 204 Jones, Richard, 28, 29, 181

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Jonson, Ben, 5, 7, 53, 54, 99, 147, 181, 183, 203 Keysar, Robert, 21, 24, 53, 182 The Alchemist, 32, 40, 93, 171 William Barksted and, 25, 31, 41 Bartholomew Fair, 166 Blackfriars lease and, 21 Catiline his Conspiracy, 32, 33, 150–1, 153, Walter Burre and, 31, 174 154, 228 buys shares from John Marston, 28 The Characters of Two Royal Masques. The commissioning of Queen’s Revels plays and, One of Blackness, the Other of Beauty, 204 28, 30–1 ‘Conversations with Drummond’, 32, 73–5, Robert Daborne and, 28, 31 93, 172 The Knight of the Burning Pestle and, 31, 32, dedicatory verses, 33, 35, 62 165, 174, 182 Eastward Ho controversy and, 9, 73–5 payee at court, 24, 31, 189–90 ‘Epitaph on S. P.’, 42, 183 Queen’s Revels actors and, 40–1 Every Man in his Humour, 32 supplies costumes, 28 Nathan Field and, 37 The Viper and Her Brood and, 30, 177, 203 Highgate Entertainment, 28 King’s Men, 2, 33, 154, 166, 175 Hymenaei, 105, 204 Beaumont and Fletcher and, 124, 132–3 Inns of Court and, 35 Bussy D’Ambois and, 49, 224 The Key Keeper, 23, 24, 39 Catiline and, 150–1 licensing of plays by, 20 dead rent paid to Children of Paul’s, 31 The Magnificent Entertainment, 43–5 employment of Queen’s Revels actors and Masque of Queens, 204 dramatists, 11, 179, 181, 182, 183, 184 on laughter, 55, 56, 73 The Malcontent and, 104, 111, 134–5, 174, 175 publication of plays, 141 repertory compared with Queen’s Revels, 3, queen’s court and, 34 104–5, 106, 154 Sejanus his Fall revival of Queen’s Revels plays, 11, 166, 170, autograph dedication to 171, 172, 173, 176, 177 Robert Townsend, 36 sharers’ agreement (1608), 200 chorus and, 140, 150 tragicomedy and, 104, 105–6, 133, 153 dedicatory verses, 28, 33, 35 Kirkham, Edward, 20, 53, 182 publication, 32, 145 Blackfriars playhouse and, 18, 21, 204 revision, 148 Bussy D’Ambois and, 30, 165, 170 Timber: Or Discoveries, 55, 56–7 Children of Paul’s and, 21, 30, 165, 170, 173, Robert Townsend and, 36 177, 182, 200 Volpone, 33, 86, 93 Samuel Daniel and, 20 comedy and, 60, 82 The Fawn and, 30, 165, 170, 173 dedicatory verses, 32–3, 35 on Queen’s Revels actors, 41, 146 Italian literature and, 104–5 payee at court for Children of the preface, 141 Chapel, 188 prologue, 7 Queen’s Revels patent (1604) and, 27 publication, 32 responsibility for Queen’s Revels plays, 30 Works (1616), 20, 100, 101, 166, Revels office and, 20, 219 see also Case is Altered, The; Cynthia’s Revels; supplies costumes, 28, 103–4, 200, 219 Eastward Ho; Epicoene; Poetaster, The A Trick to Catch the Old One and, 30, 177 Jowett, John, 82, 83–4 Kirkman, Francis, 196 Juvenal, 100 Knight of the Burning Pestle, The (Francis Beaumont), 1–2, 3, 135, 153, 168, 174, 214 Kelliher, Hilton, 206 Caroline revival, 166 Kendall, Thomas, 21, 53, 182, 200 failure on first performance, 212 apprenticeship of Abel Cooke and, 38–9, Robert Keysar and, 31, 165, 174, 182 40, 180 prodigal son narrative and, 59–60, 80 Samuel Daniel and, 20 Queen’s Revels repertory and, 19, 164 Queen’s Revels costumes and, 27–8 social status and, 79 Queen’s Revels patent (1604) and, 27 spectactors sitting on stage in, 16 shares in Queen’s Revels and, 18, 28 Knowles, James, 102, 119 supplies costumes, 103–4, 200, 219 Knowles, Richard, 137

262 Index Knutson, Roslyn Lander, ix, 3, 13–14, 148, 204 disguised ruler narrative and, 3, 46, 118 Kyd, Thomas Battista Guarini and, 105, 112, 132 Cornelia, 225 King’s Men and, 104, 134–5, 174 The Spanish Tragedy revision by Marston and Webster, 104, 175 allusions to, 75–6, 107, 224 sources, 97 ‘Jeronimo’ and, 135, 174 tragedy and, 136 Queen’s Revels repertory and, 135–6 tragicomedy and, 106–11, 116–17 revision and, 136, 148 Manners, Elizabeth (neé Sidney), Countess of Rutland, 220 Lady Elizabeth’s Men, 170, 196 Mannington, George, 80 amalgamation with Queen’s Revels, 23, Marlowe, Christopher 40, 201 Doctor Faustus, 136, 147, 148 cast lists, 186 Hero and Leander, 125, 223 employment of Queen’s Revels actors The Massacre at Paris, 152 and dramatists, 41, 179, 180, 181, translation of Lucan, Pharsalia, 204 182, 183 translation of Ovid, Elegies, 155 revival of Queen’s Revels plays, 25, 166, Marston, John, ix, 25, 53, 182 171, 172 Antonio and Mellida, 2–3, 40, 104 Lake, Sir Thomas, 30, 171, 176 Antonio’s Revenge, 2–3, 40, 104, 107, 134, 194 language, 56–7, 69–70 attitudes towards performance and Lanier, Innocent, 39 publication, 142–3 laughter, 55–6, 57–8, 70–2, 72–3 described by Ben Jonson, 204 Lawrence, Jason, 103 Eastward Ho controversy and, 9, 73 Law Tricks (Day), 19, 167, 174 The Entertainment at Ashby, 35, 36 disguised ruler narrative and, 107 Battista Guarini and, 32, 98 prodigal son narrative and, 117–18 Earl and Countess of Huntingdon and, 25, title-page, 21 35–6 tragicomedy and, 11 Inns of Court and, 35, 63, 99, 206 Leggatt, Alexander, 151 The Insatiate Countess and, 173 Leicester, 23, 194 sells shares in Blackfriars and Queen’s Revels Littlewood, Joan, 53 to Robert Keysar, 28 London Prodigal, The, 104, 118 The Silver Mine and, 176, 182 Long, Nicholas, 182, 195 use of source texts, 105, 125 Lotti, Ottaviano, 29–30, 94–5 verses on Sejanus his Fall, 32 Love, Genevieve, 143 Henry Walley and, 32, 204 Love’s Metamorphosis, 106, 167, 175 What You Will, 32 Lowe, Sir Thomas, 27 Workes of Mr. John Marston (1633), 166 Lowin, John, 135 see also Dutch Courtesan, The; Eastward Ho; Lupton, Donald, 137 Insatiate Countess, The; Malcontent, The; Lyly, John Parasitaster, or The Fawn; Wonder of influence on Queen’s Revels plays, 97, 98, Women or the Tragedy of Sophonisba, The 106, 165 Marston, Mary (neé Wilkes), 204 Midas, 100, 106 Martin, Richard, 32, 35 nondramatic works, 108 Martin, Thomas, 182, 185 tragical comedy, 108, 114 Mason, George, 39 see also Love’s Metamorphosis Mason, John, 134, 180 Lynsey, John, 62 Massinger, Philip, 228 see also Middleton, Thomas, William Rowley Machin, Lewis, 25, 154, 173, 179, 182, 229 and Philip Massinger see also Insatiate Countess, The Master of the Revels see Buc, Sir George; MacIntyre, Jean, 23 Herbert, Sir Henry; Tilney, Sir Edmund MacLean, Sally-Beth, 3, 4 May, Thomas, 35 Maidstone, 23, 192 May Day (Chapman), 17, 167, 168, 175, 198 Malcontent, The (Marston), 18, 19, 104, 112, 124, cross-gender disguise in, 50, 51 167, 175, 216 revival of, 50, 175

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McDonald, Russ, 113 Office of Christian Parents, The, 39, 45, 47 McLuskie, Kathleen, 27, 65, 75 Orrell, John, 16 McMillin, Scott, 3, 4 Ostler, Beaumont, 183 McMullan, Gordon, 36, 97, 123 Ostler, Thomasine (neé Heminges), 183 Melchiori, Giorgio, 155, 229 Ostler, William, 24, 25, 39, 40, 182–3, 185 Merchant Taylors’ School, 37 Otto von Hess-Cassel, Prince, 24 Merry Conceited Jests of George Peele, The, 178 Overbury, Sir Thomas, 28, 63, 82 Michel, Laurence, 142 Ovid, 97, 105–6, 114–16, 125–6, 127–8, 155 Middle Temple, 35, 206 Oxford, royal visit (1605), 28, 33, 103 Middleton, Thomas, 28, 31, 182, 203 Oxford’s Children, 15, 98, 181 A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, 166 described by Ben Jonson, 204 Painter, William, 229 Father Hubburd’s Tale: Or the Ant and the Pallant, Robert, 6 Nightingale, 48 Parasitaster, or The Fawn (Marston), 3, 19, 105, A Mad World My Masters, 204 107, 167, 173, 177 The Phoenix, 107, 216 age transvestism in, 45–6 preface to The Roaring Girl, 56 Children of Paul’s and, 30, 165, 170, The Puritan, 47 173, 203 The Witch, 153, 228 demands on actors, 53 Women Beware Women, 114 National Theatre revival (1983), 55 see also Dekker, Thomas, and Thomas Parker, Patricia, 88 Middleton, The Roaring Girl; Parrott, Henry, 52 Middleton, Thomas, William Rowley pastoral and Philip Massinger; Trick to Catch the English, 97, 124 Old One, A; Viper and her Brood, The; Italian, 97, 100–3, 124 Your Five Gallants politics and, 98–9 Middleton, Thomas, William Rowley and Queen’s Revels repertory and, 98–103 Philip Massinger The Old Law, 196 pastoral tragicomedy, 7, 100–3, 124 Miller, Jonathan, 229–30 Paul’s playhouse see Children of Paul’s Milles, Robert, 203 Pavy, Salomon, 37, 39, 183, 209 Monsieur D’Olive (Chapman), 19, 111, 115, in cast lists, 38, 185 168, 175 Ben Jonson, ‘Epitaph on S. P.’, 42 Monson, Sir Thomas, 34, 182 Payne, Robert, 27, 183, 202 Montague, James, Bishop of Bath and Pearce, Edward, 31, 37–8 Wells, 209 Peck, Linda Levy, 63 Montaigne, Michel de, Essays, 105, 172, 173 Peerson, Martin, 28, 35, 38, 183, 202 Montgomery, Countess of see Herbert, Susan Pembroke, Earl of see Herbert, William Montrose, Louis A., 98 Penn, William, 183, 185 Motteram, John, 37, 39, 182, 185 Persius, 100 Mucedorus, 132, 135 Pestell, Thomas, 36 King’s Men repertory and, 104, 105, 133 Petronius, 112 Mulcaster, Richard, 37 Petter, C. G., 87 Mullaney, Steven, 72, 95 Philip Julius, Duke of Stettin Pomerania, 62, 177 Murray, Sir James, 29, 73, 75, 80, 81, 94 Philotas (Daniel), 168, 176 closet drama and, 137, 138, 147 Nashe, Thomas, 170, 204 chorus in, 140 Neill, Michael, 147–8 court performance, 189 Neville, Lady Mary (neé Killigrew), 220 Daniel held responsible for, 29 Norbrook, David, 36, 99 dedication, 34 Norden, John, 22 political controversy, 9, 20, 21, 34 Norwich, 193 publication, 137, 145, 166, 226 Nowell (first name unknown), 182 Queen’s Revels repertory and, 19, 134, 163 revision and, 11, 142 O’Brien, Flann, 55 tragedy and, 139–42 O’Callaghan, Michelle, 223 Pino, Bernardino, 112

264 Index Pitcher, John, 102, 142, 147 Revenge of Bussy D’Ambois, The (Chapman), 3, Plautus, 113 169, 176 playhouse closures, 18–19, 21, 203 Bussy D’Ambois and, 139, 159–60 playhouses factual material and, 151–3 private, 56, 61–5 failure in performance, 138, 153–4 see also Blackfriars playhouse; Children publication, 11, 138, 228 of Paul’s; Cockpit playhouse; Queen’s Revels repertory and, 25, 134, 163 Whitefriars playhouse Whitefriars playhouse and, 24 public, 61, 62 Rich, Barnabe, 106 see also Fortune playhouse; Globe Rich, Penelope, Lady (neé Devereux), 220 playhouse; Theatre playhouse Richards, Jennifer, 119 Poetaster, The ( Jonson), ix, 32, 35, 167, 176 Robinson, Clement, 80 cast, 24, 38, 40, 185 Robinson, James, 17, 183 licensed by Edmund Tilney, 20 Rose, Mary Beth, 105 performance style, 2–3 Rosseter, Philip, 25, 52, 182, 183, 193 RSC staged reading (2000), 194 A Book of Airs, 28, 34 The Spanish Tragedy and, 224 Thomas Campion and, 28, 34 title-page, 6 comments about status of theatre, Poetomachia see War of the Theatres 31–2, 203 Porter’s Hall playhouse, 170, 176, 180, 201 Inns of Court and, 35 Potter, Lois, 149 involvement with Queen’s Revels, 28–9 Prince Charles’s Men, 170, 179, 183, 201 issued patent (1615), 201 Prince Henry’s Men, 104, 170, 174, 180, 182 Lessons for Consort, 28 Privy Council The Memorable Masque (Chapman) and, 35 Blackfriars playhouse and, 15 partnership with Philip Henslowe, 23 children’s companies and, 17 patronised by Sir Thomas Monson, 34 Giles Fletcher and, 205 payee for Children of the Queen’s Revels at playhouse closures and, 17, 19 court, 192–3 Queen’s Revels plays and, 20, 30, 34, 176 pays dead rent to Children of Paul’s, 31 John Tarbuck and, 29 responsibility for Whitefriars plays, 31 Problems of Aristotle, The, 39–40 royal patent (1610) and, 28 prodigal son narrative, 58–9, 80–1, Whitefriars lease and, 23 90–2, 117–18 Rowe, Katherine, 139, 159 Pudsey, Edward, 62 Rowlands, Samuel, 65 Puttenham, George, 98, 100 Rowley, William, 147, 179 Pykman, Philip, 37, 183, 185 see also Middleton, Thomas, William Rowley and Philip Massinger Queen Anna’s Men, 104, 108, 149, 174 Roydon, Matthew, 35 employment of Queen’s Revels actors and Russell, Lucy (neé Harington), Countess of dramatists, 179, 180, 183 Bedford, 34, 92, 220 Queen Elizabeth’s Men, 150 Rutland, Countess of see Manners, Elizabeth Queen Henrietta Maria’s Men, 166, 174, 179, 181 Salisbury, Earl of see Cecil, Sir Robert Randolph, Thomas, 48 satire, 3, 19, 98–100 Rastall, Richard, 210 satyr plays, 100 Rastell, William, 27, 183 Schmidt, Michael, 93 Reade, Emanuel, 183, 211 Scornful Lady, The (Beaumont and Fletcher), 25, Children of the Queen’s Revels and, 29, 41, 52 90, 168, 176, 224 in cast lists, 185–6 Caroline revival, 166 Red Bull Company, 4 conclusion, 93–4 Reed, John, 111 cross-gender disguise in, 50–1 Reeve, Ralph, 195 prodigal son narrative and, 59, 92 Reibetanz, John, 135 Selden, John, 35, 73, 74 repertory studies, 3–5, 12, 14–15, 53–4, 164–5 Seymour, Frances (neé Howard), Countess of Return From Parnassus, The, 102 Hertford, 34

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Seymour, William, 92 Smith, Wentworth, 6 Shakespeare, William, 3, 16, 147, 153, 206, 228 social status, 66–70, 84–5 1623 Folio, 227 Sophocles, 107 2 Henry IV, 75 Sophonisba see Wonder of Women or the Tragedy All’s Well That Ends Well, 104, 155 of Sophonisba, The Cymbeline, 105, 133, 153 source study, 11, 97–8 Hamlet, 17, 108, 136, 147 Spencer, Theodore, 147–8 Eastward Ho and, 77 Spenser, Edmund, 97, 165 ‘little eyases’ passage, 13–14 The Faerie Queene, 11, 125, 128–9, 130 The Malcontent and, 107 The Shepherd’s Calendar, 125, 126 King Lear, 137, 153 Spenserian poets and, 99 Macbeth, 148, 153, 228 Spenserian poets, 36–7, 99, 125, 207 Measure for Measure, 104, 107, 155 St Paul’s School, 37 Othello, 62, 137 Stafford, Anthony, 67 Sonnets, 204 Stallybrass, Peter, 65 style of tragicomedies, 105–6 Steggle, Matthew, ix, 209 The Taming of the Shrew, 112, 114 Stone, P. W. K., 228 The Tempest, 28, 105, 153 Strachey, William, 183 Titus Andronicus, 136 Blackfriars lease and, 202 Troilus and Cressida, 104, 204 Blackfriars profits and, 213 The Winter’s Tale, 68, 105, 153 Thomas Campion and, 206 see also Shakespeare, William, and Inns of Court and, 35, 63 George Wilkins shares in Queen’s Revels and, 28 Shakespeare, William, and George Wilkins verses on Sejanus his Fall, 28, 33 Pericles, 62, 104, 105, 133 Stuart, Lady Arbella, 92, 95 Shapiro, Michael, 3, 40, 94, 198 Stuart, Sir Francis, 92 Sharpham, Edward, 21, 63–5, 183, 200 Sutton, Bartholomew, 32, 204 Cupid’s Whirligig, 224 Swanston, Eliard, 224 described by Ben Jonson, 205 Inns of Court and, 35, 63 Take That, 212 verses on Volpone ( Jonson), 32–3 Tarbuck, John, 28, 29, 183, 189 see also Fleer, The Tasso, Torquato, 102, 105 Sidney, Sir Philip, 55, 56, 73, 97, 99 Aminta, 102, 103 The Arcadia, 11 Taylor, Gary, 153 The ‘New’ Arcadia, 120, 121 Taylor, John, 51, 73–4 The ‘Old’ Arcadia, 121 Taylor, Joseph, 41, 183, 185–6 influence Taylor, Paul, 88, 93 on Cupid’s Revenge, 117, 120, 121–2, Terence, 112 123, 229 textual instability, 11–12, 136–7, 156–63 on The Isle of Gulls, 117, 118, 119 Thavies Inn, 35 The Defence of Poesie (The Apology for Poetry), Theatre playhouse, 15, 61 55, 98 Thomas, Keith, 56, 58 Silver Mine, The, 168, 176 Thorpe, Thomas, 32, 204 John Day and, 176 Tilney, Sir Edmund, Master of the Revels, John Marston and, 176, 182 146, 199 political controversy and, 21, 72 Tom Tyler and his Wife, 196 responsibility for, 29–30 Tomkins, Thomas, 204 Sinklo, John, 135 Townsend, Sir Robert, 36 Sir Giles Goosecap (Chapman), 18, 167, 176–7 tragedy, 134–63 Skipwith, Sir William, 36, 173 Bussy D’Ambois and, 156–63 Slater, Martin, 207 A Christian Turned Turk and, 149–50, 150–1 Sly, William, 135, 180 chorus in, 140, 150–1, 225 Smith, Bruce R., 99 The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Smith, John, 183, 185 Byron and, 145–7 Smith, Thomas, 66, 76 early modern definitions of, 148–9

266 Index tragedy (cont.) commissioned for Queen’s Revels, 28, 30–1, factual material and, 148–53 177, 203 generic instability and, 137, 137–9, 147–63 Queen’s Revels repertory and, 19 The Insatiate Countess and, 154–5 Virgil, 106 Philotas and, 139–42 Queen’s Revels repertory and, 19, 147, 163, Walley, Henry, 32, 204 165–6 Walsingham, Sir Thomas, 145 The Revenge of Bussy D’Ambois and, 151–3 War of the Theatres, ix, 13–14 sexuality and performance of, 49–50 Warning for Fair Women, A, 150 Sophonisba and, 142–5 Waterson, Simon, 32, 142, 228 textual instability and, 11–12, 136, 156–63 Webster, John, 6, 104, 147, 175 tragicomedy and, 137, 138–9, 153–4, 163 see also Malcontent, The A Warning for Fair Women and, 150 Westcote, Sebastian, 181 tragical comedy, 11, 97, 104, 108, 165 Westminster School, 28, 200 tragicomedy Whitefriars playhouse Children of Paul’s and, 104 capacity, 61 Cupid’s Revenge and, 120–4 characteristics of, 16, 23–4 The Faithful Shepherdess and, 96–7, Children of the King’s Revels and, 23 124–33 Children of the Queen’s Revels and, 23–4 institutional factors in development, leased by Philip Rosseter, 23 103–6 revision of Bussy D’Ambois and, 156 The Isle of Gulls and, 117, 118–20 see also audiences Italian inﬂuence on development, 100–3 Widow’s Tears, The (Chapman), 19, 118, 120, 130, King’s Men and, 104–5, 105–6, 133 132, 168, 169, 177 Law Tricks and, 117–18 court performance, 111, 132, 177, 193 John Lyly and, 106 revival of, 25, 111, 169, 175, 177 The Malcontent and, 106–11 sources, 97 pastoral and, 99–100 title-page, 44 Prince Henry’s Men and, 104 tragicomedy and, 111–17 prodigal narrative and, 117–18 use of Ovid, 114–16 Queen Anna’s Men and, 104 Wiggins, Martin, 154, 228–9 Queen’s Revels repertory and, 11, 19, 96–133, Wilkins, George 153–4, 165 The Miseries of Enforced Marriage, 104 satire and, 99–100 see also Shakespeare, William, and George satyr play and, 100 Wilkins tragedy and, 137, 138–9, 153–4, 163 Wilson, Thomas, 57–8, 66 The Widow’s Tears and, 111–17 Winwood, Ralph, 103 Worcester’s Men and, 104 Wither, George, 36, 99, 207 Trick to Catch the Old One, A (Middleton), Woman is a Weathercock, A (Field), 3, 25, 52, 168, 177 168, 178 Children of Paul’s and, 30, 177 dedicatory verses, 33 Children of the Queen’s Revels and, 30 romance and, 215 conclusion, 85, 93 The Spanish Tragedy and, 135 court performance, 189 Wonder of Women or the Tragedy of Sophonisba, Edward Kirkham and, 30, 177 The (Marston), 3, 19, 48, 137, 142–5, prodigal son narrative and, 59, 92 168, 177 social status and, 90 bed trick in, 155 Tricomi, Albert H., 33, 117 dramaturgy of, 138, 143–5 True Tragedy of Richard the Third, The, 150 factual material in tragedy and, 151 Trussell, Alvery, 37, 183, 185 The Insatiate Countess and, 154 publication, 11, 138, 142–3, 145 Underwood, John, 25, 40, 184, 185, 202 Queen’s Revels company and, 138, 147 Queen’s Revels repertory and, 134, 163 Viper and her Brood, The (Middleton), title-page, 6 168, 177 tragedy and, 142–5

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Woodford, Thomas, 28, 184, 199 Your Five Gallants (Middleton), 11, 19, 32, 87, Worcester’s Men, 104 168, 178 Wright, Nicholas comic narrative structures and, 57, 82–4, Cressida, 2 85–6, 165 Wulstan, David, 210 romantic comedy and, 87 social status and, 82–4 Yeomans, David, 184 Yorkshire Tragedy, A, 104 Zimmerman, Susan, 48