INDEX IV: OF SUBJECTS

Abergavenny’s men, ii. [92].
‘Above’, iii. [91–8], [115], [133], [153].
Abridgement of plays, iii. [186], [251].
Academic plays, lists of, i. [127–31]; iv. [273–9];
staging of, i. [226];
critics of, i. [249].
Accession day, i. [18], [128], [141–8]; iii. [212], [402], [405–6], [463]; iv. [85], [375].
Accidents at performances, i. [128], [228], [256], [264], [283], [290]; ii. [135], [175], [462]; iii. [311]; iv. [208], [219], [225], [274], [292–5].
Activities, i. [123], [282], [300]; ii. [99], [101], [110], [111], [118–19], [136], [182], [261–3], [272], [292], [294], [413], [529], [550]; iv. [97], [98], [99], [101], [102], [103], [104], [105], [112], [114], [154], [156], [158], [159], [161], [162], [163], [167], [174], [205], [206], [217], [273], [279], [283].
Actors. See [Players].
Acts, iii. [124], [130], [199].
Admiral, lord, i. [67].
Admiral’s men, ii. [134–86].
Adult companies, list of, ii. [77].
‘Alcove’, iii. [82], [111], [120].
Allowances. See [Licences].
Almonry, i. [35];
boys of, ii. [9], [70].
Alphabetical figures in masks, i. [198]; iii. [378], [383].
‘Alternationist’ theory of staging, iii. [120].
Amalgamation of companies, i. [355]; ii. [17], [94], [95], [112], [113], [120], [124], [129], [132], [136], [140], [155], [192–3], [225], [244], [248], [258]; iii. [343–4].
Amanuensis to playwright, iii. [368].
Ambassadors, i. [22–5], [204]; iii. [241], [243], [246], [277], [280], [283], [376], [380], [382], [384], [385], [386], [389], [390]; iv. [63], [77], [79], [81], [84], [87], [96], [98], [100], [118], [119], [120].
Animals on stage, i. [372]; iii. [75].
Anne, warrant to players from, ii. [234].
‘Antemasque’, i. [194]; iii. [261], [281]; iv. [59].
‘Antick’ dance, iii. [385].
‘Antick’ play, iii. [502]; iv. [101], [159].
‘Anticke-maske’, i. [194]; iii. [244]; iv. [59].
Antimask, i. [193]; iii. [381], [383], [385], [386].
Apparel of players, i. [348], [352], [358], [362], [371], [372]; ii. [131], [168], [184], [215], [228], [243], [245], [248], [254], [256]; iv. [199], [204], [217], [237], [240], [241], [304].
‘Apparelling’ charges, i. [63].
Apprentices, plays by, iii. [493], [496].
Apprentices to players, i. [371]; ii. [154], [212].
Arbori, iv. [362].
‘Arbours’, iii. [55], [89].
Archery, i. [139], [290].
Armada day, i. [22].
Armoury, office of, i. [49]; iii. [399].
Arms of players, i. [350]; ii. [98], [305], [333].
‘Arras’, iii. [80], [111], [133]; iv. [367].
Arthur and Round Table show, i. [139]; iv. [102].
Articles of players, i. [352], [364–5], [379]; ii. [45], [65], [241], [245], [247], [254–5].
Arundel’s men, ii. [116].
Assaults in masks, i. [151], [154], [191].
‘Assembled’ texts of plays, iii. [185], [194].
Associations of players, i. [352]; ii. [3].
Atmospheric phenomena on stage, iii. [76], [110].
Attacks on plays. See [Ethics].
Attendants in playhouses, i. [371]; ii. [150], [187], [541].
Audit, i. [58–62]; iv. [131].
Auditorium. See [Court plays], [Playhouses].
Augmentations, court of, i. [60].
Aulaeum, iii. [11].
‘Ave, Caesar’, iv. [10].

Baboons, iii. [215], [234], [261], [369]; iv. [11], [16], [254].
Back cloths, iii. [129].
Badges of players, i. [311], [382]; ii. [81], [91].
Ballet in France, i. [176].
Banqueting houses, i. [15–17], [74], [80], [84], [90], [116], [157], [202], [216]; iii. [401].
Banquets after masks, i. [206]; iii. [235], [280], [283], [376].
Barbaturiae, i. [152], [192].
Barriers, i. [19], [140]; iii. [378], [385], [393]; iv. [57], [64], [77], [86], [87], [96], [98], [109], [114], [120], [124];
in play, i. [232];
in show, iii. [501].
Battle scenes, iii. [52], [106].
Battlements in court plays, i. [231]; iii. [44], [91].
‘Beam’ on Paul’s stage, iii. [136].
Bear-baiting, ii. [375], [449–71];
days for, i. [316]; ii. [257], [471]; iv. [307].
See [Blind Bear].
Beargardens, ii. [376–9], [449–72].
‘Beards’, ii. [105].
‘Bears’ in masks, iii. [385], [388];
in plays, iv. [35].
Bears, names of, ii. [457].
Bed Chamber, i. [14], [53].
Bed ‘thrust out’, iii. [113].
‘Bed-curtains’, iii. [86], [112].
Bel Savage playhouse, ii. [382].
Bell playhouse, ii. [381].
‘Benefits’, i. [370], [373]; ii. [172].
Berkeley’s men, ii. [103].
‘Bills’, ii. [113], [514], [547]; iii. [373], [501]; iv. [199], [205], [228], [267], [283], [289], [303].
Birthday of sovereign, i. [20].
Black stages, iii. [79].
Blackfriars, children of, ii. [53–5].
Blackfriars playhouse (1576), ii. [495–7].
Blackfriars playhouse (1596), ii. [503–15].
Blind bear, whipping of, ii. [456–8], [469].
Board and cord game, i. [123].
Boar’s Head playhouse, ii. [443–5].
Bonds of players, i. [352]; ii. [131], [224].
‘Bookholders’, ii. [540]; iv. [404].
‘Books’, as stock of players, i. [372]; ii. [65], [161], [168]; iii. [193];
used by prompter, i. [227]; ii. [540];
provided for court audience, i. [227]; ii. [72]; iv. [378];
describing masks, i. [207]; ii. [264]; iii. [278], [281], [382];
describing tilt, i. [145].
See [Original], [Play-texts].
Books hawked in playhouses, ii. [549].
‘Bouche of court’, i. [51].
‘Boxes’, ii. [531], [555]; iii. [496].
‘Boxholders’, i. [356]; ii. [187], [388], [514], [532]; iv. [228].
Boy bishop, ii. [11].
Boy companies, ii. [8–76], [88], [100–1], [119];
list of, ii. [8];
organization of, i. [378], [386]; ii. [47];
staging for, iii. [130–54].
Boys in women’s clothes, i. [248], [251], [254], [262], [362], [371]; iii. [373]; iv. [217], [249], [252], [256], [258].
Brandenburg, players at court of, ii. [288–92].
Brawls, i. [198]; iii. [239].
Bride ale, i. [123].
Bristol, children of Chamber of, ii. [68].
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, players at court of, ii. [275–7].
Bull playhouse, ii. [380].
Bull-baiting, ii. [449], [454–8].
Bullettini (tickets), iii. [496].
Burning of playhouses, ii. [419], [442].
‘By’ progresses, i. [20], [120].

Calciatura, i. [51].
Calvinism and plays, i. [245].
Camera regis, i. [54].
Camerarii, i. [36].
Camp scenes, iii. [53], [106].
Candelieri, iv. [364].
Candlemas, i. [20], [213].
‘Canopy’, ii. [557]; iii. [138], [141], [142], [148].
Capitalism and profit-sharing, i. [360–8]; ii. [248–50].
Captain of Guard, i. [47].
Cards in playhouse, ii. [549]; iv. [368].
Cart-takers, i. [117].
Casamenti (houses), iii. [5]; iv. [355], [356], [359], [360].
Case (houses), iii. [3–12].
‘Castles’, i. [11].
‘Casts’, number of players required for, i. [332]; iii. [179], [317], [437], [470], [504], [505], [517]; iv. [7], [13], [20], [21], [37], [51];
players’ names in, iii. [510].
Censorship, i. [224], [239], [240], [246], [249], [266], [271], [275], [282], [283], [288], [289], [295], [303], [318–22]; iii. [158–77], [191], [365], [367]; iv. [2], [6], [32], [35], [45], [261], [263], [264], [269], [271], [274], [288], [306].
See [Licences], [Master of Revels], [Play-texts], [Restraints], [Satire], [Sedition].
Ceremonies, Master of, i. [53].
Challenges for tilt, i. [142].
Chamber accounts, i. [58–66]; iv. [132–5], [140], [142–83] (extracts).
Chamber as organ of administration, i. [56].
Chamber officers, i. [42–7].
Chamber scenes, iii. [65], [94], [111].
Chamberers, i. [44].
Chamberlain, Great, i. [32].
Chamberlain of Household, Lord, i. [36–41], [48], [50], [66], [67], [100], [108], [205], [209], [218], [224], [226];
of Queen Anne’s household, ii. [237].
Chamberlain’s men, ii. [92–3], [134–5], [193–208].
‘Chameleon’ players, i. [340], [376], [378], [383]; ii. [3], [98]; iii. [325].
Chancellor, Lord, iv. [67].
Chancery, i. [31], [55].
Chapel, children of, ii. [23–48], [50], [52], [59], [60].
Chapel Royal, i. [14], [48]; ii. [24]; iv. [352];
plays in, ii. [35].
‘Cheques’ for tilt, iv. [64].
Children, of Blackfriars, ii. [53–5];
Chamber of Bristol, ii. [68];
Chapel, ii. [23–48], [50], [52], [59], [60];
Eton, ii. [73];
King’s Revels, ii. [64–8];
Merchant Taylors, ii. [75];
Paul’s, ii. [8–23];
Queen’s Revels, ii. [48–51], [56–61];
Revels, ii. [51];
Revels to Queen Anne (1623), iii. [474]; iv. [43];
Westminster, ii. [69–73];
Whitefriars, ii. [55];
Windsor, ii. [61–4].
Children of the Chapel Stript and Whipt, i. [278]; ii. [34].
‘Christian Terence’, i. [239]; iii. [12], [321].
Christmas, i. [19], [213]; ii. [24], [71], [74]; iv. [237].
Christmas Prince, iv. [71].
Churches, plays in, i. [336]; ii. [35];
advertised in, iv. [210].
‘Cities’ in court plays, i. [231]; iii. [44].
Civic receptions, i. [126], [131].
Claque, ii. [549].
Clerk of Market, i. [116].
Clerk of Revels and Tents, i. [73], [83], [94].
Clerk Comptroller of Revels and Tents, i. [73], [94].
‘Clerk plays’ ii. [265].
Clinton’s men, ii. [96].
‘Close walk’, iii. [56].
Closet, i. [14], [48].
‘Closet’ plays, iii. [19], [208], [236], [247], [275], [321], [330].
Clowns, ii. [152], [334].
Cockmaster, i. [53].
Cockpit at court, i. [8];
as playhouse, i. [216], [234].
Cockpit, Drury Lane, playhouse, ii. [238], [240], [302], [372]; iv. [15].
Coffer Chamber, i. [45].
Cofferer of Household, i. [35], [50], [115]; iv. [134].
Comedie, iv. [358–60].
Comedy, definitions of, i. [238], [239], [257].
Comitas, i. [250].
Commedia dell’ arte, ii. [262–3], [553]; iii. [13].
Commedia sostenuta, ii. [264]; iii. [11], [13].
Commissions, to take up boys, ii. [17], [24], [27], [31], [33], [41], [43], [50], [52], [62], [64];
for Revels office, i. [84], [89].
‘Commoning’ in mask, i. [153], [197].
Competition of companies, i. [386]; ii. [7], [367].
‘Compositions’ of players, i. [352]; ii. [174], [191], [237].
Comptroller of Household, i. [35], [55], [67].
Continent, players on, i. [342–7]; ii. [271–94].
Contracts for playhouses, ii. [436], [466];
with players, ii. [151–5].
Conversion of players abroad, ii. [290].
Copper lace, i. [208]; ii. [184]; iv. [367].
‘Copy’ for printed plays, iii. [193], [432].
Copyright, iii. [159], [172–7], [186–91], [395]; iv. [48].
Corantos, i. [198]; iii. [234], [239], [241], [278], [280], [282], [375], [378], [380], [383], [385], [390], [435]; iv. [57], [59], [115].
‘Coronation’ Day. See [Accession day].
Coronations, i. [131–4]; ii. [29]; iii. [392]; iv. [60], [69].
Corrector of press, iv. [40].
‘Correctors’ of books, iii. [165], [167], [192].
Council Chamber, i. [14].
‘Counting-house’, iii. [69].
Court plays, i. [213–19], [223–34];
statistics of, ii. [3–8];
seasons for, i. [213];
rooms for, i. [216];
rewards for, i. [217];
Revels officers at, i. [223];
lighting of, i. [225];
auditorium for, i. [226];
staging of, i. [229]; iii. [1–46].
See [Auditorium], [Battlements], [Cities], [Domus], [Front Curtains], [Maisons], [Payments], [Perspective], [Rehearsals], [Senate houses], [State], [Walls].
Courtyard scenes, iii. [61].
Cressets, ii. [543].
Cross Keys playhouse, ii. [383].
‘Cues’, ii. [541]; iv. [367].
Curia regis, i. [30], [54], [66].
Curtain playhouse, ii. [400–4].
Curtains, iii. [78], [81], [111];
on court stage, i. [231]; iii. [21], [30], [33], [35], [44], [46];
in masks, i. [181].
See [Arras], [Aulaeum], [Bed curtains], [Black], [Discoveries], [Front curtains], [Hangings], [Sinking], [Traverse], [Veil].
Cutpurses in playhouses, i. [264], [283], [304], [317]; ii. [403], [441], [447], [545];
at court, iii. [376–7], [387].

Dances, i. [6], [198];
in masks, i. [149], [195], [199];
after plays, ii. [550];
between acts, ii. [557]; iii. [130];
in nets, iv. [200].
See [Jigs.]
Dancing bears, ii. [449].
Dancing masters, i. [201]; ii. [494].
Dates, styles used for, iii. [355], [362], [390].
Daylight playing, iv. [372].
Days for playing, i. [285], [288], [290], [291], [293], [295], [301], [302], [303], [314], [316]; iv. [200], [205], [303], [307], [312], [331].
‘Dead rent’ of playhouse, ii. [22].
Debts of players, i. [351], [363], [368]; ii. [149], [157], [175], [191], [226], [245], [248].
Declared Accounts, iv. [132].
Decorum, i. [256].
Defences of plays, i. [250–3], [256–60], [262]; iv. [184], [186], [187], [188], [190], [191], [193], [194], [196], [201], [206], [226], [228], [237], [238], [243], [245], [250], [257], [259].
Denmark, players in, ii. [271], [276], [284].
‘Deputations’ of players, i. [336]; ii. [59–60].
Derby’s men, ii. [118–27].
‘Descents’, iii. [77], [108], [132].
Devices in masks, i. [190]; iii. [279];
in tilts, i. [143];
on progress, i. [122–6].
Devil on the stage, i. [256]; iii. [423].
Diagrams of stage, iii. [84].
Dicitori (players), iv. [358], [364].
‘Diet’, i. [51].
Dining in state, i. [15], [34], [46].
Disard, ii. [82].
‘Discoveries’, iii. [28], [81], [96], [111], [133].
Disguising, i. [151].
Disorders at playhouses, i. [264], [266], [283], [287], [291], [293], [297], [298], [304], [317]; ii. [100], [104], [105], [396], [441], [447]; iii. [501]; iv. [244], [274], [277], [278], [279], [280], [282], [297], [310], [318], [321], [341].
Division of companies, i. [293], [332], [341]; ii. [106], [111], [121], [129], [239]; iv. [302], [312], [343].
Domus, ii. [539]; iii. [6–8], [31].
Doors of playhouse, ii. [538];
on stage, iii. [73], [83], [100], [132]; iv. [366].
Double mask, i. [152], [154], [191].
Doubling of parts, i. [371].
Drama. See [Plays].
Dramatists. See [Playwrights].
Drums and trumpets announcing plays, ii. [160], [547]; iv. [199], [203], [219], [228], [291], [316], [320].
Duke of York’s men, ii. [241–4].
Duration of plays, iv. [195], [198], [230], [316].
Duretto, i. [198]; iii. [234]; iv. [59].
Dwarfs at court, i. [48].

Earl Marshal, i. [33].
‘Earnest’, ii. [161].
Earthquake, i. [256], [286–7]; iv. [208].
‘Easer’ to playhouse, ii. [393], [402].
Economics of stage, i. [308], [348–88].
Edge of stage, action on, iii. [29], [90], [107], [154].
Educational value of plays, i. [237–40], [249], [251]; iv. [184], [186], [187], [188], [191], [199].
Εκκύκλημα, iii. [97].
Elector Palatine’s men, ii. [190–2].
‘End’ of stage, iii. [74].
Engelische Comedien und Tragedien, ii. [285].
Enrolled Accounts, iv. [132], [134].
Entrance fees, ii. [531–4], [556]; iii. [501]; iv. [194], [219], [228], [230], [232], [240], [243], [366].
Entrances to stage, iii. [73].
Entremets, i. [152].
Entry of maskers, i. [182].
Epilogue, ii. [547], [550]; iv. [256].
Esquires of Body, i. [46], [50];
of Household, i. [42–4].
Essex’s men, ii. [102].
Ethics of the stage, i. [236–68]; iv. [184–259] (extracts), [267], [269], [273], [279], [281], [284], [291], [294], [295], [300], [303], [307], [317], [318], [321].
Eton, children of, ii. [73].
Evelyn’s men, ii. [117].
Exchequer, i. [5], [31], [54], [60], [62]; iv. [131].
Exchequer court, i. [8].
‘Excursions’, iii. [53].
Execution scenes, iii. [57], [97].
Executions near playhouse, ii. [396].
Exemplifications of patents, i. [305], [355]; ii. [192], [235], [259].
‘Extempore’ plays, ii. [553]; iii. [287], [444–5].
‘Extraordinary’ household officers, i. [46], [49].
Extravagance of plays, i. [252], [255], [263].

Fairies in shows, i. [124]; iii. [401–2]; iv. [63].
Family of Love, iii. [440], [441]; iv. [11], [16], [29].
‘Fee lists’, i. [29].
Fees of household, i. [29], [50];
of players, ii. [78], [83].
Fencing, i. [289], [305], [361]; ii. [343], [380], [382], [404], [410], [413–14], [470], [499], [500], [529]; iv. [54], [79], [121], [205], [206], [270], [277], [283], [289], [293], [294], [324], [337].
Ferrara, plays at, iii. [4], [8].
Finance of masks, i. [207–12].
Finance of stage. See [Boxholders], [Entrance fees], [Fees of players], [Gallery takings], [Gatherers], [Gratuity], [Henslowe], [Highway], [Hospitals,] [Housekeepers], [Pensions], [Poor], [Profits], [Rewards], [Sharers], [Stock], [Takings].
Fines of players, ii. [256].
Finestre (windows), iv. [360].
Fireworks, i. [123], [139]; ii. [455]; iv. [72], [73], [74], [88], [121], [122], [124], [127].
Flags on playhouses, ii. [546]; iv. [219].
Folgore (lightning), iv. [365].
Folk-survivals in masks, i. [150].
Fools, at court, i. [48], [53];
on stage, ii. [327], [339].
See [Clowns].
Foreshortening of space, iii. [25], [33], [37], [38], [41], [43], [50], [99], [117], [137], [150].
Forgeries, i. [59]; ii. [79], [108], [159], [195], [207], [211], [229], [480], [496], [508], [510], [515]; iii. [247], [252], [266–7], [274], [292], [421], [423], [425], [426], [428], [434], [459], [490], [512]; iv. [1], [68], [136–41].
Fortune playhouse, ii. [435–43].
France, players in, ii. [292–4].
Free list, i. [361], [374]; ii. [387], [406].
French players in England, iii. [19].
Front curtains, i. [231]; iii. [10], [21], [30], [44], [79].

‘Gag’, i. [322].
Galleries, of stage, ii. [534]; iii. [45], [90–8], [119];
of auditorium, ii. [514], [530–4], [555].
Gallery takings, i. [355]; ii. [131], [139], [182], [239], [245], [249], [256], [388], [393], [412].
Galliards, i. [6], [198]; iii. [234], [239], [241], [278], [280], [282], [378], [380], [383], [385], [390], [435]; iv. [56], [57], [59], [115], [217].
Garden scenes, iii. [55].
Garderoba, i. [55].
Garter, i. [20], [139]; ii. [61], [160].
Gatherers, i. [356], [371]; ii. [150], [174], [187], [389], [392], [393], [406], [445], [538].
‘Gatheryngs’, ii. [532]; iii. [504].
Gelosi, ii. [262–3].
Geneva, history of plays at, i. [245].
Gentlemen of Chapel, ii. [24–30]; iv. [150];
of Privy Chamber, i. [43], [50].
Gentlemen Ushers of Chamber, i. [44–5], [50], [108], [205], [226].
Germany, players in, i. [342–7]; ii. [272–92].
‘Gests’ of progresses, i. [108]; iv. [117], [120], [126].
‘Get-penny’, i. [373].
‘Ghost-names’, ii. [108], [312], [319]; iii. [495].
Gifts in mask, i. [150], [160], [168], [196]; iii. [278], [279], [282], [375], [435], [468];
on progress, i. [113], [116], [125].
Globe playhouse, ii. [414–34].
‘Good’ and ‘bad’ Shakespearian quartos, iii. [185].
Gowry Day, i. [21].
Grades in household, i. [42].
Gradi (tiers of seats), iv. [355], [358].
Graphic dances, i. [199].
‘Gratuity’ to players, i. [339].
Gray’s Inn, i. [214], [222]; iii. [233], [239], [320–1], [348]; iv. [56], [59], [82], [109], [127], [143], [162].
Great Chamber, i. [13], [216].
Green Cloth, board of, i. [35].
Groom Porter of Chamber, i. [45], [100].
Grooms of Chamber, i. [45], [50], [208], [311], [358];
of Privy Chamber, i. [43], [50];
of Revels, i. [93], [100];
of Stole, i. [53].
Grooms, in playhouses. See [Attendants].
Groundlings, ii. [527]; iv. [366].
Guard Chamber, i. [13].
Guilds and plays, i. [289], [296].
Gunpowder Day, i. [21]; iii. [367].

Hall officers, i. [34], [226].
‘Hall’ or ‘room’, for masks, ii. [189];
for interludes, iii. [23], [27].
Hall scenes, iii. [63], [86].
Hallowmas, i. [21]; iv. [237].
Halls of palaces, i. [13], [15], [202], [216].
Hangings, iii. [78], [111], [133], [501]; iv. [367], [370].
Harbingers, i. [46], [108].
Harlots in playhouses, i. [255], [264]; ii. [549]; iv. [203], [209], [211], [218], [223].
‘Heavens’, ii. [544–6], [555]; iii. [30], [75–7], [108], [133], [501].
‘Hell’, ii. [528]; iii. [30], [501].
Hell-mouth, i. [232]; ii. [528]; iii. [72], [90].
Henchmen, i. [45].
Henslowe’s companies, finance of, ii. [94], [121], [123], [139–43], [148], [156–7], [159–64], [174], [181–5], [189], [225–8], [245], [248–50], [254–7].
Hercules, Labours of, i. [152], [246]; ii. [90].
Hereditary household officers, i. [32].
Hertford’s men, ii. [116].
Hesse-Cassel, players at court of, ii. [277–83].
High Commission, i. [275–6]; iii. [162], [166–8], [171–2]; iv. [265], [303].
Highway rates on playhouses, i. [317]; iv. [344].
Hireling players, i. [362], [370]; ii. [184], [250]; iv. [204].
Hiring of playhouses, i. [369]; ii. [448], [516].
Hissing, ii. [549].
Hobby-horses, i. [232]; iii. [475]; iv. [91], [217].
Hock Tuesday play, i. [123].
‘Honour’ in dance, i. [198]; iii. [241].
Hope playhouse, ii. [448–71].
Horse and ape baited, ii. [454–7].
Horse, performing, ii. [383]; iii. [279].
Hospitals, subsidies by players to, iv. [272], [275].
Hosteria (inn), iv. [360].
Hôtel de Bourgogne, staging at, iii. [15–19].
Hour of performances, i. [289], [313]; ii. [543], [556]; iv. [262], [288], [300], [316].
Household, i. [30–70].
Household accounts, iv. [131].
‘Housekeepers’, i. [356], [368]; ii. [417], [425], [442], [510].
‘Houses’ for plays, i. [78], [229]; iii. [21], [42].
Howard’s men, ii. [134–86].
Humanism and the stage, i. [237], [250].
Hunsdon’s men, ii. [192–208].
Hunt in plays, i. [232].
Hunting, i. [7], [11], [13], [17], [21], [22].
‘Hut’, ii. [544–6]; iii. [78].

Imprese, i. [143], [148], [197]; iii. [213], [403]; iv. [57], [231].
Improvisation, ii. [553].
Infamia of players, i. [252], [254]; iv. [195], [199], [215], [217].
‘Ingle’, ii. [550].
Inhibition of plays. See [Restraint].
Inner Temple, i. [214], [221]; iii. [215], [233], [237], [238], [457], [514]; iv. [80], [82], [127].
‘Innovation’, restraint for, ii. [206].
Inns, plays in, i. [283], [284], [304]; ii. [356], [379–83], [527]; iv. [267], [273], [288], [340], [369].
Inter-act dances, ii. [557]; iii. [130];
music, ii. [541], [557]; iii. [125], [130].
Interior action, iii. [63], [70], [119], [133], [152].
Interlude, early use of term, i. [56].
Interlude players of Household, i. [48], [63]; ii. [77–85].
Interludes, setting of, iii. [21–7].
Intermedii, i. [152], [185]; iii. [6], [384]; iv. [356].
Inventories of Admiral’s, ii. [165].
Ireland, players in, i. [341].
Italian plays, ii. [261–5].
Italy, player in, ii. [273].

Jesuit plays, i. [323]; iv. [374], [377], [401].
Jewel House, i. [42], [57], [63].
Jigs, i. [304]; ii. [325], [342], [404], [455], [542], [551]; iii. [496]; iv. [217], [243], [340].
Jugglers, iv. [192], [217], [270].
Justices, control of plays by, i. [271], [274], [276], [279], [285], [299], [306], [337].
‘Juxtaposition’ of backgrounds, iii. [18], [21].

Keepers of Bears, ii. [450–2];
of Dogs, ii. [450–1];
of Council Chamber Door, i. [69].
King of the Bean, i. [19]; iv. [82].
King’s men, ii. [208–20].
King’s Revels (1629–37), iv. [43].
King’s Revels, children of, ii. [64–8].
Kirk of Scotland and plays, ii. [265–8].
Knight Marshal, i. [33].
Knight of Crown, i. [141]; iii. [403].
Knight of Pendragon Castle, iii. [268].
Knights of Body, i. [42–4].
Knights, satirized in plays, iii. [215], [252], [253], [255], [257], [439], [440]; iv. [37], [38].

Labels, for localities, iii. [30], [40], [122], [126], [137], [154];
for play-titles, iii. [20], [41], [126], [137], [154];
for properties, iii. [137].
Ladies at playhouses, ii. [549], [555].
Ladies of Bed Chamber, i. [44], [54];
of Drawing Chamber, i. [54];
of Presence Chamber, i. [45];
of Privy Chamber, i. [44], [54].
Lady Elizabeth’s men, ii. [246–60].
Lady Essex’s men, ii. [103].
Lady Warwick’s men, ii. [99].
Lampo, iv. [365].
Lane’s men, ii. [96].
Lavoltas, i. [198]; iii. [241], [435].
Lawsuits of players, ii. [23], [43], [57], [64], [80], [128], [131], [156], [202], [221], [236–40], [241–3], [383], [387–93], [398–400], [414], [424], [445], [515–17].
Leap-year, in plays, iii. [253], [292], [440]; iv. [21], [29].
Learned counsel, i. [69].
Leicester’s boys, ii. [88].
Leicester’s men, ii. [85–91].
Length of plays, ii. [543], [556].
Lennox’s men, ii. [241].
Lent, restraint in, i. [286], [297], [301], [315]; ii. [141–2], [159–60]; iv. [256], [278], [297], [332], [336], [342].
Liaison, iii. [200].
‘Liberties’, ii. [477–80].
Licences, for plays, by high commission, i. [275];
by local officers, i. [276];
by master of revels, i. [318]; ii. [222]; iii. [276];
by privy council, i. [275];
by secondaries of the compter, i. [275];
by sovereign, i. [275];
by special commission, i. [295], [319];
by Samuel Daniel, ii. [49];
for playhouses, by local officers, i. [276], [279], [299], [306], [337];
by master of revels, i. [288], [295];
by privy council, i. [300];
for playing companies, by lords, i. [266], [270], [274], [276], [279], [286], [294], [299], [304], [310], [335], [337], [354]; ii. [222];
by master of revels, i. [288]; ii. [221];
by privy council, i. [274], [300]; ii. [94], [123];
under signet, i. [306], [338]; ii. [260];
for printing books, by correctors, iii. [162–77], [187–92];
by high commission, iii. [162], [166–8];
by lord chamberlain, iii. [192];
by master of revels, iii. [158], [169], [191], [258];
by privy council, iii. [159–63], [168];
by sovereign, iii. [160];
by Stationers’ company, iii. [162–77], [187–92];
subject to conditions, iii. [169], [188–90].
See [Censorship], [Deputations], [Exemplifications], [Patents], [Restraints].
Liebeskampff, ii. [285].
Lighting of plays, i. [225], [227]; ii. [541], [543], [556]; iv. [372].
Lincoln’s Inn, i. [222]; iii. [260]; iv. [127].
Lincoln’s men, ii. [96].
Lion-baiting, ii. [454].
Lists for tilt, i. [140].
Livery of Household, i. [51], [539];
of players, i. [311], [313]; ii. [82], [86], [105], [107], [211], [229], [239].
Local players, i. [280], [310], [328].
Locality, indicated in dialogue, iii. [41], [127];
change of, iii. [18], [25], [34], [36], [38–9], [43], [102], [121].
See [Edge], [Foreshortening], [Juxtaposition], [Labels], [Multiple], [Split Scenes], [Unity].
Loggia, iii. [25], [32], [36], [43].
Long Parliament, plays suppressed by, i. [306], [387].
Lord Lieutenant, plays licensed by, i. [276].
Lord Mayor’s show, i. [135–8]; iii. [305], [443], [445], [448], [455], [463]; iv. [72].
Lords of Misrule, i. [19], [135]; iv. [55], [71], [80], [200].
Lords of players, i. [266], [270], [274], [276], [279], [286], [294], [299], [304], [310], [335], [337], [354]; ii. [3], [221]; iii. [180], [188]; iv. [205], [210], [230], [237], [263], [264], [268], [293], [298], [316], [319], [320], [324], [326], [328], [334], [337].
Lords’ rooms, ii. [531], [535–7]; iii. [118]; iv. [366].
Lost plays (list), iv. [398–404].
Lotteries, iv. [67], [400].
Lumi artificiali, iv. [355], [363].
Luoghi deputati, iii. [6].
Lutenists, i. [49]; ii. [31], [277].

Machines, i. [179], [184], [232], [233]; iii. [77], [97], [282], [376], [378–9], [383], [386]; iv. [370], [371].
Maids of Honour, i. [45]; iii. [514]; iv. [114], [352].
‘Maisons’, iii. [16].
Managers of companies, i. [352]; ii. [219], [238–9].
Manuscript plays (list), iv. [404–6].
Manuscripts used by players, iii. [193–7]; iv. [4], [32], [43], [45].
Maps and plans of London, ii. [353–5], [376–9], [433].
Marprelate controversy, i. [261], [294]; ii. [18], [110], [412]; iii. [450]; iv. [229–33].
Mascarade, i. [176].
‘Mask’, etymology of, i. [153].
Masks, i. [75], [76], [78], [79], [86], [100], [149–212]; iii. [500];
characters in, i. [158], [192];
inserted in plays, i. [186–90].
See [Alphabetical], [Antimask], [Assaults], [Banquets], [Books], [Commoning], [Devices], [Double Mask], [Entry], [Finance], [Folk-survivals], [Gifts,] [Hall], [Honour], [Patterns], [Perspective], [Proscenium], [Revels], [Scenes], [Spectators], [Taking out], [Torch-bearers], [Truchmen].
‘Masque’, so spelt by Jonson, i. [176].
Master of Ceremonies, i. [53];
of Horse, i. [34], [67], [100], [107], [209];
of Paris Garden, ii. [450–3];
of Posts, i. [48], [62], [69];
of Requests, i. [48], [69];
of Robes, i. [52].
Master of Revels, i. [71–105], [282], [288], [295], [299], [300], [303], [305], [318–22]; iv. [135–41], [272], [285], [293], [305], [308–9], [325], [338], [340], [342], [343];
fees of, i. [319]; ii. [184];
play-texts altered by, i. [320];
supposed players of, i. [318]; ii. [223].
See [Licences].
Masters of Chapel, ii. [23], [27];
of Eton, ii. [73];
of Merchant Taylors, ii. [75];
of Paul’s, ii. [8], [21];
of Westminster, ii. [69];
of Windsor Chapel, ii. [61].
Masters of companies, i. [379], [386]; iv. [371].
Masterships in Household, i. [34].
Matachines, iii. [280], [382]; iv. [162].
Mat-layer, i. [182], [208]; iii. [262].
May games, i. [4], [6], [20], [120], [135], [303]; iii. [268], [391]; iv. [44], [77], [94], [113], [115], [200], [231–3], [247], [311], [338].
Mayors, control of plays by. See [Justices], [Restraint].
Measures, i. [198]; iii. [234], [239], [241], [278], [280], [282], [375], [378], [383], [385], [386], [434]; iv. [56], [57], [59].
Men companies, list of, ii. [77].
Merchant Taylors, i. [296]; ii. [72], [75], [213]; iii. [394], [493]; iv. [309];
children of, ii. [75].
‘Merriments’, ii. [325]; iv. [24].
Messalina engraving, ii. [519].
Messengers of Chamber, i. [45], [69]; ii. [114]; iii. [444].
‘Mewing’, ii. [549]; iv. [369].
Middle Temple, i. [222]; iii. [260]; iv. [111], [127].
Midsummer bonfires, i. [20];
watch, i. [4], [135]; iv. [81].
Mimorum aedes, ii. [538].
Minstrels, i. [48]; iv. [337].
‘Momer’, ii. [324], [332].
Momeries, i. [152].
‘Monarke’ at Revels office, i. [87].
‘Morals’ written for printing, iii. [179].
Morascos, i. [198]; iv. [59].
Moresche, i. [195]; iii. [6]; iv. [356].
Morley’s men, ii. [113], [120], [124], [192].
Morris dance, i. [4], [124], [126], [135], [151], [156], [195], [262]; ii. [326]; iii. [362], [391], [453], [513]; iv. [77], [78], [96], [200], [217], [231], [311], [367].
Mother of the Maids, i. [45], [54]; iv. [67].
Motions, i. [281]; iii. [373]; iv. [271];
in masks, iii. [382], [387].
‘Mouth’, officers for, i. [46].
‘Multiple’ staging, iii. [18], [21], [25], [43].
Mumming, i. [150–1].
Music, ii. [541], [556].
Music house, i. [225]; ii. [542], [557]; iii. [139].
Music room, iii. [96], [120].
Music tree, ii. [557]; iii. [137].
Musicians at court, i. [48], [63];
in masks, i. [201].

‘ne’, significance of, ii. [122], [141], [145]; iii. [421].
Netherlands, players in, ii. [273–4], [285], [288], [291], [292].
New Year’s Day, i. [19], [213].
Newington Butts playhouse, ii. [404].
Night performances, i. [304]; iv. [225], [247], [268], [302], [306], [340].
Nîmes, synod of, i. [249].
Nottingham’s men, ii. [141–86].

Open country scenes, iii. [51].
Orchestra, ii. [530].
Ordinanze di figurette (plots?), iv. [364].
Original Accounts, iv. [132].
‘Originals’ of plays, iii. [193], [227].
Orizonte (vanishing-point), iv. [355–8].
Ostend, siege of, iv. [39].
Out-of-doors action, convention of, iii. [29], [42], [60], [63].
Outer Chamber, i. [42], [45].
‘Over the stage’, ii. [534].
Oxford’s boys, ii. [100–1].
Oxford’s men, ii. [99–102].

‘Pageanter’, iii. [445].
Pageants, i. [126], [132], [135], [138], [151], [160], [175], [303]; ii. [90]; iii. [20], [305], [358], [445]; iv. [60], [63], [77], [92], [118], [121], [231], [339].
Pages of Chamber, i. [45].
Palaces, i. [8–15].
Palsgrave’s men, ii. [190–2].
Papist plays, i. [328].
Pariete (scenic wall), iv. [355], [362].
Paris Garden, ii. [450–65].
Parliaments, i. [22].
‘Parts’ of plays, ii. [44]; iii. [185], [194], [329].
Passports, ii. [138], [274].
Patents, stages of, i. [272];
for Master of Revels, i. [89], [99]; iv. [285];
for playing companies, i. [281], [302], [304], [305], [385]; ii. [49], [55], [56], [67], [68], [87], [187], [190], [208], [218], [229], [230], [243], [246]; iv. [270], [272], [335–43], [344];
for playhouse, ii. [472].
Patterns for masks, i. [163], [165].
Paul’s, children of, ii. [8–23];
grammar school, ii. [9–11], [16], [21];
playhouse, ii. [16]; iii. [144].
Payments for court plays, iv. [141–83].
Pembroke’s men, ii. [128–34], [166], [199].
Pendentia (rake of stage), iv. [356].
Pensioners, i. [47], [50], [140]; iv. [352].
Pensions of players, i. [352]; ii. [191], [237].
Pent-house, ii. [544].
Pergoli (balconies), iv. [360].
Περίακτοι (turn-tables), i. [233]; iii. [3].
Perspective, in mask-settings, i. [184];
on court stage, i. [231];
on Italian stage, iii. [8–10], [13]; iv. [355];
on French stage, iii. [17];
on court stage, iii. [21], [44];
in private theatres, iii. [133], [154].
Phoenix playhouse, ii. [372], [375].
Pianta (ground-plan of stage), iv. [355].
Pippins in playhouses, iv. [203], [218].
‘Piracy’ of plays, iii. [184–92].
Pit, ii. [555]; iv. [372].
‘Place’, iii. [22], [27], [37].
‘Place behind the stage’, iii. [82].
Plagiarism, iii. [408].
Plague, history of, in London, i. [329]; iv. [345–51];
bills of, i. [292], [302], [330]; iv. [301], [336], [338], [345];
restraint of plays for, i. [267], [278], [282], [286–97], [302–4], [329]; ii. [113]; iv. [259–345], [346–51];
subsidies to King’s men in, i. [218]; ii. [210], [214]; iv. [168], [174], [176];
in progress time, i. [109], [111], [119], [121].
Platea, iii. [16], [22].
Plaudite, ii. [549]; iii. [370]; iv. [366].
Players as covenant servants, ii. [154];
as gentlemen, i. [349]; ii. [98], [298];
as Grooms of Chamber, i. [47], [52], [311]; ii. [105], [211]; iv. [169];
as rogues and vagabonds, i. [254], [270], [279], [287], [292], [294], [299], [305], [383]; iv. [224], [230], [255], [258], [270], [300], [324], [337];
in masks, i. [200]; ii. [217];
in poets’ feathers, i. [376]; iii. [326], [450];
in prison, i. [298], [339]; ii. [52], [55], [155], [323]; iii. [257], [353], [496]; iv. [305], [323];
on the road, i. [332], [376], [380], [383–4]; iii. [353]; iv. [236], [241], [257];
pressing of, i. [383]; iv. [18].
See [Apparel], [Apprentices], [Arms], [Boys], [Casts], Chameleon, [Clowns], Continent, [Contracts], [Conversion], [Copper lace], [Debts], [Doubling], [Fines], [Hireling], [Infamia], [Lawsuits], [Quality], [Ranting], [Recognisances], [Statutes,] [Supers], [Temperament], [Vizards], [Women].
Playhouses, list of, ii. [379];
succession of, ii. [355–79];
iconography of, ii. [519];
audience in, ii. [548], [555];
auditorium of, ii. [526–38], [555];
cost of, i. [368]; ii. [387], [391], [406–9], [423], [436], [441], [443];
destruction of, ii. [374];
luxury of, i. [285], [348]; ii. [358], [395], [530]; iv. [197], [200], [217], [269];
profits of, i. [355], [368]; ii. [391], [424–5], [510], [512];
seating of, ii. [530–8], [555];
shape of, ii. [524], [554];
size of, ii. [527], [554];
structure of, ii. [393], [409], [434], [439], [443], [448], [522–57];
suppression of, in city, ii. [359];
visits of foreigners to, ii. [358–69].
See [Accidents], [Attendants], [Bills], [Bookholders], [Books], [Boxes], [Boxholders], [Bullettini], [Burning], [Cards], [Contracts], [Cressets], [Cutpurses], [Disorders], [Doors], [Entrance fees], [Executions], [Flags], [Free list], [Galleries], [Gatherers], [Groundlings], [Harlots], [Hiring], [Hissing], [Hour], [Housekeepers], [Hut], [Ladies], [Licences], [Lighting], [Lords’ rooms], [Mewing], [Night], [Pent-house], [Pippins], [Pit], [Plaudite], [Private], [Public], [Refreshments], [Rooms], [Round], [Shadow], [Seats], [Signs], [Smoking], [Sounding], [Square], [Stage], [Stagekeepers], [Staging], [Stinkards], [Stools], [Taphouses], [Tiring house], [Tombs], [Top], [Trumpets], [Understanders], [Upper rooms], [Yard].
Playing companies, lists of, i. [341]; ii. [8], [77];
succession of, ii. [3–8];
organization of, i. [310–13], [352–68], [378].
See [Adult], [Amalgamation], [Articles], [Associations], [Badges], [Bonds], [Boy], [Competition], [Compositions], [Deputations], [Division], [Exemplifications], [Finance], [Housekeepers], [Licences], [Local], [Lords], [Managers], [Masters], [Patents], [Pensions], [Provincial], [Sharers], [Size], [Stock], [Syndicates].
Plays, lists of, iv. [373–406];
called ballads, iii. [504], [505];
falsity of, i. [254]; iv. [211], [217];
incongruities in, iii. [40], [88]; iv. [201], [203], [215], [226], [248];
preferred to sermons, i. [255], [258]; iv. [199], [219], [223], [304];
price of, i. [372]; ii. [160–4];
written for printing, iii. [28];
within plays, iii. [93].
See [Acts], [Calvinism], [Closet], [Defences], [Duration], [Epilogue,] [Ethics], [Extempore], [Get-penny], [Length], [Morals], [Plots,] [Politics], [Prayers], [Prologue], [Puritans], [Religious], [Revision], [Revivals], [Runs], [Satire], [Sedition], [Topical], [Vice].
Play-texts, sold to printers, iii. [184], [194];
printing of, i. [341]; ii. [114], [128]; iii. [158–200], [479].
See [Abridgement], [Assembled], [Copy], [Copyright], [Corrector], [Good and Bad], [Manuscripts], [Morals], [Originals], [Parts], [Piracy], [Press-corrections], [Publishers], [Scriveners], [Shorthand], [Stage-directions], [Star Chamber], [Stationers], [Staying], [Surreptitious].
Playwrights, collaboration of, ii. [161], [253]; iii. [368];
in prison, iii. [254], [257], [263], [270], [353], [367], [394], [419], [428], [454], [500];
relation of, to players, i. [372–86]; ii. [162], [251–3]; iii. [325], [365], [450]; iv. [236], [241], 450;
to boy companies, i. [378]; ii. [50].
See [Amanuensis], [Benefits], [Earnest].
Pléiade, plays of, iii. [13], [19].
‘Plot’ of playhouse, ii. [439].
‘Plots’ of plays, ii. [125], [136], [150], [158], [175–7]; iii. [125], [459], [496], [500]; iv. [9], [14], [47], [51], [404].
Poetomachia, i. [381]; iii. [252], [292], [293], [353], [365], [369], [428], [430]; iv. [11], [17], [21], [40], [47].
Poggiuoli (balconies), iv. [360].
Politics in plays, i. [244], [262–3], [276], [304], [321], [322–8]; ii. [51–5], [196], [204], [210], [211], [215]; iii. [254], [257], [271], [275], [286], [296], [364], [367], [415].
Pomponiani, iii. [3].
Poor rate on playhouses, i. [281], [283], [294], [300], [301], [317]; ii. [410]; iv. [304], [316], [324], [325], [327], [328].
Porter of St. John’s Gate, i. [79], [93], [100].
Porter’s Hall playhouse, ii. [472–4]; iii. [272].
Porticus, ii. [530].
Posts, Master of, i. [48], [62], [69].
Posts on stage, ii. [544–5]; iii. [27], [38], [72], [75], [108].
Prayers at end of plays, i. [245], [311]; ii. [550]; iii. [180], [466], [470], [504], [505]; iv. [3], [37], [50], [51].
Prayer-time, restraint in, i. [282], [283], [289], [292], [313]; ii. [123].
Presence Chamber, i. [14]; iv. [351–3].
Presenters, iii. [92], [128].
President of Council, i. [68].
Press-corrections, iii. [197].
Prices of seats, ii. [531–4], [536].
Prince Charles’s men, ii. [241–6].
Prince Henry’s men, ii. [186–90].
Printed plays (list), iv. [379–97].
Prison scenes, iii. [62], [66].
Private performances, i. [219], [283], [292], [340]; ii. [159]; iii. [451–3]; iv. [36], [276], [300], [302], [308].
‘Private’ playhouses, i. [380]; ii. [355], [511], [522], [536]; iii. [149]; iv. [366], [372];
arrangements of, ii. [554–6];
staging in, iii. [130–54].
‘Privileges’ for books, iii. [159].
Privy Chamber, i. [14], [42].
Privy Council, i. [66–70];
Clerks of, i. [48], [68];
register of, i. [68], [277]; iv. [259];
control of plays by, i. [69], [217], [266–8], [269–307]; iii. [367]; iv. [259–345];
of printing, iii. [159–63], [168], [172];
Privy Gallery, i. [14].
Privy Garden, i. [14].
Privy Purse, i. [62], [66].
Privy Seal, i. [54], [56], [67].
Proclamations, i. [68], [270], [273], [276], [279], [302].
Profanity in plays, i. [255], [303], [322]; iv. [338].
Profilo (section of playhouse), iv. [353–5].
Profits of players, i. [348], [368–70]; iv. [200], [219], [269], [371].
Progresses, i. [17], [21], [107–31]; ii. [25];
plays during, i. [214].
Prologue, ii. [542], [547]; iii. [72]; iv. [367].
Prompters. See [Bookholders].
Properties, i. [224], [231], [372]; ii. [168]; iii. [88], [137]; iv. [367].
Proscenio (floor of stage), iii. [4]; iv. [355], [358].
Proscenium, ii. [528], [540]; iii. [16], [31].
Proscenium arch of masks, i. [181], [234];
of plays, i. [234]; iii. [20].
Provinces, plays in, i. [304], [328], [332–41], [387]; ii. [1]; iv. [36], [273], [311], [319].
‘Provision’, offices of, i. [35].
Public halls, plays in, ii. [356].
‘Public’ playhouses, ii. [355], [511], [522], [536]; iv. [366].
Publishers, iv. [379];
play-lists of, iv. [398].
Pueri elemosinariae, ii. [9], [70].
Puppet plays. See [Motions].
Puritans and plays, i. [236–68], [294]; iv. [184–259] (extracts).
Purveyance, i. [116].

Quadri (squares), iv. [356], [358].
‘Quality’ of players, i. [309].
‘Queen’ of folk, i. [124]; iv. [78].
Queen’s men, ii. [83], [104–15], [229–40].
Queen’s Revels, children of, ii. [48–51], [56–61]; iii. [273].
Quintain, i. [123].

‘Rake’ of stage, i. [233]; iv. [356].
Ranting of players, i. [384]; ii. [447].
Rappresentazioni, iii. [6].
Recesses on stage, iii. [42], [51], [70], [81], [110].
Recognisances by players, i. [283], [300], [319]; iv. [261], [269], [275], [298], [325], [327], [333], [340].
Recreation, i. [267], [309].
Red Bull playhouse, ii. [445–8].
Red Lion playhouse, ii. [379].
Rederijker, iii. [102].
Refreshments, ii. [548].
Regensburg theatre, iii. [78].
Rehearsals, i. [87], [223]; iv. [149], [152], [157], [252], [286], [372].
Religious subjects in plays, i. [239–45], [255], [266], [323], [325]; ii. [265]; iv. [185], [188], [196], [198], [222], [369].
Remembrancia of City, i. [277], [286]; iv. [259].
‘Removes’, i. [17], [20].
Renghiere (balconies), iv. [360].
‘Repertory’ theatres, ii. [148];
output of, ii. [162];
Requests, Masters of, i. [48], [69].
Restraint of plays, i. [265], [269–307]; iv. [259–345].
area of, i. [278], [282], [331]; ii. [94], [123].
See [Innovation], [Lent], [Plague], [Prayer-time], [Royal deaths,] [Sedition], [Sunday].
Retainers, i. [271], [279]; ii. [86]; iv. [268], [293].
Revels, children of, ii. [51].
Revels companies in provinces, ii. [53], [59–61], [67].
‘Revels’ in mask, i. [198]; iii. [386].
Revels Office, i. [71–105], [116], [223];
airings in, i. [78], [101];
allowances to officers of, i. [76], [79], [90], [94], [101];
arms and seal of, i. [104];
commission for, i. [84], [89], [99];
finance and accounts of, i. [71–105]; iv. [135–41], [142–83] (extracts);
functions of, at court plays, i. [223];
housing of, i. [74], [75], [81], [83], [87], [89], [95], [101]; ii. [477], [491–3], [516];
inventories of, i. [73], [74], [76], [89], [158]; iv. [136];
ledgers of, i. [74], [82].
See [Clerk], [Clerk Comptroller], [Groom], [Master], [Yeoman].
Revision of plays, i. [373], [384]; ii. [130], [170], [172], [179]; iii. [396], [423], [431], [433], [440].
Revivals of plays, i. [373]; ii. [43], [211]; iii. [104], [364].
Rewards for plays, i. [217], [369]; ii. [78–9].
Rich’s men, ii. [91].
‘Riding’ charges, i. [63].
Rings, ii. [355], [449], [525].
‘Rivers’, iii. [51], [58], [90], [107].
Robes, Master of, i. [52];
Mistress of, i. [44];
Rome, plays at, iii. [3], [9].
‘Room’. See ‘[Hall]’.
‘Rooms’, ii. [530].
Roscius, i. [376–7]; ii. [297–8], [329], [331]; iii. [223], [353]; iv. [195], [204], [228], [230], [236], [239].
Rose playhouse, ii. [405–10].
Round playhouses, ii. [355], [434], [524]; iv. [372].
Roxana engraving, ii. [519].
Royal deaths, restraint for, i. [302], [304], [329], [339]; iv. [335], [341].
Ruffiana (courtesan), iii. [32]; iv. [359].
Running at the ring, iii. [243], [279]; iv. [74], [80], [121], [125], [127].
‘Runs’ of plays, ii. [148].
Rushes on stage, ii. [529]; iv. [366–8].

St. Elizabeth’s Day, i. [18].
St. George’s Day, i. [20]; iii. [367]; iv. [71].
St. Peter’s watch, iv. [81].
Salisbury Court playhouse, ii. [373], [375], [517].
Satire in plays, i. [258], [261–3], [268–9], [322–8]; iv. [194], [238], [253], [256], [368];
of bishops, i. [294];
citizens, i. [264]; iv. [239];
courtiers, iii. [310];
French, i. [323]; ii. [53]; iii. [257], [426];
Henri IV, ii. [53];
James, i. [325–8]; ii. [53];
humours, i. [263];
lawyers, iii. [365], [475];
magistrates, iv. [254].
persons of honour, i. [321], [324], [327]; ii. [343]; iii. [455], [496]; iv. [332];
Poles, iii. [455];
Puritans, i. [261], [262], [294]; iii. [372], [476]; iv. [229–33], [245], [249];
Scotch, i. [323], [326]; ii. [51]; iii. [254], [286], [354], [432];
soldiers, iii. [365];
sovereigns, i. [327–8], [493]; iv. [247], [254];
Spanish, i. [323];
Swedish, i. [324];
usurers, iii. [286], [288]; iv. [239];
women, iii. [417]; &c., &c.
See [Marprelate], [Sedition].
Satyre, iv. [362].
Saxony, players at court of, ii. [288–9].
Scale (steps), iv. [358].
Scena, ii. [539]; iii. [3].
Scenae trigemina corona, i. [251].
Scenarie, iv. [404].
Scene, iv. [353–65].
Scenes, as background for stage, i. [233]; iii. [12], [129]; iv. [366], [370], [371], [372].
for masks, i. [155], [170–84];
as divisions of play, iii. [50], [125], [131], [199];
types of, iii. [50–68], [106].
See [Perspective].
Scenic presentation. See [Staging].
Schoolboy plays, i. [378]; ii. [11], [69–76]; iii. [211].
Scotland, players in, i. [341]; ii. [78], [265–70].
Scriveners’ copies of plays, iii. [193].
Seasons for plays, i. [329].
Seats on stage, ii. [534–8]; iv. [366–8].
Secondaries of the Compter, plays licensed by, i. [275].
Secretaries of State, i. [48], [56], [67], [68].
Secretarii, i. [55], [56].
Sedie (seats), iv. [355], [358].
Sedilia, ii. [530].
Sedition in plays, i. [264], [266], [271], [273], [275], [283], [295], [299]; iii. [453–5]; iv. [322].
See [Politics], [Restraints], [Satire], [Theology].
‘Senate houses’, i. [231]; iii. [44], [58], [95].
Serjeants, i. [34], [42];
at Arms, i. [47];
Servitors in playhouses. See [Attendants].
Setting of plays. See [Staging].
Sewers for Chamber, i. [46].
‘Shadow’, ii. [544].
Sharers, i. [352–8], [369]; iv. [369].
Sharers Papers of 1635, i. [357]; ii. [59], [384], [417], [425], [508–10].
Shepherds, king and queen of, iv. [66].
Ship-board scenes, iii. [116].
Shoes, in play, ii. [326], [365]; iii. [362].
Shops on stage, iii. [59], [110].
Shorthand, plays reported by, iii. [185], [343–4].
Shrovetide, i. [20], [213]; iv. [237].
Shrove-Tuesday riots, i. [265]; ii. [240].
‘Side’ of stage, iii. [74].
Siege scenes, iii. [38], [54], [96].
Signet, Clerks of, i. [48], [57].
Signet licences for players, i. [306], [338]; ii. [260].
Signs of theatres, ii. [362], [400], [424].
Silver mine, satire of, in play, ii. [53].
Sinking curtains, iii. [9], [30].
Size of companies, i. [354].
Small seals, i. [56].
Smoking in playhouse, ii. [548]; iv. [367].
‘Solace’ of queen, i. [267], [292].
‘Soundings’ in playhouse, ii. [542]; iii. [72]; iv. [368].
Sovereign, plays licensed by, i. [275].
Spain, players in, ii. [292].
Spanish landings in Cornwall, iv. [251].
Spectators, rôle of, in mask, i. [150], [153], [155], [197].
‘Split’ scenes, iii. [86].
Square playhouse, ii. [439], [524].
Stage, structure of, ii. [528].
Stage-directions, nature of, iii. [180], [193–8];
players named in, iii. [196], [227], [271], [285], [295], [330]; iv. [32], [43], [45].
Stagekeepers, ii. [109], [541]; iv. [38].
Staging, in Italy, iii. [2–12]; iv. [353–65];
in France, iii. [12–19];
at court, iii. [19–46];
in 16th century, iii. [47–102];
in 17th century, iii. [103–30];
in private theatres, iii. [130–54];
change of locality the problem of, iii. [18], [99], [121–30].
See [Above], [Academic], [Alcove], [Alternationist], [Animals], [Arbours], [Arras], [Atmospheric], [Back cloths], [Beam], [Bears], [Bed], [Black], [Canopy], [Castles], [Close walk], [Counting house], [Curtains], [Descents], [Diagrams], [Discoveries], [Domus], [Doors], [Edge], [Εκκύκλημα], [End], [Entrance], [Excursions], [Foreshortening], [Hangings], [Heavens], [Hell], [Houses], [Hut], [Interior action], [Interludes], [Juxtaposition], [Locality], [Machines], [Multiple], [Out-of-doors], [Over], [Perspective], [Place], [Posts], [Properties], [Rake], [Recesses], [Rivers], [Rushes], [Scenes], [Senate houses], Shops, [Side], [Stairs], [Standardization], [Studies], [Tents], [Throne], [Thunder], [Titles], [Traps], [Traverse], Trees, Upper stage, [Walls], [Windows], [Wings].
‘Stairs’, iii. [95].
‘Standardization of effects’, iii. [2], [50], [131].
‘Standing’ houses, i. [8], [115];
offices, i. [49], [71], [102];
Stanley’s boys, ii. [119].
Star Chamber, i. [67], [69], [273], [300], [328]; ii. [43]; iv. [327];
orders of, on printing, iii. [162], [166], [172].
‘State’ for sovereign, i. [203], [226].
Stationers, ethics of, iii. [186].
Stationers’ Company, iii. [160–77], [186–91], [505]; iv. [265], [303].
Stationers’ Register, iii. [158], [163–77], [188–91], [422]; iv. [379], [398].
Statistics of plays, iii. [22], [49], [105], [177], [181–3].
Statutes concerning players, i. [270], [276], [279], [299], [303], [304]; iv. [260], [263], [269], [324], [336], [338].
‘Staying’ of printing, ii. [172], [204]; iii. [183–91], [292], [359–60].
Steward of Household, Lord, i. [35], [55], [67].
‘Stinkards’, ii. [533]; iv. [366].
Stock of playing companies, i. [352], [372]; ii. [55], [137], [230], [243].
Stole, Groom of, i. [53].
‘Stools’, ii. [535–7]; iv. [366–8].
Strade (gangways), iv. [355].
Strange’s men, ii. [118–24].
Street scenes, iii. [56].
Strenae, i. [5], [19].
‘Strolling’ players, i. [332].
‘Studies’, iii. [67], [110].
Suburbs convenient for players, i. [278], [284], [298], [300]; ii. [370].
Sunday performances, i. [255], [283], [285], [287–90], [293–6], [301], [302], [314]; iv. [195], [200], [201], [202], [203], [206], [210], [221], [225], [249], [262], [267], [268], [275], [279], [282], [285], [288], [292], [295], [296], [297], [302], [305], [307], [310], [329], [335].
‘Supers’, i. [371].
‘Surreptitious’ prints of plays, iii. [184–92].
Surveyors, court of, i. [58].
Sussex’s men, ii. [92–6].
Swan playhouse, ii. [411–14], [521] (drawing), [526–31], [538–9], [544–7].
Sweden, players in, ii. [274].
Sword dance, i. [171]; iii. [280]; iv. [117].
Syndicates for companies, i. [379]; ii. [43], [45], [56], [65].

‘Taking out’ in mask, i. [150], [153], [155], [197].
Takings of playhouses, i. [370]; ii. [122], [148].
Taphouses at playhouses, i. [369]; ii. [406], [424], [442].
Tectum, ii. [531].
Telari (scenic cloths), iv. [358].
Temperament of players, i. [351].
Tenancy, joint and in common, ii. [417].
Tents, office of, i. [49], [72], [74], [76], [82], [94], [102]; ii. [491].
Tents on stage, iii. [53], [86], [106].
Terence engravings, iii. [6], [15].
Théâtre en demi-rond, iii. [14].
Theatre playhouse, ii. [383–400].
Théâtre tout en pastoralle, iii. [17], [34], [35], [44], [48], [52].
Theatres. See [Playhouses].
Theatri, iv. [353–65].
Themes, ii. [191], [300], [343–4], [349], [553]; iv. [244], [246].
Theocracy at Geneva, i. [245].
Theology in plays, i. [242], [271], [273], [294]; ii. [328]; iv. [254].
Threshold scenes, iii. [59].
‘Throne’, iii. [64], [72], [77], [87], [89], [108]; iv. [248].
Thunder on stage, iii. [76], [110]; iv. [248].
Thursdays kept for bear-baiting, i. [316].
Tilts, i. [18], [19], [20], [21], [139–48]; iii. [212–13], [245], [268–9], [316], [393], [399], [402–5], [463], [509]; iv. [63].
See [Books], [Challenges], [Cheques], [Devices], [Lists], [Tourney].
Tiltyards, i. [141].
‘Tiph, toph’, ii. [293].
Tire-men, i. [371]; ii. [149], [226], [541]; iii. [83]; iv. [404].
Tire-women, i. [163]; iii. [387].
Tiring house, i. [100], [225], [229], [231]; ii. [392], [538], [555]; iii. [72], [82]; iv. [248], [370].
Titles. See [Labels].
‘Tombs’, iii. [59], [110].
‘Top’, iii. [98].
Topical allusions in plays, i. [322–8].
See [Satire], [Sedition].
Torch-bearers in mask, i. [195].
Torze (torches), iv. [364].
Touching for evil, i. [123].
Tourney, i. [140].
Tragedie, iv. [360].
Tragedy, definitions of, i. [240], [257].
Traps, ii. [528]; iii. [42], [89], [96], [107], [133].
‘Traverse’, i. [181]; iii. [25], [78], [234], [279], [282], [434]; iv. [59].
Treason, executions for, iii. [286], [433], [440], [491].
Treasurer, Lord High, i. [54], [67];
of Chamber, i. [54–67], [217]; iv. [132–5];
of Household, i. [35], [37], [55], [67].
Trees on stage, iii. [52], [89], [107].
Trionfi, i. [152].
Truchmen, i. [163], [165], [166], [190].
Trumpets in playhouse, iv. [367].
Tumblers. See [Activities].
Tuono (thunder), iv. [365].
Turkish rope-dancer, ii. [111], [261], [550].
Twelfth Night, i. [19], [205], [213]; iii. [281].

Unchastity in plays, i. [252], [255], [258], [282–3], [304].
‘Understanders’, ii. [527].
Unity of place, iii. [18], [22], [29], [34], [36], [40], [121], [134].
See [Locality].
Universities, public plays within, ii. [100], [113], [213]; iii. [469];
criticism of plays at, i. [249].
University receptions, i. [127].
Unlocated scenes, iii. [50].
Upper rooms, ii. [387].
Upper stage, iii. [120], [153].
Ursarii, ii. [449].

Vaux’s men, ii. [103].
‘Veil’, iii. [80].
Verge, iii. [387].
Versurae (wings), iii. [3], [11], [100].
Vexillatores, ii. [547].
Viae ad forum, iii. [4], [100].
‘Vice’, iii. [317], [412], [437], [466], [504], [505]; iv. [3], [6], [7], [9], [229], [233].
Vice-Chamberlain of household, i. [41], [67].
Vitruvius on stage, iii. [3].
Vizards, i. [151], [196], [371]; iii. [241], [376], [387]; iv. [38].
‘Void’, i. [152].
Vuota di dicitori (tiring room?), iv. [364].

Wager paid in play, iv. [181].
Wager plays, ii. [297], [468], [554].
‘Wages’ at court, i. [51].
Wagner Book, iii. [71].
‘Walls’, ii. [36], [39], [44]; iii. [54], [72], [96], [106].
Wardrobe as organ of administration, i. [55].
Wardrobe, Great, i. [72], [80], [90], [94], [211].
Wardrobe officers, i. [42], [56].
Warwick’s men, ii. [97–9].
Watching Chamber, i. [13].
Water triumphs, i. [123], [134], [138]; iv. [72], [73], [74], [103], [124], [127].
Watermen, i. [63], [296]; ii. [121], [370]; iv. [312], [368].
Waymaker, i. [108], [116].
Weddings at court, iii. [233], [239], [241], [245], [260], [276], [351], [378], [381], [388], [393]; iv. [82], [83], [86], [87], [94], [99], [109], [112], [113], [119], [120], [122], [123], [127], [128], [129].
Welsh play, iii. [457].
Westminster, children of, ii. [69–73].
White staves, i. [39], [205], [226].
Whitefriars, children of, ii. [55].
Whitefriars playhouse, ii. [515–17].
Wild men. See [Woodwoses].
‘Windows’, iii. [42], [58], [95], [98], [116], [119], [153].
Windsor chapel, children of, ii. [61–4].
‘Wings’, iii. [100].
Withdrawing Chamber, i. [14].
Wits engraving, ii. [519].
Women on stage, i. [371]; iii. [296].
Woodcuts in plays, iii. [210], [322], [328]; iv. [20].
‘Woodwoses’, i. [123–4], [135], [194]; iv. [65], [66].
Worcester’s men, ii. [220–9].
Works, office of, i. [49], [80], [90], [211], [226].

‘Yard’, ii. [527].
Yeomen of Chamber, i. [44];
of Crown, i. [47];
of Guard, i. [47], [63];
of Revels, i. [72], [94].
Yeomen Ushers of Chamber, i. [45], [47], [69]; iv. [353].
‘Young minstrels’, ii. [13], [31–2].

Zoglia (lintle), iii. [21].

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