The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 4 - E. K. Chambers

‘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].