Cofferer of Household, i. 35, 50, 115; iv. 134.
_Comedie_, iv. 357–60.
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.
D
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.
E
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.
F
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.
G
‘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.
H
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.
I
_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.
J
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.
K
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.
L
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.
M
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.
N
‘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.
O
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.
P
‘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.