by Park Honan
Alleyn, Joan 152, 199
Allott, Robert: England's Parnassus 179
All Saints', Luddington 84
All's Well That Ends Well 174, 205, 256, 259, 305, 308 -10, 327 -8, 368
Alne, river and valley of the 62 ; Alne hills 13, 19
Anglicans, see Church of England
Anglo-Scottish union 335
Anna, Queen, see Anne, Queen Consort of England
Anne Hathaway's Cottage 75
Anne of Denmark, see Anne, Queen Consort of England
Anne, Queen Consort of England 282, 297, 299, 302 -5, 318, 331
Annesley, Cordell 337
Anne's Servants, Queen, see Worcester's Servants
Antony and Cleopatra 35, 273, 304, 331, 342 -5, 368
Apocrypha, the (biblical) 89
Archer, Simon 291
Arden(later Hewynsand Stringer), Agnes or Anne (aunt) 14
Arden(formerly Hill, nèe Webbe), Agnes 14, 31
Arden, Forest of, see Forest of Arden
Arden(later Skarlettor Scarlett), Elizabeth (aunt) 14
Arden(later Lambert) Joan (aunt) 13, 39, 135
Arden, Sir John 417
Arden(later Edkins), Katherine (aunt) 14
Arden(later Webbe), Margaret (aunt) 13, 16, 383
Arden, Mary, see Shakespeare, Mary
Arden, Robert (Mary's father) 13 - 15, 21 -2, 28, 31, 229, 247, 346
Arden(or Ardern), Thomas (Mary's grandfather) 15, 417
Arden, Walter 417
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Arden family: of Park Hall 15, 417
of Wilmcote 14, 38, 87 -8
Ardens Grafton 13
Aristophanes 405
Armin, Robert 203, 298, 300, 335 -6
Arundel, Henry Fitzalan, twelfth Earl of 332
Asbys property, Wilmcote 14, 38
Ascham, Roger 123
Ashton, Dorothy(later Lady de Hoghton) 65
Aspinall, Alexander 63, 240
Aston Cantlow 13
As You Like It 44, 75, 110, 126, 174, 205, 227 -8, 244 -8, 311, 314, 364
and Wilton House 301 -2
Atwood(alias Taylor), Thomas: tavern at Stratford-upon-Avon 391
Aubrey, John 60, 97, 110 -11, 122, 151, 225 -6, 320 -1, 324, 375, 390, 415 -16
Avon, River 3, 17, 32, 62, 353, 407
Bacon, Anthony 133
Bacon, Sir Francis 254.
Badger, George 354
Badger, Thomas 32
Baines, Richard 124.
Baker, Daniel 357
Baldon Hill controversy 76 -8
Bampfield(later Willobie), Eleanor 359
Bampfield(later Russell), Katherine 359
Banbury 5
Bankes, William 107
Barber, C. L. 423
Barber Surgeons, Hall of the 325 ; barber surgeons at births 231
Bardolph, Lord, see Phillips, William, Lord Bardolph
Barker, John 293
Barley, William 201
Barnard, Elizabeth, see Hall, Elizabeth
Barnard(or Bernard), John (later Sir John) 400
Barnard, John 395
Barnard, Lady, see Hall, Elizabeth
Barnes, Barnabe 177, 183, 185, 190
Barnes, Joseph 137
Barnfield, Richard 177
Barton (formerly Righter), Anne 247 -8, 423
Barton Henmarsh(or Barton on the Heath) 13
Bear baiting: in the country 33
in the capital 103
Bearman, Robert 231, 424
Beaumont, Francis 114, 254 Cupid's Revenge 375
Philaster 267, 375, 378
Becket, St Thomas à 5, 9
Beeston, Christopher 60, 111, 114, 122, 136
Beeston, William 60, 71, 122
Beeston family 122
Bellay, Joachim du, see Du Bellay, Joachim
Belleforest, François 280
Belott, Stephen 326 -9
Bentley, G. E. 107
Bentley, Thomas 237
Berkeley, Henry FitzHardinge Berkeley, Baron 213
Berkeley, Thomas 213
Berkeley's Servants, Lord 33
Bevington, David 423
Bible, the 49, 89, 314 see also Bishops' Bible; Geneva Bible; Great Bible; Greek New Testament; King James Version; component books
Biddle, Joan 75
Billesley 400
Billington, Michael 366
Birmingham 25
Biron, Armand de Gontaut, duc de, see Gontaut
Birthplace ( Henley Street, Stratfordupon-Avon) 12, 19 - 20, 38 -9, 85, 90 -1, 149, 293, 396, 400
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sale of 402
Bhishop, George 61
Bishops' Bible 215
Bishopton 293, 330, 386
Blackfriars gatehouse 233, 235, 323, 378 -9, 381, 396
Blackfriars theatre 266, 271, 275, 323, 346, 362 -4, 367 -9, 371 -5
Blayney, Peter W. M. 115
Blount, Edward 404
Bluett, Henry 380
Boccaccio, Giovanni: Decameron 308, 309
Bodenham, John: Belvedere 179
Bodley, John 268 -9
Bodley, Matthew 269
Bonian, Richard 286
Book of Common Prayer 49, 61
Book of Sir Thomas More, The 45 -6, 170 -2, 305
Borromeo, Carlo: The Testament of the Soul 39
Borton(or Burton), William (curate dismissed from Snitterfield vicarage) 15
Boswell, James, the younger ( 1788-1802) 417
Bott(later Harper), Isabella 237
Bott, William 26, 237 -8
Bradley, Gilbert 11, 23
Bradley, William 124
Brae, A. E. 361
Branagh, Kenneth 222
Brayne, John 101, 102
Brayne, Margaret 102, 136
Brend, Nicholas 267 and the Globe's ground-lease 268 -9
Brend, Thomas 268
Brennan, Michael 181
Bretchgirdle, Cicely 10
Bretchgirdle, John 6 - 8, 10, 17, 31, 51
Brokesmouth, Ralph, see Brooke, Ralph
Brook, Peter 336
Brooke, Arthur, Romeus and Juliet 117, 207 -8
Brooke, Henry, Lord Cobham, see Cobham, Henry Brooke, eighth Lord
Brooke(alias Brokesmouth), Ralph 229
Brooke, Robert Greville, Lord 398
Brooke, William, see Cobham, William Brooke, seventh Lord
Brooks, Baldwin 399 - 400
Brooks, Harold 435 n-41
Browne, Robert: and family in London 152 -3
Brownsword, John 31, 44, 51
Bryan, George 131, 136, 200, 281, 300
Buc, Sir George 204.
Buckholt, Harmon 362
Budd, Dr William 407
Burbage, Cuthbert 102, 199, 266 -9, 305, 363, 381
Burbage, James 101 -3, 105, 131, 136, 141, 197 -9, 266, 268, 362 -3
Burbage, Richard 110, 136, 143, 193, 197, 200 -4, 266 -8, 275 -6, 282, 298, 335 -6, 341, 363, 381, 397 the Richard III-William the Conqueror anecdote 263
role of Lear 335 -6
at Shoreditch 131, 199
Burbage family 159, 200, 251
Burghley, William Cecil, first Baron 176, 192
Burman, Margaret 76
Burman, Richard 76
Burman, Stephen 76, 238
Burmington 323
Burnell, Mary 229
Burton Dassett 428 n. 15
Bushell, Thomas 242
Byfield, Richard 240
Caesar, Gaius Julius 48, 50, 98, 272
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro 125
Callow, Simon 182
Calvin John, Institutes 61
Cambridge: intellectual life in mid-16th century 123
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Cambridge(cont.): players 154
press 137
prestige of Latin 45
Queen's College 240, 355
St John's College 153, 155
Camden, William 56
Cantebury, Prerogative Court of 398
Cardenio 375 -6
Carey, Catherine, Countess of Nottingham 199, 296
Carey, Elizabeth 213
Carey, Sir Robert 296
Carey, George, see Hunsdon, George Carey, second Lord
Carey, Henry, see Hunsdon, Henry Carey, first Lord
Carleton, Sir Dudley 299
Carlton, Bedfordshire 355
Carr, Nicholas 123
Castalio, Sebastian 49
Castiglione, Baldassare: Il Libro del Cortegiano 156
Castile, Constable of 312
Catalogus Universalis (of Frankfurt Fair) 403
Catesby, Robert 310
Catholics 6 - 7, 15, 28, 32, 38 -9, 51 -2, 63 - 70, 76, 79 - 80, 89, 140, 194, 304, 322, 339, 354, 356
Cato, Marcus Portius 48
Cawdrey, Ralph 26, 81
Cecil, Sir Robert, see Salisbury, Robert Cecil, first Earl of
Cecil, William, see Burghley, William Cecil, first Baron
Cervantes Miguel de Saavedra, Don Quixote 376
Chadderton(or Chaderton), William, Bishop of Chester 66 -7
Chamberlain's men, see Lord Chamberlain's Servants
Chambers, Sir Edmund Kerchever 15 - 16, 394, 420 -1
Chandler, William 388 -9
Chandos Portrait, The 150
Chandos's Servants, Lord 300
Chapman, George 108, 154, 185, 289, 297 The Blind Beggar of Alexandria 278 -9
Seven Books of the Iliads of Homer 287
Charing Cross 97
Charlecote 3, 35 -6
Charles I, King of England 143
Charles II, King of England 400
Chaucer, Geoffrey 45, 366 The Knight's Tale 213, 377
The Merchant's Tale 213
The Legend of Good Women 343
Troilus and Criseyde 287
Cheke, Sir John 123
Chester, Robert 289
Chettle, Henry 126, 145, 158, 162, 169, 233, 287 England's Mourning Garment 297
Kind-Harts Dreame 162
Children of the Chapel, The (later The Children of the Queen's Revels) 103, 275 -7, 279, 299, 363
Children of Paul's 103, 275 -8, 322
Cholmley, John 103
Christian IV, King of Denmark 282, 331
Christopherson, John 123
Church of England 7, 38 -9, 49 - 50, 59, 66, 79 - 80, 140, 194, 304 -5, 322 -3, 341, 354 -5
Cicero, Marcus Tullius 53 -4, 61
Cinthio, Geraldi 306, 312
Clark, Andrew 415
Clifford, Ann 234
Clifford Chambers 36
Clopton, Sir Hugh(d. 1496) 4, 236
Clopton, Sir John(d. 1719) 238
Clopton family 237, 239
Clopton, Gloucestershire 3
Clopton, Hedge 291 n., 387
Coates, Thomas 378
Cobham, Lord(d. 1417), see Oldcastle, Sir John, Lord Cobham
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Cobham, Henry Brooke, eighth Lord 222 -3
Cobham, William Brooke, seventh Lord 226
Coke, Sir Edward 292
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 313 -14.
Colet, John(d. 1519) 47
Collet, John 269
Collin, Nicholas 117
Collins, Francis 391 -2, 394, 397, 405, 406
Combe, John(d. 1614) 259, 291, 293, 385, 394
Combe, Thomas ( John Combe's nephew, d. 1657) 386, 391
Combe, William(d. 1610) 291, 293
Combe, William ( John Combe's nephew, d. 1667) 386 -9
Combe family 388
Comedy of Errors, The 87, 163 -5, 176, 205, 216, 234, 339
Concionators 147
Condell, Henry 136, 172, 203, 271, 298, 312, 325 -6, 341, 363, 380 -1, 397, 404 -5
Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of York and Lancaster, The 144
Contract and Testament of the Soul, The ( Carlo Borromeo) 39
Controversiae 53, 127
Cooke, Alexander (actor, d. 1614) 300, 305, 381
Cooke, Alexander (polemicist, d. 1632) 395
Cooke, Dr James 398 -9
Cooper, Thomas 44, 49
Cope, Sir Walter 305
Corderius, Maturinus 49
Corinthians, Book of 215
Coriolanus 126, 231, 241, 273, 345 -8
Cornwell, Edward 31
Cornwell, Margaret, see Webbe, Margaret
Corpus Christi mystery plays 34
Cory, William 301
Coryate Thomas: Odcombian Banquet 360
Cosin, Richard 82, 84
Cottam, Lawrence 63 Cottam, Thomas (Lawrence Cottam's son) 52, 63, 78, 339
Cottom, John ( Lawrence Cottam's son) 51 -2, 58 -9, 63 -4
Court, performances at 108, 151, 106, 198, 202, 213, 296, 299, 302, 305, 312, 331, 335, 369, 373 Coventry 5 - 6, 17, 25, 32, 34, 300 Cowden, Joice 311, 315 Cowley, Richard 229, 298 Crane, Ralph 371
Crompton, Richard: Mansion of Magnanimity 202
Crowl, Samuel 219
Cullmann, Leonard: Sententiae Pueriles 48
Curle, Edward 263
Curtain playhouse 102, 202, 266
Cymbeline 156, 299, 364, 367 -9, 373, 377, 409
Dale, Richard 77
Daniel, Samuel 177, 289, 304, 395 Civil Wars, The 219
Cleopatra 343
Complaint of Rosamond, The 178, 360
Delia 183 -4, 360
Philotas 267
Danter, John 131, 158
Dark Lady 164, 180, 189 -90, 230 -1, 417
Davenant(later Gore), Ellen ( John Davenant's aunt) 323
Davenant, Jane, (Jennet, wife of John Davenant) 318 -21
Davenant(later Hallam), Jane ( John Davenant's daughter) 320
Davenant, John(b. 1565) 318 -21
Davenant, John(d. c. 1599, John Davenant's son) 318
Davenant, Robert ( John Davenant's son) 319 -20, 321
Davenant, Sir William ( John Davenant's son) 192, 320
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Davenant family 320, 325, 349
Davies, John (of Hereford) 373
Davison, Peter 302
Dawes, Robert 203
Day, John 366
Debdale, Robert 64, 78, 338
Debdale family 76
Deege(or Degge), Joanna(or Joan) 17
Deege(or Degge), Thomas 17
Dekker, Thomas 275, 278 -9, 287, 304, 326 on 'melody' in dramatic style 211
on players 162 -3
Satiromastix 278
Delaram, Francis 269
De La Warr, Thomas West, third or twelfth Baron 371
Dennis, John: The Comical Gallant 223
Deptford 191
De Quincey, Thomas 16
Derby, Alice, Countess of, see Spencer, Alice, Lady Strange
Derby, Edward Stanley, third Earl of 67
Derby, Ferdinando Stanley, fifth Earl of 62, 66 -8, 91 -2, 108, 130, 139, 155, 196
Derby, Henry Stanley, fourth Earl of 62, 66, 289
Derby, Thomas Stanley, first Earl of 108
Derby, William Stanley, sixth Earl of 176, 213
Derby's Servants, Earl of 33, 96
Dering, Sir Edward 222 -3
Dessen, Alan C. 105
Dethick, Sir William, Garter Kingof-Arms 229
De Vere, Edward, see Vere, Edward de, seventeenth Earl of Oxford
Diggers of Warwickshire to all Other Diggers, The 345
Digges(later Russell), Anne 390 -1
Digges, Leonard 391, 405, 449 n.14.
Digges, Thomas 390
Dixon, Thomas 18
Domesday Book 21
Donne, John 184., 254 at Pyrford 300
Dowden, Edward 418
Downton, Thomas 199
Drake, Nathan 417
Drayton, Michael 36, 175, 177, 184, 406 in Palladis Tamia 264
and Shakespeare 164, 182
Shepherd's Garland 182
Droeshout, John 324
Droeshout, Martin (engraver) 323 -4
Drummond, William 253
Dryden, John 320, 374
Du Bellay, Joachim: Les Antiquités de Rome 183
Dudley, Ambrose, Earl of Warwick, see Warwick, Ambrose Dudley, Earl of
Dudley, Robert, see Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Dulwich Picture Gallery, south London 204
Duncan-Jones(formerly Phare), E. E. 323
Duncan-Jones, Katherine 184
Dutton, Edward (Admiral's actor) 199
Eardine, Turchillus de 21
Eccles, Mark 229
Ecclesiastes 49
Ecclesiasticus 49
Edes, Richard 155
Edkins, Katherine 14
Edkins, Thomas 14
Edmond, Mary 319
Edmondes, Piers 177
Edmond Ironside 435 n. 1
Edward III (The Reign of King Edward the third) 170
Edwards, Philip 262
Edwards, Thomas 175
Effingham, Lord Howard of, see Howard, Charles, Lord
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Howard of Effingham, Earl of Nottingham (Lord Admiral)
Egerton, Sir Thomas, Baron Ellesmere 386
Eld, George 181, 360 -1
Elizabeth, Princess of England (later Queen of Bohemia) 373
Elizabeth I, Queen of England 6 - 7, 29, 32, 34 -6, 66, 70, 106, 109, 125, 151, 192 -4, 198, 216 -18, 295 -6, 297, 299, 329 and The Merry Wives of Windsor 223
Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor, see Egerton, Sir Thomas, Baron Ellesmere
Elton, Charles I. 419
Elyot, Sir Thomas 44, 49
Empson, William 219
Erasmus, Desiderius 7, 47, 49 Cato 48
Copia 54
Essex, Robert Devercux, second Earl of 167 -8, 176, 192 -3, 217, 287, 296, 309, 342
Essex's Servants, Earl of 33 -4
Estienne, Henri: A Marvellous Discourse upon the life of Katherine de Medicis 202
Ettington, Warwickshire 3
Euripides 405
Evans, Elizabeth 311, 315
Evans, Henry 275, 363
Fabyan Robert, New Chronicles 138
Fair Youth, see Young Man
Falstaff, Sir John ( Shakespeare's character) 34, 55, 197, 202, 219 -23, 262, 373
Famous Victories of Henry V, The 125, 200
Fastolf(or Fastolfe), Sir John, see Falstaff, Sir John
Fawkes, Guy 330
Feldon, Warwickshire 3
Fenton, Master (Sir Edward Greville's agent) 77
Ficino, Marsilio 47
Field, Henry 38, 61
Field, Jacqueline, see Vautrollier (later Field), Jacqueline
Field, Richard 61, 71, 172, 174, 179, 202, 322 -3, 332
