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Note: Locators in italics indicate figures.
1 Edward IV (attributed Heywood), 21,
42–3, 44–6, 50, 55, 57
1 Henry IV (Shakespeare), 21, 40–41, 52,
56, 57, 72, 188, 204
1 Jeronimo, with the Wars of Portugal
(anonymous), 64, 65. See also The
First Part of Jeronimo
1 Sir John Oldcastle (Drayton, Hathway,
Munday and Wilson), 21, 56,
57–60
2 Edward IV (attributed Heywood), 45
2 Henry IV (Shakespeare), 21, 41, 45
2 Sir John Oldcastle (lost), 56
3 Henry VI (Shakespeare), 45, 47
Achilles, 1, 145
actors, 8. See also specific actors/players
Adelphoe (Terence), 160
Admiral’s Men, 7, 8, 30, 37–8, 55, 65, 76,
172–3
adult companies, 8–9, 21, 64–5, 79, 94–5,
97, 99, 163, 172, 203. See also
specific companies
advice-books, 145, 147, 151, 158, 178
in marston’s The Fawn, 159
Aegiale (Blind Beggar of Alexandria), 38
Agincourt, Battle of, 46, 60, 106, 109, 197
Albott, Robert, 149
Albrecht, Louis, 124, 126
Alfrida (Knack to Know a Knave), 172
Alice (Bartholomew Fair), 210
Alleyn, Edward, 37–8, 39, 197, 198
almeida Theatre london, 107
al Raschid, haroun, The Arabian Nights, 1
Altofronto/‘Malevole’, 76–7, 91, 93–6, 99,
139, 157–8, 188
Amadine (Mucedorus), 37
Amarillis (Il pastor fido), 86, 88, 90
Aminta (Tasso), 10, 90
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Amphitrvo (Amphitryon) (Plautus), 12
Ample (Wits), 217
Andrugio (Antonio and Mellida), 71, 77
Angelo (Chapman’s May Day), 195–6, 197
Angelo (Shakespeare’s Measure for
Measure), 103, 109, 110, 111, 112,
115–16, 117, 134, 136, 196
angelology, 154
Anne of Denmark, Queen 63, 67, 109, 162,
164, 165, 174, 180, 182, 187
Anne Boleyn (Brenton), 120
anti-Catholic resentment, 190–193
anti-court analysis, 9, 18–19, 21, 94, 95–6,
99–100, 140, 187
Antifront/‘Fleer’, 186, 188–90, 192
anti-Semitism, 87, 114
Antonio, 71–2, 84–5, 90, 193–4, 206
Antonio plays (Marston), 71–4, 76
Antonio and Mellida (Marston), 71–2,
89–90
Antonio’s Revenge (Marston), 71, 72,
77, 84–5, 99, 206
Apollo, 1
The Arabian Nights (al Raschid), 1
Archibald, Tom (Wasp), 218
ariosto
La cassaria, 10
I suppositi, 10
aristotle, Poetics, 12
Armin, Robert, 63
Arrigo (Woman Hater), 179, 180
‘Arthur-a-Bradley’ folksong, 204–13
Arthurian romance, 27
‘Arthur O’Bradley O’, 206
Aspero (Humour Out of Breath), 193–4,
196, 197
Aspley, William, 62, 81
Astrophil and Stella (Sidney), 167
As You Like It (Shakespeare), 13–14, 82,
83, 84, 87, 98, 188
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Blackfriars Playhouse (Children of the Chapel/
Aurelia (Malcontent), 84–5, 91
Queen’s Revels), 63, 64, 65–6, 67, 71,
author-centrism, 8, 15
74, 82, 84, 142, 159, 162–3, 165–6,
Autobiography (D’Ewes), 117–19, 127
174, 179, 180–181, 186–7, 188, 191,
193, 195, 201–4, 216
Bacon, Friar, 171–4, 173
Blackfriars Playhouse (King’s Men), 216,
Bacon, Roger, De nullitate magiae, 30
218–19
Baldwin, William, A Mirror for
Black Will (When You See Me), 58–60
Magistrates, 213
Blanch (Fair Em), 36, 108, 109, 110
ballads, 25, 27–8, 32–5, 39, 42–3, 46, 56, The Blind Beggar of Alexandria
205, 206
(Chapman), 37–9
Bancroft, Richard, 75, 80–81
Blount, Charles, Lord Mountjoy, 48
Barabas (Jew of Malta), 39
Blunt (1 Henry IV), 52, 72
Barclay, Alexander, 169, 170
Boas, Frederick S., 14
Barksted, William, The Insatiate
‘Bonfire Night’, 183, 184
Countess, 194
Borgia (Turk), 194
Barroll, Leeds, 69
Bosworth Field, Battle of, 47
Barry, lording, The Family of Love Bourbon, Duke of (Henry V), 48
(attributed), 81
Bowers, Fredson, 162
Bartholomew Fair (Jonson), 23, 198–213, 216 Brant, Sebastian, 170, 171
criticism of, 201–2
The Ship of Fooles (Das Narrenschiff/
disguises in, 201, 204–13, 207
Stultifera Navis), 167, 168, 169
editions of, 201–2
Brenton, howard, Anne Boleyn, 120
intertextuality in, 201–2
Bridewell Prison’s Black Room, 209–11
parody in, 200, 201, 213
Brook, Nathaniel, 196
performances of, 201, 202, 207 Brooke, William, tenth Baron Cobham, 56
publication of, 201–2
Brooks, J. Bradbury, 146, 154–5
readings of, 201–2
Brown, P. Hume, 124
satire in, 199, 204, 206–13
Bruster, Douglas, 8
Whig interpretation of, 201
Buc, George, 100
Basilikon Doron (‘Royal Gift’) (James I), Bullen, Anne (Henry VIII), 198
6, 116, 127, 129, 147, 151, 164 Burbage, Richard, 63, 201–4
Bate, Jonathan, 48
Bates, Thomas, 184
Butterfield, Herbert, 117
Bawcutt, N.W., 112
Callow, Simon, 1
Beal, Peter, 198
Camilla (Euphues), 87
The Bear Garden, 202
Captain (Phoenix), 150, 152
Beaumont, Francis, 181, 185
Caputi, Anthony, 15
Philaster, 195
Carlell, lodowick, The Deserving
The Woman Hater, 23, 179–80, 185.
Favourite, 217
See also Fletcher, John
Carleton, Dudley, 212
Bellafront (2 Honest Whore), 188
Caroline stage, 4, 215–16, 218–19
Bentley, Gerald Eades, 3–4
La cassaria (Ariosto), 10
Bianca (Malcontent), 90
Castelvetro, Iacopo, 67, 90
Bilioso (Malcontent), 95–6, 98, 100 Castiglione, The Courtyer (Il libro del
Billington, Michael, 158, 159
cortegiano), 145, 159
‘Bishops’ Ban’ (1599), 79, 80, 82. See also Castiza (Phoenix), 150–151, 152, 156, 175
‘Order of Conflagration’
Castiza (Revenger’s Tragedy), 156
Blacke Book (Middleton), 37
Catesby, Robert, 191, 199
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Catholicism, 154, 182, 200, 202
Christmas Revels (court), 47, 75
anti-Catholic resentment, 190–193 ‘Chronicle History’ drama, 20–21, 25–7,
Sacraments, 191–2
28, 39, 40–56, 60
tragedy and, 13
Church, satirical references to Anglican, 81, 83
A Cat May Look Upon a King (Weldon), 121 Cinquecento, Italian, 10, 90
Cecil, Robert, 200
city comedy, 14, 93, 136, 143, 186
Celso (Malcontent), 94, 96
Clare, Janet, 40, 80
censorship, 79–84, 100, 142, 180–181, 192 Clarendon, Earl of, 121–2, 130, 132
Cervantes, miguel de, Novelas ejemplares (La Clarinda (Deserving Favourite), 217
Señora Cornelia) (Cervantes), 216 Clarke, Helen A., 124
Chalmers, George, 122–3, 124, 126, 133 classical antiquity, disguised ruler tradition
Chamber Accounts, 203
in, 1, 5
Chamberlain, John, 212
Claudio (Measure), 217, 221
Chamberlain’s Men, 8. See also king’s men Clayton, Francis, 128
Chambers, E.K., 3–4, 65, 66, 108, 142, Cleanthes (Blind Beggar of Alexandria),
162–3, 174, 180, 187
38, 39, 87, 114
The Chances (Fletcher), 216–17
Clorinda (Robin Hood’s Birth), 205
Chapman, george
Cohen, Stephen A., 9
The Blind Beggar of Alexandria, Cokes, Bartholomew (Bartholomew Fair),
37–9, 198
202–3
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of comedy, 12. See also comical histories;
Charles, Duke of Byron, 181
tragicomedy
Eastward Ho!, 181, 186–7, 188
city comedy, 14, 93, 136, 143, 186
May Day, 195–6, 197
commedia dell’arte, 90
as putative author of The Telltale, 197–8 Greek New Comedy, 12, 159
Charles I, King, 218, 221
Italian vernacular comedy, 10
Charles II, King, 108
Roman New Comedy, 159
Chester, Robert, Love’s Martyr, 145 The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare), 105
Chettle, henry, The Death of Robert Earl comical histories, 20–22, 25–7, 28, 37–46,
of Huntingdon, 28
50, 56, 60, 74, 154, 159, 171, 174,
Children of Paul’s, 8, 71, 72, 76, 90,
198, 218
140–143, 153, 162–3, 165, 179–81, Measure for Measure and, 106–11
181, 184–5, 186. See also paul’s Robin Hood in, 33–6
playhouse
commedia dell’arte, 90
Children of the Chapel, 8, 63, 66, 159. community fairs, 28
See also Children of the Queen’s Compendio della poesia tragicomica
Revels; Blackfriars Playhouse
(Guarini), 12–13
Children of the King’s Revels, 174, 218. Condell, Henry, 63, 64
See also Whitefriars playhouse The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles,
Children of the Queen’s Revels, 8, 62–7,
Duke of Byron (Chapman), 181
70–71, 74, 82, 84, 142, 159, 162–3, Constantia (Chances), 216
165–6, 174, 176, 177, 180–181, Cooke, Edward, 192
186–7, 188, 191, 193–5, 201–203. Corambis, 14. See also polonius
See also Children of the Chapel; Cordella (Leir), 36–7
Blackfriars playhouse
Coriolanus (Shakespeare), 124
children’s companies, 22–3, 60, 62–4, 71, Corisca (Il pastor), 90, 92
76, 91, 137, 162–3, 165, 172, 174, Cornwallis, William, 55
181, 186, 193, 195, 202. See also costumes, 35, 37–8, 38, 40, 73, 113, 198,
specific companies
221. See also disguise
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in 1 Edward IV, 42–3
The Isle of Gulls, 181, 186, 187
in Chapman’s May Day, 196
Law Tricks, 162, 174–8
elizabethan, 17
The Death of Robert Earl of Huntingdon
in greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar
(Chettle and Munday), 28
Bungay, 31–3
De Constantia (‘On Constancy’) (Lipsius), 74
in Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair, 204–6, The Defence of Poesie (Sidney), 13
207–8, 207
Dekker, Thomas, 131
Robin Hood attire, 121
Newes from Graues-end, 167
in shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, Northward Ho!, 188
113, 114
The Patient Man and the Honest
in The Telltale, 197
Whore, 176, 188
in The Wasp, 219–20, 221
Satiromastix, 75
‘courtly apology’ theory, 122–3
The Second Part of the Honest Whore,
court jesters, 73. See also fools
176, 136, 188
court performances. See performances, 165 The Shoemaker’s Holiday, 43
The Courtyer (Il libro del cortegiano)
Troia-Noua Triumphans (London
(Castiglione), 145, 159
Triumphing), 212
Crane, Ralph, 105
Westward Ho!, 176, 188
criticism, 14, 16–20, 61
Demarch, Earl (Fair Em), 109
alternative approaches, 8–9, 20–23 Dench, Judi, 1
authorship and, 8, 15
De nullitate magiae (Bacon), 30
comparative focus, 8–9
The Deserving Favourite (Carlell), 217
new historicist, 5, 6, 9, 14–20, 25, Devereux, Robert, second earl of essex,
126–7, 133, 144, 215
48, 181
occasionalist, 20, 61, 105, 111–30, The Devil Is An Ass (Jonson), 201–2
135–6, 140–141
D’Ewes, Simonds, 131
repertory studies, 8
Autobiography, 117–19, 127
Shakespeare, 6, 18, 50
Diary (Henslowe), 69, 70, 75–6, 173
Critz, John the Elder, King James I of Diary (Pepys), 205
England, 114
Digby, Everard, 184
The Cruel Brother (Davenant), 217–18 Dirot, Duke (Fair Em) 109
The Curtain playhouse, 8
disguise, 37–8, 51, 174–8, 196. See
Curtis, Mark H., 125–6
also costumes; disguised ruler;
Cuthbert the Coneycatcher (Knack to Know disguised ruler tradition; specific
a Knave), 157
plays
Cymbeline (Shakespeare), 87
bucolic, 198
Cynthia’s Revels (Jonson), 203
cross-gender, 1, 195
dialectics of, 147–53
Damon and Pythias (Edwards), 13–14 Fawkesian disguises, 186–90
Daniel, Samuel, 65, 66, 180–181
fool disguises, 73, 74, 197
The Tragedie of Philotas, 181
Henrician, 57–60
La Danse Macabre, 38
hermit disguises, 36–9, 197, 198, 217
Danson, Lawrence, 140–141, 146
Machiavellian use of, 148
Davenant, William
pilgrim disguises, 36–9
The Cruel Brother, 217–18
political disguises, 46–7
The Wits, 217
porter disguises, 204–5
David (Edward I), 34
post Gunpowder Plot, 193–8
Day, John
in romantic contexts, 107–8
Humour Out of Breath, 193–4, 206 shepherd disguises, 36–9, 198
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disguised ruler, 215–16. See also disguise;
disguised ruler tradition; specific
plays
as embedded motif, 193–8
evolution from principal protagonist to
incidental motif, 193–8
parody of, 181, 182–3, 185–6, 193, 195
plays as individual exemplars, 6, 9
disguised ruler tradition, 3–15, 20, 141,
178. See also disguise; disguised
ruler; specific plays
alternative approaches, 8–9, 20–23
Caroline, 4, 215–16, 218–19
in classical antiquity, 1, 5
comparative focus, 8–9
Elizabethan, 4, 20–21, 25–60, 61, 141
generic identity and. See genre
Jacobean, 4–8, 14–16, 18, 23, 25, 61,
71, 140, 144, 158–9, 213, 215–16
‘King James Version’ analysis of, 144
medievalism and, 139–78
plot motifs, 7
revenge and, 74
Robin hood and. See Robin hood
divine right controversy, 6–7, 93–101,
140–141, 154
Dondolo (Fawn), 170
Don Fredrick (Chances), 216
Don John (Chances), 216
The Downfall of Robert Earl of
Huntingdon (Munday), 28
Drayton, Michael, 167
1 Sir John Oldcastle, 56, 60
Drummond, William, 181, 203
Dryden, John, 132
the Duke (Measure for Measure). See
Vincentio (the Duke)
Duke of Ferrara (Chances), 216
Duke of Ferrara (Phoenix), 142–3, 147–9,
150, 151, 159
Duke of Ferrara (Turk), 194
Duke of Florence (Telltale), 196
Duke of Gloucester (3 Henry VI), 47
Duke of Milan (Woman Hater), 179, 180, 185
Duke of Piacenza (Fatal Marriage), 217
Duke of Sienna (Cruel Brother), 218
Duke of Urbino (Fawn), 159–161
Duke of Venice (Humour Out of Breath),
155, 206
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Dulcimel (Fawn), 160, 165, 171, 172, 173
The Dumb Knight (Markham and
Machin), 193
The Dutch Courtesan (Marston), 176,
136, 188
Dutton, Richard, 40, 49
Dyce, Alexander, 146
Dymock, Sir Edward, 66
‘Dymock’, Il Pastor Fido, 66, 67, 68,
85–93. See also Il pastor fido
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Eastward Ho! (Chapman, Jonson, and
Marston), 181, 186–7, 188
Eccles, Mark, 3–5
Echard, Laurence, 121–2, 130, 132
Edgar, King (Knack to Know a Knave)
154–5, 172
Edward I (Peele), 20, 26, 171
Edward I in, 36
peele, george, 44
Edward I, portrayals of, 34–6, 74
Edward II (Marlowe), 26
Edward IV, portrayals of, 42–3, 44–6, 55
edwards, Richard, Damon and Pythias, 13–14
Eleanor, Princess (Friar Bacon) 171
Elinor, Princess (Telltale) 196
Eliot, T.S., 77
Elizabethan stage, 4, 6–7, 17, 20–21,
25–60, 28, 61, 141
Elizabeth I, Queen, 1, 83, 127–8, 135
court of, 172–3
death of, 4, 46, 69, 70, 128, 145, 216
succession and, 46
‘theatricality of power’ and, 116
Elizabeth of Bohemia, 202
Emilia (Malcontent), 90
Emilia/‘Tristella’ (Law Tricks), 175, 177
England, Scotland and, 182, 183, 187
Englishmen for My Money (Haughton),
87, 114
Epicoene (Jonson), 195, 203
equivocation, 190–193
erasmus, Praise of Folly, 159, 167, 171
Erne, Lukas, 49, 52
Erpingham (Henry V), 50, 51, 54, 60
Esau, 1
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Essais (Essayes) (Montaigne), 70, 159, ‘ship of fools’ in, 166–71
170–171
succession in, 173, 174
Essayes of a Prentise (James I), 145
time in, 171–2, 173
An Essay on Criticism (Oldmixon), 132 versions of, 162–3
Ethenwald (Knack to Know a Knave), 172 Whig reading of, 163–4
Euphues and his England (Lyly), 87 Felecia (Fleer), 188–9, 191
Evers, Jane, 161
Felice (Antonio plays), 76
Every Man out of His Humour (Jonson), 105 Ferdinand of Parma (Fatal Marriage), 217
executions, Gunpowder Plot, 184–6, 185, 187 Ferneze (Malcontent), 91, 175–6
Ferrers, george, A Mirror for Magistrates, 213
Fair Em (anonymous), 22, 36, 107–10 Fidelio (Phoenix), 143, 146, 150, 152, 156, 197
The Faithful Shepherdess (Fletcher), 179 Field, Nathan, 201–4
Falco, Raphael, 155, 156
Fiennes, Joseph, 1
Falso, Justice (Phoenix), 143, 156, 204 Fiennes, Richard, Lord Say and Sele, 128
Falstaff/Oldcastle (Q1 1 Henry IV), 40, 56, 57 Finkelpearl, Philip J., 76–7, 164
The Family of Love (attributed Barry), 81 ‘Firework Night’, 183, 184
The Famous Historie of Fryer Bacon The First Part of Jeronimo (anonymous),
(anonymous), 30
64, 65. See also 1 Jeronimo, with
The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth
the Wars of Portugal
(anonymous), 26, 40–41, 56 Flamineo (White Devil), 87
The Fatal Marriage or A Second Lucretia Flash, Sir Petronel (Eastward Ho!), 186–7
(anonymous), 217
The Fleer (Sharpham), 3, 14, 18–19, 23,
Fawkes, Guy, 182, 186–90, 192, 193, 194
146, 162, 186–90, 192
Fawn. See hercules/‘Fawn’
anti-court analysis of, 187
The Fawn (Marston), 3, 14, 15, 18–19, 22, Gunpowder Plot and, 190–191
137, 139–78, 179, 188
as imitation of marston’s The
advice-books in, 159
Malcontent, 188
as comical history, 174
intertextuality of, 188
comical history heritage of, 159
parody and, 188–9, 192, 193
dating of, 161–2
performances of, 191
disguises in, 158–66, 161, 170
satire and, 187, 188–9, 192, 193
dual ownership of, 162–3
succession in, 189–90
editions of, 162–3
Fletcher, John, 181, 185
female sexuality in, 170
The Chances, 216–17
folly in, 169–71
The Faithful Shepherdess, 179
as “Foucauldian monument”, 164
Henry VIII (with Shakespeare), 26, 46,
‘Gonzago as James’ analysis, 163–4, 165 103, 198
greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar
Philaster, 195
Bungay and, 171–4
The Woman Hater, 23, 179–80, 185.
Jamesian analogy and, 163–4
See also Beaumont, Francis
jealousy in, 166, 169–70
Flewellen (Q Henry V), 52, 53, 54
marston’s The Malcontent and, 162 Florida (Fleer), 188–9, 191, 192
morality in, 159, 160, 169
Florio, John, 70, 155, 156, 159, 170–171,
performances of, 158, 161, 162
209
Q1, 162–3, 171–2
The Worlde of Wordes, 88–9, 166
Q2, 162–3, 171–2
‘Florizel’/Antonio (Antonio and Mellida), 72
satire in, 163–5, 174
Fluellen (F Henry V), 53. See also
shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
Flewellen
and, 162
Foakes, R.A., 198
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Folie et déraison (Madness and
new historicism and, 14–15
Civilization) (Foucault), 167
Renaissance genre-system, 9–10
folkloric tradition, 25–7, 34, 42–5, 56, 204–13 Genre (special issue), 5–6, 9, 159
folly, 166–71, 168, 206. See also madness George a Greene, 34–6, 42, 55
fools, 73, 74, 83–4, 168, 197
George a Greene (Greene), 20, 26, 34–6,
form. See genre
42, 55
The Fortune playhouse, 8, 30. See also The Geraldine (Wasp), 219–21
Rose playhouse
Geste cycle, 27–8, 29, 37
Fortunio (Knack to Know an Honest Gibbons, Brian, 112, 143
Man), 155
Jacobean City Comedy, 14
Foster, Verna A., 9
Gilbert/‘Wasp’, Baron of Claridon, 219–21
Foucault, Michel, 6, 18, 169
Gilderstone (Q1 Hamlet), 65
authority and, 18
The Globe playhouse, 8, 37, 47, 56, 61,
Folie et déraison (Madness and
63–4, 67, 71, 74, 94, 97, 100, 114,
Civilization), 167
129, 136–7, 159, 202
power and, 5, 6, 20
Goddard, Thomas, 108, 110
Surveiller et punir (Discipline and Goldberg, Jonathan, 7, 116, 126, 127, 134–5
Punish), 5
Gondarino (Woman Hater), 179, 185
Francischina (May Day), 195–6
Gonzago (Fawn), 159–60, 163–4, 169–70,
Frederick V, Elector of Palatine, 202
173–4
Freeburg, Victor O., 5, 7
Goodfellow, Robin, 43, 59
freedom, satire and, 79–84
‘good fellow’ thieving imagery, 43–4, 57,
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (Greene),
59–60
20, 26, 28–33, 43, 55, 74, 109, Govianus (Lady’s/Second Maiden’s
171–4, 173, 198, 206, 218
Tragedy), 139–40
costumes in, 31–3
Gower (Henry V), 52
Edward I in, 34–6
Grafton, Richard, 26
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (Greene), Grant, John, 184
marston’s The Fawn and, 171–4 Granuffo (Fawn), 172
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (Greene) Gray, Elizabeth, 68
moral imperative in, 33
Greek New Comedy, 12, 159
performances of, 32, 172–3
Greenblatt, Stephen, 5
Robin Hood and, 32–3, 34
Greene, John, 216, 218
Friscobaldo, Orlando (2 Honest Whore), 188 greene, Robert
Fulwell, ulpian, Like Will to Like, 86, 87–8 Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, 20, 26,
Furtivo (Phoenix), 156
28–33, 32, 34, 36, 43, 55, 74, 109,
171–4, 173, 198, 206, 218
Galenic humour theory, 75
George a Greene, 20, 26, 34–6, 42, 55
‘ganymede’. See Rosalind/‘ganymede’ Greg, W.W., 62, 108
Garbetza, Donna (Fawn), 161
Guarini, Giovanni Battista, 74, 136–7, 156,
Garnett, Henry, 192
203–4
Garullo, Count (Telltale), 197
Compendio della poesia tragicomica,
gender-crossing, 1, 195
12–13
Genesis, Book of, 1, 149, 156, 157
Il pastor fido, 10, 12–13, 21, 62,
genre, 8–9, 25–7, 93. See also specific
66–71, 84–93, 94, 140, 179
genres
Guarsi, Andrew, 68
Derridean theory of, 9–10
Guarsi, Balthazar, 68
generic identity, 12, 13, 14, 93, Gunpowder Plot, 23, 181, 182–6, 184, 185,
93–101, 133–7, 143, 144
187, 190–193, 195, 198–200
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Gurr, Andrew, 7, 8, 39, 69
Hermes, Count (Blind Beggar of
‘Guy Fawkes Day’, 183, 184
Alexandria), 38
Hermit/Orsinio (Deserving Favourite), 217
Hadfield, Andrew, 135, 136
hermit disguises, 36–9, 38, 197, 198, 217
Hal, Prince (1 and 2 Henry IV) 40, 41, 42, Herring, Francis, 187
61, 204
Popish Pietie, 182, 194
Hall, Edward, 26. See also Hall’s Chronicle heywood, Thomas, 1 Edward IV
Halliwell, J.O., 118
(attributed), 42, 44–6, 50, 55, 57
Hall’s Chronicle, 35, 40, 41
Hibbard, G.R., 201
Hamlet, 154
Hieronimo (Spanish Tragedy), 64, 74
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 14, 16, 65, 72, 74, histories, 20, 25–8, 40–46
87, 154, 164, 188
‘Chronicle History’ drama, 25–7, 28,
Happé, Peter, 28
40–56, 60
‘hardship of rule’ trope, 45, 50
comical histories, 25–7, 28, 30, 37–9,
Harrison, Stephen, 131
40–46, 50, 56, 60, 74, 106–11, 154,
Harry (Prince Henry of Wales), 2, 3
159, 171, 174, 198, 218
‘Harry le Roy’, 109. See also henry V conflation of subgenres, 40–46, 56, 60
Harvey, Gabriel, 167
historiography, 25–7
hathway, Richard, 1 Sir John Oldcastle, revisionist, 126–7, 133
56, 60
‘Royal Historiographers’, 132
haughton, William
Tory, 130
Englishmen for My Money, 87, 114 Whig, 117, 119, 120, 122–4, 126–7,
Robin Hood’s Penn’orths, 28
129–33, 136–7, 144, 163–4, 183,
Have-Little, Sir John (Fleer), 189, 190
191, 201
Hayes, Thomas, 212
The History of England (Babington), 117
Helvetius (Lady’s/Second Maiden’s The History of England (Macaulay), 123–4
Tragedy), 139
The History of England (Oldmixon), 122,
Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (son of
130–133
James I), 151, 164, 165, 182, 202, 212 Histriomastix (attributed to Marston),
Henry IV, King, portrayals of, 47
75, 76
Henry V, King, 2, 61, 161
Hobs, the Tanner of Tamworth (1 Edward
Agincourt disguise, 46, 60, 106, 109, 197 IV), 42–5, 55
portrayals of, 40–41, 46–56, 51, 57–60 Hoby, Thomas, 145, 159
Henry V (Shakespeare), 21, 25–7, 40–42, Holinshed, Raphael, 26, 83
45–58, 60, 105, 161
homer, The Iliad, 145
film adaptation of, 51
homosexuality, 119, 120, 123
performances of, 106
Honesty (Knack to Know a Knave), 43,
versions of, 47–56, 60
154–5, 156, 157
henry Vii, king, 44
The Hope playhouse, 201, 202, 212, 213
Henry VIII, King, 35, 68
Hope, Jonathan, 9
portrayals of, 40, 58–60
Horatio (Hamlet), 154
Henry VIII (Shakespeare and Fletcher), 26, Houlbrooke, Ralph, 119, 121
46, 103, 198
Houser, David J., 15–16, 158–9, 172
Henslowe, Philip, 55, 108, 202–3, 215 Howard, Jean E., 8, 9, 136
Diary, 69, 70, 75–6, 173
Howard, Thomas, 208, 209, 110, 210
Henslowe/Alleyn papers (Dulwich Hugh, Friar (Edward I), 34
College), 197
humanism, 22, 69, 140, 147, 159
Hercules/Fawn, 159, 160–161, 161, 164–6, Humour Out of Breath (Day), 193–4, 206
169, 170–174
Humphreys, Arthur, 40
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Hunter, George K., 15, 62, 95, 188
Gunpowder Plot and, 182–3
Hyland, Peter, 7, 195
progress to London, 18
middleton’s The Phoenix and, 141, 144–7
Ibsen, Henrik, 14
patriarchal principle of, 6
The Iliad (Homer), 145
personality of, 126, 127–9, 130–131, 136
Infesto (Phoenix), 142
‘phoenix’ imagery and, 145
Inner Temple, 165
political legacy of, 126–7
Inns of Court, 75, 76, 77, 165
political standing of, 125–6
The Insatiate Countess (Marston, Barksted, political style of, 127–30
and Machin), 194
popularity of, 144
intertextuality, 34–5, 82–93, 98, 156,
portrait of, 114
171–4, 188, 194, 201–2, 216, 219 portrayals of, 15, 22, 117, 118, 119,
Ioppolo, Grace, 198
120, 121–4, 127–31
Ireland, 48
public persona of, 121–2
Irus (Blind Beggar of Alexandria), 72, 198 reception of, 125–6
isabella
revisionist histories of, 126–7, 133,
The Fatal Marriage or A Second
136, 144
Lucretia (anonymous), 217
sexuality of, 119, 120, 121, 123
in marston, Barksted and machin’s shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
Insatiate Countess, 194
and, 111–33, 141
in shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, silver mining ventures of, 181
104, 107, 110, 111, 115, 136
Whig appraisals of, 117, 119, 120,
Telltale (anonymous), 196
122–4, 126–7, 129–33, 163–4, 183,
The Isle of Gulls (Day), 162, 181, 186, 187 191, 201
Italian vernacular comedy, 10
James VI and I, King, works of
Basilikon Doron (‘Royal Gift’), 6, 116,
Jack Drum’s Entertainment (Marston), 76, 124, 129, 147, 151, 164
86–7
Essayes of a Prentise, 145
Jacob, 1, 149
The True Lawe of Free Monarchies,
Jacobean City Comedy (Gibbons), 14
6–7, 99, 116, 129
Jacobean stage, 4–8, 14–16, 18, 23, 25, 61, James VI of Scotland. See James VI and
71, 140, 144, 158–9, 213, 215–16
i, king
James, King of Scotland (George a Jaques (As You Like It), 83, 98
Greene), 35–6
Jesus Christ, 145
James VI and I, King, 18–19, 23, 55, 67, John of Bordeaux (anonymous), 33, 218, 219
109, 111, 140, 146, 165, 202, 209. Johnson, Samuel, 117
See also James VI and I, King, Jonson, Ben, 76, 131, 143. See also Jonson,
works of
Ben, works of
accession of, 4–6, 18–19, 25, 61, 71, Cynthia’s Revels, 203
74, 105–6, 118, 128, 130, 142, 145, role in the Gunpowder Plot, 199–200
192, 216, 221
satire and, 203–4
‘anticourt’ analysis and, 18–19
tragicomedy and, 203–4
assassination plots against, 47
Jonson, Ben, works of
attacks against, 99
Bartholomew Fair, 23, 198–200,
attire of, 121
201–13, 207, 216
avoidance of public exposure by, 121 The Devil Is An Ass, 201–2
coronation of, 69, 70
Eastward Ho!, 181, 186–7, 188
court of, 187
Epicoene, 195, 203
supposed decadence of, 136
Every Man out of His Humour, 105
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Poetaster, 75, 159–60, 203
the Lady (Lady’s/Second Maiden’s
The Staple of News, 202
Tragedy), 139–40
Volpone, 156
Lady Elizabeth’s Men, 199, 202
Workes, 10, 11, 12, 201
Lady Elizabeth’s Players, 202
Jowett, John D., 4, 19, 127
The Lady’s Tragedy (attributed Middleton),
Julia, Duchess of Florence (Turk) 194
139–40. See also The Second
Juliet (Measure), 217, 221
Maiden’s Tragedy
Julio (Law Tricks), 176, 177
Lake, David J., 95
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 135
Lampatho Doria (What You Will), 76
Lantern/Leatherhead (Bartholomew Fair),
Kamps, Ivo, 26, 140–141, 146
198–9, 200, 202–3, 216
Kastan, David Scott, 49–50
Larmore, Charles, 170
Katherine (Jack Drum’s), 87
Lascelles, Mary, 125
Kendal, Earl of (George a Greene) 35 Latronello (Phoenix), 156
Kett’s Rebellion, 74, 199
law, 143, 166, 167, 174–8
Keyes, Robert, 184
Lawrence, Jacob, 67, 68
‘king and subject’ theme, 27–8, 36, 42, Law Tricks or, Who Would Have Thought It
56, 60
(Day), 22, 162, 174–8
King Edward III (Shakespeare
dating of, 174
collaboration), 26
disguises in, 174–8
King James I of England (Critz), 114
ownership of, 174
King John (Shakespeare), 26, 55
prodigal child in, 174–8
King Lear (Shakespeare), 87
sexuality in, 177
King of Cyprus (Dumb Knight), 193
‘ship of fools’ in, 177
kingship. See monarchy
leatherhead. See lantern/leatherhead
King’s Men, 8, 63, 64, 70, 94, 99, 105, Lee, Maurice Jr, 126–7
139, 163, 181, 216, 218. See also Leir, 36–7
Chamberlain’s men
Lelio (Knack to Know and Honest
Kinsale, Battle of, 48
Man), 155
‘Kinsayder, W.’, 74–5, 76, 77, 80, 82. See ‘Leon the Usurer’/Cleanthes (Blind Beggar
also Marston, John
of Alexandria), 38
The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions ‘let the Bird of lowdest lay’
Image, 74, 85
(Shakespeare), 145. See also ‘The
The Scourge of Villanie, 74
phoenix and the Turtle’
Kirkham, Edward, 65, 162, 163
Lever, J.W., 126
Kirkman, Francis, 142
Levin, Richard, 116–17, 126
A Knack to Know a Knave (anonymous), Il libro del cortegiano (Castiglione).
15–16, 43–4, 154–5, 157, 172, 173 See The Courtyer (Il libro del
Knack to Know an Honest Man
cortegiano) (Castiglione)
(anonymous), 154–5
Like Will to Like (Fulwell), 86, 87–8
Knight, Charles, 123, 133
Lionell/Theagine (May Day), 195
Studies of Shakspere, 123
Lipsius, Justus, De Constantia (‘On
Knutson, Roslyn L., 8
Constancy’), 74
kyd, Thomas, The Spanish Tragedy
literary freedom, Golden Age, 75
(Hieronimo Is Mad Again), 64–5, 72 lloyd, Bernard, 161
Lluellen (Edward I), 34, 44
Lacy, Earl of Lincoln (Friar Bacon), 32, Locher, Jacob, 167, 169
43, 109, 172
Lodovico (White Devil), 87
Lacy, Rowland (Shoemaker’s Holiday), 43 Lodowick, Prince 103, 104
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The Fatal Marriage or A Second
guarini’s Il pastor fido and, 66–71,
Lucretia (anonymous), 217
84–93, 94
London, 96–7, 143, 147, 158, 178, 184–5, as Jacobean disguised ruler play, 61, 71
185, 187, 190, 192, 211–12
marston’s The Fawn and, 162
London Prodigal (anonymous), 176, 188 middleton’s The Phoenix and, 156,
Look About You (anonymous/Wadeson), 28 157, 158
Lorenzo (Merchant of Venice), 154
performances of, 70–71, 218
Lorenzo (May Day), 195–7
periodization and, 62
Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare), 105 Qa Malcontent, 62–3, 67, 69, 70–71,
Love’s Martyr (Chester), 145
74–84, 93, 94–101, 136, 141–2,
Lowin, John, 63, 70–71, 57
156, 159, 163
Lubeck (Fair Em), 109
QB Malcontent, 62–3, 67, 69–71,
Lucio (Antonio and Mellida), 72
74–9, 79–84, 93, 94–101, 136,
Lucio (Measure), 103, 179
141–2, 156, 159, 163
Lucio (Woman Hater), 179
QC Malcontent, 62–3, 65, 67, 70–71,
‘Lucretia’/Lucretio (May Day), 195
57, 74, 79, 84, 93–101, 136, 139–
Lurdo (Law Tricks), 175
41, 143, 206, 216
Lussurioso (Phoenix), 142, 156
revenge in, 79
Lussurioso (Revenger’s Tragedy), 156
shakespeare’s As You Like It and, 98
Lyly, John, Euphues and his England, 87 success of, 216
Lysander (Deserving Favourite), 217
as tragicomedy, 62, 71, 93–101
Lysimichus (Pericles), 193
versions of, 62–4, 162
A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode, 27
‘Malevole’/Altofronto, 71, 74, 76–86, 88,
93–100, 139, 218
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 133 Malone, Edmond, 108, 122, 123, 133
History of England, 117, 123–4 Mamon (Jack Drum’s), 87, 87, 114
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 192
Manville (Fair Em), 110
machiavelli, Il Principe, 159
Maquerelle (Malcontent), 68, 90, 91, 93, 97
Machiavellianism, 81, 99, 100, 143, 148, Marcus, Leah, 127
151, 152, 190
Margaret (Friar Bacon), 172
machin, lewis
Mariana (Fair Em), 109, 110
The Dumb Knight, 193
Mariana (Measure), 110, 152
The Insatiate Countess, 194
Marion, Maid (George a Greene), 35
MacLean, Sally-Beth, 40
markham, gervase, The Dumb Knight, 193
‘mad Arthur’ (Bartholomew Fair), 204–13, marlowe, Christopher
207–8, 207
Edward II, 26
madness, 77–8, 166–71, 168, 169. See also Tamburlaine the Great, Parts 1 and
folly
2, 39
The Malcontent (Marston), 3, 12–16, 18–19, Marston, John, 15–16, 65, 143, 178. See
21, 25, 37, 61–101, 105, 146, 154,
also ‘Kinsayder, W.’; Marston,
157, 158, 163, 188, 203–4, 219
John, works of
censorship of, 100
Admiral’s Men and, 76
children’s version, 151–2
Blackfriars and, 82, 84, 142, 162
as city tragicomedy, 93–101
censorship and, 79–84
divine right controversy and, 93–101 early career as playwright, 75–6
editions of, 79, 142
experimentation of, 153
first public performances of, 70
idealism of, 74–5
generic identity of, 9, 12–13, 14, 93, ‘Kinsayder’ persona, 74–5, 76, 77, 80, 82
93–101
linguistic skill of, 67–8
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medical imagery and, 76–9, 85–7, 88–9 conventionality of, 106
at the Rose, 76
costumes in, 113, 114
as satirist, 74–84, 91, 93, 96, 97–8, court performance of, 129
100, 163–5, 170, 174
criticism of, 112, 115, 124–6, 134–7
scepticism and, 170–171
‘Duke as James’ theory, 111–33, 141
Stoicism and, 74–9, 85, 89, 170–171 generic complexity of, 133–7
Marston, John, works of
generic identity of, 9, 12–13, 14
Antonio and Mellida, 71–2, 89–90
as ‘Jacobean disguised ruler play’, 103
Antonio plays, 21, 71, 71–4, 76, 77, James I and, 111–33, 141
84–5, 89–90, 99, 206
‘King James Version’ of, 116–17, 126, 127
Antonio’s Revenge, 21, 71, 72, 77,
marston’s The Fawn and, 162
84–5, 99, 206
middleton’s The Phoenix and, 140
Dutch Courtesan, 176, 136, 188
monarchic readings of, 116–17
Eastward Ho!, 181, 186–7, 188
new historicist readings of, 126, 133
The Fawn, 3, 14, 15, 18–19, 22, 137, occasionalist reading of, 105–6,
141, 146, 158–74, 158–78, 161,
111–30, 135–6
177, 179, 188
performances of, 104, 105, 106, 107,
Histriomastix (attributed), 75, 76
113, 114, 129
The Insatiate Countess, 194
republicanism in, 135
Jack Drum’s Entertainment, 76, 86–7 versions of, 105–6
The Malcontent, 3, 9, 12–16, 18–19, Whig interpretation of, 136, 137, 164
21, 25, 37, 61–101, 105, 136, 139, wooing adventures in, 106–8
140–143, 146, 151–2, 154, 156–9, medical imagery, 74, 75, 76–9, 140
162–3, 188, 203–4, 206, 216,
in marston’s The Malcontent, 77–8, 85–9
218–19
in middleton’s The Phoenix, 147
The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions medieval chronicles, 20–21
Image, 15, 74, 85
medievalism, 139–78
The Scourge of Villanie, 15, 74, 91 in middleton’s The Phoenix, 153–8
What You Will, 15, 76
medieval morality drama, 140–141, 153,
Marston, Mary, 68
156, 158, 160, 177–8
martin, anna maxwell, 107
medieval myth, 21, 26–7, 30, 40, 41, 43,
‘Martin Marprelate’ controversy, 80–81
46, 50, 56, 60
Mason, John, The Turk, 194
Melchiori, Giorgio, 194
Master of the Revels, 1, 100, 181
Mellida (Antonio plays), 72, 89–90
May Day (Chapman), 195–6
Mendoza (Malcontent), 68, 72, 82–3, 85,
McCanles, Michael, 5
90, 91–3, 97, 139, 157–8
McElwee, William, 125
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare),
McMillin, Scott, 40
154, 188
McMullen, Gordon, 9
The Merry Devil of Edmonton, 37
McPherson, David, 206, 208–9
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Measure for Measure (Shakespeare), 3–4,
(Shakespeare), 204
6, 14–16, 18–22, 25, 36, 37, 47, 61, A Mery Geste of Robyn Hoode (‘Copland’
66–7, 74, 91, 100, 103–37, 148,
edition), 27, 29, 35
154, 158, 180, 188, 194, 196–7, The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image
209, 213, 217, 221
(Marston), 74, 85
‘adaptation’ of, 105–6
Micio (Adelphoe), 160
alternative approaches, 14
Middle Temple, 75, 165, 166, 191
appraisal of, 129–30
Middleton, Thomas, 16, 61, 131, 173, 178
‘comical history’ and, 106–11
Blacke Book, 37
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(attributed), 139–40, 141, 142, 158
marston’s The Malcontent and, 142
The Patient Man and the Honest
Whore (1 Honest Whore), 176, 188
The Phoenix, 3, 14, 18–19, 22, 25, 137,
141–58, 162–3, 166, 172–5, 179, 204
Prologue and Epilogue (lost) to Friar
Bacon and Friar Bungay, 30
The Revenger’s Tragedy, 156
as satirist, 140
A Trick to Catch the Old One, 163
The Triumphs of Truth, 211
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Shakespeare), 43
Miles (Friar Bacon), 31, 173
miles, Ben, 107
Miller, Jonathan, 158
Millicent (Merry Devil of Edmonton), 37
miracle plays, 156–7
Mirour for Magestrates of Cities
(Whetstone), 213
A Mirror for Magistrates (Baldwin and
Ferrers), 213
‘Mirror for Magistrates’ tradition, 77
‘mirrors for princes’ advice books, 145, 147
monarchy, 55
divine right controversy, 6–7, 93–101,
140–141, 154
succession and, 6–7
support for, 4
theatricality of, 116
Montaigne, Michel de, 171
Essais (Essayes), 70, 159, 170–171
morality
in greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar
Bungay, 33
in marston’s The Fawn, 159, 160
in middleton’s The Phoenix, 153–8
Morton, Thomas, 192
Mounchensey, Raymond (Merry Devil of
Edmonton), 37
Mucedorus, 72
Mucedorus, 37, 72, 198
Mullaney, Steven, 18, 116
munday, anthony
1 Sir John Oldcastle, 56, 60
The Death of Robert Earl of
Huntingdon, 28
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Huntingdon, 28
Munro, Lucy, 62, 159
Children of the Queen’s Revels, 8–9
Myddelton, Thomas (London Mayor),
208–12
mythology, 46–56, 60, 207–8. See also
Robin hood
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Nan (Fleer), 189
Das Narrenschiff (Brant), 167, 169
Nashe, Thomas, 167
National Theatre London, 158, 161
Naturalis Historia (Pliny the Elder), 145
Neostoicism, 74–5
Newes from Graues-end (Dekker), 167
Newfangle (Like Will to Like), 86
new historicism, 5–6, 9, 14–15, 16–20, 25,
126–7, 133, 144, 215
Newton, Diana, 129
Nicander (‘Dymock’ Il Pastor), 86
Nicando (Guarini), 86, 89
‘night-walker’ imagery, 58–9
Norman, Marc, 1
Northward Ho! (Dekker and Webster), 188
Norwich, fall of, 199, 74
Novelas ejemplares (Cervantes), 216
O’Bradley, Arthur, 204–6
observation. See surveillance
Observations (Tyrwhitt), 122
occasionalism, 20, 61, 105, 111–30, 135–6,
140–141
Octavio, Duke of Venice (Humour Out of
Breath) 193–4
Odysseus, 1
Oldcastle, John ‘Jockey’, 40, 56
Oldmixon, John, 130
An Essay on Criticism, 132
The History of England, 122, 130–133
olivier, laurence, 51
‘Order of Conflagration’ (1599), 75, 79, 80,
82. See also ‘Bishops’ Ban’
Oriana (Woman Hater), 179–80
Orsinio, Count (Woman Hater), 217
Osborne, Francis, 119, 121, 131
Overdo, Adam (Bartholomew Fair), 201,
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Whore), 188
Honest Man), 155
Paltrow, Gwyneth, 1
Phillips, John, 149–50
Parasitaster, or The Fawn (Marston). See Philocalia (Fawn), 165
The Fawn (Marston)
phoenix. See prince/phoenix
Paris (mythological character), 37, 72 The Phoenix (Middleton), 3, 14, 18–19, 22,
parish records, 28
25, 137, 139–78, 179, 204
Parliament, 118, 119, 125, 127, 182, 183, 221 advice-books and, 158
parody, 180–186, 188–9, 192, 195,
attribution to Middleton, 142
200–201, 203, 213, 216. See also as city comedy, 143
satire
conservatism of, 140–141, 153
Parr, Catherine (When You See Me), 60 as court play, 143
Passarello (QC Malcontent), 95, 96–7, 98, didacticism in, 146–7, 151, 156–7
100, 206
disguises in, 148, 149, 151–5
Il pastor fido (Guarini), 10, 12–13, 21, 62, divine right controversy and, 140–141
94, 140, 179
generic identity of, 143, 144
‘Dymock’ translation, Il Pastor Fido, as imitation of Marston and Jonson, 143
66–8, 71, 85–7, 88–93
lack of subversion of, 144
The Malcontent and, 66–71, 84–93 Machiavellianism in, 151, 152
The Patient Man and the Honest Whore marston’s The Malcontent and, 156,
(Dekker and Middleton), 176, 188
157, 158
patriotism, 30, 36, 39
medical imagery in, 147–8
patronage, 165, 174, 180, 181, 187
medieval morality in, 140–141, 153–8
Paul’s Playhouse, 72, 76, 90, 142, 153, miracle plays and, 156–7
162–3, 165, 179–81, 184–5, 186 new historicist readings of, 144
Peck, Linda Levy, 164, 169
observation in, 149
peele, george, Edward I, 20, 26, 36, 44 occasionalist reading of, 140–141
Peery, William, 203
performances of, 142
Pendleton, Thomas A., 18, 144
personification in, 155–6
‘Penitent Experience’/Sempronio (Knack ‘Phoenix as James’ fallacy, 143, 144–7
to Know an Honest Man), 156
as proto–city comedy, 141–3
pepys, samuel, Diary, 205
‘Reformation’, 151–2
Perce (John of Bordeaux), 218–19
satire in, 140, 143
‘Percy’/Tom Archibald (Wasp), 218–19 Serpent imagery in, 156–7
performances
shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
court, 165. See also specific plays
and, 140
taxation of, 128–9
surveillance in, 147
Pericles (Shakespeare and Wilkins), 193 ‘The phoenix and the Turtle’
Perin the Courtier (Knack to Know a
(Shakespeare), 145. See also ‘let
Knave), 157
the Bird of lowdest lay’
periodization, 3–4, 61
The Phoenix Nest (R.S.), 145–6, 150
personification, 155–6
Picentio (Telltale), 196
persons, Robert, Answere to the Fifth Part Piero (Antonio plays), 71, 72
of Reportes, 192
Pietro (Malcontent), 77–81, 91, 139
Peter College, 82
pilgrim disguises, 36–9
Petruchio (Chances), 216
Pisaro (Englishmen for My Money), 87
Petter, Christopher Gordon, 189, 190–191 Piso, Lord (Fleer) 189, 190, 191
Philaster (Beaumont and Fletcher), 195 Pistol (Henry V), 51–2
Philautus (Euphues), 87
plague outbreaks, 69, 108
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Planet, Ned (Jack Drum’s), 76, 86–7
plautus, Amphitrvo (Amphitryon), 12
The Playe of Robyn Hoode, 35, 40
playgoers, taxation of, 128–9
playhouses, 23, 181, 215
closures of, 69–70, 108. See also
specific playhouses
playwrights, 8, 22–3. See also specific
playwrights
pliny the elder, Naturalis Historia, 145
plot motifs, subversion of, 7–8
Poetaster (Jonson), 75, 159–60, 203
Poetics (Aristotle), 12
Poins (1 Henry IV), 40, 41
Polonius, 14, 164. See also Corambis
Polymetes (Law Tricks), 175–6, 177
Pope, Alexander, 132
Popish Pietie (Herring), 182, 194
the Porter (Macbeth), 192
‘Porter’/Adam Overdo (Bartholomew
Fair), 204–5
Porter, Charlotte, 124
Postlewait, Thomas, 3–4
power. See also monarchy
Foucauldian model, 5, 6, 20
theatricality of, 116
Power on Display (Tennenhouse), 4–5, 6
Praise of Folly (Erasmus), 159, 167
the Priest (Knack to Know a Knave), 157
Prince Charles’s Men, (First), 202
Prince d’Amour, 166
Prince/Phoenix, 142–3, 146, 147–8, 149,
150–154, 156, 157
Il Principe (Machiavelli), 159
Privy Council, 69, 200, 221
prodigal child theme, 174–8
Proditor (Phoenix), 143, 146–50, 152, 155,
156, 157–8
Promos and Cassandra (Whetstone), 194
Prorex Marianus (Wasp), 219, 221
prostitution, 91, 97, 188–9, 191, 210–211
Protestantism, 46, 57–8, 68, 83, 182, 191, 202
Ptolemy (Blind Beggar of Alexandria), 38
puppetry, 198–9
Pygmalion’s Image (Marston), 15, 74, 85.
See also The Metamorphosis of
Pigmalions Image
Quadratus (What You Will), 76
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Quayle, John, 207
Queen Henrietta’s Men, 218
Queen’s Men, 30, 40
Queen’s Revels (Blackfriars). See Children
of the Queen’s Revels
Queen’s Revels, Whitefriars, 195
Quieto (Phoenix), 147
Quiller-Couch, Arthur, 112, 115, 116, 124–5
Quintilliano, Captain (May Day), 195
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The Rape of Lucrece (Shakespeare), 135
Rasmussen, Eric, 48
Rasmussen, Mark David, 8
Ratcliffe (Richard III), 47
Redmond, Michael J., 19–20, 188, 201
REED project, 28
Reformation, 155
religion, 79–84, 81, 83. See also
Catholicism; Church, satirical
references to anglican
repertories, 20
repertory studies, 8–9
republicanism, 135
Revels Accounts, 105
The Revenger’s Tragedy (Middleton), 156
revisionism, 133, 136, 144
Richard III (Shakespeare), 21, 47
Roberto (Insatiate Countess), 194
Roberts, Peter R., 128
Robin Goodfellow, 43–4
Robin Hood, 20–21, 25, 27–8, 29, 32–6, 40,
43–4, 46, 55–6, 59, 61, 204–6, 207
attire of, 121
in comical histories, 33–6
Drayton et al.’s 1 Sir John Oldcastle
and, 57–8
on the Elizabethan stage, 28
greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar
Bungay, 32–3, 34
greene’s George a Greene and, 35–6
heywood’s 1 Edward IV and, 42–5, 46
Robin Goodfellow and, 43–4
Rowley’s When You See Me You Know
Me and, 59
Robin Hood and Little John, 28
Robin Hood and the Pinner of Wakefield, 34
Robin Hood’s Birth, Breeding, Valour and
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Roman New Comedy, 159
Senior, Duke (As You Like It), 83–4, 188
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 1, 134 La Señora Cornelia (Cervantes), 216
Rookwood, Ambrose, 184
Serpent imagery, 156–7
Rosalind/‘Ganymede’ (As You Like It), 87 sexuality, 83–4, 90, 91, 92, 99, 170–171,
The Rose playhouse, 8, 30, 55, 56, 76, 108. 177, 194
See also The Fortune playhouse Seymour, Jane (When You See Me), 58
Rosencraft (Q1 Hamlet), 65
Shakespeare, Will (character), 1
Rowley, Samuel, 26
Shakespeare, William, 61, 94, 178. See also
When You See Me You Know Me, 58–60
shakespeare, William, works of
‘Royal Historiographers’, 132
death of, 216
royal patronage, 165, 174, 180, 181, 187 generic experimentation of, 153
Ruffle (Fleer), 186, 189
guarini’s Il pastor fido and, 88
Russell, Conrad, 126
Oldmixon and, 131–3
Rylance, mark, 104, 113
‘True Sublimity’ of, 130–133
Shakespeare, William, works of, 26, 221
Saccio, Peter, 26
1 Henry IV, 21, 40–41, 52, 56, 57, 72,
Salisbury Court playhouse, 218
188, 204
Salkeld, Duncan, 49
2 Henry IV, 21, 41, 45
Sanderson, William, 121–2
3 Henry VI, 45, 47
Satan, 156
Apocrypha, 108
satire, 10, 14–16, 76–9, 129, 140, 180–186, attribution of Fair Em to, 108
195, 199–201, 203–4, 216
The Comedy of Errors, 105
freedom and, 79–84
Coriolanus, 124
in Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair, 206–13 Cymbeline, 87
in marston’s The Fawn, 170, 174
First Folio, 9, 25, 48, 105, 124
in marston’s The Malcontent, 74–84, First Folio generic division, 9, 25
91, 93, 96–8, 100
Hamlet, 14, 16, 65, 72, 74, 87, 154,
in middleton’s The Phoenix, 143,
164, 188
159–60, 163–5
Henry V, 21, 25–6, 27, 40–42, 45,
in sharpham’s The Fleer, 186–9, 192
46–58, 60, 105, 106, 161
Satiromastix (Dekker), 75
Henry VIII (with Fletcher), 26, 46,
Satyr (Il pastor fido), 92–3
103, 198
satyrs, 10
Julius Caesar, 135
scarlett, Robert, 17
King Edward III (collaboration), 26
Schanzer, Ernest, 126
King John, 55
Schelling, Felix E., 108
King Lear, 87
Schoenbaum, Samuel, 77
‘Let the Bird of lowdest lay’, 145
Scotland, 182, 183, 187
Love’s Labour’s Lost, 105
The Scourge of Villanie (Marston), 15, 74, 91 Macbeth, 192
The Second Maiden’s Tragedy (attributed Measure for Measure, 3–4, 6, 9, 12–16,
Middleton), 139–42, 158. See also 18–22, 25, 36, 37, 47, 61, 66–7,
The Lady’s Tragedy
74, 91, 100, 103–37, 104, 107, 113,
The Second Part of the Honest Whore
141, 148, 154, 158, 164, 180, 188,
(Dekker), 176, 136, 188
194, 196–7, 209, 213, 217
Second Soldier (Henry V), 52–5, 56
The Merchant of Venice, 154, 188
‘Secret Millionaire’, 1
The Merry Wives of Windsor, 204
Sempronio (Knack to Know an Honest A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 43
Man), 155
Pericles, 193
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‘The Phoenix and the Turtle’, 145 ‘stalking horse’ imagery, 83–4
The Rape of Lucrece, 135
The Staple of News (Jonson), 202
Richard III, 47
Stationers’ Company, 82, 162
Romeo and Juliet, 1, 134
Stationers’ Hall, 82
The Tempest, 188
Stationers’ Register, 42, 62, 85–6, 141,
Titus Andronicus, 135
161, 174, 187, 192, 211
Troilus and Cressida, 87
Steevens, George, 123, 133
As You Like It, 13–14, 82, 83, 84, 87, Shakspere, 122
98, 188
Stern, Tiffany, 49
Shakespeare in Love (Stoppard), 1
Stevenson, David Lloyd, 125–6
shakespeare’s globe london, 104, 113, 120 Stewart, Esmé, 145
Shakespeare studies, 6, 18, 50. See also Stoicism, 74–9, 85, 88–9, 170–171
criticism
stoppard, Tom, Shakespeare in Love, 1
Shakspere (Steevens), 122
Stow, John, 26
Shallow, Justice (1 and 2 Henry IV and St Paul’s Cathedral, 82, 137, 154, 184–5, 192
Merry Wives), 204
Strange’s Men, 8, 28, 30
Shapiro, Michael, 143
Stuart dynasty, 23, 96, 117–19, 121, 123, 126,
Sharpe, Kevin, 126
135, 141, 144–6, 178, 183, 199, 202
Sharpham, Edward, 61, 192
Studies of Shakspere (Knight), 123
The Fleer, 3, 14, 18–19, 23, 146, 162, Stultifera Navis (Brant), 167, 169
186–93
succession, 6–7, 46, 146, 173, 174, 189–90
Shaw, George Bernard, 14, 124
I suppositi (Ariosto), 10
shepherd disguises, 36–9, 198
surveillance, 25, 46, 47, 60, 116, 147, 149
The Shepherd’s Calendar (Spenser), 39 Surveiller et punir (Discipline and Punish)
The Ship of Fooles (Das Narrenschiff/
(Foucault), 5
Stultifera Navis) (Brant), 167, Susan (Fleer), 189
168, 169
Sussex’s Men, 30
‘ship of fools’ trope, 166–71, 168, 177
Shirley, James, The Duke’s Mistress, 218
Swinnerton, John, 212
The Shoemaker’s Holiday (Dekker), 43 Tamburlaine, 39, 72
Shore, Jane (1 Edward IV), 42
Tamburlaine the Great, Parts 1 and 2
Shore, Matthew (1 Edward IV), 45–6
(Marlowe), 39
Sidney (Whetstone), 149
Tangle (Phoenix), 143, 153–4
Sidney, Philip, 145, 149–50
Tasso, Torquato, Aminta, 10, 90
Astrophil and Stella, 167
taxation, 128–9
The Defence of Poesie (An Apologie Taylor, Gary, 4, 19, 48, 49, 127
for Poetrie), 13
The Telltale (anonymous), 196–7
The Silver Mine (lost), 181
attribution to Chapman, 197–8
Simpson, Richard, 108
dating of, 197
Sims, Valentine, 62, 80–81
The Tempest (Shakespeare), 188
Sinklo, John, 63
Tennenhouse, Leonard, 6, 9, 14–19, 144,
Sly, William, 63, 64
159, 174, 186
The Spanish Tragedy (Hieronimo Is Mad Power on Display, 4–5, 6
Again) (Kyd), 64–5, 72
Terence, Adelphoe, 160
Spark (Fleer), 189, 190
terrorism, 178, 179–213
spectacle of state, 116, 121
Theagine. See ‘lionell’/Theagine
spenser, edmund, The Shepherd’s
The Theatre playhouse, 8, 30, 34
Calendar, 39
Thomas, Friar (Measure) 106, 107,
‘spying in disguise’ plays, 5
111–12, 151
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Thomas of Woodstock, 26
urban mode, 14. See also city comedy
Thompson, sophie, 104
Thrift, Sir Tyrant (Wits), 217
Ursla (Bartholomew Fair), 206, 210
Throckmorton, Nicholas, 83
‘Vagrancy Act’ (1598), 210
Thyestes (Seneca), 72
Valingford, Lord (Fair Em), 110
Tiberio (Fawn), 160, 171–4, 177
Valore, Count (Woman Hater), 179
Tilney, Edmund, 1
Varletti (Wasp), 221
Timon (as character type), 220
Vice figures, 155, 160
Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare), 135 Victoria, Duchess (Telltale), 196
Tory historiography, 130
Villiers, George, first Duke of
Touchstone (As You Like It), 83–4, 98, 206 Buckingham, 120, 221
The Tragedie of Philotas (Daniel), 181 Vincentio (the Duke), 103, 106–11, 107,
tragedy, 12, 13. See also tragicomedy
111–30, 113, 131–3, 148, 164
tragicomedy, 9, 10–14, 11, 18, 21, 62, 71,
93–101, 136–7, 141, 179, 193, 203–4
Volpone (Jonson), 156
‘Tragicomoedia’, 10, 11
Wadeson, Anthony, 28
travel/travail, 147–53
Wales, 183
tricksters, 39, 41–2, 160
Walter-Would-Have-More the Farmer
A Trick to Catch the Old One
(Knack to Know a Knave), 157
(Middleton), 163
‘War of the Theatres’, 75, 76
Tricomi, Albert H., 18–19, 95–6, 140, 164 Wasp. See gilbert/‘Wasp’
‘Tristella’ (Law Tricks). See
The Wasp or the Subject’s Precedent
emilia/‘Tristella’
(anonymous), 23, 218–22
The Triumphs of Truth (Middleton), 211 The Weakest Goeth to the Wall
Troia-Noua Triumphans (London
(anonymous), 16
Triumphing) (Dekker), 212 Webster, John, 21, 136, 159
Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare), 87 marston’s The Malcontent and, 94–7,
Troublesome Reign of John, King of
98–9, 100
England (anonymous), 26
Northward Ho!, 188
The True Chronicle History of King Leir The White Devil, 87–8
(anonymous), 36–7, 44
Weldon, Anthony, 119, 121, 131
The True Lawe of Free Monarchies (James A Cat May Look Upon a King, 121
I), 99, 116, 129
Westward Ho! (Dekker), 176, 188
Tuck, Friar (Edward I), 34
What You Will (Marston), 15, 76
in Playe of Robyn Hoode, 35, 40 When You See Me You Know Me (Rowley),
Tudor, Mary, 83
21, 56, 58–60
Tudor Chronicles, 20–21, 25–7, 41, 56, 61 Whetstone, george
Tudor dynasty, 145, 173
Mirour for Magestrates of Cities, 213
Tudor historiography, 46
Promos and Cassandra, 194
Tudor morality drama, 140–141, 153
The Rocke of Regard, 194
The Turk (Mason), 194
Sidney, 149
Tynan, Kenneth, 158, 159
Whigham, Frank, 2, 164
the Tyrant (Lady’s/Second Maiden’s Whig historiography, 117, 119, 120, 122–4,
Tragedy), 139–40
126–7, 129–33, 136–7, 144, 163–4,
Tyrwhitt, Thomas, 117–19, 130, 133
183, 191, 201
Observations, 122
The White Devil (Webster), 87–8
Whitefriars playhouse, 174, 193, 203
‘Undercover Boss’, 1
Whitehall, 105
Upton, Albert, 163–4
Whitgift, John, 75
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Wilbraham, Roger, 127–8
critical response to, 180
Wilkes, William, 164
disguise in, 179–80
Wilkins, george, Pericles, 193
as parody, 180, 181, 185–6
Williams (Henry V), 53, 54, 56, 57
performances of, 181
William the Conqueror, (Fair Em), 36, wooing adventures, 36–7, 39, 45, 106,
108–11
106–7, 171–4, 177, 198
Willson, D. Harris, 125
Worcester’s Men, 71
Wilson, John Dover, 112, 115
Workes (Jonson), 10, 11, 12, 201
Wilson, Robert, 116, 124–5
The Worlde of Wordes (Florio), 88–9, 166
1 Sir John Oldcastle, 56, 60
Wilson, Thomas, 127, 128
Wormald, Jenny, 126–7, 165, 183, 187
Winter, Robert, 184
Winter, Thomas, 184, 199
York Pageant of the Coopers, 156
The Wits (Davenant), 217
Zoya, Donna (Fawn),166, 169–71
Wolsey, Cardinal, 60, 198
Zuccone, Don (Fawn),166, 169–71
The Woman Hater (Beaumont and
Zweno, King of Denmark (Fair Em),
Fletcher), 23, 179–80, 185
109–10
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