Acting a profitable employment of old, 31
Actors, English, playing on the conti-

-

nent, 106 names of in the folio of
Shakespeare in 1623, viii-old, dou-
bling their parts, xxviii

Alba, a poem, by Robert Tofte, 1598, 193
Aldermanbury, residence of John He-
minge in, 62

Aldermen of London ridiculed by Kemp
and Armin, 117

Alleyn, Edward, his mention of Richard

Cowley in 1593, 160-his manage-
ment of the Fortune in 1616, 254-the
rival of R. Burbadge, 40-Sir R.
Baker's opinion of, 51-his sister mar-
ried to Augustine Phillips, 79

Papers, the, printed by the
Shakespeare Society, 247, 254
All Fools, a comedy, by George Chap-
man, acted at court, 62

All is True, a play at the Globe when it
was burnt, 38

Allot, Robert, his England's Parnassus,
1600, 193

Allyn, Giles, owner of the ground on
which the Blackfriars theatre stood,
Almanack, a play so called, acted at
court, 62

Almond for a Parrot, by Thomas Nash,
quoted, 91

Amends for Ladies, a comedy, by Na-
than Field, 41, 211, 216
Anne, Queen, death of, and suspension of
theatrical performances, 48-and R.
Burbadge, lines upon their deaths, 56
Antipodes, a comedy, by Richard Brome,
99, 105

Apology for Actors, 1612, by Thomas
Heywood, 82, 95, 118, 180
Arden, Agnes, afterwards Agnes Webb,
120

Argyle, Earl of, his marriage with Miss
Cornwallis, 281

Armin, Robert, Memoir of, 190-ap-

prentice to a goldsmith, 190, 191-
first induced to take to the stage by R.
Tarlton, 190-his "Brief Resolution
of the right Religion," 1590, 193-
mentioned by Gabriel Harvey in 1593,
193-succeeds Kemp at the Globe and
Blackfriars, 193-his name in the pa-
tent of 1603, 191-his dedication of
G. Dugdale's "True Discourse," &c.,
1604, 194-his offence to the alder-
men of London, 117, 196-had played
before James I. in Scotland, 196-his

Nest of Ninnies," 1608, 197, 198-
his comedy of The Two Maids of
More Clacke," 1609, 197-sale of his
interest in the Blackfriars, perhaps to
Joseph Taylor, 197-his "Italian
Tailor and his Boy," 1609, 198-ad-
dress to by Davies of Hereford, 199-
probably author of "The Valiant
Welshman," 201-his death and bu-
rial 201

Atlas, the sign of the Globe, 55
Atkins, John, husband of Alice He-
minge, 64, 76

Atkins, Richard, grandson to John He-
minge, 64, 75

Baker, Sir R., his opinion of Burbadge
and Alleyn, 51

Ballad on R. Burbadge's Othello, 22—
on the burning of the Globe in 1613,
38 on Kemp's visit to Rome,
113-on John Shancke, 275
Ball, Cutting, his sister, mother to For-
tunatus Greene, xxi

Balthazar, a character filled by John
Wilson, xviii

Bankside, Henry Condell's property
upon the, 147
Barksted, William, an actor under
Henslowe, Alleyn, and Meade, xxx

his performances, xxx — - his poem
of "Hiren the Fair Greek," 1611,

and Kemp, 99

Basing House, the taking of in 1645,

272

Beaumont and Fletcher, R. Burbadge a
performer in their plays, 26-the edit.
of their Works in 1617, 178, 260
Beeston, Christopher, an actor, xxxi-
apprentice to Aug. Phillips, xxxii-
his characters, xxxi- his son Au-
gustine, xxxi- on the stage till the
Civil Wars, xxxii-his lines to Tho-
mas Heywood, xxxii-Master of the
King and Queen's Young Company
in 1637, 259

Robert, an actor, xxxi

-, William, an actor, xxxi
Benfield, Robert, Memoir of, 262
plays in which he acted, 262-named
in the patents of 1619 and 1625,263-
marriage of, 263-an actor in "The
Duchess of Malfi" about 1622, 263-
one of the players dedicating Beau-
mont and Fletcher's Works in 1647,
264-livery cloak for in 1629, 264—
death of, 264

Bartholomew, son to Robert

Benfield, 264

Elizabeth, daughter to Robert
Benfield, 264

Robert, son to the player, 263
Bennett, Agnes, mother to Augustine
Phillips, 79, 86

Ben Jonson's praise of N. Field, 41
Betterton, Thomas, and Richard Bur-
badge, both painters in oil, 30-his
Hamlet, 252

Blackfriars, project for building a theatre
there in 1575, 5-Henry Condell's
property in, 147

-- theatre, proceedings in Chan-
cery regarding, 7- repairs and en-
largement of in 1596, 18-proposal by
the city to purchase it in 1633, 35
Booth, Luce, married to Thomas Shake-
speare, xvi

Borne, Miles and Philip, nephews to
Augustine Phillips, 84, 86

Brayne, Helen, mother of Richard and
Cuthbert Burbadge, 7- her claim to
the moiety of the Blackfriars the-
atre, 8

Brand, Sir Mathew, owner of the Globe
theatre, 40, 78
Brathwayte, Richard, his epitaph upon
W. Kemp in 1618, 119
Bride's, St., Henry Condell's property
in, 146

Bromley, Thomas, mentioned in T.
Pope's will, 124, 126

Browne, Jane, William Sly's property
bequeathed to, 157

--

Robert, father of Jane Browne,
157, 158-his letter to Edward Alleyn,

Brutus, played by Richard Burbadge, 24
Bryan, George, Memoir of, 129-a player
in the "Second Part of the Seven
Deadly Sins," 14, 129-not the per-
former of Lord Warwick in Henry VI.,
129-his son in 1599, 130-probably
still living in 1600, 130-one of the
Lord Chamberlain's players, 131
Bryant, a bearward, 131

Bucke, Paul, a player, his bastard son,
131 his concern with the play of
"The Three Ladies of London,"
1584 and 1592, 131

Burbadge, family from Warwickshire, 2
Alice, register of, 12

-a performer in the "Second part of
the Seven Deadly Sins" before 1588,
13-his probable age in 1588, 15, 16
-a leader of the company in 1596, 18

- smallness of his stature, 20-his
performance in "The Spanish Trage-
dy," 19, 20-alluded to in " Ratsey's
Ghost," 24-list of his parts in Shake-
speare's plays, 24-a performer in Ben
Jonson's Sejanus," 25-a performer
in Marlowe's" Edward II.;" in Mars-
ton's" Antonio and Mellida;" in Tour-
nour's "Revenger's Tragedy;" in
Webster's" White Devil;" in Hey-
wood's "Woman killed with Kind-
ness;" in Marston's Malcontent,"
25 - a performer in Ben Jonson's
plays, 25-a performer in Webster's

Duchess of Malfi," 25-a performer
in Beaumont and Fletcher's plays, 26
-introduced into "The Return from
Parnassus," 27-Flecknoe's character
of, 28-a painter as well as player,
29-and his wife Winefred, 32-inte-
rested in one of the theatres in Shore-
ditch, 37-summoned before the Privy
Council, 43-death of, 44-his nun-
cupative will, 45-did not die of the
plague, 46-MS. elegy upon, 47-his
property at his death, 49 - Sir R.
Baker's opinion of, 51-and Queen
Anne, lines upon their deaths, 56-
overseer of A. Phillips's will, 87-his
performance in "The Return from
Parnassus," 105, 106-the original
Hamlet, 24, 174-master and instruc-
tor of Nicholas Tooley, 234, 240

Carew, Dr., master in Chancery, 9
Carlo Buffone, not one of William
Kemp's parts, 90

Catiline, by Ben Jonson, Richard Bur-
badge a performer in, 25-when first
produced, 246

Chamberlain, the Lord, his theatrical
servants, 16-quitted by W. Kemp
before 1592, 96
Chamberlaine, John, his letter to Sir
Dudley Carlton, 48

Chambers, Margaret, mother of W.
Sly's natural son, xvi., 156
Chancery, proceedings in, relative to the
Blackfriars theatre, 7
Chandos, Lady Mary, dedication to, 194
, Lord, Robert Armin one of
his players, 196
Chapman, George, his Bussy d'Ambois,
209, 212-his lines before Field's
66 Woman is a Weathercock," 215
Charles I., his patent to his players in
1625, 69

Chettle, Henry, a dramatist, 167-at-
tacked by William Kemp, 111 - his
"Hoffman," 1631, 111

City Gallant, also called "Green's Tu
Quoque," a comedy, 186
Clarke, Dorothea, bequest to, by Thomas
Pope, 128

Mary, alias Wood, mentioned
in Thomas Pope's will, 124, 126
Cobb, persons of the name related to
Nicholas Tooley, 239, 240
Comædia, daughter of William Johnson,
the Queen's player, 110
Comedy of Errors acted at court, 62
Conclusions upon Dances, a tract by
John Lowin, 168, 170

66

Condell, Henry, Memoir of, 132-doubt
whether he acted before 1588, 132-
played in the Induction to Marston's
Malcontent," 26-his characters in
Ben Jonson's plays, 132, 133, 134,
139-perhaps the original Captain
Bobadill, 133-played the Cardinal in
Webster's Duchess of Malfi," 140-
his parts in Beaumont and Fletcher's
Works, 139, 140-not a printer, 57,
134-his escape from the Globe when
burning, 39 probably married in
1597, 134-an inhabitant of St. Mary,
Aldermanbury, and sideman of the
parish, 134, 136-his property in the
Blackfriars and Globe, 138-dedica-
tion of a tract to, 142-joint-editor
with Heminge of the first folio of
Shakespeare in 1623, 137-his place
in the patents of 1603, 1619, and
1625, 136, 140-his residence at Ful-
ham, 69, 141-his retirement from

Cooke, Alexander, Memoir of, 182-
first mentioned in 1603, 183-per-
formed female parts in 1603 and 1605,
182-had outgrown female parts in
1610, 183-his residence in South-
wark, 184-his son Alexander, 185,
187 his brothers and sisters, 185-
legacy to by A. Phillips, to, 188-bu-
rial of, 185-his will, 186, 187

John, author of "Green's Tu
Quoque," 185-perhaps brother to
Alexander Cooke, 185

,Francis, son of Alenander Cooke,
183, 187

Rebecca, daughter of Alexander
Cooke, 184, 187

Coriolanus, played by Richard Bur-
badge, 24

Coursing of the Hare, a play by William
Heminge, 72

Coventry Plays, edited by Mr. Halli-
well, 114

Cowley, Richard, Memoir of, 159-an
actor, in or before 1588, 159-his
performance of Verges, 89, 159—one
of the Lord Chamberlain's players,
60, 162-played with Edward Alleyn
in 1593, 160-last in the patent of
1603, 162-burial of, 163

Cuthbert, son of Richard Cow-

ley, 161

161

161

Richard, son of Richard Cowley,

Robert, son of Richard Cowley,

Elizabeth, daughter of Richard

Cowley, 161

Elizabeth, wife of Richard Cow-
ley, buried, 163
Crosse, Samuel, Memoir of, 180-pro-

bably mentioned by Thomas Heywood,
180-his death, 181
Cunningham, Mr. P., his Extracts from
The Revels' Accounts," 23, 162
Cupid's Revenge acted at court, 62
Curtain, a theatre in Shoreditch, 12, 18
Cynthia's Revels, by Ben Jonson, the
six principal actors in, 209, 225

Daborne, Massinger and Field, their
connexion as authors, 213
Dances, Conclusions upon, a tract by
John Lowin, 168, 170

Daniel, Samuel, inspector of plays to
the Queen's Revels, 209
Davies, John, of Hereford, his poem
upon Robert Armin, 199-his " Wit's
Pilgrimage," 200-his lines upon Wil-
liam Ostler, 203

Day, Rowley, and Wilkins, their "Three
English Brothers," 112

Thomas, one of the King's players
in 1604, 136

Dead Man's Fortune, a drama, 19
Dedications, money paid for, 215
Deloney, Thomas, the family of, xxviii
-registrations of at Cripplegate, 110
- mentioned by W. Kemp, 109-
by Nash, 110-by Gabriel Hervey,

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