by Michael Wood
Colet, John 66
Collins, Francis 373
The Comedy of Errors 60, 105, 121, 165, 281, 295, 331
Compton Abdale 18
Condell, Henry 114, 244, 267, 271, 292, 294, 333, 341, 374, 378
Cooley, Thomas 75
Coriolanus 326, 328, 329, 330
Coryate, Thomas 359
Cottam, John 85, 86
Cottam, Thomas 77, 78, 84, 301
Cotton, Robert 359
Coventry 38, 62, 104, 110, 112, 117
mystery plays 61–3
Cowley, Richard 210
Cross Keys inn 124, 134
Curtain Theatre 125, 225, 244, 245, 253
Cymbeline 338, 339, 340, 346–7, 364
Daniel, Samuel 174, 194, 216–17, 252, 322
Davies, Richard 376–7
Day, John 246–7
Debdale, Robert 77, 78, 84, 87, 109, 301
Debdales of Shottery 39
Dee, John 358
Dekker, Thomas 241, 242, 243, 283, 312, 318, 319
Satiromastix 260
Descartes, René 309
Dethick, William 181–2, 287
Devils of Denham 300–3
Diggers of Warwickshire 326–8
Digges, Sir Dudley 354, 359, 360
Domesday Book 26
Don Quixote (Cervantes) 363, 364
Donne, John 174, 175, 185, 252, 264, 295, 302, 359
Dowland, John 346
Drayton, Michael 370
Dryden, John 242
Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester 20, 48, 95–6, 98, 101, 104, 138
Dugdale, William 62, 101
Edward VI, King 11
Elizabeth I, Queen 20, 25, 146, 157, 315, 338
accession of 12, 28–30
and the Babington Plot 108–9
and black people 272–4
courtly entertainments 212
death 276–8, 290
‘Ditchley’ portrait 13
and the Earl of Essex 253–4, 258
excommunication of 48, 78
and the Garter Celebrations 188, 224–5
headdress 266
in Henry VIII 368
and the Northern Rebellion (1569) 46–7
and Protestantism 10, 12, 31, 37–8, 48, 70–1, 316
and the Queen’s Men 117, 142
and Richard II 255, 256–7
and Shakespeare’s plays 169–70, 179
and the Somerville plot 95–6, 97, 102
and Southwell 159, 172
and Stratford 236
and Topcliffe 175–6, 177–8
visit to Kenilworth (1575) 20, 62, 96
Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia 363
Elizabethan England
in the 1590s 146
best-sellers 234–5
collapse of the wool trade 69–70
enforcement of anti-Catholic laws 71–2, 74–6, 159, 316
farmers 16
grammar schools 52–8
literacy 53–4
living standards 33–4
mealtimes 54
middle-class domesticity 39–40
poverty in 33, 110, 146
public executions 100–1, 108–9, 171–2
racism in 162
sex in 88–9, 202
women in 202
see also Catholicism
Ellis, Thomas 280
English Catholics see Catholicism
Erasmus 60, 67, 241, 300
Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of 227, 252, 253–4, 255, 256, 258, 261
Euripides 60, 145, 204, 241, 242–3, 247–8, 333, 347, 369
exorcism, and the Devils of Denham 300–3
fairy tales 52
Falstaff plays 223–31, 234
Fawkes, Guy 310, 312
Ferraboso family 204, 211, 346
Field, Richard 36, 155, 174, 210
Fisher, John 45, 106, 110
Fitzherbert family 176
Fletcher, John 347, 354, 364, 368, 369, 372
Florio, John 134, 300, 359
Forest of Arden 15, 16–17, 20, 26, 37, 51, 250
Forman, Simon 202, 210–11, 211–12, 212–14, 267, 275
Fortescue family of Alveston 31
Foxe, John 223–4, 285
Frith, John, vicar of Temple Grafton 37, 38, 91–2
Frizer, Ingram 163, 164
Galileo 355
Gardiner, William 184–5, 186
Garnet, Henry 81, 148, 310, 313, 314–15
Geoffrey of Monmouth 298
Gibbes, George 72
Gifford, Dr 269, 299
Gillom, Fulk 86
Globe Theatre 124, 143, 166, 186, 244
250, 251, 253, 255, 261, 265, 269, 281, 295, 296, 319, 331, 341, 342
burns down 368
Golding, Arthur 53, 65, 66
Gower, John 65, 332
Grant family 78, 98, 310–11
Greek, and grammar schools 53
Greek Anthology 282
Greek tragedy 239, 241–3, 307
Greenaway, William 87
Greene, John 365
Greene, Robert 116, 144, 150–1, 152, 153
Greene, Thomas 232
Greville, Fulke 265
Gunpowder Plot 21, 42, 81, 83, 298, 309, 310–12, 316, 320
plays 312–15, 317
Guy of Warwick 26, 51, 153, 170
Hacket, William 146
Hall, Dr John 65, 324–5, 374, 375, 378
Hall, Hugh 98, 100
Hall, Susanna see Shakespeare, Susanna
Hamlet 30, 63, 84, 168, 238, 241, 242–3, 261–4, 271, 281, 304, 323, 379
performance in Sierra Leone 329–30
Harrington, Joan 202
Harrison, William 33, 132, 339–40
Harsnett, Samuel 300–3, 304
Hart family 80
Hart, Michael 335
Hart, William 373
Harvey, William 355
Hathaway, Anne (wife of WS) 88, 105, 111, 180, 205, 233, 236, 237, 297, 330, 337, 374, 378
Hathaway, Richard 88
Haycroft, Henry 91
Hayward, Sir John 254–5
Heaney, Seamus 158
Heath, Geoffrey, vicar of Oldbarrow 37
Hemmings, John 113–14, 166, 244, 267, 269, 271, 292, 294, 306, 333, 341, 374, 378
Henry IV 43, 45, 115, 133–4, 168, 187, 194, 222, 223, 225–31, 234, 253, 362
Henry, Prince (son of James I) 279, 337–9, 352, 363
Henry V 104, 115, 225, 228, 240, 253, 306
Henry VI 104, 138, 139, 143, 149–50
Henry VII, King 19, 338
Henry VIII 347, 366–8
Henry VIII, King 26, 29, 33, 47, 125, 227, 289, 290, 342, 367
and the Protestant Reformation 10–11, 11–12, 21, 27
Henslowe, Philip 130, 138, 149, 166, 184, 210, 233, 246, 248, 267
Herbert, George 192–3, 337
Herbert, Mary 194–5, 217, 280, 322
Herbert, William, later Earl of Pembroke 191–3, 194, 195–6, 197, 204, 207, 325, 337, 354
Hesketh, Sir Thomas 85, 86
Heywood, Thomas 115, 335
Hilliard, Nicholas 269
Hoghton, Alexander 85, 86
Hoghton, Thomas 86
Holinshed, Raphael 18, 66, 143
Holland, Philemon 272
Homer 248
Iliad 241
Hooper, Humphrey 72
Hudson, Henry 354
humanism 66–8
Hunsdon, Lord 167, 179, 183, 211, 212, 214, 215, 224
Hunsdon, Lord (son) 188, 224, 225
Hunt, Simon 57, 58, 63–4, 65, 66, 301
India 330, 379
Ireland, war in 252–4
The Isle of Dogs 176, 201
Jackson, John 365
Jaggard, William 189
James I, King 165, 277, 278, 279, 280, 295, 355
Basililon dron 279
ceremonies for entry into London 282–6
and the Gunpowder Plot 311–12, 3
13
and King Lear 298
and religion 279, 288
and the Somerset House peace conference (1604) 287
and witchcraft 313
Jews 132, 162, 215, 217–18, 220–2
Johnson, Robert 215, 346–7, 364
Johnson, Samuel 309
Jones, Inigo 288, 338, 359
Jonson, Ben 53, 115, 126, 130, 160, 166, 175, 176, 201, 215, 219, 246, 248, 258, 359
The Alchemist 210, 347
collection of works 378
Cynthia’s Repels 251
and drinking 289, 370
Every Man in His Humour 239, 240
Every Man Out of His Humour 249, 251
on the Globe Theatre 245
and masques 338, 360
and Pericles 334
Poetaster 259–60, 341
Sejanus 281
and Shakespeare 239–41, 243, 261, 263, 287, 288, 292, 309, 319, 347–8, 378
and Shakespeare’s sonnets 192, 335
Volpone 347
and the War of the Poets 249–52, 254, 259–60, 262
Jonson, Joan 268
Joseph of Arimathea 79
Julius Caesar 172, 238, 241, 242, 247–8, 306
Katherine of Aragon 10, 11, 366, 367–8
Keats, John 318
Kemp, Will 166, 167, 245–6, 306
King John 115, 169, 173, 176, 180
King Lear 109, 115, 176, 296, 298–9, 302–3, 304–9, 312, 320, 322, 323, 330, 339, 346, 350, 362
rewriting of 343–5
Kings Men 166, 167, 278–9, 280–1, 282, 284, 286, 287, 288, 295–7, 308, 322, 329, 331, 366
and Blackfriars Theatre 341, 342–3
and collaboration 318–20
Knell, William 112–13, 115, 126
Knowle 18
Kyd, Thomas 128, 144, 162, 262
Spanish Tragedy 123, 128, 234, 262
Lambarde, William 256–7
Lambert, Edmund 72, 233
Langley, Francis 184, 186–7
Langrake, James 69
Lanier, Emilia 194, 210–18, 267, 337, 346
Latin, and grammar schools 53, 55
Lee, Ann 184
Leicester’s Men 112, 113, 115
Leo the African 272, 273, 275
Leveson, William 244, 354
Lewkenor, Lewis 218, 272
Linby, William 269, 280
Line, Anne and Roger 257–8, 259
Livy 272
Locke, Robert 46
Lodge, Thomas 161
London 119, 120–51
Bishopsgate 131–6
black people in 272–5
brothels 186, 228
carriers’ inns 132, 270–1
excavations 245
flooding 72
frozen Thames (1607) 331
Great Fire (1666) 131, 181, 266
Lord Mayor’s pageant (1605) 297
Mermaid Inn 342, 359, 365
plague (1603) 279–81
Royal College of Arms 19, 181, 287
Shakespeare’s house at Blackfriars 365–6
Shoreditch 123–8, 139, 243–4
Silver Street neighbourhood 266–71, 279, 281, 299
Southwark and Paris Garden 185–7
Stratford’s trade with 15–16, 24, 44
theatre inns 124, 132–4
theatres 123, 124–5
see also individual theatres, e.g. Globe Theatre
The London Prodigal 319
Lonley, William 76
Lotte’s Labour’s Lost 165, 234, 295, 343
Love’s Martyr 268–9
Loxley, John 42
Lucy, Sir Thomas of Charlecote 106, 107–8, 118
as anti-Catholic enforcer 71, 85
and the Northern Rebellion 46, 47
and the Somerville plot 96, 98, 101, 102, 103
Luther, Martin 11, 67, 263, 340
Macbeth 160, 296, 299, 313–15, 317, 318, 322, 323, 330, 343
Malone, Edmond 80, 81
Mandela, Nelson 358
Manningham, John 175
Marlowe, Christopher 108, 126, 128–30, 138, 143, 146, 150, 166, 238, 272
arrest and murder 162–4
Dr Faustus 234
Edward II 145, 163
The Jew of Malta 220, 221
The Massacre at Paris 163
as a secret agent 146–7
Tamburlaine 123, 128, 129–30, 162, 271
Marston, John 238, 248, 249–50, 258, 312
Antonio’s Revenge 262
Histriomastix 250
Jack Drum’s Entertainment 251
The Malcontent 248
What You Will 259
Martin, Richard 359
Mary I, Queen 11–12, 25, 29, 30, 91, 315, 335, 355, 366, 380
Mary Queen of Scots 46, 47, 98, 102, 108, 109
Measure for Measure 281, 293, 313, 323, 330, 372, 376
The Merchant of Venice 214, 218, 220–2, 223, 295, 308
Meres, Francis 247
The Merry Devil of Edmonton 319
The Merry Wives of Windsor 53, 55, 188, 224, 225, 293, 295
Middleton, Thomas 238, 249, 318–19
Revenger’s Tragedy 296, 319
A Midsummer Night’s Dream 52, 96, 169–71, 234, 281, 288, 323, 362, 369
Molin, Nicolo 280, 281, 283
Montaigne, Michel 64, 66, 300, 359, 360
More, Sir Thomas 53
Utopia 135, 376
Moroccan ambassador in England (Abdul Guahid) 275
Morris, Matthew 365
Mountjoy, Christopher and Mary 210, 266–9, 334
Mucedorus 234
Munday, Anthony 84, 175, 229
musical collaboration 346–7
Mussem, John 42
Nashe, Thomas 71, 144, 149–50, 153, 183, 186, 212
Negro, Lucy 273
Northern Rebellion (1569) 47–8, 58, 226–7
Oestres’ Furies (Rose theatre play) 241–2
Oldcastle, Sir John 223–4, 229, 230–1
Olivier, Sir Laurence 141
Othello 205, 220, 266, 271–2, 276, 303, 321–2, 323, 330
Ovid 53, 63–6, 67, 155–6, 164, 174, 260, 294, 325, 350, 360
Metamorphoses 50, 64–6
Oxford University 57
Packwood 18, 21, 38, 42
Palmer, Dr 269, 270, 299
Park Hall 26, 79, 82, 96–7
Pavy, Salathiel 249
Peele, George 140, 150, 252
Pembroke’s Men 139, 154, 166
Percy, Charles, Earl of Northumberland 47
Percy, Sir Charles 226
Pericles 67, 319, 320, 332–3, 334, 339, 340, 347, 367
Perkes, Clement 43
Persons, Robert 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 103, 147, 341
Philip II, King of Spain 47, 367
Philips, Augustine 166, 210, 244, 255–6, 278
Pilgrimage of Grace (1536) 47, 226
Pius V, Pope 48
Platter, Thomas 124–5, 247
Pliny 272
Plutarch 272, 294, 323, 326
Lives 66, 317, 324
Pocahontas, Native American princess 14
poetry of Emilia Lanier 216–17, 337
The Rape of Lucrece 28, 165, 166, 191, 279
Southwell on the role of poets 159–61, 165
see also sonnets; Venus and Adonis
Poley, Robin 108, 163–4, 201
Popham, Lord Chief Justice 255
Pormort, Thomas 177, 178
Porter, Henry 246, 247
Protestant Reformation 10–13, 20, 21, 27, 29, 302, 328
Protestantism
and fairy tales 52
and grammar schools 57–8
martyrs under Bloody Mary 12, 29
and the Queen’s Men 114–15
The Puritan 319
Puritans 39, 58–9, 67, 89, 162, 202, 235, 249–50, 293, 320–2
Queen’s Men 112–18, 127, 128, 134, 138, 140, 142, 143, 150–1, 166, 169, 223, 262, 282, 308
> Quincey, Thomas de 369
Quiney, Adrian 47
Quiney, Richard 55–6, 236, 265
Quiney, Thomas 236, 372–3, 378
racism, and Othello 213, 276
Raleigh, Walter 212
Ralph Roister Doister (Protestant school play) 60
The Rape of Lucrece 28, 165, 166, 191, 279
Renaissance culture, and Prince Henry 337–9
Reynolds, Thomas 71
Reynolds, William 157, 374
rhetoric, and grammar schools 55
Rice, John 276
Richard II 43, 168–9, 234, 254–7, 308, 330
Richard III 115, 135, 138, 139, 150, 234
Richard III, King 19, 135, 338
Richardson, John 90, 92
Roberts, James 300
Robinson, John 365
Rogers, Henry 97, 103
Roman plays 60–1
Romeo and Juliet 37, 169, 170, 179, 194, 234, 262, 323, 362
Rose Theatre 124, 138, 149, 166, 184, 186, 241–2, 243, 244, 246, 248
Rowe, Nicholas 73, 74
Rowington 18, 21, 22, 30, 78, 101, 265
Russell, Thomas 354, 360
Rutland, Earl of 325
Sadler, Hamnet and Judith 39, 105, 316–17, 375
Sadler, John 73
Salausbury, John 258
Sandells, Fulk 90, 92
Sandon, Henry 269, 280
Savage, Thomas 86, 244, 269
Sea Adventure (ship) 354, 359–60
Seneca 60–1, 141, 172
Seymour, Jane 11
Shakespeare, Anne (sister of WS) 40, 72, 82
Shakespeare, Edmund (brother of WS) 40, 331–2
Shakespeare, Elizabeth (granddaughter of WS) 137, 333, 372
Shakespeare, Gilbert (brother of WS) 40, 331, 363
Shakespeare, Hamnet (son of WS) 179–81, 183, 200, 377
Shakespeare, Henry (Uncle Harry) 16, 22, 187–8
Shakespeare, Joan (aunt of WS) 16
Shakespeare, Joan (sister of WS) 40, 80, 331, 335, 373
Shakespeare, John (father of WS) 11, 18
birth 22
as brogger and moneylender 41–3, 69, 70
and the Burbage family 118–19
and Catholicism 29, 39, 71, 75–6, 148, 150
children 31–2, 40, 111
coat of arms 19, 69, 181–3
death 264
financial troubles 72–3, 233
and the guild chapel 9, 10, 12, 14
marriage 25–6, 28–9
rise of 23–5
secret testimony of 80–4, 103, 264
and Stratford town council 25, 31, 35, 40, 58, 71, 109
and travelling players 59
Shakespeare, Judith (daughter of WS) 236, 370, 372–3
Shakespeare in Love (film) 141
Shakespeare, Mary see Arden, Mary (mother of WS)
Shakespeare, Richard (brother of WS) 40, 331, 364
Shakespeare, Richard (grandfather of WS) 21, 22
Shakespeare, Susanna (daughter of WS) 39, 83, 95, 137, 236, 316, 324, 325, 365, 372
Shakespeare, Thomas and Alicia 19
Shakespeare, William birth and baptism 32
Blackfriars house purchase 365–6
books used by 63–8