Shakespeare's Restless World
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Olivier, Sir Laurence 74, 75, 87
O’More, Rory Oge 96–7, 99–102
O’Neill, Hugh, Earl of Tyrone 104
Ortelius, Abraham: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 14, 178–9
Othello 170, 172–3, 182–4, 189, 199
Otway, Thomas: Venice Preserved 173
Ovid 248
Owen, Nicholas 196
Owen Tudor 87
oysters 38
Parry, William 155, 156
Peacham, Henry: The Art of Living in London 110
pedlars 193–4
disguise and the pedlar’s trunk xiv, 190, 192–201
Peele, George: The Battle of Alcazar 267
Pepys, Samuel 88
Pericles, Prince of Tyre 187–8
Philip of Spain 53, 57
Piper, Tom 268
pirates 185–8, 186, 189
A Pithy Exhortation to Her Majesty for Establishing Her Successor to the Crown 57
Pius V, Pope 23
plague xiv, 22–3, 129, 188, 226, 229–41, 232, 235
Plague Orders 228, 237–8, 238
quarantine 233, 236–7
Platter, Thomas 40
Plutarch, The Lives 253
Prince of Orange, William I 154
Prince’s Men 255
Principall Navigations (Hakluyt) 10, 11–13
Prospero and Ariel (Gill) 285, 286
prostitutes 172–3
Protestantism 21, 23–8
international conspiracies to overthrow 157–8
Puritans 191
quarantine 233, 236–7
‘To the Queen’ 226–7
Raleigh, Sir Walter 10, 225, 239
The Discovery of Guiana 10, 175
The Rape of Lucrece 234
rapiers xi–xii, 62, 63, 65–72, 71, 72 see also swords and swordplay
‘Recollection of Titus Andronicus’ (attributed to Peacham) 183
Reformation 21, 23–8
Reich-Ranicki, Marcel 273–4, 275
Reich-Ranicki, Teofila 275
relics viii, xiii–xv, 258, 260–62, 261, 265–6
The restoration of Old St Paul’s (Gipkyn) 212
Richard II 84–5
Richard II 58, 97, 102, 147–8, 164, 215, 217, 244, 268
Richard III 45–8, 60, 199, 243–4, 267, 274
Ridolfi, Roberto di 54, 150
Roanoke Island 126–8
Robben Island 280–81
Bible xv, 281–3
A Rod for Runawayes (Dekker) 235
Rogers, William: Henry VIII and his family 50–51
Rome
and Cymbeline 213
London’s transformation into ancient Rome 243–57
Roman church see Catholicism
Romeo and Juliet 61–3, 64, 67, 70, 236–7, 240, 280
Rose Theatre 34, 40, 41, 109, 115
fork from xi–xii, 32, 33–4, 34, 41–2
tap house 40
The Royal Palace of Holy Rood-Hous (Gordon) 205
Rudolf II 131
Ryther, Augustine, map of Great Britain and Ireland 100–101
Sackerson (bear) 64
Sa’did dynasty 185
Salcombe Bay treasure 184–5, 185, 188–9
Salmesbury Hall, Lancashire 196
saltpetre 180
Sampson, Agnes 140–43
Saviolo, Vencentio 67
‘The Thyrde Dayes Discourse, of Rapier and Dagger’ (Vincentio Saviolo his practise) 71
scaffolds xv, 267
Scot, Reginald: The Discoverie of Witchcraft 136
Scotland 84, 132–3, 136, 139, 140
union with England 203–14
sex
and audiences 110–11
prostitutes 172–3
and Venice 170–73
Shakespeare, Hamnet (son) 30
Shakespeare, Henry (uncle) 107
Shakespeare, John (father) 24, 25, 30
Shakespeare, William
birth and baptism 22, 22
career management 30
and the church 20–26, 30–31
death of son, Hamnet 30
and the genre of the history play 44–9, 84–7 see also specific plays
as a Globe shareholder 37
and plague 22–3, 229–41
Shakespeare’s works
and Britain 211–14
and conspiracies 55, 132, 144–6, 153–4
and disguise 191–3, 198–201
Elizabeth I and Shakespeare’s pro-Tudor line 213
First Folio xv, 276–80, 277, 284
first known use of ‘assassination’ in print 54–5
and global exploration, circumnavigation and roundness 3–5, 6, 9, 10–14, 17
gruesomeness in 259–60, 267–70
individual works see specific titles
and the Irish 89–92, 96, 97–8, 102
and the Moors 182–4
and pirates 187–8
in print, going global 272, 273–86, 277, 279, 282
Roman plays 255–6 see also specific plays
stage directions 70, 114, 224, 259–60
and the succession crisis 45–9, 52, 54–5, 60
as theatres of cruelty xiv–xv, 259–60, 267–70
and timekeeping 215–23, 226–7
and urban violence/swordfighting 61–72, 111–15
and Venice 169, 170, 182–4
and the Wars of the Roses 45–8, 59–60
and witches 132, 139, 144–6
Shapiro, James 105–6, 110–11, 112–14
shellfish 38, 39
ship models 132–3, 134–5, 138, 142
Shrove Tuesday 111
Sidney, Sir Henry 92–3, 99
Silver, George 67
Paradoxes of Defence 68
silver 7
Simpson, Wallis 44
Sir Thomas More 111
Sisulu, Walter 283–4
social order/hierarchy
apprentices and 108–11, 114–15
and caps 105–15
drinking, and figures of authority 19–20, 30
and language 105–7
Sonnets 26–8
South-West Archaeological Group 184
Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of 234
Southwark 34, 36–7, 40, 64, 236, 241
Southworth family 196
Spain xvi, 6–7, 53, 96, 126–8, 153, 156, 180, 198
Spencer, Gabriel 73
Spenser, Edmund 169
spices 7
spirit power 117–31 see also witchcraft
Spufford, Margaret 193
stage directions 70, 111, 114, 224, 259–60
stage violence xv, 259–60, 267–70
Statute of Apparel (1574) 70
Stonyhurst College, Lancashire 194, 260, 265
Stratford-upon-Avon 22–6, 229
Gildhall ix, 24–6, 25, 27
Holy Trinity 20, 22, 24, 31
New Place 30
Stratford chalice 18, 20–21, 23, 31
the supernatural 117–31
witchcraft see witchcraft
swords and swordplay xi, 61, 64–73
comedy duels 70
fencing school of the University of Leiden (van Swanenburg) 72
rapiers xi–xii, 62, 63, 65–72, 71, 72
Study of a gentleman carrying sword and daggers (van de Velde II) 66
table manners 42
The Taming of the Shrew 248–50
Tarleton, Richard 70
The Tempest 117, 125–9, 130, 131, 147, 284–6
Prospero and Ariel (Gill) 285, 286
Tezcatlipoca 128
A Thankfull Remembrance of God’s Mercie (Carleton) 150–53, 151, 152, 155, 157–9, 157
theatre audiences see audiences
The Theatre of the Lands of the World 14
theatres, Elizabethan viii–ix, 17, 34, 63
audiences see audiences
Blackfriars 40, 73, 125
Cockpit 111
eating
in 33–43
Fortune 40, 109
Globe see Globe Theatre
Hope 36–7
map of London theatres ix
money-boxes 35–7, 35
open-air theatres and daylight 40
and plague 239–41
private rooms 41–2
Rose see Rose Theatre
stage violence xiv, 259–60, 267–70
wrecking of 111
theatrical tension 224–5
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Ortelius) 14, 178–9
Thomas, Keith 133–6
Thornton, Dora 162–4
Throckmorton plot 150
‘The Thyrde Dayes Discourse, of Rapier and Dagger’ (Vincentio Saviolo his practise) 71
Tierra del Fuego 6
Tillyard, E. M. W. viii
Timbuktu 177
timekeeping 215–27
Titus Andronicus 26, 248, 260
‘Recollection of Titus Andronicus’ (attributed to Peacham) 183
tobacco 239
Tower of London xi, 243–4
The Tower of London (Hollar) 244
treason 49–52
and plots xiii, xiv, 54–5, 140–46, 147–59, 152, 157, 198, 262
and punishments xiv, 260–67, 264, 266 see also executions
Treasons Act 49–52, 57
Treblinka 273
trickery 191–201
Triumphes of Re-united Britannia (Munday) 208
Twelfth Night 10, 70, 221
Tyrone, Hugh O’Neill, Earl of 104
Union Flag 202, 209–14
urban life see city life
Vallin, Nicholas 217–18, 225, 226
clock 217–19
van der Straet, Jan
Ceasar on horseback 252
Horologia Ferrea 219
van Meer, Michael: Going to Bankside 65
Venetian glass 160, 162–7, 165, 169–72, 171
Venice 161–2, 166, 167–73, 168, 172, 182–4, 189
Venkatratham, Sonny 281–3
Venus and Adonis 234
Vere imagini et descritioni delle piu nobili citta del mondo (Bertelli) 172
Verratheren in England 266
Verzelini, Jacopo, goblet 165
violence
political/state xiv, 44, 54, 59, 99–102, 115, 140–46, 147–59, 260–67, 271
on the stage xiv, 259–60, 267–70
urban 61–73, 111–15
Virgil 248
Vredeman de Vries, Hans, courtyard with public clock 222
al-Walid ibn Zidan, Sharif 185
Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford 130–31
Walsingham, Sir Francis 54–5, 55, 56
Wars of the Roses 45–8, 58–60
watches 220, 221
Wentworth, Peter 58
West Africa 177
Westminster Abbey, Henry V’s funeral achievements xiii, 75–81
Whitehall 6, 7, 104, 203, 255
Wierix, Jan, portrait of Henry Garnett 197
William the Silent, Prince of Orange 154
The Winter’s Tale 193, 194, 195, 218, 223, 267
witchcraft 99, 124, 129, 132–46, 146
James VI of Scotland’s book on 136–8, 137
Scottish witches and politics 132, 138–9, 140–42, 144–6
Wittenberg 28
The Wonderfull Yeare (Dekker) 229, 240, 241
works of Shakespeare see Shakespeare’s works and specific titles
world maps see mapmaking
xenophobia 9, 155, 182, 187, 225–6
* The return of the Golden Hind to Plymouth was incorrectly recorded as the 4th of the Calends of October (in other words, 28 September) in the inscription on the medal.