Queen's company, Old Plays of the, 14, 74
Queen's company, the, 6, 11, 43, 46, 48, 50, 51, 53, 55, 59, 75, 84, 131, 146, 147
Queen's progress to Cowdray and Tichfield, the, 37, 119, 165
Rose Theatre, the, 6, 10, 11, 51, 59, 61, 69, 70, 76, 81, 146
Roydon, Matthew, 15, 31, 93, 109, 114 n., 124, 125, 167, 168, 184, 200, 218
_Second Fruites_, 123, 164, 196, 203, 205, 206; extracts from, 207-14
Shakespeare, John, 21, 25; applies for grant of arms, 32
Shakespeare, Richard, of Snitterfield, 21
Shakespeare, William; as Burbage servitor, 13; brothers and sisters of, 19; Norman origin, 19; his mother, 22; as _Johannes factotum_, 22; boyhood, 24; marriage, 26; leaves Stratford, 28; alleged poaching adventure, 30; return to Stratford in 1597, 30; grant of arms, 30; "Shakespeare's boys," 35; "rude groome," 35; a bonded servitor, 67; early training with Lord Hunsdon's and the Lord Admiral's companies, 68; in kingly parts, 81; co-operates with Marlowe, 88; leader of Pembroke's company, 88; Groom of the Privy Chamber, 91; as an "idiot art-master," 105; alluded to as a serving man, 108; as Mullidor in _Never too Late_, 109; Chandos portrait of, 110; rejoins Chamberlain's company, 126; indicated as "W.S.," an "old actor," 129; distrust of Florio, 187
_Shepheards Calendar, The_, 159, 160, 163
Southampton, Earl of, 13, 17, 18, 36, 74, 91; as Mavortius, 121; 124, 126; bounty to Shakespeare, 127; 153, 156, 164, 167, 172; early relations with Essex, 176; as Bertram, 189; 194, 216
Spencer, Gabriel, 86, 87; death of, 90; 147
Strange's company, Lord, 6, 9, 11, 12, 52, 53, 57, 59, 74, 82, 83, 95, 107, 126, 147
Strange's tumblers, Lord, 6, 55, 56, 59, 67, 84
Sussex's company, Earl of, 12, 14, 57; disrupted, 86-87
_Taming of a Shrew, The_, 86, 102, 105, 107
Theatre, the, 6, 9, 11, 36, 39, 44, 46, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 72, 75, 77, 81, 106
Tichfield House, Queen's progress to, 37, 165
Tilney, Edmund, Master of the Revels, 43, 59, 96
_Troilus and Cressida_, 114, 120, 195, 197
_Troublesome Raigne of King John, The_, 132, 140, 143, 146
_True Tragedie of the Duke of York, The_, 7, 85, 87, 88, 113, 147
_Two Gentlemen of Verona, The_, 8, 83, 152
_Venus and Adonis_, 13, 82, 114, 118, 119, 127, 128, 151, 152, 153, 180
Volumnia, a reflection of Shakespeare's mother, 23