INDEX
‘S’ indicates William Shakespeare.
A
Act of Supremacy (1559) 16
Act of Uniformity in religion (1559) 16–17
actors
basic company 68
casting 65–6
connections with the audience 130
cue-lines 65
female roles played by boys 68–9
making S’s language comprehensible to modern ears 134
S wrote for actors he knew 64, 74
Shakespearian stage 66–7
stage directions 65
staging S in modern dress 132–3
Adams, John Quincy 153
America, Shakespeare in 153–4
American Declaration of Independence (1776) 153
Angelou, Maya 168
Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Shottery, Stratford-upon-Avon 7
‘anti-Shakespearian’ 75
‘anti-Stratfordians’ 75
Ariosto: Orlando Furioso 53
Aristotle 80
Arne, Thomas 152
Astor Place Opera House, New York: riots (1849) 153–4
Aubrey, John 23
Auden, W.H. 164
audiences
in Blackfriars Theatre 67
capacity in the Globe 23
challenging their expectations of genre 79
connections with the actors 130
and Earl of Essex’s rebellion 34
holding their attention 167
tastes 69
white and black 154
Austen, Jane: Mansfield Park 150–51
Avon, River 152
B
Bankside, London 26–7
baptism 13–14
Barton, John 91
Beethoven, Ludwig van 157
Bell Inn, Carter Lane, London 32
Belleforest, François de: Histoires Tragiques 53
Belott, Stephen 38
Belsey, Catherine 167
Betterton, Thomas 24
Bible, the 54–5
Bishopton, Warwickshire 37
Blackfriars, London: S’s gatehouse 38
Blackfriars Theatre, London 37
indoor playhouse 5, 37
King’s Men take over its running 37, 67
lighting and special effects 37, 67
music 37
Blake, William
The Book of Job 165
‘Pity’ 120
Prophetic Books 165
Boar’s Head Inn, Eastcheap, London 114
Boccaccio, Giovanni: Decameron 53
Bodleian Library, Oxford 55, 93
Bogdanov, Michael 132–3
Book of Common Prayer 13
Booth, John Wilkes 155–6
Boswell, James 152
Botticelli, Sandro: Venus and Mars 105
British Empire 153
British Library, London 55
Broadway Theatre, New York 154
Brooke, Arthur: The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet 53–4
Burbage, Richard 35–6, 38, 43, 64, 66
C
Caird, John 7
Campion, Edmund 20
Cardinal Cap Alley, London 27
Cardinal’s Hat brothel, Bankside, London 27
Castro, Fidel 155
censorship 33, 70–71, 154–5
Chapel Lane, Stratford-upon-Avon 47
Chapel Street, Stratford-upon-Avon 10, 31
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire 24
Chaucer, Geoffrey 20
The Canterbury Tales 52
Troilus and Criseyde 52
Chester, Robert: Love’s Martyr: or Rosalind’s Complaint 100
Chettle, Henry 70
Chichester Cathedral 68
chronology of Shakespeare’s works 1–3
Church of England 16, 18
Cicero 20
Cinthio, Giraldi: Gl’Ecatommiti (The One Hundred Tales) 53, 59–60
City of London 26
Clark, Charles Cowden 159
Clifford Chambers 41
Clinton, Bill 155
Clopton, Edward 47
Clopton, Hugh (descendent of New Place owner) 31
Clopton, Hugh (New Place original owner) 10–11, 30
complaints (laments) 99
Condell, Henry 43, 76, 77, 79, 80, 82
Coombe, John 41, 43
Coombe, Thomas 43
Coriolanus (film) 154
Corpus Christi College, Oxford 69
Cottom, John 20
Cowley, Richard 66
Crispin, St 61
Crown Inn, Oxford 28
Cultural Olympiad (2012) 168
D
Davenant, William 28
Davies, Richard 25
Dench, Jeffrey 138
Dench, Judi 137, 138
Deptford, London 58
St Nicholas’s Church 75
Dickens, Charles 147
Nicholas Nickleby 147
‘discovery space’ 66
Dodd, William: The Beauties of Shakespeare 151
Donne, John 49
Doran, Gregory 127
Drabble, Margaret 137
Drayton, Michael 41
Duffy, Carol Ann 147
Durham Cathedral 68
E
Earl of Worcester’s Men 13
Edward VI, King 16, 19
Eliot, T.S.: ‘Little Gidding’ (in The Four Quartets) 116
Elizabeth I, Queen
attends theatrical performances 29
on coinage 5
death 34
Essex’s rebellion 33
excommunicated 17
head of the Church of England 16
and Richard II 34
Erasmus, Desiderius 20
Essex, Earl of 33, 34
Evans, Edith 142
F
Famous Victories of Henry V, The 54
Field, Richard 28
Fiennes, Ralph 154
Fletcher, John 39, 40, 67, 72
Florio, John 55
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. 55
Forde, Emmanuel: The Famous History of Parismus 54
forgiveness, making 124–7
Malvolio’s and Antonio’s inability to forgive 124
and The Winter’s Tale 124–7
Forrest, Edwin 154
Franco, General Francisco 155
G
Garrick, David
Shakespeare Ode 152
Stratford Jubilee 10, 152–3
Gascoigne, George: Supposes 53
German Romanticism 155
German Shakespeare Society 155
G’Ingannati (The Deceived) 49, 54
Globe Theatre, The, London 67
audience capacity 33
burnt to the ground in a fire 38–9, 68
investment in 32, 33, 37, 39
Lords’ Room 5, 32–3
opens (1599) 32
rebuilt 39
Goethe, Johann von 155
Golding, Arthur 51
Goldwyn, Samuel 75
Gower, John: Confessio Amantis 52
grammar-school system 19–22
Green family 13
Greene, Rev. Joseph 31
Greene, Robert
Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit Bought with a Million of Repentance 25–6
Pandosto 54, 127
Greene, Thomas (S’s cousin) 40
Greenhill Street, Stratford-upon-Avon 11, 15
Greenwich Palace, London 29
Grimmitt, Richard 47
Guild Chapel, Stratford-upon-Avon 13, 30, 41
Gurr, Andrew 29
H
Hall, Edward: The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrious Families of Lancaster and York 53
Hall, Elizabeth (S’s granddaughter) 37, 43
Hall, John (S’s son-in-law) 37, 43, 45
Hall, Susanna (née Shakespeare; S’s daughter) 23, 37, 42, 43, 45, 103 Hamlet (film) 130–31
Hammond, Lieutenant 46
Harington, Sir John 53
Hart, Joan (née Shakespeare; S’s sister) 9, 14
Hart, Shakespeare (S’s great-great-nephew) 9–10
Harvey, Gabriel 94
Hathaway, Anne see Shakespeare, Anne (S’s wife) Hawkes, Terence 157
Heminges, John 43, 76–7, 79, 80, 82
Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon 9, 11
Henry IV, King 114
Henry VI, King 113
Henry VIII, King 16, 68
Heywood, Thomas 71
Hiccox, Lewis 9
High Street, Stratford-upon-Avon 23
history, making 114–16
role of Falstaff character 114–15
in the two parts of Henry IV 114–16
the world of the ordinary made extraordinary 114, 115, 116
Hitler, Adolf 155
Holinshed, Raphael: Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland 53, 60, 61, 80
Holy Trinity Church,
Stratford-upon-Avon Anne Shakespeare’s grave 45
Hamnet’s grave 29
S’s baptism (26 April 1564) 14
S’s grave 14, 41, 45, 46, 147
S’s memorial 41–2, 74
Hopkins, Gerard Manley 164
Horace 20, 80
Hughes, Ted 165
Hunt, Simon 20
Huntington Library, Los Angeles 55
I
impresa (heraldic-like device) 38
J
Jaber, Corinne 154
Jackson, Henry 69
James I, King
coronation 34, 42
fascinated with witchcraft and the supernatural 70
tenth anniversary of his accession 38
Janssen, Geerhart 41
Jefferson, Thomas 153
Jenkins, Thomas 20
Jesuits 17, 20
Jonson, Ben 41, 44–5, 57, 77
Timber, or Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter 45, 76
Juvenal 20
K
Kabul, Afghanistan 154
Katherine of Aragon, Queen 16
Keats, George 6, 161
Keats, Georgiana 6
Keats, John 5–6, 147–8, 159–60, 161–2
‘On sitting down to read King Lear once again’ 165
Keats, Tom 161
Kemp, Will 66
King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon 19–22, 49
King’s Men (previously the Lord
Chamberlain’s Men) 59, 73
Fletcher’s role of leading dramatist 72
and James I’s coronation 34, 42
takes over running of Blackfriars Theatre 37, 67
L
Lane, John 37
leather making 12
Levin, Bernard 51
Liebestod (love-death narrative) 105
Lincoln, Abraham 155
Lodge, Thomas: Rosalynde 54
London
location of playhouses in 26–7
plague in 27, 33, 94
S goes to 15, 25
Lord Chamberlain’s Men (later the King’s Men) 89
and Essex rebellion 33–4
formed (1594) 15, 29, 64
love, making 101–9
Cleopatra 104–5
comic lovemaking 105–6
Romeo and Juliet 101–4
same-sex 106–7
in the Sonnets 108–9
Titania and Nick Bottom 105–6
Lucy, Sir Thomas 24, 25
Lyly, John 56
M
Macdonald, Mairi 42
Machiavelli, Niccolò 86
Macready, William Charles 154
Maidenhead, The (pub) see under Shakespeare’s Birthplace
Manningham, John 35–6, 47, 49
Mantuanus 20
Market Theatre, Johannesburg 154
Marlowe, Christopher
and authorship of S’s plays 74
death 58, 74–5
influence on S 56, 57–9
popularity of his plays 56–7
Dr Faustus 26, 57, 58
Edward II 57
Hero and Leander 57
The Jew of Malta 26, 57
Tamburlaine the Great 26
Mary, Queen 16
Master of the Revels (state censor) 33, 71
May Day riots against foreigners (1517) 71
Meres, Francis: Palladis Tamia: Wit’s Treasury 98
Middle Temple, London 35, 47
Middleton, Thomas 72
The Witch 72
Milton, John 165
Monkswell Street, London 30
Montagne, Michel de 55
Montemayor, Jorge de: Diana 53
More, Sir Thomas 71
mortality, making 116–19
acceptance of life and death 118–19
in All’s Well That Ends Well 118
a defiant life force 116–18
in Hamlet 119
in Measure for Measure 116–18
Mountjoy, Christopher 38
Mountjoy family 30
Mountjoy, Mary 38
Munday, Antony and Chettle, Henry: The Book of Sir Thomas More 70–71
Mussolini, Benito 155
mystery plays 55
N
Nashe, Thomas 72
National Assembly of Local Arts agencies (Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1985) 168
New Place, Chapel Street, Stratford-upon-Avon becomes S’s family home 10–11, 15, 30
built (1490) 30
renovated and later demolished 31
S’s library 47
Susanna inherits 42
North, Sir Thomas 52, 61
Nuttall, A.D. 160
O
Oath of Succession (1534) 71
Old Stratford parish, Warwickshire 36, 40
Olivier, Laurence 130–31
Ovid 20–21, 93
The Fasti 51
Metamorphoses 21, 51
Owen, Wilfred 113–14
Oxford Shakespeare, The: The Complete Works 1, 82, 128
P
Painter, William: Palace of Pleasure 53
Palingenius 20
Parnassus plays 94
Pecorone, Il (The Dance) 53
Peele, George 72
Petrarchan love 108
Petty School, Stratford-upon-Avon 19
Pius V, Pope 17
plague 27, 33, 94
Plautus
Amphitryon 51
Menaechmi 49, 51
Plutarch: Lives 51–2, 61–2, 63, 64
prompt book 134
Protestantism 13, 16
Puritans 26, 37, 42
Q
Queen’s Men, The 25
first visit to Stratford 12–13
Quiller-Couch, Arthur 90
Quiney, Judith (née Shakespeare; S’s daughter) 23, 43, 45
Quiney, Richard 32
Quiney, Richard (S’s grandson) 45
Quiney, Shakespeare (S’s grandson) 45
Quiney, Thomas (S’s grandson) 45
Quiney, Thomas (S’s son-in-law) 43
Quintilian 20
R
recusancy 16–17
religious crises 16–19
Rialto Bridge, Venice 5
Richard II, King 114
Riche, Barnaby: His Farewell to Military Profession 54
Robinson, John 38
Rogers, John 41
Roman Catholicism 13, 16, 17, 61
Rose theatre, The, Bankside, London 26
Rowe, Nicholas 24, 28
Royal Shakespeare Company 91, 127
Rutland, Francis Manners, 6th Earl of 38
S
Sadler, Hamnet and Judith 23
St Andrew’s primary school, Shottery, near Stratford-upon-Avon 166–7
St George’s Day 14
St Giles Cripplegate parish, London 30
St Helen’s Bishopgate parish, London 30
St John’s College, Oxford 20
St Mark’s Day 13–14
St Saviour parish, Southwark, London 30
Sallust 20
Salusbury, Sir John 99–100
Scheemaker, Peter 152
Schiller, Friedrich 155
Scott, Walter 46
Scott, William: The Model of Poesie 33
Secchi, Nicolò: G’Inganni (The Mistakes) 49
Seneca 51
Shakespeare, Anne (née Hathaway; S’s wife)
death and burial 45
marries S 22–3
pregnancies 22, 23
and S’s will 42–3
Shakespeare, Anne (S’s sister) 14
Shakespeare, Edmund (S’s brother) 14
Shakespeare, Gilbert (S’s brother) 14
Shakespeare, Hamnet (S’s son) 23, 29
Shakespeare, Henry (S’s uncle) 10
Shakespeare, Joan see Hart, Joan Shakespeare, Joan (S’s sister, dies in infancy) 14
Shakespeare, John (S’s father) 9, 10
born in Snitterfield before 1530 10
death (1601) 9, 15
financial problems 14, 15
and first visit of professional actors to Stratford 12–13
granted a coat of arms 29–30
house purchases 11, 14, 15
leather-working and glove-making trade 12, 23, 25
marries Mary Arden 11, 12
public offices 12
sells property and land 15
and S’s education 19
and whitewashing of Guild Chapel’s medieval wall paintings 13
Shakespeare, Margaret (S’s sister) 14
Shakespeare, Mary (née Arden; S’s mother) 11–12, 15, 37
Shakespeare, Richard (S’s brother) 14, 30
Shakespeare, William
appearance 42
baptism 14
birthday (23 April 1564) 14, 151–2
as a ‘black hole’ 157
Britain’s national poet 153
celebration of 151–3
choice of reading 51–6
co-founds Lord Chamberlain’s
Men 15, 29
death (23 April 1616) 5, 14, 40–41
death of his father 9
deer-poaching story 24–5
education 19–22, 49
first mentioned in London 5
goes to London 15, 25
Holy Trinity Church grave 14, 41, 45, 46, 147
invests in the Globe 32, 39
lack of an heir 30
literary influences on 56–9
‘lost’ years 23–5
marries a pregnant Anne Hathaway (1582) 22–3
New Place becomes the family home 10–11, 15, 30
political sensitivity 154–5
revisions 73–4
success of first work printed 28
ways into S 148–56
wealth 32, 42
his will 38, 39, 40, 42–3
plays
audience taste and censorship 79–81
authorship 74–5
banishment theme 86
categorisation 79–80, 82
collaborative work 39–40, 71–3, 74