lusions, 164; plays of, influenced 
by Blackfriars poets, 166-67. 
Paul's Boys, relations of, to pres- 
o-ent history, i: patronized by 
P= Elizabeth, 1 4, 67, 154,157; “Grst 
=< at Blackfriars, 24; commission to 
Thos. Gyles to take up children 
: for, 67°, 107°; used as actors, 24, 
__ 69-70; music and singing in plays 
_ of, 9, 122; list of dramatists for, 
163°; plays of, with local allusions, 
: 164; plays of, influenced by Black- 
x friars poets, 166-67. 
& Percy. W., The Faery Pastorall, 
BS Necromantes, and The Cuck- 
queanes and Cuckolds Errants, 
never acted, 49", 131°; impossible 
_.  stage-directions of, 131°. 
Phoenix theatre. See Cockpit. 
_ Plat, suggestive, of Blackfriars, ix, 
Be 47, 50-51, 52; of the Fortune, ix, 
a 50-51, 52. 
‘i. Platter, Thomas, Diary (1599), on 
' Curtain, Bear-Garden, and Globe, 
7-8; on comfort in London the- 
atres, 51*; on stage-apparel, 178”. 
Play-acting, taught at Blackfriars, 
Betepsecls 06-7, 113, eek 124- 
25, 180. 
- Players. 
- Playhouse. 
: Plays, recent discoveries of, xv, 
mes .164°; losses in, 14-15, 122, 163- 
64, 172; law restricting criticism 
Sin, 164, 176, 181”. 
* 
Cy 
See Actors. 
See Theatre. 
at Blackfriars, chronology 
Oty ee Rice 55 14°18 
ef, on Shakespeare and contem- 
poraries, xi, 12-15, 123, 166-68, 
174-82; masques within, xi, xii, 
5, 10‘, 44, 113, 114, 119-21, 122- — 
Bs 24, 163, 167; singing within, 5, 
+ 9-10, 113-15, 121, 163, 180; sing- 
' ing preceding, 5, 9, 106-7, 115, 
~ 163, 180; music within, 5, 9-10, 
114, 116, 121, 122, 163; music pre- 
ceding, 5, 9, 10, 106-7, 113, 115, 
117-18, 163; dancing within, 5, 44, 
118, 119, 163; shaped by condi- 
tions cf dramatic freedom, 13-14, 
~ 413, 123; with local allusions, 15, 
164-72; quality of, 15, 165; num- 
ber of, acted per week, 71, 106-7, 
124-25; number of actors in, 74- 
76, 127; list of, 75, 114-18; names 
of actors in, 76, 80’, 132°, 163, 1657, 
Bre pa 
SUBJECT INDEX 
influences - 
201 
177°; Puritanic opposition to, 79, 
126, "159; stage-directions corrob- 
orative. of Duke of Stettin’s Diary 
concerning, 113, 121; masque as 
new feature in, 119, 122-23; as 
comedies in high life, 124; imi- 
tated, 166-68; imitative, 167-68. 
by children-companies,  sci- 
entific editing of, vii; character- 
istics of, 9-10, 14-15, 113, 114-19, 
119-21, 122, 123-24; proportion of, 
12, 163-64. 
-——— Heminge and Condell’s ad- 
dress in 1623 folio of Shake- 
speare’s, on sitting on stage, 136. 
with local allusions, 14-15, 
82-83, 86-87, 163-72, 177°-78; the 
Byron tragedies as, 15, 163; evi- 
dences of losses of, in Henslowe’s 
Diary, 14-15, 163-64; Hamlet 
among, 164, 173-82. 
Poets. See Dramatists. 
Popularity of Children at Black- 
friars, 80°, 85', 94, 104, 117-18, 
123, 124, 166, 173-74, 176-77. 
Fraeludia, of early and modern 
drama, 9, 122. See Music, Sing- 
ing. 
Precedents for Children of Chapel 
at Blackfriars as actors, 1, 62-66, 
68-70. 
“Private” and “public” theatres dif- 
ferentiated, 9, 12, 156-57, 161’, 
165°, 176). 
Privy Council, petition to, against 
Blackfriars, 1'7°,.27, 53°, 54, 128°, 
152, 154°; takes no action against 
Blackfriars, 53, 54, 128°, 152; or- 
ders of, against public theatres, 
54, 148, 149, 150°-517, 152, 153, 
155, 156, 157-58, 160; City’s re- 
quests to, to suppress theatres, 
149, 152, 154, 155, 156, 160; orders 
of, not executed by City, 149, 153, 
154, 155, 156, 161', 1617-62; under 
James I, revokes Elizabethan or- 
ders, 149*-50, 161*; restrains Rose, 
155, 181°; restrains Curtain, 158, 
181°. See City, Elizabeth, Orders. 
Profits at Blackfriars, by Burbage- 
Shakespeare company, 35, 45; 
agreement by Evans, Kirkham et 
al. to share, 89-90, 91-92°; failure 
of, in public theatres, through 
Blackfriars, catises companies to 
travel, 1737-74, 175°. 
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