— at Pe eaiiconry Court, size of, 
A 435 sitting on, 44, 130, 141. 
——— at Swan, removable, 33; po- 
sition of, 45, 138; sitting on, 45, 
138; sitting “over,” 135. 
- at “The Theatre,” unhistori- 
cal, 49°, 137°, 
— at Whitefriars, size of, 43; 
sitting on, 44, 130. 
in France, sitting on, ix, 46, 
43-47; modeled aiter Blackfriars, 
46, 147. 
; in Germany, sitting on, at 
= ~ Frankfurt, reported by Goethe, 
P46; modern, 48%. 
modern, size of, 47°; view 
of actors on, 47°; acting on, 134°, 
See Theatre. 
Stage and audience, relative posi- 
tions of, ix, 50-plat-51, 52; and 
 gallants, in relation to gentlemen’ s 
> rooms, 44, 45, 134*, 136, 137-41. 
Stage and drama, relations of chil- 
_dren- -companies to, vii, vili, ix, xii, 
ipo) ale,. 13,” 14-15, 16, 105, 122, 
a 141, 147, 180°. 
~ Stage-apparel, of Blackfriars chil- 
dren, furnished by Elizabeth, 5, 
* 83, 91-92, 99, 100, 106-7, 123, 124, 
oe 126, 127,- 129, 178, 183 ; furnished 
through Kirkham, 83, 99-100, 103- 
4, 126; furnishing of, official, 100, 
101, 103-4; superabundance and 
~ elegance of, 106725124. 12%. 173; 
_expensiveness of, 126, 129, 178. 
of Children of King’s Rey- 
els, value of, 178”. 
of public theatre companies, 
178; Thomas Platter on excel- 
lence of, 1787; value of, 178’; 
_ Robert Green’s report on value of, 
178°. 
_ Stage-directions, as corroborative 
but unsubstantiative evidence, 7°- 
Speier tts, 1ot.-131". 137%)" 167; 
167°: as sources on public theatre, 
7-8; for music, 10, 113, 116-18, 
» 121; for singing, 113, 1144, 121 
“in Percy’s plays, impossible and 
~ valueless, 131°. 
_ Stage-history, of 1597-1603, x, 148- 
_ 72; new perspective of, x, 54, 99, 
‘= 105, 126-29, 148-62. 
2 - Stage-quarrel, impersonal side of, 
- as incidental to relations of Black- 
friars to theatres, poets and play- 
SUBJECT INDEX — 205 
ers, Xi, Xli, 165-66", 168, 169-72, 
180°; at Globe and Blackfriars, 
158, 168-72, 181; Shakespeare cen- 
sures Elizabeth's partisanship in, 
158*, 178-81; Shakespeare’s atti- 
tude toward, in Hamlet, 158*, 173- 
82; and in Troilus and Cressida, 
168, alyg3s given wrong historical 
aspects, 169°. 
personal side of, Jonson- 
Marston-Dekker in, x-xi, Xii, 133, 
140, 158, 165-66", 168, 169-72, 178- 
81. 
Star Chamber, Court of, Clifton’s 
Complaint in, against Blackfriars, 
365.705) FA; 73- 74, 77-83, 84-87%, 
100, 101, 102, 113-144, 115, 126, 
128%, 159, 160, 180;. interpretation 
of Gyles’ s commission by, in prac- 
es, W0-nik sae <1 275 decree of, 
against Evans, 81-83, 84-87", 87- 
ce BY es We a 126, 159: de- 
cree of, satirized by Chapman, 82, 
86-87. See Clifton, Decree, Eliz- 
abeth, Evans, Gyles. 
State control of theatres, Elizabeth 
to Victoria, 148. 
Status of Blackfriars Children, 105- 
25. 
Street, Peter, contractor for For- 
tune, 7-8, 29*; builder of Globe, - 
29°. 
Strolling players, law against, 150, 
152°,-175*; —history of, 175-76; 
Shakespeare’s company as, 175°; 
other companies of, with dates, 
and Blackfriars as a cause, 175°. 
Structural details of Blackfriars, ix, 
37-54; of other theatres, see Com- 
parative view. 
Summary of evidences on official 
conduct of Blackfriars, 126-29. 
Swan theatre, De Witt—Van Buchell 
sketch of, 77, 317, 33°, 33%, 42%, 42°, 
45.52, 434, 187° 5° date of; ‘9 3 ars 
chitecture of, 18°; De Witt’s view 
and estimate of, 30-33; model for 
Hope, 30, 31*; size and capacity 
o£/30-31, 33; 50°; ‘cost of, 34; 7335 
structure and finishing of, 32; 
stage of, 33, 45, 135, 138; gentle- 
men’s rooms in, 42°, 45; “orches- 
tra” of, 42°, 45, 137°;. sitting on 
stage of, 45, 138; sitting “over” 
stage of, 135; location of, 153’. 
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