The following list is designed as a basis for reference from specific plays to their company and playhouse. It is arranged in alphabetical order of plays, by the first proper name in the titles, which are given as they have been regularised in E. K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage (4 vols., Oxford, 1923) and G. E. Bertley, The Jacobean and Caroline Stage (7 vols., Oxford, 1941–68). It includes only those extant plays which can be assigned with reasonable confidence to a particular company and playhouse. The information has been compiled largely from The Elizabethan Stage III–IV, The Jacobean and Caroline Stage III–V and Harbage, Annals of English Drama 975–1700, third edition, revised by Sylvia Stoler Wagonheim, 1989, with a few modifications. With some reservations it adopts the dating sequence of Shakespeare's plays in the Complete Works, the New Oxford edition. Middleton's plays are attributed to the dates given in the recent Oxford Collected Works. Other entries incorporate, for instance, suggestions about dating Ford's later plays (post-1628) in Andrew Gurr, ‘Singing through the Chatter: Ford and Contemporary Theatrical Fashion’, in John Ford: Critical Re-Visions, ed. Michael Neill (Cambridge 1988), pp. 81–96.

Similar names were sometimes used by different playing companies, chiefly the various Queen's and Prince's companies, and the King's Revels. Here Queen Elizabeth's is called Queen's, while Anne's and Henrietta's are indicated by the personal name. The first Jacobean Prince's company is called Prince's, later the Palsgrave's, and the post-1615 companies are called Prince Charles's.