Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Raiding the nest: a company biography
- 2 ‘Proper gallants wordes’: comedy and the theatre audience
- 3 ‘Grief, and joy, so suddenly commixt’: company politics and the development of tragicomedy
- 4 ‘Ieronimo in Decimo sexto’: tragedy and the text
- Conclusion
- Appendix A The Chapel/Queen's Revels repertory (Summary)
- Appendix B The Chapel/Queen's Revels repertory (Data and analysis)
- Appendix C Biographical summary
- Appendix D Actor lists
- Appendix E Court and touring performances, 1600–13
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix C - Biographical summary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Raiding the nest: a company biography
- 2 ‘Proper gallants wordes’: comedy and the theatre audience
- 3 ‘Grief, and joy, so suddenly commixt’: company politics and the development of tragicomedy
- 4 ‘Ieronimo in Decimo sexto’: tragedy and the text
- Conclusion
- Appendix A The Chapel/Queen's Revels repertory (Summary)
- Appendix B The Chapel/Queen's Revels repertory (Data and analysis)
- Appendix C Biographical summary
- Appendix D Actor lists
- Appendix E Court and touring performances, 1600–13
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This appendix comprises brief notes on all those connected with the Children of the Chapel/Children of the Queen's Revels; in some cases more detailed discussion can be found in the main text (see Index). Abbreviated references to sources are given at the end of each entry. For Actor Lists see Appendix D.
Allen, Richard, fl. 1609. Actor c.1609 (Epicoene, also in The Coxcomb list). JCS, vol. 2, 344.
Anna of Denmark, 1574–1619. Patron 1604, 1610. Queen Consort, wife of James VI and I. Also patron of adult company; sponsor/designer of court masques. Barroll, Anna of Denmark.
Attewell, Hugh, c. 1592–1621. Actor c.1609 (Amorous La Foole in Epicoene, also in The Coxcomb list). Later Prince Charles's company. Subject of an elegy by William Rowley which describes him as a ‘little man’. Eccles, ‘Actors I’, 39; JCS, vol. 2, 351–3; Riddell, ‘Some Actors’, 295–6.
Barksted, William, c. 1590–<1638. Actor c.1609 (Morose in Epicoene), dramatist (The Insatiate Countess). Later Lady Elizabeth's/Prince Charles's companies, and features in a number of jest-books. Author of Mirrha (1607), with dedicatory verses by Lewis Machin, and Hiren (1611). Bly, Queer Virgins, 122–5; Eccles, ‘Brief Lives’, 10–11; Grosart, Poems, xxiv; Greg, Henslowe Papers, 18, 111; Riddell, ‘Some Actors’, 295–6.
Baxter, Robert, fl. 1600–1. Actor c.1600–1 (Cynthia's Revels). In 1601 ‘Roberte Baxter and John Croker, twoe of the Children of the Chapple’, were paid twenty shillings ‘vppon one bill’. Possibly later Lady Elizabeth's. Eccles, ‘Actors I’, 39.
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- Children of the Queen's RevelsA Jacobean Theatre Repertory, pp. 179 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005