The Elizabethan Stage Vol. IV, by E. K. Chambers

‘ne’, significance of, ii. 122, 141, 145; iii. 421.
Netherlands, players in, ii. 273–4, 285, 288, 291, 292.
New Year’s Day, i. 19, 213.
Newington Butts playhouse, ii. 404.
Night performances, i. 304; iv. 225, 247, 268, 302, 306, 340.
Nîmes, synod of, i. 249.
Nottingham’s men, ii. 141–86.

Open country scenes, iii. 51.
Orchestra, ii. 530.
Ordinanze di figurette (plots?), iv. 364.
Original Accounts, iv. 132.
‘Originals’ of plays, iii. 193, 227.
Orizonte (vanishing-point), iv. 355–8.
Ostend, siege of, iv. 39.
Out-of-doors action, convention of, iii. 29, 42, 60, 63.
Outer Chamber, i. 42, 45.
‘Over the stage’, ii. 534.
Oxford’s boys, ii. 100–1.
Oxford’s men, ii. 99–102.

‘Pageanter’, iii. 445.
Pageants, i. 126, 132, 135, 138, 151, 160, 175, 303; ii. 90; iii. 20, 305, 358, 445; iv. 60, 63, 77, 92, 118, 121, 231, 339.
Pages of Chamber, i. 45.
Palaces, i. 8–15.
Palsgrave’s men, ii. 190–2.
Papist plays, i. 328.
Pariete (scenic wall), iv. 355, 362.
Paris Garden, ii. 450–65.
Parliaments, i. 22.
‘Parts’ of plays, ii. 44; iii. 185, 194, 329.
Passports, ii. 138, 274.
Patents, stages of, i. 272;
for Master of Revels, i. 89, 99; iv. 285;
for playing companies, i. 281, 302, 304, 305, 385; ii. 49, 55, 56, 67, 68, 87, 187, 190, 208, 218, 229, 230, 243, 246; iv. 270, 272, 335–43, 344;
for playhouse, ii. 472.
Patterns for masks, i. 163, 165.
Paul’s, children of, ii. 8–23;
grammar school, ii. 9–11, 16, 21;
playhouse, ii. 16; iii. 144.
Payments for court plays, iv. 141–83.
Pembroke’s men, ii. 128–34, 166, 199.
Pendentia (rake of stage), iv. 356.
Pensioners, i. 47, 50, 140; iv. 352.
Pensions of players, i. 352; ii. 191, 237.
Pent-house, ii. 544.
Pergoli (balconies), iv. 360.
Περίακτοι (turn-tables), i. 233; iii. 3.
Perspective, in mask-settings, i. 184;
on court stage, i. 231;
on Italian stage, iii. 8–10, 13; iv. 355;
on French stage, iii. 17;
on court stage, iii. 21, 44;
in private theatres, iii. 133, 154.
Phoenix playhouse, ii. 372, 375.
Pianta (ground-plan of stage), iv. 355.
Pippins in playhouses, iv. 203, 218.
‘Piracy’ of plays, iii. 184–92.
Pit, ii. 555; iv. 372.
‘Place’, iii. 22, 27, 37.
‘Place behind the stage’, iii. 82.
Plagiarism, iii. 408.
Plague, history of, in London, i. 329; iv. 345–51;
bills of, i. 292, 302, 330; iv. 301, 336, 338, 345;
restraint of plays for, i. 267, 278, 282, 286–97, 302–4, 329; ii. 113; iv. 259–345, 346–51;
subsidies to King’s men in, i. 218; ii. 210, 214; iv. 168, 174, 176;
in progress time, i. 109, 111, 119, 121.
Platea, iii. 16, 22.
Plaudite, ii. 549; iii. 370; iv. 366.
Players as covenant servants, ii. 154;
as gentlemen, i. 349; ii. 98, 298;
as Grooms of Chamber, i. 47, 52, 311; ii. 105, 211; iv. 169;
as rogues and vagabonds, i. 254, 270, 279, 287, 292, 294, 299, 305, 383; iv. 224, 230, 255, 258, 270, 300, 324, 337;
in masks, i. 200; ii. 217;
in poets’ feathers, i. 376; iii. 326, 450;
in prison, i. 298, 339; ii. 52, 55, 155, 323; iii. 257, 353, 496; iv. 305, 323;
on the road, i. 332, 376, 380, 383–4; iii. 353; iv. 236, 241, 257;
pressing of, i. 383; iv. 18.
See Apparel, Apprentices, Arms, Boys, Casts, Chameleon, Clowns, Continent, Contracts, Conversion, Copper lace, Debts, Doubling, Fines, Hireling, Infamia, Lawsuits, Quality, Ranting, Recognisances, Statutes, Supers, Temperament, Vizards, Women.
Playhouses, list of, ii. 379;
succession of, ii. 355–79;
iconography of, ii. 519;
audience in, ii. 548, 555;
auditorium of, ii. 526–38, 555;
cost of, i. 368; ii. 387, 391, 406–9, 423, 436, 441, 443;
destruction of, ii. 374;
luxury of, i. 285, 348; ii. 358, 395, 530; iv. 197, 200, 217, 269;
profits of, i. 355, 368; ii. 391, 424–5, 510, 512;
seating of, ii. 530–8, 555;
shape of, ii. 524, 554;
size of, ii. 527, 554;
structure of, ii. 393, 409, 434, 439, 443, 448, 522–57;
suppression of, in city, ii. 359;
visits of foreigners to, ii. 358–69.
See Accidents, Attendants, Bills, Bookholders, Books, Boxes, Boxholders, Bullettini, Burning, Cards, Contracts, Cressets, Cutpurses, Disorders, Doors, Entrance fees, Executions, Flags, Free list, Galleries, Gatherers, Groundlings, Harlots, Hiring, Hissing, Hour, Housekeepers, Hut, Ladies, Licences, Lighting, Lords’ rooms, Mewing, Night, Pent-house, Pippins, Pit, Plaudite, Private, Public, Refreshments, Rooms, Round, Shadow, Seats, Signs, Smoking, Sounding, Square, Stage, Stagekeepers, Staging, Stinkards, Stools, Taphouses, Tiring house, Tombs, Top, Trumpets, Understanders, Upper rooms, Yard.
Playing companies, lists of, i. 341; ii. 8, 77;
succession of, ii. 3–8;
organization of, i. 310–13, 352–68, 378.
See Adult, Amalgamation, Articles, Associations, Badges, Bonds, Boy, Competition, Compositions, Deputations, Division, Exemplifications, Finance, Housekeepers, Licences, Local, Lords, Managers, Masters, Patents, Pensions, Provincial, Sharers, Size, Stock, Syndicates.
Plays, lists of, iv. 373–406;
called ballads, iii. 504, 505;
falsity of, i. 254; iv. 211, 217;
incongruities in, iii. 40, 88; iv. 201, 203, 215, 226, 248;
preferred to sermons, i. 255, 258; iv. 199, 219, 223, 304;
price of, i. 372; ii. 160–4;
written for printing, iii. 28;
within plays, iii. 93.
See Acts, Calvinism, Closet, Defences, Duration, Epilogue, Ethics, Extempore, Get-penny, Length, Morals, Plots, Politics, Prayers, Prologue, Puritans, Religious, Revision, Revivals, Runs, Satire, Sedition, Topical, Vice.
Play-texts, sold to printers, iii. 184, 194;
printing of, i. 341; ii. 114, 128; iii. 158–200, 479.
See Abridgement, Assembled, Copy, Copyright, Corrector, Good and Bad, Manuscripts, Morals, Originals, Parts, Piracy, Press-corrections, Publishers, Scriveners, Shorthand, Stage-directions, Star Chamber, Stationers, Staying, Surreptitious.
Playwrights, collaboration of, ii. 161, 253; iii. 368;
in prison, iii. 254, 257, 263, 270, 353, 367, 394, 419, 428, 454, 500;
relation of, to players, i. 372–86; ii. 162, 251–3; iii. 325, 365, 450; iv. 236, 241, 450;
to boy companies, i. 378; ii. 50.
See Amanuensis, Benefits, Earnest.
Pléiade, plays of, iii. 13, 19.
‘Plot’ of playhouse, ii. 439.
‘Plots’ of plays, ii. 125, 136, 150, 158, 175–7; iii. 125, 459, 496, 500; iv. 9, 14, 47, 51, 404.
Poetomachia, i. 381; iii. 252, 292, 293, 353, 365, 369, 428, 430; iv. 11, 17, 21, 40, 47.
Poggiuoli (balconies), iv. 360.
Politics in plays, i. 244, 262–3, 276, 304, 321, 322–8; ii. 51–5, 196, 204, 210, 211, 215; iii. 254, 257, 271, 275, 286, 296, 364, 367, 415.
Pomponiani, iii. 3.
Poor rate on playhouses, i. 281, 283, 294, 300, 301, 317; ii. 410; iv. 304, 316, 324, 325, 327, 328.
Porter of St. John’s Gate, i. 79, 93, 100.
Porter’s Hall playhouse, ii. 472–4; iii. 272.
Porticus, ii. 530.
Posts, Master of, i. 48, 62, 69.
Posts on stage, ii. 544–5; iii. 27, 38, 72, 75, 108.
Prayers at end of plays, i. 245, 311; ii. 550; iii. 180, 466, 470, 504, 505; iv. 3, 37, 50, 51.
Prayer-time, restraint in, i. 282, 283, 289, 292, 313; ii. 123.
Presence Chamber, i. 14; iv. 351–3.
Presenters, iii. 92, 128.
President of Council, i. 68.
Press-corrections, iii. 197.
Prices of seats, ii. 531–4, 536.
Prince Charles’s men, ii. 241–6.
Prince Henry’s men, ii. 186–90.
Printed plays (list), iv. 379–97.
Prison scenes, iii. 62, 66.
Private performances, i. 219, 283, 292, 340; ii. 159; iii. 451–3; iv. 36, 276, 300, 302, 308.
‘Private’ playhouses, i. 380; ii. 355, 511, 522, 536; iii. 149; iv. 366, 372;
arrangements of, ii. 554–6;
staging in, iii. 130–54.
‘Privileges’ for books, iii. 159.
Privy Chamber, i. 14, 42.
Privy Council, i. 66–70;
Clerks of, i. 48, 68;
register of, i. 68, 277; iv. 259;
control of plays by, i. 69, 217, 266–8, 269–307; iii. 367; iv. 259–345;
of printing, iii. 159–63, 168, 172;
Privy Gallery, i. 14.
Privy Garden, i. 14.
Privy Purse, i. 62, 66.
Privy Seal, i. 54, 56, 67.
Proclamations, i. 68, 270, 273, 276, 279, 302.
Profanity in plays, i. 255, 303, 322; iv. 338.
Profilo (section of playhouse), iv. 353–5.
Profits of players, i. 348, 368–70; iv. 200, 219, 269, 371.
Progresses, i. 17, 21, 107–31; ii. 25;
plays during, i. 214.
Prologue, ii. 542, 547; iii. 72; iv. 367.
Prompters. See Bookholders.
Properties, i. 224, 231, 372; ii. 168; iii. 88, 137; iv. 367.
Proscenio (floor of stage), iii. 4; iv. 355, 358.
Proscenium, ii. 528, 540; iii. 16, 31.
Proscenium arch of masks, i. 181, 234;
of plays, i. 234; iii. 20.
Provinces, plays in, i. 304, 328, 332–41, 387; ii. 1; iv. 36, 273, 311, 319.
‘Provision’, offices of, i. 35.
Public halls, plays in, ii. 356.
‘Public’ playhouses, ii. 355, 511, 522, 536; iv. 366.
Publishers, iv. 379;
play-lists of, iv. 398.
Pueri elemosinariae, ii. 9, 70.
Puppet plays. See Motions.
Puritans and plays, i. 236–68, 294; iv. 184–259 (extracts).
Purveyance, i. 116.