Q

• Quadri (squares), iv. 356, 358.
• ‘Quality’ of players, i. 309.
• ‘Queen’ of folk, i. 124; iv. 78.
• Queen’s men, ii. 83, 104–15, 229–40.
• Queen’s Revels, children of, ii. 48–51, 56–61; iii. 273.
• Quintain, i. 123.

R

• ‘Rake’ of stage, i. 233; iv. 356.
• Ranting of players, i. 384; ii. 447.
• Rappresentazioni, iii. 6.
• Recesses on stage, iii. 42, 51, 70, 81, 110.
• Recognisances by players, i. 283, 300, 319; iv. 261, 269, 275, 298, 325, 327, 333, 340.
• Recreation, i. 267, 309.
• Red Bull playhouse, ii. 445–8.
• Red Lion playhouse, ii. 379.
• Rederijker, iii. 102.
• Refreshments, ii. 548.
• Regensburg theatre, iii. 78.
• Rehearsals, i. 87, 223; iv. 149, 152, 157, 252, 286, 372.
• Religious subjects in plays, i. 239–45, 255, 266, 323, 325; ii. 265; iv. 185, 188, 196, 198, 222, 369.
• Remembrancia of City, i. 277, 286; iv. 259.
• ‘Removes’, i. 17, 20.
• Renghiere (balconies), iv. 360.
• ‘Repertory’ theatres, ii. 148;
• output of, ii. 162;
• Requests, Masters of, i. 48, 69.
• Restraint of plays, i. 265, 269–307; iv. 259–345.
• area of, i. 278, 282, 331; ii. 94, 123.
• See Innovation, Lent, Plague, Prayer-time, Royal deaths, Sedition, Sunday.
• Retainers, i. 271, 279; ii. 86; iv. 268, 293.
• Revels, children of, ii. 51.
• Revels companies in provinces, ii. 53, 59–61, 67.
• ‘Revels’ in mask, i. 198; iii. 386.
• Revels Office, i. 71–105, 116, 223;
• airings in, i. 78, 101;
• allowances to officers of, i. 76, 79, 90, 94, 101;
• arms and seal of, i. 104;
• commission for, i. 84, 89, 99;
• finance and accounts of, i. 71–105; iv. 135–41, 142–83 (extracts);
• functions of, at court plays, i. 223;
• housing of, i. 74, 75, 81, 83, 87, 89, 95, 101; ii. 477, 491–3, 516;
• inventories of, i. 73, 74, 76, 89, 158; iv. 136;
• ledgers of, i. 74, 82.
• See Clerk, Clerk Comptroller, Groom, Master, Yeoman.
• Revision of plays, i. 373, 384; ii. 130, 170, 172, 179; iii. 396, 423, 431, 433, 440.
• Revivals of plays, i. 373; ii. 43, 211; iii. 104, 364.
• Rewards for plays, i. 217, 369; ii. 78–9.
• Rich’s men, ii. 91.
• ‘Riding’ charges, i. 63.
• Rings, ii. 355, 449, 525.
• ‘Rivers’, iii. 51, 58, 90, 107.
• Robes, Master of, i. 52;
• Mistress of, i. 44;
• Rome, plays at, iii. 3, 9.
• ‘Room’. See ‘Hall’.
• ‘Rooms’, ii. 530.
• Roscius, i. 376–7; ii. 297–8, 329, 331; iii. 223, 353; iv. 195, 204, 228, 230, 236, 239.
• Rose playhouse, ii. 405–10.
• Round playhouses, ii. 355, 434, 524; iv. 372.
• Roxana engraving, ii. 519.
• Royal deaths, restraint for, i. 302, 304, 329, 339; iv. 335, 341.
• Ruffiana (courtesan), iii. 32; iv. 359.
• Running at the ring, iii. 243, 279; iv. 74, 80, 121, 125, 127.
• ‘Runs’ of plays, ii. 148.
• Rushes on stage, ii. 529; iv. 366–8.

S

• St. Elizabeth’s Day, i. 18.
• St. George’s Day, i. 20; iii. 367; iv. 71.
• St. Peter’s watch, iv. 81.
• Salisbury Court playhouse, ii. 373, 375, 517.
• Satire in plays, i. 258, 261–3, 268–9, 322–8; iv. 194, 238, 253, 256, 368;
• of bishops, i. 294;
• citizens, i. 264; iv. 239;
• courtiers, iii. 310;
• French, i. 323; ii. 53; iii. 257, 426;
• Henri IV, ii. 53;
• James, i. 325–8; ii. 53;
• humours, i. 263;
• lawyers, iii. 365, 475;
• magistrates, iv. 254.
• persons of honour, i. 321, 324, 327; ii. 343; iii. 455, 496; iv. 332;
• Poles, iii. 455;
• Puritans, i. 261, 262, 294; iii. 372, 476; iv. 229–33, 245, 249;
• Scotch, i. 323, 326; ii. 51; iii. 254, 286, 354, 432;
• soldiers, iii. 365;
• sovereigns, i. 327–8, 493; iv. 247, 254;
• Spanish, i. 323;
• Swedish, i. 324;
• usurers, iii. 286, 288; iv. 239;
• women, iii. 417; &c., &c.
• See Marprelate, Sedition.
• Satyre, iv. 362.
• Saxony, players at court of, ii. 288–9.
• Scale (steps), iv. 358.
• Scena, ii. 539; iii. 3.
• Scenae trigemina corona, i. 251.
• Scenarie, iv. 404.
• Scene, iv. 353–65.
• Scenes, as background for stage, i. 233; iii. 12, 129; iv. 366, 370, 371, 372.
• for masks, i. 155, 170–84;
• as divisions of play, iii. 50, 125, 131, 199;
• types of, iii. 50–68, 106.
• See Perspective.
• Scenic presentation. See Staging.
• Schoolboy plays, i. 378; ii. 11, 69–76; iii. 211.
• Scotland, players in, i. 341; ii. 78, 265–70.
• Scriveners’ copies of plays, iii. 193.
• Seasons for plays, i. 329.
• Seats on stage, ii. 534–8; iv. 366–8.
• Secondaries of the Compter, plays licensed by, i. 275.
• Secretaries of State, i. 48, 56, 67, 68.
• Secretarii, i. 55, 56.
• Sedie (seats), iv. 355, 358.
• Sedilia, ii. 530.
• Sedition in plays, i. 264, 266, 271, 273, 275, 283, 295, 299; iii. 453–5; iv. 322.
• See Politics, Restraints, Satire, Theology.
• ‘Senate houses’, i. 231; iii. 44, 58, 95.
• Serjeants, i. 34, 42;
• at Arms, i. 47;
• Servitors in playhouses. See Attendants.
• Setting of plays. See Staging.
• Sewers for Chamber, i. 46.
• ‘Shadow’, ii. 544.
• Sharers, i. 352–8, 369; iv. 369.
• Sharers Papers of 1635, i. 357; ii. 59, 384, 417, 425, 508–10.
• Shepherds, king and queen of, iv. 66.
• Ship-board scenes, iii. 116.
• Shoes, in play, ii. 326, 365; iii. 362.
• Shops on stage, iii. 59, 110.
• Shorthand, plays reported by, iii. 185, 343–4.
• Shrovetide, i. 20, 213; iv. 237.
• Shrove-Tuesday riots, i. 265; ii. 240.
• ‘Side’ of stage, iii. 74.
• Siege scenes, iii. 38, 54, 96.
• Signet, Clerks of, i. 48, 57.
• Signet licences for players, i. 306, 338; ii. 260.
• Signs of theatres, ii. 362, 400, 424.
• Silver mine, satire of, in play, ii. 53.
• Sinking curtains, iii. 9, 30.
• Size of companies, i. 354.
• Small seals, i. 56.
• Smoking in playhouse, ii. 548; iv. 367.
• ‘Solace’ of queen, i. 267, 292.
• ‘Soundings’ in playhouse, ii. 542; iii. 72; iv. 368.
• Sovereign, plays licensed by, i. 275.
• Spain, players in, ii. 292.
• Spanish landings in Cornwall, iv. 251.
• Spectators, rôle of, in mask, i. 150, 153, 155, 197.
• ‘Split’ scenes, iii. 86.
• Square playhouse, ii. 439, 524.
• Stage, structure of, ii. 528.
• Stage-directions, nature of, iii. 180, 193–8;
• players named in, iii. 196, 227, 271, 285, 295, 330; iv. 32, 43, 45.
• Stagekeepers, ii. 109, 541; iv. 38.
• Staging, in Italy, iii. 2–12; iv. 353–65;
• in France, iii. 12–19;
• at court, iii. 19–46;
• in 16th century, iii. 47–102;
• in 17th century, iii. 103–30;
• in private theatres, iii. 130–54;
• change of locality the problem of, iii. 18, 99, 121–30.
• See Above, Academic, Alcove, Alternationist, Animals, Arbours, Arras, Atmospheric, Back cloths, Beam, Bears, Bed, Black, Canopy, Castles, Close walk, Counting house, Curtains, Descents, Diagrams, Discoveries, Domus, Doors, Edge, Εκκύκλημα, End, Entrance, Excursions, Foreshortening, Hangings, Heavens, Hell, Houses, Hut, Interior action, Interludes, Juxtaposition, Locality, Machines, Multiple, Out-of-doors, Over, Perspective, Place, Posts, Properties, Rake, Recesses, Rivers, Rushes, Scenes, Senate houses, Shops, Side, Stairs, Standardization, Studies, Tents, Throne, Thunder, Titles, Traps, Traverse, Trees, Upper stage, Walls, Windows, Wings.
• ‘Stairs’, iii. 95.
• ‘Standardization of effects’, iii. 2, 50, 131.
• ‘Standing’ houses, i. 8, 115;
• offices, i. 49, 71, 102;
• Stanley’s boys, ii. 119.
• Star Chamber, i. 67, 69, 273, 300, 328; ii. 43; iv. 327;
• orders of, on printing, iii. 162, 166, 172.
• ‘State’ for sovereign, i. 203, 226.
• Stationers, ethics of, iii. 186.
• Stationers’ Company, iii. 160–77, 186–91, 505; iv. 265, 303.
• Stationers’ Register, iii. 158, 163–77, 188–91, 422; iv. 379, 398.
• Statistics of plays, iii. 22, 49, 105, 177, 181–3.
• Statutes concerning players, i. 270, 276, 279, 299, 303, 304; iv. 260, 263, 269, 324, 336, 338.
• ‘Staying’ of printing, ii. 172, 204; iii. 183–91, 292, 359–60.
• Steward of Household, Lord, i. 35, 55, 67.
• ‘Stinkards’, ii. 533; iv. 366.
• Stock of playing companies, i. 352, 372; ii. 55, 137, 230, 243.
• Stole, Groom of, i. 53.
• ‘Stools’, ii. 535–7; iv. 366–8.
• Strade (gangways), iv. 355.
• Strange’s men, ii. 118–24.
• Street scenes, iii. 56.
• Strenae, i. 5, 19.
• ‘Strolling’ players, i. 332.
• ‘Studies’, iii. 67, 110.
• Suburbs convenient for players, i. 278, 284, 298, 300; ii. 370.
• Sunday performances, i. 255, 283, 285, 287–90, 293–6, 301, 302, 314; iv. 195, 200, 201, 202, 203, 206, 210, 221, 225, 249, 262, 267, 268, 275, 279, 282, 285, 288, 292, 295, 296, 297, 302, 305, 307, 310, 329, 335.
• ‘Supers’, i. 371.
• ‘Surreptitious’ prints of plays, iii. 184–92.
• Surveyors, court of, i. 58.
• Sussex’s men, ii. 92–6.
• Swan playhouse, ii. 411–14, 521 (drawing), 526–31, 538–9, 544–7.
• Sweden, players in, ii. 274.
• Sword dance, i. 171; iii. 280; iv. 117.
• Syndicates for companies, i. 379; ii. 43, 45, 56, 65.