THE ELIZABETHAN STAGE VOL. II Oxford University Press _London_ _Edinburgh_ _Glasgow_ _Copenhagen_ _New York_ _Toronto_ _Melbourne_ _Cape Town_ _Bombay_ _Calcutta_ _Madras_ _Shanghai_ Humphrey Milford Publisher to the UNIVERSITY [Illustration: FROM THE ENGRAVING BY WENCESLAUS HOLLAR IN DUGDALE’S _St. Paul’s_ 1658] THE ELIZABETHAN STAGE BY E. K. CHAMBERS. VOL. II OXFORD: AT THE CLARENDON PRESS M.CMXXIII Printed in England CONTENTS VOLUME II BOOK III. THE COMPANIES PAGE XII. INTRODUCTION. THE BOY COMPANIES 1 A. Introduction 3 B. The Boy Companies-- i. Children of Paul’s 8 ii. Children of the Chapel and Queen’s Revels 23 iii. Children of Windsor 61 iv. Children of the King’s Revels 64 v. Children of Bristol 68 vi. Westminster School 69 vii. Eton College 73 viii. Merchant Taylors School 75 ix. The Earl of Leicester’s Boys 76 x. The Earl of Oxford’s Boys 76 xi. Mr. Stanley’s Boys 76 XIII. THE ADULT COMPANIES 77 i. The Court Interluders 77 ii. The Earl of Leicester’s Men 85 iii. Lord Rich’s Men 91 iv. Lord Abergavenny’s Men 92 v. The Earl of Sussex’s Men 92 vi. Sir Robert Lane’s Men 96 vii. The Earl of Lincoln’s (Lord Clinton’s) Men 96 viii. The Earl of Warwick’s Men 97 ix. The Earl of Oxford’s Men 99 x. The Earl of Essex’s Men 102 xi. Lord Vaux’s Men 103 xii. Lord Berkeley’s Men 103 xiii. Queen Elizabeth’s Men 104 xiv. The Earl of Arundel’s Men 116 xv. The Earl of Hertford’s Men 116 xvi. Mr. Evelyn’s Men 117