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Appendix C - Biographical summary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2009

Lucy Munro
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Keele University
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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 Revels
A Jacobean Theatre Repertory
, pp. 179 - 184
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2005

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  • Biographical summary
  • Lucy Munro, Keele University
  • Book: Children of the Queen's Revels
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486067.010
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  • Biographical summary
  • Lucy Munro, Keele University
  • Book: Children of the Queen's Revels
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486067.010
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