Chamberlain’s company, 38; actor in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
King’s Men: licensed, 45–47; grooms of royal chamber, 49–50; perform plays at court, 50–51, 115; list of principal actors in Shakespeare’s plays, 96; their theatres, 129–135.
Kyd, Thomas: Shakespeare’s superiority to, 92; his Hamlet, 131.
Lake, (Sir) Thomas, 47.
Lambard, William: his conversation with Queen Elizabeth, 107.
Lambert, Edmund: estranged relative of Shakespeare, 7, 8.
Lambert, John: son of the foregoing, 7, 8, 9.
Lane, Richard: joins with Shakespeare in chancery suit about tithes, 59–63.
Lear, King: entry on Stationers’ Register, 55–56; spurious edition of, 117; text of, 118; quarto editions, 119; metrical features, 127.
light and weak endings in Shakespeare: 123, 126, 127.
Lorkins, Thomas: his letter describing Globe Theatre fire, 114,
Love’s Labour’s Lost: Shakespeare’s name on title-page, 25; performed at court, 25, 51, 133; early allusions to, 101–102; no entry on Stationers’ Register, 115; quarto edition, 119; date of, 121; metrical features, 127; fantastic interpretation of, 150; alluded to, 151, 154; quoted, 153.
Love’s Labour’s Won: mentioned by Meres, 26; probably an early form of All’s Well, 121.
Lowin, John: actor in Jonson’s Sejanus, 28 (note); in Shakespeare’s plays, 96.
Lucas, T.: witness to Shakespeare’s agreement with Replingham, 78.
Lucrece: dedication to Southampton, 12–13; referred to in Willobie his Avisa, 13; early allusions to, 31, 74; publication of, 116; list of quarto editions, 119.
Lucy, Sir Thomas: 23, 24,
Lyly, John: Shakespeare’s superiority to, 92; Shakespeare compared with, 139, 140, 141.
Mabbe, James: memorial verses on Shakespeare, 95.
