among the ten ‘fellows’ of Phillips and Heminge. See Ernest Law, Shakespeare as a Groom of the Chamber, 1910, and compare the lists of nine King’s Players in documents XXXVII and XXXIX.
XLI. ANTHONY SCOLOKER ON ‘FRIENDLY SHAKESPEARE’ AND HIS HAMLET (1604).
Epistle prefatory to Daiphantus, or the Passions of Love, 1604.
It should be like the never-too-well-read Arcadia . . . or to come home to the vulgar’s element like Friendly Shakespeare’s tragedies, where the comedian rides when the tragedian stands on tiptoe: ’faith it should please all, like Prince Hamlet.
XLII. THE KING’S MEN PERFORM SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS AT COURT (1604–1605).
Extracts from the Revels Accounts. (Public Record Office.)
The Revels Book. Anno 1605. The Accompt of the Office of the Revels of this whole year’s charge in anno 1604, until the last of October, 1605.
| The Players | 1604 | The poets which made the plays |
| By the King’s Majesty’s Players | Hallowmas Day, being the first of November, a play in the banqueting house at Whitehall, called The Moor of Venice. | |
| By his Majesty’s Players | The Sunday following a play of The Merry Wives of Windsor. |
