The Third Citizen: Shakespeare's Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons

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An A.B.C. wyth a Cathechisme, 137–38, 252n64 Adelman, Janet, 220 Alford, Francis, 155–56, 228n13 on freedom of speech, 58 on Parliament, 73 Alsop, J. D., 228n13, 245–46n23 Althusser, Louis, 28, 151, 154, 157, 257– 58n30 and Pierre Bourdieu, 259n37 Amyot, Jacques, 142, 252n1 antitheatricalism, 40, 161–62, 165–66, 205–6, 233n38 See also theater Appian, of Alexandria, 140, 155, 171, 252n2, 255n16, 261n51 Atkinson, Robert, 52, 237n11 authority diffusion of, in early modern England, 16, 33 See also power Aylmer, John (bishop of London) on England’s mixed government, 73, 238n18 An Harborowe for Faithful and True Subjects, 72–73 Bacon, Sir Francis on political representation, 3–6, 35, 71 Barber, C. L., 101–2, 241n4, 242n10, 251n57 Barkan, Leonard, 242n9 Barton, Anne, 192, 271nn30–31, 272n39 Bate, Jonathan, 109, 251n54 Bell, Robert (speaker), 229–30n21 speeches to Elizabeth I, 82 Berger, Harry, 159, 260n48 Bernthal, Craig A., 239n24 Blackfriars Theatre, 227n2, 262–63n62, 263n63 Blague, Thomas A schoole of wise Conceytes, 224–25n8 Blits, Jan, 255n16, 257n24, 259n38, 260– 61n50, 262n56, 264n80 boroughs elections in, 23, 188, 189 franchise in, 269n14 political representation in, 22 See also Warwick Bourdieu, Pierre, 34, 243n16, 244nn18– 19, 274–75n51 and Althusser, 259n37 on political representation, 108–9, 154, 243n16, 244nn18–19, 259n37 Bowyer, Robert parliamentary diary, 70 on political representation, 71–72, 82–83, 87 Brinklow, Henry, 35 Bristol, Michael D., 192, 195, 239n24, 273n46 Brooke, Christopher, 25 Brookes, Richard. See under Warwick Burt, Richard A., 261n54, 265nn85–86 Butt, Ronald, 227n5, 237n14 Bynneman, Henry (printer) interrogated and imprisoned by the Commons, 59 Cairncross, Andrew S., 76, 237n13 Caldwell, Ellen C., 237n13 Capell, Edward, 133 Index 295 Carleton, Sir Dudley, 63 Carroll, William C., 240n33 Cartelli, Thomas, 240n35 Cary, Robert, 225n9 Cecil, Sir Robert, 25, 57, 84 advocate of secret proceedings in Commons, 50, 61–62 Cecil, William, first Lord Burghley influence in Commons, 223n1, 227n17 Chamberlain, Sir John, 229n18 Chambers, E. K., 36, 166 Charles I (king of England), 86 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 128, 130 Chrimes, S. B., 232n36 Clark, M. V., 233n39 Clifford, Francis, 4–6, 188 Cocke, John, 36, 161–62, 165–66 Coke, Sir Edward (speaker), 54, 55, 84, 237n10 on origins of the Commons, 56, 228– 29n16 on political representation, 15, 35, 157 Commons, House of, 43, 63, 227nn1–2, 228–29n16, 230n24, 231n31, 231– 32n33 absenteeism, 70–71, 72, 234n49, 234nn51–52, 234–35n53 antiquity of, as political rhetoric, 82, 228–29n16 Apology (1604), 5, 15, 52, 69, 228n15, 234n47, 245n22 artificial body of monarch, 16, 85–86, 87–88 bills passed by, and lords submitted to monarch, 236n8, 237n9 body of the realm, 68, 72, 73, 74, 86, 90, 158 and carpet-bagging, 86–87 circulation of news about, 60–61, 231n27 clerks of, 47, 260n47 compared to theater, 40, 42–43, 47– 48, 75 and crown, 5, 16, 27, 31, 50, 53, 56–57, 61, 82, 85–86 disciplining and surveilling of subjects by, 16, 17–18, 31–32, 48–50, 67–71, 233n37, 233–34n41, 234n43 and Elizabeth I, 55, 57, 68, 227–28n12, 240n31 and English exceptionalism, 3, 30–31, 115–16 engravings of, 18, 47, 67–68, 70, 75, 86, 234n43 epitome of the realm, 67, 74–75, 86 freedom of speech in, 54–56, 57–58, 228n15, 229n20, 230nn24–25, 248n35, 248n37 and Great Contract (1610), 63–64, 227–28n9 and House of Lords, 5, 6, 16, 31, 37, 50, 53, 56–57, 61, 85–86, 229n18, 229–30n21 and ideology of political representation , 4, 15, 49, 52, 55–56, 68–70, 71–72, 75, 84, 89, 260n46 impositions attacked by, 115, 213, 228n14, 230n24, 232n35, 248n37 and James I, 52, 53, 54, 64 juridical institution, 4–5, 6, 223n3 and A Lamentable Complaint, 36–39 members, 48, 225–26n11, 228n9, 229n18 (see also Hall, Arthur); absorb the people, 4–5, 6–7, 74–75, 84, 90; artificial persons, 7, 34–35, 38, 41, 88–89, 157–58; canvassing of constituents by, 232n34; compared to Roman tribunes, 20, 194, 225n9; corruption of, 111, 246n27; defenders of people’s freedom, 16, 54–55, 213–14, 234n44, 248n35; disciplining of, by the Commons, 17, 57–58, 230n24; election of, 15, 31, 51, 52, 56, 225n10; fear of royal eavesdropping, 56–57, 229n17, 229nn19–20; give people’s consent, 2, 3, 52–53, 71, 78; isolation from public, 37–38; private interests of, and public interest, 74–75, 89, 155–56, 158; privileges of, 68, 88; prohibited from...