Queen's Revels Boys
           


NOTE: The roles listed for any given actor do not necessarily coincide with roles that actor played while associated with this company. The listed roles reflect the complete extant corpus of that actor's career. Neither does the list necessarily suggest a chronology of performance. Though the listings are accurate, the scholar is nevertheless cautioned to research further.


Listed alphabetically


Allen, Richard (II)

(fl. 1609-13) (Alleyn). Actor (Children of Queen's Revels 1609, Lady Elizabeth's 1613). [ES ii, 299 [full citation] ; Bentley, 'Shakespeare's Fellows' (1928) [full citation] ; Nungezer, 3; JCS ii, 344 [full citation] ]


Attwell, Hugh

(d.1621) (Ottewell). Actor (Queen's Revels 1609; Lady Elizabeth's circa1613; Prince Charles' 1616-21). [ES ii, 301 [full citation] ; JCS ii, 351 [full citation] ; Nungezer, 23 [full citation] ; Riddell, 'Actors', 294 (1969) [full citation] ; Eccles, 'Actors I', 39 (1991) [full citation] ]


Barksted, William

(circa1590-1617<) (Backstead, Baxsted). Actor (Queen's Revels 1609, Lady Elizabeth's 1611, Prince Charles' 1616), playwright. [ES ii, 301; iii, 214 [full citation] ; Nungezer, 28 [full citation] ; JCS ii, 357 [full citation] ; Riddell, 'Actors', 295 (1969) [full citation] ; Eccles, Authors, 10 (1982) [full citation] ]

appeared in EPICOENE, COXCOMB, [?]INSATIATE COUNTESS;


[?]Benfield, Robert

(1583?-1649). Actor (Queen's Revels?, Lady Elizabeth's circa1613, King's 1615-48). (Kinsman of Richard Benfield) [ES ii, 303 [full citation]; Nungezer, 42 [full citation]; JCS ii, 374 [full citation]; Riewald, 'Actors and Musicians', 33 (1959) [full citation]; Riddell, 'Actors', 294 (1969) [full citation]; George, 'Early Cast Lists' (1974) [full citation]; George, 'Pre-1642 Cast Lists' (1977) [full citation]; Howard, 'Acting Lines', 12 (1985) [full citation]; Eccles, 'Actors I', 40 (1991) [full citation] ]

principal actor, COXCOMB, HONEST MAN'S FORTUNE; (?)Antonio (succeeding Ostler), DUCHESS OF MALFI; "a noble stayd gentleman," WILD GOOSE CHASE; Boisise, Captain, BARNAVELT; Junius Rusticus, ROMAN ACTOR; Ladislaus, PICTURE; King, DESERVING FAVORITE; Marcellus, BELIEVE AS YOU LIST; actor, KNIGHT OF MALTA, MAD LOVER, HUMOUROUS LIEUTENANT, WOMEN PLEASED, CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY, DOUBLE MARRIAGE, LITTLE FRENCH LAWYER, FALSE ONE, PILGRIM, PROPHETESS, SPANISH CURATE, LOVERS' PROGRESS, MAID IN THE MILL, WIFE FOR A MONTH; LOVER'S MELANCHOLY;


Blaney, John

(fl. 1609-1623). Actor (Queen's Revels; Queen Anne's 1616-19; Children of the Revels 1622; Queen Henrietta's 1625). [ES ii, 303 [full citation]; Nungezer, 50 [full citation]; JCS ii, 382 [full citation]]

actor, EPICOENE; Asambeg, RENEGADO;


Cooke, Abell

(b.1589; fl. 1606-7). Boy actor (Queen's Revels 1606-7). [Nungezer, 101 [full citation]]


Gary, Giles

(fl. 1609-1613) (Cary, Carie, Carey). Boy actor (Queen's Revels 1609-13). [ES ii, 310 [full citation]; Nungezer, 85 [full citation]; McMillin, 'Jonson's Early Entertainments', 161 (1968) [full citation]; Limon, 'Alleged Catholicism' (1985) [full citation]]


Jones, James

(fl. 1613-24). Actor (Lady Elizabeth's 1613; Children of Queen's Revels 1624). [Nungezer, 207 [full citation]; JCS ii, 485 [full citation]; REED Coventry, 394 (1981) [full citation]; Limon, 'Alleged Catholicism' (1985) [full citation]]


Kneller, James

(fl. 1613-24). Actor (Lady Elizabeth's 1613; Children of the Revels; Prince Charles's) (possibly misreading of James Sneller). [Nungezer, 229 [full citation]; JCS ii, 494 [full citation]]

Autolicus, HOLLAND'S LEAGUER;