ACTORS AND ENTREPRENEURS
PLAYWRIGHTS AND PATRONS

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Kane, Andrew

See Cane, Andrew.

Kayne, Andrew

See Cane, Andrew.

Katherens, Gilbert

(d.1619). Carpenter; built Hope theatre. [Wills, 114 (1993) [full citation]]

Keble, William

(circa1568-1623<). Sharer (Red Bull). [Sisson, 'Red Bull Company', 58 (1954) [full citation]]

Keene, Thomas

(fl. 1623). Drummer, actor(?). [REED Norwich, 176 (1984) [full citation]]

Kein, Andrew

See Cane, Andrew.

Kellock, John

(d.1627). Actor(?). [JCS ii, 491 [full citation]]

Kemp, John

(fl. 1600). Actor (Germany). [ES ii, 325 [full citation]; Nungezer, 215 [full citation]]

Kemp, William

(d.1603?). Actor (Leicester's 1585-6; Strange's 1592; Chamberlain's 1594-1599; Worcester's 1602-3), sharer. [ES ii, 325 [full citation]; Wright, 'Will Kemp and the Commedia Dell'Arte' (1926) [full citation]; Nungezer, 216 [full citation]; Gray, 'Roles of William Kemp' (1930) [full citation]; Baldwin, 'William Kemp not Falstaff' (1931) [full citation]; Gray, 'Shakespeare and Will Kemp' (1931) [full citation]; Bald, 'Leicester's Men' (1943) [full citation]; Feldman, 'Playwrights and Pike-Trailers' (1953) [full citation]; Mithal, 'Jesting Player' (1958) [full citation]; Bald, 'Jesting Player' (1959) [full citation]; Mithal, 'Mr. Kemp' (1960) [full citation]; Sjogren, 'Thomas Bull', 121 (1969) [full citation]; MacLean, 'Leicester and the Evelyns', 489-93 (1988) [full citation]; Eccles, 'Actors III', 293 (1992) [full citation]; MacLean, 'Politics', 180 (1993) [full citation]]

Kempston, Robert

(fl. 1629-33) (Kimpton, Knipton, Kempton). Actor (provincial King's Revels). [Nungezer, 225 [full citation]; JCS ii, 491 [full citation]; REED York, 593 (1979) [full citation]]

Kendall, Richard

(circa1584->1635). Actor (at Norwich 1635), wardrobe keeper at Salisbury Court). [Nungezer, 223 [full citation]; JCS ii, 491 [full citation]]

Kendall, Thomas

(circa1563?-1608). Blackfriars manager and patentee. [ES ii, 32 [full citation]; Nungezer, 223 [full citation]; McMillin, 'Jonson's Early Entertainments', 162 (1968) [full citation]; Smith, 'Personnel', 443 (1978) [full citation]; Wills, 79 (1993) [full citation]]

Kendall, William

(fl. 1597-1615). Actor (Admiral's 1597-1600). [ES ii, 327 [full citation]; Bentley, 'Shakespeare's Fellows' (1928) [full citation]; Nungezer, 223 [full citation]; Greg, Dramatic Documents i, 59 (1931) [full citation]; McMillin, 'Jonson's Early Entertainments', 162 (1968) [full citation]]

Kenede, Richard

(fl. 1607). Paul's chorister (1607). [Nungezer, 224 [full citation]]

Kerke, John

See Kirke, John.

Keyes, Ralph

(fl. 1623). Actor(?). [JCS ii, 491 [full citation]]

Keyes, Robert

(fl. 1623). Actor(?). [JCS ii, 492 [full citation]]

Keyne(s), Andrew

See Cane, Andrew.

Keysar, Robert

(1576-circa1640). Revels manager, Blackfriars lessee. [ES ii, 327 [full citation]; Hillebrand, 'The Viper's Brood' (1927) [full citation]; Nungezer, 224 [full citation]; Ingram, 'Robert Keysar' (1986) [full citation]]

Keyser, Henrik de

(1613-65). Architect; designer for provincial masque. [Butler, 'Provincial Masque', 163 (1986) [full citation]]

Kid, Thomas

See Kyd, Thomas.

Killigrew, Henry

(1613-1700) (Kellegrew, Killigrave, Killigray, Killigre, Killigrey). Playwright. (Brother of Thomas Killigrew) [JCS iv, 690 [full citation]]

Killigrew, Thomas

(1612-1683). Playwright. (Brother of Henry Killigrew) [Harbage, Thomas Killigrew (1930) [full citation]; JCS iv, 694 [full citation]; Freehafer, 'London Patent Companies' (1965) [full citation]; Wertheim, 'Production Notes' (1969) [full citation]; Wertheim, 'New Light' (1971) [full citation]; Oliver, 'Building of the Theatre Royal' (1972) [full citation]; DLB 58: 123 (1987) [full citation]]

Kimpton, Robert

See Kempston, Robert.

Kinderton, Baron

See Venables, Thomas.

Kindorslay, Lord

See Venables, Thomas.

King

See James I; Charles I.

King of Bohemia

See Frederick, Elector Palatine.

King, Arthur

(fl. 1581). Actor (Berkeley's 1581). [ES ii, 327 [full citation]; Nungezer, 225 [full citation]]

King, John

(circa1575-1623<). Actor (Worcester's-Queen Anne's 1593-1623). [JCS ii, 492 [full citation]; Sisson, 'Notes', 28 (1942) [full citation]; Sisson, 'Red Bull Company' (1954) [full citation]]

King, Thomas

(fl. 1586-7). Actor (Leicester's in Denmark, Germany). [ES ii, 327 [full citation]; Nungezer, 225 [full citation]; Riewald, 'Actors and Musicians', 36 (1959) [full citation]; MacLean, 'Leicester and the Evelyns', 490-1 (1988) [full citation]]

Kinge, Bennett

(d.1595). Actor(?), propmaster/costumer (Suffolk). [Dymond, 'Three Entertainers' (1991) [full citation]]

Kingman, Philip

(d.1622) (Kingsman). Actor (Sweden 1592; Germany 1594-96; Admirals? 1599), patentee. [ES ii, 327 [full citation]; Nungezer, 225 [full citation]; Riewald, 'Actors and Musicians', 37 (1959) [full citation]; Lawless, 'Philip Kingman' (1979) [full citation]; Schrickx, 'German Archives', 154 (1982) [full citation]; Eccles, 'Actors III', 295 (1992) [full citation]]

Kingman, Robert

(fl. 1599-1601) (Kingsman). Actor (Germany). [ES ii, 327 [full citation]; Nungezer, 226 [full citation]; Schrickx, 'German Archives', 154 (1982) [full citation]]

Kinwelmershe, Francis

(d.1580?). Translator. [ES iii, 394 [full citation]]

Kirck(mann), John

(fl. 1579-83). Actor (Denmark). [ES ii, 327 [full citation]; Nungezer, 226 [full citation]; Sjogren, 'Thomas Bull', 119-20 (1969) [full citation]]

Kirke, John

(fl. 1629-42?) (Kerke, Kirk, Kyrke). Actor, playwright(?). [Dawson, Seven Champions of Christendome (1929) [full citation]; Nungezer, 226 [full citation]; JCS ii, 492; iv, 710 [full citation]; Freehafer, 'Seven Champions', 94 (1969) [full citation]]

Kirkham, Edward

(circa1550?-1617). King's Revels manager; St. Paul's Chapel manager; King's Revels patentee. [ES ii, 327 [full citation]; Nungezer, 227 [full citation]; Smith, 'Personnel', 441 (1978) [full citation]]

Kit

(fl. 1590). Actor (Strange's?). (= Christopher Beeston?) [Greg, Dramatic Documents i, 46 (1931) [full citation]]

Kite, Jeremy

(fl. 1627-45) (Jeremias). Actor. [JCS ii, 494 [full citation]; Riewald, 'Actors and Musicians', 37 (1959) [full citation]]

Knagges, Richard

(b. circa 1550; fl. 1612). Unlicensed actor. [ES ii, 327 [full citation]; Nungezer, 228 [full citation]]

Knell, William

(d.1587). Actor (Queen's 1587). (Husband of Rebecca Edwards Knell Heminges) [ES ii, 327 [full citation]; Nungezer, 228 [full citation]; Eccles, Shakespeare, 82 (1961) [full citation]; Eccles, 'Actors III', 296 (1992) [full citation]; Wills, 227 (1993) [full citation]]

Kneller, James

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

Knevet, Ralph

(1600-71). Playwright. [JCS iv, 715 [full citation]]

Knight

(fl. 1628). Actor (at Leicester) (but Riewald, 'Actors and Musicians', 37, [full citation] points out that the reading may be "Kyght", i.e. Kite). [Nungezer, 229 [full citation]; JCS ii, 494 [full citation]]

Knight, Anthony

(fl. 1624). Attendant of King's Men. [Nungezer, 229 [full citation]; JCS ii, 495 [full citation]]

Knight, Edward

(fl. 1616-24). Attendant of King's Men. [Nungezer, 229 [full citation]; JCS ii, 495 [full citation]]

Knight, Robert

(fl.1574-82). Paul's chorister. [ES ii, 327 [full citation]; Nungezer, 230 [full citation]; Ball, 'Choir-Boy Actors', 10 (1962) [full citation]]

Knipton, Robert

See Kempston, Robert.

Knollys, Lettice

See Blount, Lettice Knollys Devereaux Dudley.

Krafft, John

(fl. 1579-84). Actor (Denmark). [ES ii, 328 [full citation]; Nungezer, 230 [full citation]; Sjogren, 'Thomas Bull', 119-20 (1969) [full citation]]

Kyd, Thomas

(1558-1594). Playwright, translator. [ES iii, 394 [full citation]; Baldwin, 'Thomas Kyd's Early Company Connections' (1927) [full citation]; Freeman, 'New Records of Thomas Kyd' (1965) [full citation]; Freeman, Thomas Kyd (1967) [full citation]; Murray, Thomas Kyd (1969) [full citation]; Nethercot, Elizabethan Plays, 327 (1971) [full citation]; DLB 62: 183 (1987) [full citation]; Wills, 227 (1993) [full citation]]

Kyffin, Maurice

(d.1599). Translator. [ES iii, 398 [full citation]]

Kynaston, Sir Francis

(1587-1642). Masque writer. [JCS iv, 716 [full citation]]

Kynder, Philip

(1597-<1665). Latin playwright. [JCS iv, 717 [full citation]]

Kynge, Bennett

See Kinge, Bennett.