Chaucer, Geoffrey, 63

Chettle, Henry, 10, 44–45, 50, 62–66, 174n8

Children of Paul's (theatre company), 12

Christ. See Jesus

Clifford, George, 11

Colin Clout's Come Home Again (Spenser), 21, 23–24

Colinet (pastoral name for Spenser), 165

Compiers/Compeers (as word), 5, 39, 62, 65–66, 89, 100, 140

“Complaint of Chastity” (Barnfield), 70

“Complaint of Poetry” (Barnfield), 71

Constable, Henry, 97, 128, 132

cosmetics, 69–70, 86, 177n21

Countenance (as word), 62, 66–68, 101, 140

Countess of Pembroke. See Sidney, Mary

Covell, William, 61

Cumberland, third earl. See Clifford, George Cynthia. See under Barnfield

Da Vinci, Leonardo, 127

Daniel, Samuel, 97, 122, 127

Danter, John, 32, 61, 179n31

Daphnis: An eclog Treating of crownes, and of garlandes (Buck or Buc), 154

“Dark Lady” sonnets (Shakespeare), 4, 34, 70, 86, 111–113, 133, 177n21, 178n23

Davies, Sir John, 176n14

Dee, Dr. John, 112–13

Derby, Countess of. See Vere (de Vere), Elizabeth

Derby's Men, 11

Devereaux, Penelope, Lady Rich, 132

Diana (book title), 128

Diana (goddess), 76, 164

Dickenson, John, 62

Donne, John, 135, 174n3, 177n17

Drayton, Michael, 23, 97, 122, 151, 160

Duncan-Jones, Katherine, 17, 34, 39, 104

Dutton, Richard, 4

Early English Books Online (EEBO), 5, 97, 174N10, 177N19

Early Virgil (Berg), 90, 142, 155

Eclogues (Virgil), 44, 90, 151, 154–155, 159

Edmonson, Paul, 128

Edwards, Thomas, 23

Egerton, Sir Thomas, 160

Eld, George, 123

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 44, 64, 102, 151–153, 158, 160

Empson, William, 3, 35

England's Mourning Garment (Chettle), 44–45

Essex, second earl of. See Devereaux, Robert

Everett, Barbara, 133–136, 144