[3] Cooke's full name first appears in the plot for Ben Jonson's Sejanus His Fall (1603) in which he is listed as a "principle tragedian".
He was also cast in Volpone (1605), in which he may have been Lady Would-be; Jonson's The Alchemist (1610); Catiline (1611) and Beaumont and Fletcher's The Captain (c.
[5] Edmond Malone introduced the hypothesis, still current though far from certain, that Cooke as a boy actor originally played many of Shakespeare's principal female roles.
[6] In his will, Cooke names John Heminges and Henry Condell as trustees of his children – his sons Francis (born in 1605) and Alexander (1614), and daughters Rebecca (1607) and Alice (1611).
Edmond Malone and David Kathman speculated that Cooke was the "Saunder" who appeared in the plot of Part 2 of The Seven Deadly Sins.