The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 2

I have found it convenient, especially in Appendix A, to use the symbol < following a date, to indicate an uncertain date not earlier than that named, and the symbol > followed...

[_Bibliographical Note._--The first systematic investigation into the history of the companies was that of F. G. Fleay, which, after tentative sketches in his _Shakespeare Manua...

The Chapel Royal at Windsor was served by an ecclesiastical college, which had been in existence as far back as the reign of Henry I, and had subsequently been resettled as St....

A signet bill for a patent for a company of Children of Bristol under the patronage of Queen Anne was passed in June 1615, perhaps as a result of her visit to that city in 1613....

_Head Masters_:--John Adams (1540); Alexander Nowell (1543–53); Nicholas Udall (1555–6); John Passey (1557–8, with Richard Spencer as usher); John Randall (1563); Thomas Browne...

[_Bibliographical Note._--The best sources of information are J. Heywood and T. Wright, _Ancient Laws of King’s College and Eton College_ (1850); _Report of Public Schools Commi...

The London school of the Merchant Taylors was founded in 1561, and its first master was Richard Mulcaster, or Moncaster, as his name is spelt in some of the earlier records.[216...

Henry VII (22 Aug. 1485--21 Apr. 1509); Henry VIII (22 Apr. 1509--28 Jan. 1547); Edward VI (28 Jan. 1547--6 July 1553); Mary (19 July 1553--24 July 1554); Philip and Mary (25 Ju...

[_Bibliographical Note._--The wanderings of the Italian companies in Italy itself and in France are recounted in A. D’Ancona, _Origini del Teatro Italiano_ (ed. 2, 1891), and A....

The interlude players of Henry VII, under John English, accompanied the Princess Margaret to Scotland for her wedding with James IV in 1503, and ‘did their devoir’ before the Co...

[_Bibliographical Note._--The earliest comprehensive study of the foreign travels of English actors is that of A. Cohn, _Shakespeare in Germany in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth...

been in Holland and reached Münster by November 1601, may have been a relative. But William Kempe had returned to England, after visiting Italy as well as Germany, on 2 Septembe...

The world the stage, the prologue tears, The acts vain hope and varied fears: The scene shuts up with loss of breath, And leaves no epilogue but death. HENRY KING.

Courte holden the xv^{th} daie of Julie 1567, Annoque Regni Reginae Eliz. nono by M^r William Ruddoke, M^r Richard More, Henrye Whreste & Richard Smarte wardeins, & M^r Bradshawe.

The first notice of the Bull is on 7 June 1575 when the playing of a ‘prize’ there is recorded in the register of the School of Defence. It appears to have been the most popular...

This inn existed in 1560, for on 12 June of that year ‘the wyff of the Bell in Gracyous-strett’ was carted as a bawd and whore.[1084] Plays must have been used there in 1576–7,...

The Bel Savage is named as an early London play-house in the 1596 edition of Lambarde’s _Perambulation of Kent_. This inn, of which the name is still preserved on Ludgate Hill,...

This inn may have been the play-house, or one of the play-houses, ‘in Gracious Street’ said by Rawlidge to have been ‘put down’ under Elizabeth. The first notice of it dates fro...

[_Bibliographical Note._--Material is available in the records of four litigations: (a) _Peckham v. Allen_ (Wards and Liveries, 1589) as to the title to the site; (b) _Burbadge...

The Curtain is included with the Theatre in Stowe’s general description of Holywell as ‘standing on the South-west side towards the field’. That it was somewhat south of the The...

A theatre, of which the history is very obscure, but which may have been built soon after the Theatre and Curtain, stood at Newington, a village one mile from London Bridge, div...

The Rose owed its name to the fact that it stood in what had been, as recently as 1547–8, a rose garden.[1187] On 3 December 1552 Thomasyn, widow of Ralph Symonds, fishmonger, g...

[_Bibliographical Note._--John de Witt’s description and plan are published in K. T. Gaedertz, _Zur Kenntnis der altenglischen Bühne_ (1888), and more exactly by H. B. Wheatley...

[_Bibliographical Note._--The devolution of the Globe shares can be traced in the documents of three lawsuits: (_a_) _Ostler v. Heminges_, in the Court of King’s Bench in 1616 (...

[_Bibliographical Note._--Most of the documents are at Dulwich, and are printed in full or in abstract by W. W. Greg in _Henslowe Papers_, and by J. P. Collier in _Alleyn Memoir...

[_Bibliographical Note._--The records of the suit of _Woodford v. Holland_ (1613) were printed by J. Greenstreet in the _Athenaeum_ for 28 Nov. 1885 from _Court of Requests Book...

[_Bibliographical Note._--The Dulwich papers relating to the connexion of Henslowe and Alleyn with the bear-baiting and the Hope are to be found with a commentary in Greg, _Hens...

[_Bibliographical Note._--Many documents bearing upon the history of the theatre are preserved at Loseley, and the most important are collected by Professor A. Feuillerat in vol...

[_Bibliographical Note._--The relevant dissertations are P. Cunningham, _The Whitefriars, the Salisbury Court, and the Duke’s Theatres_ (1849, _Sh. Soc. Papers_, iv. 89), J. Gre...

[1287] Dr. Wallace says that all these records were made by the Commissioners ‘in dealing with the property of Brend and others on the north side’ of Maiden Lane. But there is n...

Herbert, 47, 81. For acrobats cf. App. D, No. cxxiii, on the use of the Swan by Peter Bromvill in 1600. Henslowe, i. 98, 106, records loans in connexion with vaulting performanc...

of the public theatres from that of the private theatres on the one hand and the early neo-classic court plays on the other. Here music is an integral part of the _intermedii_ o...