Summary |
Venue(s) |
Troupe(s) |
People |
Date Happened |
Date Recorded |
An epitaph on Richard Burbage celebrates him as a tragedian
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... |
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Burbage, Richard |
From: 1594 To: 1619 |
From: after 19 March 1619 |
Thomas Bowker writes to Edward Alleyn for a 'mastife whelpe'
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Bear Garden |
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Alleyn, Edward; Bowker, Thomas |
From: 9 June 1609 |
From: 19 June 1609 |
Star Chamber, Samwell vs Langley et al: Owen Roberts deposes
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Boar's Head |
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Langley, Francis; Roberts, Owen; Samwell, Richard; Samwell, Richard |
From: 23 December 1599 To: 26 December 1599 |
From: 1 May 1600 |
Lord Chamberlain requests that justices of the peace in Chester and Lancaster apprehend the assailants of Henslowe's deputies
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Bear Garden |
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Ashton, John; Barnes, Ralph; Brooke, Thomas; Dutton, Thomas; Henslowe, Philip; Howard, Thomas; Ireland, John; Latham, John; Marburie, Thomas; Massy, Richard; Penkith, Richard; Stanley, Edward |
From: 13 July 1613 |
From: 13 July 1613 |
Edward Alleyn -- 'Master of his Majesty's Beargarden' -- petitions Lord High Treasurer Cranfield for sums owed
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Bear Garden; Court |
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Cranfield, Lionel; Philibert, Charles Emmanuel; Stanhope, John; Stuart, James I |
From: circa 1614 To: 1622 |
From: October 1622 |
George Wilson killed at Salisbury Court
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Salisbury Court |
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Wilson, George |
From: 27 March 1634 |
From: 27 March 1634 |
Chancery, Hussey vs Kirke: John Best builds a tenement called the 'cockpit'
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Phoenix/Cockpit |
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Best, John; Rhodes, John; Sherlocke, William |
From: 9 October 1609 |
From: 1647 |
Alleyn inherits the joint salary for Mastership of the Bears after Henslowe's death
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Bear Garden |
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Alleyn, Edward; Henslowe, Philip |
From: circa 1616 |
From: circa 1616 |
Requests, Burbage v Allen: Henry Johnson deposes again
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Theatre |
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Allen, Giles; Burbage, Cuthbert; Burbage, James; Johnson, Henry |
From: 23 To: May 1600 |
From: 23 May 1600 |
Thomas Needler purchases part of the Boar's Head
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Boar's Head |
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Browne, Elizabeth; Florey, John; Lockdale, Robert; Needler, Thomas; Needler, John; Poley, John; Stamford, Robert |
From: 29 December 1621 |
From: 29 December 1621 |
The Swan pays 9s 3d to the Overseers of the Poor of Paris Garden
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Swan |
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Dancer, Gyles; Payne, John; Williams, Henry |
From: 20 April 1615 |
From: 20 April 1615 |
Thomas Burnaby leases a tenement and Bear Garden property to Richard Reve
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Bear Garden |
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Burnaby, Thomas; Napton, John; Reve, Richard |
From: 15 December 1590 |
From: 15 December 1590 |
Vestry of St. Saviour's sets Paris Garden tithes
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Paris Garden |
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Langley, Francis |
From: 30 June 1597 |
From: 30 June 1597 To: 21 March 1597 |
Requests, Burbage v Allen: May deposes
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Theatre |
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Allen, Giles; Burbage, Cuthbert; Burbage, James; May, Randolph; Peckham, Edmond; Richardes, Hugh; Stoughton, Robert |
From: 15 May 1600 |
From: 15 May 1600 |
A handwritten addendum to Stowe's 1631 Annals outlines the post-Civil War fate of London's theatres
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Blackfriars (II); Fortune (I); Fortune (II); Globe (II); Hope; Phoenix/Cockpit; Salisbury Court |
... |
Brend, Matthew; Godfrey, –––; Pride, Thomas; Walker, Thomas |
From: 1644 To: 1656 |
From: after 1656 |
Sir Humphrey Mildmay sees 'a foolishe playe' at the Blackfriars
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Blackfriars (II) |
... |
... |
From: 25 November 1635 |
From: 25 November 1635 |
Requests, Burbage v Allen: Robert Vigerous deposes
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Theatre |
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Allen, Giles; Breather, Arthur; Burbage, Cuthbert; Burbage, James; Sammes, John; Vigerous, Robert |
From: 14 August 1600 |
From: 14 August 1600 |
The Duke of Buckingham entertains the King and Queen with plays at York House
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... |
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Mead, Joseph; of France, Henrietta Maria; Stuart, Charles I; Stuteville, Martin; Villiers, George |
From: Sunday November 1626 |
From: 11 November 1626 |
Gabriel Spencer and Robert Shaw are released from prison
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... |
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Shaw, Robert; Spencer, Gabriel |
From: 2 October 1597 |
From: 2 October 1597 |
Ralph Bowes (not John Dorington) is appointed Master of the Queen's Game
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Bear Garden; Court |
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Bowes, Ralph; Dorington, John |
From: 2 June 1573 |
From: 2 June 1573 |
Testimony from Bishop Bancroft's visitation offers insight into houses built on the cathedral grounds
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St Paul's (II) |
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Fenton, Richard |
From: 1598 To: 1599 |
From: 1598 To: 1599 |
The Theatre may have provided a stage for anti-Martinist plays
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Theatre |
... |
... |
From: circa 1589 |
From: circa 1589 |
Ford and Dekker's 'The Fairy Knight' is licensed
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... |
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Dekker, Thomas; Ford, John; Herbert, John |
From: 11 June 1624 |
From: 11 June 1624 |
John Chamberlain includes bear-baiting among Christmas entertainments at court
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Bear Garden; Court |
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Chamberlain, John; Winwood, Ralph |
From: 1602 |
From: 17 January 1603 |
Chancery, William Beeston vs Earl of Dorset: Beeston states his case
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Salisbury Court |
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Beeston, William; Blagrave, William; Gunnell, Richard; Sackville, Richard; Sackville, Edward |
From: 6 July 1629 |
From: 25 June 1658 |
Characters in Richard Brome's 'The Antipodes' debate the appeal of bearbaiting
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Bear Garden; Hope |
... |
... |
From: 1638 |
From: 1640 |
The privy council stays the erection of Philip Rosseter's new playhouse until they have determined its fate
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Porter's Hall |
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Coke, Edward; Jolles, John; Rosseter, Philip; Sanders, ––– |
From: 26 September 1615 |
From: 26 September 1615 |
Chancery, Brayne v Burbage: John Hyde deposes
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Theatre |
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Brayne, John; Brayne, Margaret; Burbage, James; Burbage, Cuthbert; Hyde, John; Jones, Henry; Prynne, John |
From: 21 February 1592 |
From: 21 February 1592 |
Chancery, Burbage v Brayne: Henry Bett deposes
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Curtain; Theatre |
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Allen, Giles; Ashebournham, –––; Bett, Henry; Brayne, Margaret; Brayne, John; Burbage, James; Burbage, Cuthbert; Gardiner, –––; Miles, Robert; Noble, –––; Peckham, Edmond; Rumney, Thomas; Tomson, William; White, William |
From: before 30 September 1591 |
From: 30 September 1591 |
The Privy Council orders the playhouses shut down until 'after Bartholomew tide next ensuinge'
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Rose |
... |
... |
From: 7 May 1587 |
From: 7 May 1587 |
The Newington Butts playhouse is to be shut down
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Newington Butts |
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Buck, Paul |
From: 6 July 1594 |
From: 6 July 1594 |
Chancery, Brayne v Burbage: The court orders the terms of the original arbitrament to be observed
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Theatre |
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Brayne, Margaret; Brayne, John; Burbage, James; Burbage, Cuthbert; Harris, –––; Hill, John; Scott, –––; Turner, Richard |
From: 13 November 1590 |
From: 13 November 1590 |
Exchequer, Crown vs William Henslowe and Jacob Meade: John Baxter deposes concerning the construction of the Hope
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Bear Garden; Hope |
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Alleyn, Edward; Baxter, John; Henslowe, Philip |
From: Summer 1613 |
From: 19 September 1620 To: 10 October 1620 |
William Faunt requests a bear cub from Edward Alleyn
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Bear Garden |
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Alleyn, Edward; Faunt, William |
From: 9 November |
From: 9 November |
Swetnam compares his misogynist pamphlet to a bear-baiting ring
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Bear Garden; Hope |
... |
... |
From: 1615 |
From: 1617 |
'Alphonsus, King of Aragon' includes stage directions for Venus to be lowered from top of stage
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playhouse |
... |
... |
From: circa 1592 To: 1599 |
From: 1599 |
Edward Alleyn's acting can make ill matter good: Nashe
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... |
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Alleyn, Edward |
From: 1592 |
From: 1592 |
Sir Humphrey Mildmay sees a play at the Globe
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Globe (II) |
... |
... |
From: 18 June 1633 |
From: 18 June 1633 |
The St Saviour's token books refer to Francis Langley's new tenements 'neare the playhouse'
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Paris Garden; Swan |
... |
... |
From: 1602 |
From: 1602 |
The gentlemen of the Inns of Court present a masques for the King [Collier forgery?]
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Inns of Court |
... |
... |
From: 7 January 1613 |
From: 7 January 1613 |
Requests, Hunnis and Newman vs Farrant: Anne Farrant responds to Hunnis and Newman's complaint
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Blackfriars (I) |
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Evans, Henry; Farrant, Anne; Hunnis, William; More, William; Newman, John |
From: 27 January 1584 |
From: 27 January 1584 |
John Taylor once knew a prompter who worked at the Globe
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Globe (II) |
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Vincente, Thomas |
From: before 1638 |
From: 1638 |
The inset view of London in John Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire' represents two theatres: most likely, the Globe and Bear Garden
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Bear Garden; Globe (I) |
... |
... |
To: 1611 |
From: 1611 |
Sir William Faunt writes to Edward Alleyn concerning bulls for Paris Garden
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Bear Garden; Paris Garden |
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Alleyn, Edward; Faunt, William |
undated |
undated |
Five men are arrested for causing a 'notable outrage' at the Red Bull
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Red Bull |
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Bruan, Edward; Fryne, John; Leigh, Robert; Purfett, Edward; Tedcastle, William; Williams, Thomas |
From: 29 May 1610 |
From: 3 July 1610 |
Comedies are performed about the Martin Marprelate controversy; Kemp wrote against Martin
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... |
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Kemp, William |
From: 1589 |
From: 22 July 1589 |
Ottaviano Lotti reports the closing of plays and baitings in response to plague deaths
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Bear Garden |
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Lotti, Ottaviano |
From: 22 October 1605 |
From: 22 October 1605 |
Public playhouses present secular drama: Stow
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Curtain; Theatre |
... |
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undated |
From: 1598 |
Requests, Burbage v Allen: The court orders an injunction against Giles Allen
|
Theatre |
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Allen, Giles; Burbage, Cuthbert; Walter, John |
From: 10 April 1600 |
From: 10 April 1600 |
Leases from 1582 and 1593 help to locate the Almonry House on the cathedral property
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St Paul's (I) |
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From: 1582 To: 1593 |
From: 1582 To: 1593 |