Summary |
Venue(s) |
Troupe(s) |
People |
Date Happened |
Date Recorded |
Queen's Men are formed; Tarlton and Wilson are founding players
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... |
Queen's Men |
Tarlton, Richard; Walsingham, Francis; Wilson, Robert |
From: 1583 |
From: 1615 |
Holinshed describes the collapse of Beargarden scaffolds
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Bear Garden |
... |
... |
From: 1583 |
From: 1587 |
The abuse of bear baiting merits a chapter in Philip Stubbes' 'Anatomy'
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Bear Garden |
... |
... |
From: 1583 |
From: 1583 |
Fleetwood writes of the collapse of the Bear Garden
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Bear Garden; Paris Garden |
... |
Fleetwood, William |
From: 13 January 1583 |
From: 19 January 1583 |
The Lord Mayor of London writes to Burghley about the collapse of the Bear Garden
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Bear Garden; Paris Garden |
... |
Blanke, Thomas; Cecil, William |
From: 13 January 1583 |
From: 14 January 1583 |
The Lord High Treasurer writes to the Lord Mayor about Sunday performances
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Bear Garden; Bel Savage; Bell; Blackfriars (I); Bull; Cross Keys; Curtain; Newington Butts; Paris Garden; St Paul's (I); Theatre |
... |
Blanke, Thomas; Cecil, William |
From: 13 January 1583 |
From: 15 January 1583 |
The Bear Garden collapses: Stow (1615)
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Bear Garden; Paris Garden |
... |
... |
From: 13 January 1583 |
From: 1615 |
The Theatre and Curtain destroy the body and soul: Field
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Bear Garden; Curtain; Paris Garden; Theatre |
... |
... |
From: 13 January 1583 |
From: 17 January 1583 |
Audience members are injured and killed when parts of Paris Garden collapse during a Sunday bear-baiting
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Bear Garden; Curtain; Paris Garden; Theatre |
... |
Burton, John; Cockram, William; Garland, –––; Harrison, Marie; Harrison, John; Mason, Mathew; Peace, Thomas; Spencer, Adam; Tasker, Robert; White, Alice |
From: 13 January 1583 |
From: 17 January 1583 |
Flags and trumpets announce performances: Field
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playhouse |
... |
... |
From: 13 January 1583 |
From: 17 January 1583 |
The Bear Garden collapses: Stowe (1631)
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Bear Garden; Paris Garden |
... |
... |
From: 13 January 1583 |
From: 1631 |
The title-page of John Field's 'A Godly Exhortation' advertises the tragedy at Paris Garden
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Bear Garden; Paris Garden |
... |
... |
From: 13 January 1583 |
From: 17 January 1583 |
Leicester's Men perform at court
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... |
Leicester's Men |
... |
From: 10 February 1583 |
From: 17 February 1583 |
John Norris plays his fencing scholar's prize at the Theatre
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Theatre |
... |
Norris, John; Smyth, Richard |
From: 22 April 1583 |
From: after 22 April 1583 |
The lord mayor of London asks a Middlesex justice to forbid a fencing match at the Theatre
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Bear Garden; Paris Garden; Theatre |
... |
Blanke, Thomas; Young, Richard |
From: 27 April 1583 |
From: 27 April 1583 |
Alexander Reyson plays his fencing master's prize at the Curtain
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Curtain |
... |
Calvert, Francis; Goodwen, John; Joyner, William; Kennard, Isaac; Mathewes, William; Reyson, Alexander |
From: 30 April 1583 |
From: 30 April 1583 |
The lord mayor of London asks Walsingham to forbid plays at playhouses in the liberties because of plague
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Bear Garden; Curtain; Newington Butts; Theatre |
... |
Blanke, Thomas; Walsingham, Francis |
From: 3 May 1583 |
From: 3 May To: 1583 |
The Lord Mayor of London writes to the Privy Council concerning the restraint of spectacles
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Bear Garden; Bel Savage; Bell; Blackfriars (I); Bull; Cross Keys; Curtain; Newington Butts; Paris Garden; St Paul's (I); Theatre |
... |
Blanke, Thomas |
From: 3 July 1583 |
From: 3 July 1583 |
Requests, Hunnis and Newman vs Farrant: Hunnis and Newman countersue Anne Farrant
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Blackfriars (I) |
... |
Farrant, Anne; Hunnis, William; Newman, John |
From: 20 January 1584 |
From: 20 January 1584 |
Requests, Hunnis and Newman vs Farrant: Anne Farrant responds to Hunnis and Newman's complaint
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Blackfriars (I) |
... |
Evans, Henry; Farrant, Anne; Hunnis, William; More, William; Newman, John |
From: 27 January 1584 |
From: 27 January 1584 |
Thomas Giles is licensed to impress boys for the choir of St Paul's
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St Paul's (I) |
... |
Giles, Thomas |
From: 26 April 1584 |
From: 26 April 1584 |
Thomas Giles is appointed Master of the Choristers
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St Paul's (I) |
... |
Giles, Thomas |
From: 22 May 1584 |
From: 22 May 1584 |
Requests, Hunnis and Newman vs Farrant: William Hunnis and John Newman reply to Anne Farrant
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Blackfriars (I) |
... |
Farrant, Anne; Hunnis, William; Newman, John |
From: 27 May 1584 |
From: 27 May 1584 |
The lord mayor asks the privy council to pull down the Theatre and Curtain but Burbage resists; violence at the Theatre
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Curtain; Theatre |
Arundel's Men; Queen's Men |
Browne, –––; Burbage, James; Carey, Henry; Cecil, William; Challes, –––; Fleetwood, William; Hatton, Christopher; Howard, Charles; Howard, Philip; Young, John |
From: 10 June 1584 To: 18 June 1584 |
From: 18 June 1584 |
Requests, Hunnis and Newman vs Farrant: William Hunnis and John Newman must meet with their counsel to discuss Anne Farrant's charges
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Blackfriars (I) |
... |
Farrant, Anne; Hunnis, William; Newman, John |
From: 23 June 1584 |
From: 23 June 1584 |
Queen's Men petition the Privy Council for license to play within London
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Bel Savage; Bell; Bull; Cross Keys |
Queen's Men |
... |
From: circa November 1584 |
From: circa November 1584 |
The Queen's Men perform at Greenwich
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... |
Queen's Men |
... |
From: 6 January 1585 |
From: 1584 To: 1585 |
Sir William More leases one of the Blackfriars tenements to Rocco Bonetti
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Blackfriars (II) |
... |
Bonnetti, Rocco; Carew, George; Lyly, John; More, William; Poole, Margaret |
From: 20 March 1585 |
From: 20 March 1585 |
Philip Henslowe acquires the lease on the Rose
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Rose |
... |
Blower, Peter; Henslowe, Philip; Newman, Thomas; Symonds, Thomasyn; Symonds, Ralph; Withens, Robert |
From: 24 March 1585 |
From: 24 March 1585 |
Requests, Burbage v Allen: Interrogatories for Baker, Goburne, and Johnson
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Theatre |
... |
Allen, Giles; Baker, Philip; Brayne, John; Burbage, Cuthbert; Burbage, James; Burbage, Ellen; Goburne, John; Johnson, Henry |
From: circa 26 April 1585 |
From: circa 26 April 1600 |
Andrew Bello plays his fencing master's prize at the Theatre
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Theatre |
... |
Bello, Andrew; Blisse, Robert; Calvert, Francis; Devell, John; Fletcher, Richard; Grene, Gregory; Longe, Valentine; Mathewes, William |
From: 20 May 1585 To: 26 May 1585 |
From: after 26 May 1585 |
A spy writes to Secretary Walsingham of London's debauched theatre scene
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... |
Admiral's Men; Leicester's Men; Oxford's Men (1580-1602); Queen's Men |
Walsingham, Francis |
From: 25 January 1586 |
From: 25 January 1586 |
The Privy Council orders plays restrained at Newington
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Newington Butts |
... |
... |
From: 11 May 1586 |
From: 11 May 1586 |
Bills are used to advertise plays: Rankins
|
Curtain; Theatre |
... |
... |
From: 1587 |
From: 1587 |
The Theatre and Curtain are chapels of adultery: Rankins
|
Curtain; Theatre |
... |
... |
From: 1587 |
From: 1587 |
The Gentlemen of Gray's Inn perform at Court
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Inns of Court |
Gentlemen of Gray's Inn |
... |
undated |
From: October 1587 To: October 1589 |
Henslowe and Cholmley enter into a contract as partners in the Rose enterprise
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Rose |
... |
Cholmley, John; Henslowe, Philip |
From: 10 January 1587 |
From: 10 January 1587 |
Anne Farrant has taken her case to the Privy Council: Sir John Wolley to William More
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Blackfriars (I) |
... |
Farrant, Anne; More, William; Wade, William; Wolley, John |
From: 13 January 1587 |
From: 13 January 1587 |
Chancery, Brayne v Miles: Margaret Brayne states her case
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Theatre |
... |
Brayne, Margaret; Brayne, John; Miles, Robert |
From: April Summer 1587 |
From: April 1587 |
Chancery, Brayne v Miles: The court orders Miles either to answer the charges or be arrested
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Theatre |
... |
Brayne, Margaret; Miles, Robert |
From: 6 May 1587 |
From: 6 May 1587 |
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 |
John Bixon assigns Richard Ballard's lease to Morgan Pope
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Bear Garden |
... |
Ballard, John; Bixon, John |
From: 5 October 1587 |
From: 5 October 1587 |
The privy council orders a restraint on Sunday playing in Middlesex
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Curtain; Theatre |
... |
... |
From: 29 October 1587 |
From: 29 October 1587 |
The Privy Council restrains Sunday playing in Southwark
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Newington Butts; Rose |
... |
... |
From: 29 October 1587 |
From: 29 October 1587 |
Chancery, Burbage v Brayne: Brayne and Miles demur
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Theatre |
... |
Brayne, Margaret; Burbage, James; Gardiner, John; Miles, Robert |
From: Autumn 1588 |
From: Autumn 1588 |
Has the Hope's stage been around since Tarlton's time?
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Bear Garden; Hope |
... |
Tarlton, Richard |
From: circa 1588 |
From: 1631 |
The Gentlemen of Gray's Inn perform a play and masque at Court; the cast list identifies the players
|
Inns of Court |
Gentlemen of Gray's Inn |
Anderton, ---; Ashley, ---; Campion, ---; Champnes, ---; Champnes, ---; Crwe, ---; Davenport, ---; Daye, ---; Daye, ---; Ellis, ---; Farnley, ---; Hatelyff, ---; Hulton, ---; Luttrell, ---; Montfort, ---; Peniston, ---; Rhodes, ---; Rhodes, ---; Ross, ---; Sandfort, ---; Shakerley, Peter; Smyth, ---; Stanfort, ---; Starkey, ---; Staverton, ---; Topham, ---; Williamson, --- |
From: 16 January 1588 |
From: 16 January 1588 |
Commissioners of the Sewers order Henslowe, Pope, and Napton to make repairs
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Rose |
... |
Henslowe, Philip; Napton, John; Pope, Morgan |
From: 12 April 1588 |
From: 12 April 1588 |
Chancery, Jane Langley vs Hugh Browker: Richard Bury responds
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Paris Garden; Swan |
... |
Browker, Hugh; Bury, Richard; Langley, Jane; Smalpage, Michael |
From: 8 June 1588 |
From: 1603 |
A priest is hanged at the Theatre: Stow
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Theatre |
... |
Gunter, W. |
From: 28 August 1588 |
From: 1615 |