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Plays performed at the 2nd Blackfriars Playhouse by the | Plays performed at the 2nd Blackfriars Playhouse, beginning in 1600. | ||
<blockquote>James Burbage bought 7 rooms in the Blackfriars property on 4 February 1596 for £600. He immediately remodeled the rooms into a playing venue. However, he was prevented from using it for that purpose by neighbors who petitioned the privy council to require that the property be converted to some other use than that of a "common playhouse" (the petition is undated but appears from a reference in a similar petition in 1618 to have been sent in November 1596). Burbage died a year later in 1597, and his son Richard assumed control of the Blackfriars property. In 1600 Richard Burbage leased the remodeled playing area in Blackfriars to Henry Evans for £40 per year for twenty-one years. Evans brought in a newly configured company, the Children of the Queen's Revels. Fairly soon, the company lost favor with the royal family and with it the privilege of calling themselves "Queen's." The resulting company, the Children of the Revels, continued to irritate the authorities and came to call themselves the Children of Blackfriars. Henry Evans turned back the lease to Burbage in March 1608. Soon afterward, the King's players took up the lease and performed at Blackfriars in some combination with the Globe until the playhouses were officially closed in London in September 1642.</blockquote> | |||
Revision as of 23:14, 7 March 2010
Plays performed at the 2nd Blackfriars Playhouse, beginning in 1600.
James Burbage bought 7 rooms in the Blackfriars property on 4 February 1596 for £600. He immediately remodeled the rooms into a playing venue. However, he was prevented from using it for that purpose by neighbors who petitioned the privy council to require that the property be converted to some other use than that of a "common playhouse" (the petition is undated but appears from a reference in a similar petition in 1618 to have been sent in November 1596). Burbage died a year later in 1597, and his son Richard assumed control of the Blackfriars property. In 1600 Richard Burbage leased the remodeled playing area in Blackfriars to Henry Evans for £40 per year for twenty-one years. Evans brought in a newly configured company, the Children of the Queen's Revels. Fairly soon, the company lost favor with the royal family and with it the privilege of calling themselves "Queen's." The resulting company, the Children of the Revels, continued to irritate the authorities and came to call themselves the Children of Blackfriars. Henry Evans turned back the lease to Burbage in March 1608. Soon afterward, the King's players took up the lease and performed at Blackfriars in some combination with the Globe until the playhouses were officially closed in London in September 1642.
Pages in category "Blackfriars (2nd)"
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