Category:Secondhand plays
The venerable E. K. Chambers observed that the sums paid to playwrights in Philip Henslowe's Diary by the Admiral's men and Worcester's men for new plays, 1597-1603, "ranged from £4 to £10 10s" (The Elizabethan Stage, I.373). He thus concluded that "a fee of £6 may be taken as about normal" (I.373). Based on the £2 paid by the Admiral's men to Edward Alleyn for playbooks that were not new, it is reasonable to conclude that payments in Henslowe's Diary of 40s (£2) indicate the purchase of a secondhand play. Roslyn L. Knutson identifies nine such possibilities in "The Commercial Significance of the Payments for Playtexts in Henslowe's Diary, 1597-1603," Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England (1991): 117-63. All are now lost.
Another category of "secondhand" is plays that migrate from the repertory of one company to that of another.
Pages in category "Secondhand plays"
The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.