All Is Not Gold That Glisters
Historical Records
Payments to Playwrights (Henslowe's Diary)
F. 86 (Greg, I.135)
- Layd owte at the a poyntment of Samwell
- Rowley vnto harey chettell in parte of paymente
- for a Boocke called al is not gold yt glesters
- the last of mrche 1601 some of } xxxxs
- pd vnto harey chettell the 6 of aprell
- 1601 in full payment of a Boocke called
- al is not gold that glisters at the a
- poyntment of Samwell Rowley some of } iiijli
Theatrical Provenance
Authorized by Rowley as a representative of the Admiral's men, the play would have been presented at the Fortune playhouse in late spring 1601.
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