Category:Sussex's

1569-1583

Thomas Radcliffe, third earl of Sussex (1557-1583) and Lord Chamberlain (1572-83), was the patron of a company of players apparently from 1569 to his death in 1583. The company had a high profile both on tour and at court. Appearing in provincial records as early as 1568-9, the company performed under the name of Sussex at Cambridge, Gloucester, Bristol, Folkestone, Faversham, Bath, Norwich, Oxford, and Coventry (REED PP; Ipswich (MSC II.3, pp. 267-9); at Canterbury, Dover, Faversham, and Folkestone (MSC VII, 14, 44, 60, 70); at Hengrave and Sudbury ('MSC XI, 166, 197); and at Nottingham, Leicester, Abingdon, and Southampton (Murray I.305-6).

1585-1593

At the Rose, 1593-4

1602 and following

Bibliography

'Malone Society Collections II.3. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1907.
Malone Society Collections VII. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965.
Malone Society Collections XI. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980-1.
Murray, John Tucker. English Dramatic Companies 1558-1642. 2 vols. 1910, New York: Russell & Russell, 1963. Vol. I

Plays performed by the Earl of Sussex's Men