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And when that’s done we’le whip them to y^e court.<br /> The final line of this prologue suggests this masque was likely performed at court before King James.

...estivities at Somerset House on Shrove Sunday (21 February), 1585, but the performance was cancelled due to the queen's decision not to make a public appearance. ...to assume 1592, March 6, as the exact date for this performance [i.e., the performance to which the Plot of "[[Second Part of the Seven Deadly Sins, The|The Seco

The play is first recorded as having been performed at court in 1612 by the Duke of York's Men (later called Prince Charles's (I) Men). ...trolled the manuscript" and charged Beeston £3 to revive it for "a benefit performance like those the King's company gave for him" (5.1025). Tiffany Stern notes t

To be selected for performance, the play must also have been rehearsed in the presence of Edmund Tilney al Under "Payments for plays", the following is recorded for the Candlemas performance of 1579:

...the plays given through the holiday season but also the date and venue of performance. "Five Plays in One" was given on 6 January 1585 (Twelfth Night), in the ev ...to assume 1592, March 6, as the exact date for this performance [i.e., the performance to which the Plot of "[[Second Part of the Seven Deadly Sins, The|The Seco

|documentarySources=Performance Records (Henslowe's Diary) ...Man of West Chester," and the accuracy of the 16 July date for the fourth performance is questionable.

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====For playing at court==== ..., the play is more likely to have been in revival when Dekker prepared for performance before a royal audience. If it also played publicly in January 1600, its ve

===Performance Records=== ...London from the autumn of 1591 to the early spring of 1592" as well as at court, Wiggins deduces that the company was buying new plays from 1591-3 (#903).

King's Men at court ...red baseless. Bentley adds: "Though it was good enough for performance at court, it must have lost its appeal in the next eighteen years, for it is not inc

===Court Records=== Performed for the court by Leicester's Men at Richmond on Shrove Sunday (10 February) 1583.

Prince Charles's (I) at court ...'s suggestion that the furore caused the Prince's Men to be denied a court performance of ''The World Tossed at Tennis'' is generally thought to be baseless.

===Court Records=== :The play was one of 20 performances by the King’s Men at court through the winter holiday season of 1612-13 (the other 14 plays named are

...k Maid" was among the six 'Histories and Invencions' performed at Richmond court during 'Christmas Newyeares tide Twelftide and the son day folowing' (Decem ...asurer of the Chamber (222b) confirms that Leicester's men were paid for a performance on January 4th.<br /><br />

...nry Helmes, and a list of the members of the Inn who held positions at his court is given in the tract. The revels began on St. Thomas's Eve, 20 Dec., conti '''Nelson and Elliott''' reproduce the letter in their ''Inns of Court'' volume for REED (435-36), noting:

...of 1661, is, I believe, a composition of ca. 1592-1593, cut for itinerant performance but otherwise little altered” (144), suggests that Day and Dekker “may ...noting its anomalous character, both as a rare allusion to a Jacobean inn performance, and because the Earl of Derby's players tended to operate in the provinces

...cribes the English players visiting Graz during Fasching celebrations. The performance in question would have taken place on 18 February 1608: :After the performance we again had dinner at five o'clock and the English players gave another pl

===Court Records=== ...e small lights supplied by the Revels Office were stolen on the day of the performance. Sebastian Wescott was later paid £10 (comprising £6.13s.4d fee and £3.6

...ls Office had at some time or times under consideration for performance at court” (''RES'' 484). :In a projected court performance around 1619, ''Henry the Unable'' would have been intensely topical... Fir

...ive the privilege of attending the January 6 festivities. As a result, the performance of the ''Vision'' was delayed and the "Masque of Scots" substituted to appe :The first ''Christmas'' of worthy king James was at his court at Hampton A^o 1603: wher the French, Spanish & Polonian Ambassad

===Performance Records === Frustratingly, despite the survival of a complete plot ''and'' a string of performance records pertaining to this lost title, the subject matter remains elusive.

...ls Office had at some time or times under consideration for performance at court” (''RES'' 484). [[Category:Cotton MS. Tiberius E. X.]] [[category:Unknown]] [[category:Court]] [[category:all]]

...ationers’ Register need not have followed closely on composition (or first performance), and it may be that the play is one of the ‘two hundred’ or so in whic

...hile other critics have suggested it was acted by the company at Salisbury Court after the long plague closure of 1636-7. It was seen into print by "A.T.", ...script, but changed to the distinct and tantalizing ''Fatal Contract'' for performance" (245). In Morley's account, the manuscript that Marriott received bore the

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...ontract", for performance at the White Horse inn. According to the Mayor's Court Book, Francis Wambus posted a playbill without permission, and subsequently ...hangeling'', written for the Lady Elizabeth's Men in 1622 and presented at court on 4 January 1624 (see Hutchings). It is likely these plays were further re

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...1617 – when the play may have been written for performance at the Inns of Court. A more plausible supposition would be a date between 1625 and 1630, during ...cludes the possibility of a performance at Gray's Inn because 'the Inns of Court had no tradition of Latin drama.'

...0). It may be, however, that the Chamber Account's payment for a 5 January performance in fact refers to that on New Year's night (Streitberger 47). ...ing." In the same 1611-12 season, the King's Men's performances before the court also included ''The Tempest'' (1 November), ''The Winter's Tale'' (5 Novemb

...an Oxford Fellow in the 1580s, may well have been sung during the original performance of ''Palamon'' and is probably by Edwards" (116). Although he does not note ...ncies, and fine deuises: and thereon, meditate diuers sweete conceites, to court the loue of faire ladies and gentlewomen by N.B. Gent. Imprinted at London

...ls Office had at some time or times under consideration for performance at court” (''RES'' 484). ...on MS. Tiberius E. X.]] [[category:ghost]] [[category:Unknown]] [[category:Court]]

...of the Revels record various expenses disbursed in the preparation of the performance of "King Xerxes" and its aftermath. Payments were made for Thomas Blagrave' ...d on 6 January 1575 by the Children of Windsor before the Queen at Hampton Court.

...e fow''er'' sones of Aymon," offered to the Admiral's men as an option for performance at the [[:category:Fortune|Fortune]] within the following twelve months (F. ...later, in ''An Apology for Actors'' (1612), Thomas Heywood wrote about the performance of a play with the same title acted (in English, presumably) in continental

...n Old Castell'', to his great Contentment. This Day the Lords are going to Court. My Lord ''Harbert'' wil be here vpon ''Wednesday'', he must be the honorab ...wrote some more sentences of news for Sidney, but nothing relevant to the performance (Brennan, Kinnamon, and Hannay, p. 439).

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=== Performance Records === :[t]he large receipts from the first performance [in Henslowe’s Diary, 1595/6], and the fact of its being particularly des

...confirmation that Derby's Men were paid by the crown for their Shrovetide performance in 1579.<br /><br /> Wiggins records the timeline for the performance of this play. It was performed for the Master of Revels sometime before Sat

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...ost lovely theatres have been built. Not an evening has passed without the performance of some lovely play in the royal household in the presence of their Majesti ...ever, the well-received 27 December masque was soon eclipsed by the lavish performance of Jonson's ''The Masque of Blackness'' on 6 January 1605. The Christmas se

...being in Norwich, where they advertised a play, The Spanish Contract, for performance at the White Horse inn. ...hangeling, written for the Lady Elizabeth’s Men’s in 1622 and presented at court on 4 January 1624 (see Hutchings). It is likely these plays were further re

===Performance Records === ...n performances through 9 July 1596, and it returned an average of 31s. per performance to Henslowe. <br>

...gossip, John Chamberlain, the following information about goings-on at the court of the new king, James: "On New Year's night we had a play of Robin Goodfel ...rt had recessed from London to Hampton Court for the winter of 1603-4, the performance of "Robin Goodfellow" would have been the company's first opportunity to en

...hen by sworde. Suche persons as were nice and wanton, he secluded from hys court. This man as appeareth, litle fauoured the vsurped power of the Bishop of R ..., which concerns a private performance at which their gear was lost, was a performance of "The Famous Wars of Henry I and the Prince of Wales" ([http://www.archiv

...nd almost certainly staged earlier than its first recorded performance, at court, in January 1624) and ''The Spanish Gypsy'' in 1623. It is difficult to ima ...Venice. Osuna’s career as a soldier, politician, and, latterly, victim of court politics that saw him brought down at the hands of his rival, Count-Duke Ol

...yment; see Schlueter, "Across the narrow sea", 237-38), was revived at the Court of Saxony in Dresden in 1626, and again, this time as a puppet play, in Dan ...advisor, the magician Runcifax/Barabas, and manages to enter the Scottish court himself by adopting the disguise of a fool. The magician’s magic mirror r

The play was acquired on July 19 1598 by the Admiral’s Men for performance at the Rose. ...y. Pepin sends Valentine to deal with the problem, and Orson is brought to court. [¶] Pepin sends Valentine and Orson to do battle with a Green Knight who

===Performance Records=== ...run of 7 performances. There is a note in the margin at the initial March performance of the play, as follows: "begynyng in leant marche 1597." Marginal notes al