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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

...ghts late in the night in a disorderly manner. […] It is therefore by this Court ordered that the said Will''ia''m Sands thelder Iohn. Sands and William San ...7 yeares" implies that 1611 is "the latest possible date" for its earliest performance, and his poem also suggests frequent performances ("hath bene often showne"

...se. In the complaint lodged by Brayne versus Sylvester and recorded by the Court Book of the Carpenters' Company, the location of the theatrical structure w ...ails about the location of the playhouse are provided in a lawsuit in the Court of King's Bench in Hilary term 11 Elizabeth (1569) in which John Brayne sue

...ere are also claims of his having a position post-Agincourt at the English court, where he is associated with the queen’s household, perhaps as tailor or ...erine. Holland describes (through an aspiring but unworthy observer of the court) the royal entertainment attended by the queen: "Some in their cinqueapase

...Blacke Jonne" on the inventory list), do not appear in Henslowe's lists of performance, including [[Sturgflatery|"Sturgflaterey,"]] [[Branhowlte (Brunhild)|"Brunh :Earlier in the same year [1597] Henslowe notes a performance of "The Witch of Islington." By the next year had been written "Black Joan.

=== Performance Records === ...s a "born fool" (Ch1). When Sir Lancelot and Sir Tristram visit the Earl's court, Lancelot falls in love with Laura and offers to undertake hardy adventure

=== Performance Records === ...responds with great anxiety, he reveals his identity. Later, he returns to court but his madness returns and he is chained in a cell of the hospital of St.

...any play of Fletcher's should at this late date have been omitted from the Court list, I would suggest that ''The Buck is a Thief'' presented 1623, Dec. 28,

...uncertain date following Christmas, and for 09 July 1613 (pertaining to a performance which occurred on 08 June 1613 at Greenwich) (Astington 246-47). The compan The next documented occurrence related to the play was the first performance of Lewis Theobald's play ''Double Falsehood'' at Covent Garden on 13 Decemb

...ver, Busino perhaps refers to Venetians more generally, in which case the performance may have occurred prior to his arrival. ...he Venetian ambassador and frequent playgoer Antonio Foscarini attending a performance at the Curtain. Standing as a groundling at the end of the play, Foscarini

...ragedy: Or, The Step-Mother's Cruelty," in connection with the offering at court by Sussex's men on 28 December 1578 entitled "The Cruelty of a Stepmother." ...torial Competition at the Rose and Globe, 1599-1600.” ''Acts of Criticism: Performance Matters in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries.'' Ed. June Schlueter and Pau

...n the specific case of Elizabeth's marriage to Anjou, however, the private performance at New Hall represents a markedly different form of counsel than the stride

===Performance Records === ...ls Office had at some time or times under consideration for performance at court” (''RES'' 484). One of the plays listed at this surprisingly late date is

The play was purchased by Admiral's Men in 1601, presumably for performance at the Fortune. ...Lockey, Brian C. "Elizabethan Cosmopolitan: Captain Thomas Stukeley in the Court of Dom Sebastian." ''ELR'' 40 (2010): 3–32.</div>

...d many under couller of a play to be of gent. and reverens, comming to the Court since in a blacke suit, bootes and golden spurres without a rapier, one tol ...n ''Defense'' against Taylor (published also in 1615), he insults Fennor's performance in Vennar's play:

Included on p.213 in list of the plays allocated to Thomas Killigrew for performance at the Theatre Royal in 'A Catalogue of part of His Ma^tes Servan ...plays in 1622 (Bentley, 3.117; Smith 216-17). Firm evidence places him at court at this time. Bentley cites a letter written by the Marquis of Buckingham t

...documents, an unnamed group of comedians offer a total of twelve plays for performance, several of which correspond to the ten on the Nördlingen list. Among the ...he widowed Duke of Ferrara sends his avowed bachelor son to a neighbouring court to woo a bride on his father's behalf. This time, the bride in question is

...es associated with Thomas Nabbes on account of its debt to his ''Tottenham Court'') contains a play called ''The Merry Milkmaid of Islington'' in which a ch ...tunate vvife, of that most infortunate King Henry the sixt. Nimphidia, the court of Fayrie. The quest of Cinthia. The shepheards Sirena. The moone-calfe. El

The performance of "The Death of the Lord of Kyme" in August 1601 was the focal point of a ...s exclusively on the potentially scurrilous or blasphemous episodes of the performance. One record of the final sentencing for the case in 1610 summarizes the all

...ctual phrasing but inaccurately represents what probably transpired in the performance: "Weavers would have shuttles, but surely not cloth-dressers" (94). The ori ...="padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Williams, Robert Folkestone. ''The Court and Times of James the First''. 2 vols. London, 1848.</div>

===Performance Documents=== ...age-plot suggests that a staging of the play was being prepared and that a performance was anticipated.

A number of witnesses gave their accounts of an affray that took place at a performance by the Queen's Men at the Red Lion in Norwich. They are reproduced in PRO K ...Singer are committed to and released from prison, but do not appear at the court hearing; Henry Brown is ultimately left alone to face the charges, and plea

===Performance Records=== ...a letter from England to her three daughters, Cambridge, Oxford, Innes of Court, and to all the rest of her inhabitants: perswading them to a constant vnit

===Performance Records=== ...8 January 1597; for this short revival, it returned an average of 18s. per performance to Henslowe. Curiously, at its February 1595 debut, "Long Meg" was marked

...taken place on Sunday, 1 August rather than Saturday; however, a Saturday performance is indicated in '''A''' [Erler 361].) </td> ...sts that this may indicate that a last-minute revision was made before the performance in light of the rainy weather, which would have rendered the lines infelici

Court of Star Chamber records for the proceeding involving Sir John Yorke of Nidd ...(107-08) relates that in 1609, at Masham, North Riding, there was a repeat performance of the controversial play, this time under the auspices of Sir Thomas Danby

...ve; this symposium will explore whether we can approach these records as a performance text, creating a form of early modern verbatim theatre. ...ates to a play (something exemplified by Tiffany Stern’s book Documents of Performance); and the availability of new digital resources. New models are emerging of

...and Munday, acquired by Burbage for Pembroke's Men, revised by Dekker for performance by the Chamberlain's Men, and later sold to Henslowe, whereupon its Wolsey ...', making an argument that ''Sir Thomas More'' was originally composed for performance by the Admiral's Men, proposes that "Chettle may have planned ''More'' as p

===Performance Records (''Henslowe's Diary'')=== ...nce to "whole Hamlets ... handfuls of Tragicall speeches" implies a public performance, ''c.'' 1588 (for the full passage, see [[#References to the Play|Reference

...ain that playhouses in their jurisdiction be "plucked down" because of the performance of lewd plays and consequent disorders. The second, dated 15 August 1597, i ...to close the playhouses and the restraint issued due to concerns about the performance of "The Isle of Dogs." He points out that the lord mayor's letter is "the a

...ght and his wife quarreled so loudly that they were overheard and taken to court, where the wife blamed everything on her husband, but both were condemned, ...was adopted. Grown into manhood and seeking adventure, he traveled to the court of the emperor, leaving in wait the king's daughter, his promised bride.