When the plague struck in the cities the theatres were closed and the acting companies had to find alternate sources of income. Often they would return to the nomadic life style which had been traditional for performers of all sorts.
A good income could be earned by performing in the private homes of the nobility and in the Royal Court. When James Burbage founded the acting company that Shakespeare was to join, he sought the patronage of Lord Hunsdon, the Lord Chamberlain.
Hence the company came to be known as "The Lord Chamberlain's Men". All Documents. Descriptive content and transcriptions will continue to be added, updated and expanded. Check back for regular updates!
The scholar and writer Gabriel Harvey was known and mocked in his lifetime for making copious notes in the margins of printed books. An inventor of words, friend of Edmund Spenser, and rival of Thomas Nashe, he constantly sought to improve himself through note-taking and repetitive reading.
Fair Em, first edition. Fair Em is an anonymously written play that at various points since the mid-seventeenth century has been attributed to Shakespeare. April 3, Stationers' Register entry for Arden of Faversham. Greenes, groats-worth of witte: First printed allusion to Shakespeare as a playwright. The earliest known allusion to Shakespeare as a playwright appears in Greenes, groats-worth of witte.
They could put on many more plays, and they could afford expensive costumes. They were thus able to attract regular audiences. Most important, they required the services of dramatists like Shakespeare to create new plays to satisfy those audiences with their insatiable desire for novelty.
The company was reorganised in , with Philip Henslowe as manager, and Edward Alleyn as their principal actor. The company ceased to play in , after the death of James I. Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange had his own company of players in the s.
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