Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare's Time
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780521031165
Subjects: Theatre, drama; c 1500 to c 1600; Performing Arts; Performing Arts/Dance; London, Greater London; Theater - History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism; Shakespeare, William, --1564-1616--Stage hist; Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Stage history--To 1625; Theater - General
First sentence: John Alleyn, an innholder and stage player, who might have been best known even in his own day as the brother of the stage player, Edward Alleyn, deposed in a 1589-90 lawsuit in the Court of Chancery on behalf of Margaret Brayne, widow of John Brayne, a financier of the Theatre and brother-in-law of James Burbage, against whom the suit was filed.