Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps and tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Theatre history as personality
- 2 Players and company commerce
- 3 Playwrights, repertories, the book trade, and company commerce
- 4 Histrio-Mastix and company commerce
- 5 Hamlet and company commerce
- 6 Poetaster, Satiromastix, and company commerce
- 7 Conclusion: Hot Anger and company commerce
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Theatre history as personality
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps and tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Theatre history as personality
- 2 Players and company commerce
- 3 Playwrights, repertories, the book trade, and company commerce
- 4 Histrio-Mastix and company commerce
- 5 Hamlet and company commerce
- 6 Poetaster, Satiromastix, and company commerce
- 7 Conclusion: Hot Anger and company commerce
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Be not scurrulous in conuersation nor Satiricall in thy iestes,
thone will make thee vnwelcome to all company,
thother pull on quarrells & gett thee hatred of thy best freinds,
for Sulphrous iestes when they savour too much of truth
leave a bytternes in the myndes of those that be toucht.
A Jacobean Commonplace BookJohn 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. Alleyn was one of four deponents who answered interrogatories for both parties. Speaking to the widow's questions on 6 February 1592, Alleyn acknowledged knowing that the suit concerned the division of profits from the playhouse and contiguous buildings and that an arbitration had formerly been sought. Alleyn did not know details of the payments related to the arbitrated award, but he had witnessed encounters on divers occasions when the widow and an ally, Robert Myles, came to the Theatre to claim the Braynes' share. On one occasion in particular, Alleyn arrived just after Richard Burbage had chased them away with a broomstick.
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- Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare's Time , pp. 1 - 20Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001