Extracts from the Accounts of the Revels at Court, in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I: From the Original Office Books of the Masters and Yeomen

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Shakespeare Society, 1842 - 228 páginas

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Página xxiv - Whitehall the 12th of March 1636. Pembroke and Montgomery. To Sr William Uvedale Kn1. Trser of His Mats Chamber. [From the Original.] Playes acted before the Kinge and Queene this present yeare of the Lord 1636. 1. Easter munday at the Cockpitt the firste parte of Arviragus.* • 2.
Página xxxv - for the maintenance and relief of himself and the rest of his company, being prohibited to present any plays publicly in or near London, by reason of great peril that might grow through the extraordinary concourse and assembly of people, to a new increase of the plague, till it shall please God to settle the city in a more perfect health.
Página 227 - A History of the Duke of Millayn and the Marques of Mantua 154 A history of Alucius . . ib.
Página 223 - Then for comedies, to speake of a London comedie, how much good matter, yea and matter of state, is there in that Comedie cald the play of the Cards?
Página 13 - Having also apt howses, made of Canvasse, fframed, ffashioned T; paynted accordingly ; as mighte best serve theier severall purposes. Together with sundry properties incident : ffashioned, paynted, garnished, and bestowed as the partyes them selves required T; needed.
Página 147 - For a hoope and blewe Lynnen cloth to mend the clowde that was Borrowed and cut to serve the rock in the plaie of the burnyng Knight and for the hire therof and setting upp the same where it was borowed ; x8.
Página xxix - Payde upon the Counsayles Warrante dated at Windsor the ij of Januarye 1569 To Richarde Ferrante Scolemr to the Childeren of Wyndsor by waye of &c for presentinge a playe before her highnes this Christmas upon St Johns daye at nighte laste paste vj".
Página xliv - To Joseph Taylor for himselfe and the reste of his fellowes servauntes to the Lady Eliz. her grace upon the Councells Warraunt dated at Whitehall 21 June 1614 for presenting before his Ma'^ a Comedy called Eastward Howe on the xxvth of January last past — vj1'. xiij'. iiijd. and by way of his Ma
Página 13 - Narcissf showen on Twelfe daye at nighte by the Children of the Chappell.
Página 222 - Britannicum, at court, on the 18th Feb., 1633. " In the lower part," he says, " was seen afarre off the prospect of Windsor Castell, the famous seat of the most Honourable Order of the Garter." " The Curtaine," Carew tells us, " was watchet and a pale yellow in paines which flying up on the sudden, discovered the scene. " Among the Lansdowne MSS. (No. 1171) are few ground-plots, or profiles of scenes, by Inigo Jones, for the production of masques at the Masquing House at Whitehall. The first is a...

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