Shakespearean Playhouses / A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration

by Joseph Quincy Adams

[112] Ed. by J.P. Collier, for The Shakespeare Society (1843), p. 85.

[113] Dasent, Acts of the Privy Council, xxvii, 313.

[114] It seems, however, to have been smaller than the Theatre.

[115] Johannes de Witt describes the Theatre and the Curtain along with the Swan and the Rose as "amphitheatra" (see page [167]). It is quite possible that Shakespeare refers to the Curtain in the Prologue to Henry V as "this wooden O," though the reference may be to the Globe.

[116] Malone, Variorum, iii, 54; cf. also Ellis, The Parish of St. Leonard.

[117] Did Steevens base his statement on this passage in Aubrey?

[118] Brayne v. Burbage, 1592, printed in full by Wallace, The First London Theatre, pp. 109-52. See especially pp. 126, 148.

[119] Easer?

[120] Wallace, op. cit., p. 148; cf. p. 126.

[121] Tomlins, op. cit., pp. 29-31.