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

by Joseph Quincy Adams

[162] Murray, English Dramatic Companies, i, 325, erroneously says: "Their public place was, probably, from the first, the courtyard of St. Paul's Cathedral."

[163] Wallace, Shakespeare and his London Associates, p. 95.

[164] That is, in or near Pater Noster Row.

[165] Annales, or A Generall Chronicle of England, 1631, signature liii 1, verso.

[166] F.G. Fleay, A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, ii, 76; W.J. Lawrence, The Elizabethan Playhouse, p. 17.

[167] R.W. Bond, The Complete Works of John Lyly, iii, 408. Higher prices of admission were charged to all the private playhouses.

[168] John Marston, Antonio's Revenge, acted at Paul's in 1600.

[169] There is a record of a play by the Paul's Boys in 1527 before ambassadors from France, dealing with the heretic Luther; but exactly when they began to give public performances for money we do not know.

[170] Malone, Variorum, iii, 432.

[171] The Children of the Chapel, p. 153.