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233: 19: 464: 507: 173:. On Farrant's death in 1580, Hunnis took on John Newman as a partner and they subleased the property from Farrant's widow, putting up a £100 bond on the promise to promptly pay the rent and to make needed repairs. But the venture did not go well financially, which put Farrant's widow in jeopardy of defaulting on the rent to More. In November 1583, Farrant brought suit against Hunnis and Newman for default on the bond. To escape a suit by her or More, Hunnis and Newman transferred their sublease to 498:, is a re-creation of a Jacobean theatre based on what is known of the original Blackfriars. Completed at a cost of $ 3.7 million, the 300-seat theatre opened in September 2001. Architect Tom McLaughlin based the design on plans for other 17th-century theatres, his own trips to England to view surviving halls of the period, Shakespeare's stage directions and other research and consultation. The lighting imitates that of the original Blackfriars. 357:) that, although failures in their first production, marked the first significant appearance of these two dramatists, whose work would profoundly affect early Stuart drama. The new plays of all these playwrights deliberately pushed the accepted boundaries of personal and social satire, of violence on stage, and of sexual frankness. These plays appear to have attracted members of a higher social class than was the norm at the 419:
After renovations, the King's Men began using the theatre for performances in 1609. Thereafter the King's Men played in Blackfriars for the seven months in winter, and at the Globe during the summer. Blackfriars appears to have brought in a little over twice the revenue of the Globe; the shareholders
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of the former priory and rooms below. This large space, perhaps 100 feet (30 m) long and 50 wide (15 metres), with high ceilings allowed Burbage to construct two galleries, substantially increasing potential attendance. The nature of Burbage's modifications to his purchase is not clear, and the
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was produced first at Blackfriars on Shrove Tuesday and then at court on 3 March, with Lyly listed as the payee for both Court appearances. In November 1583, Hunnis, still Master of the Chapel Children, successfully petitioned the Queen to increase the stipend to house, feed, and clothe the company.
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from More in order to stage plays. As often in the theatrical practice of the time, this commercial enterprise was justified by the convenient fiction of royal necessity; Farrant claimed to need the space for his child choristers to practice plays for the Queen, but he also staged plays for paying
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The Blackfriars playhouse was also the source of other innovations which would profoundly change the nature of English commercial staging: it was among the first commercial theatrical enterprises to rely on artificial lighting, and it featured music between acts, a practice which the induction to
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within London proper. The black robes worn by members of this order lent the neighbourhood, and theatres, their name. In the pre-Reformation Tudor years, the site was used not only for religious but also for political functions, such as the annulment trial of
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While it housed this company, Blackfriars was the site of an explosion of innovative drama and staging. Together with its competitor, Paul's Children, the Blackfriars company produced plays by a number of the most talented young dramatists of
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and theatrical affectionado. This unauthorised assignment of the sublease gave More an excuse to bring suit to retake possession of the property, but Evans used legal delays and finally escaped legal action by selling the sublease to
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many contemporary references to the theatre do not offer a precise picture of its design. Once fitted for playing, the space may have been about 69 feet (21 m) long and 46 feet (14 m) wide (20 by 14 metres), including
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to forbid playing there. Referring to "divers both honorable and others then inhabiting the said precinct" and "what inconveniences were likely to fall upon them from a common playhouse" the letter was signed even by
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in the gallery, rising in stages to three shillings for a seat in a box close to the stage); both these factors limited attendance at the theatre to a fairly select group of well-to-do gentry and nobles.
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to "little eyasses" suggests that even the adult companies felt threatened by them. By the later half of that decade, the fashion had changed somewhat. In 1608, Burbage's company (by this time, the
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in 1596, which included the Parliament Chamber on the upper floor that was converted into the playhouse. The Children of the Chapel played in the theatre beginning in the autumn of 1600 until the
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audiences. The theatre was small, perhaps 46 feet (14 m) long and 25 feet (7.6 m) wide, and admission, compared to public theatres, expensive (six
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and Thomas Evans, agent for the theatre manager Henry Evans. This arrangement of shareholders (or "housekeepers) was similar to how the
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for a cheap seat) probably excluded the poorer patrons of the amphitheatres. Prefaces and internal references speak of gallants and
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led to a challenge from a father in 1600; however, this method brought the company some of its most famous actors, including
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men, who came not only to see a play but also, of course, to be seen; the private theatres sold seats on the stage itself.
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described the Blackfriars as a place in which "a thousand men in judgment sit"—Gurr, p. 213. His figure may be hyperbole.
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was operated. Sly, however, died soon after the arrangement was made, and his share was divided among the other six.
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In the years around the turn of the century, the children's companies were something of a phenomenon; a reference in
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Menzer, Paul (2006). "Afterword: Discovery Spaces? Research at the Globe and Blackfriars". In Menzer, Paul (ed.).
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of monastic property, the monastery became the property of the crown; control of the property was granted to
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which, some eight decades later, would be reenacted in the same room by Shakespeare's company. After Henry's
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The Evolution of the English Drama up to Shakespeare With a History of the First Blackfriars Theatre
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The second Blackfriars was an indoor theatre built elsewhere on the property at the instigation of
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Stern, Tiffany (2006). "Actors and Audiences on the Stage at Blackfriars". In Menzer, Paul (ed.).
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As Burbage built, however, a petition from the residents of the wealthy neighbourhood and led by
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was performed at Blackfriars and subsequently at Court on New Year's Day 1584; likewise, his
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As proprietor of the playhouse, Lyly installed Evans as the manager of the new company of
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could earn as much as £13 from a single performance, apart from what went to the actors.
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Conjectural reconstruction of the second Blackfriars Theatre from contemporary documents.
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For his playing company, Farrant combined his Windsor children with the Children of the
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was in the Blackfriars audience. On 13 May 1634 she and her attendants saw a play by
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article from The Map of Early Modern London project at The University of Victoria
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More finally obtained a legal judgement voiding the original lease at the end of
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Theatre Map of early modern London. Blackfriars Theatre is to the south-west of
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Digitised Posters and Flyers from the Second BlackFriars Theatre, held by the
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took over in 1608. They successfully used it as their winter playhouse until
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in January 2014. Designed by Jon Greenfield, in collaboration with
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was the name given to two separate theatres located in the former
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Completed at a cost of £7.5 million, the theatre opened as the
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Blackfriars Theatre was built on the grounds of the former
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began. In 1666, the entire area was destroyed in the
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Former buildings and structures in the City of London
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Index


St Paul's Cathedral
Blackfriars
Dominican
priory
City of London
Renaissance
Children of the Chapel Royal
child actors
Queen's
choirs
James Burbage
King's Men
all the theatres were closed in 1642
English Civil War
Great Fire of London
Dominican
monastery
Thames
Ludgate Hill
Catherine of Aragon
Henry VIII
expropriation
Sir Thomas Cawarden
Master of the Revels
Lord Cobham
John Cheke
Sir William More
Richard Farrant
Windsor Chapel

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