The Golden Age of the English TheatreA history of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre |
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... Edward Alleyn was born on 1 September 1566 to a Bish- opsgate publican , who died when he was four . His mother then married within a short time a haberdasher called John Brown . The young Alleyn presumably fancied neither innkeeping ...
... Edward Alleyn was born on 1 September 1566 to a Bish- opsgate publican , who died when he was four . His mother then married within a short time a haberdasher called John Brown . The young Alleyn presumably fancied neither innkeeping ...
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... Edward Alleyn had been long anticipated . The second was that of a young soldier , Ben Jonson , recently home from the wars in the Low Countries , to an Anne Lewis , a London girl . The first was a match of great affection as is shown ...
... Edward Alleyn had been long anticipated . The second was that of a young soldier , Ben Jonson , recently home from the wars in the Low Countries , to an Anne Lewis , a London girl . The first was a match of great affection as is shown ...
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... Edward Alleyn . Alleyn left £ 10,000 to endow his college ; Constance Alleyn's unsatisfactory marriage had lasted only a short time . The Oxford Companion to the Theatre gives the date of William Rowley's death as 1637 but all other ...
... Edward Alleyn . Alleyn left £ 10,000 to endow his college ; Constance Alleyn's unsatisfactory marriage had lasted only a short time . The Oxford Companion to the Theatre gives the date of William Rowley's death as 1637 but all other ...
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