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" Mayor, to enforme him what noblemans servants they are, and so to get licence for their publike playing ; and if the Mayor like the actors, or would shew respect to their lord and master, he appoints them to play their first play before himself, and the... "
The Plays of William Shakspeare. In Fifteen Volumes: Farmer's Essay on the ... - Page 135
by William Shakespeare - 1793
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A Literary History of the English People from the Renaissance to the Civil ...

Jean Jules Jusserand - English literature - 1909 - 668 pages
...child, probably stood " betweene his [father's] leggs," and got an early glimpse of theatrical life: "In the city of Gloucester the manner is, as I think...that, when players of enterludes come to towne, they first attend the Mayor to enforme him what noblemans servants they are, and so to get licence for their...
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The Aldus Shakespeare: With Copious Notes and Comments, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1909 - 244 pages
...addressed to his wife and children. The curious narrative given by Willis is in the following terms,—"in the city of Gloucester the manner is, as I think it...that, when players of enterludes come to towne, they first attend the Mayor to enforme him what noble-mans servants they are, and so to get licence for...
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The England of Shakespeare

Peter Hampson Ditchfield - Dramatists, English - 1917 - 398 pages
...procedure of the production of a play or interlude in a provincial town or city. It was as follows : " In the city of Gloucester, the manner is (as I think...is in other like corporations) that when players of interludes come to town, they first attend the mayor, to inform him what nobleman's servants they are,...
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An Image of Shakespeare

Frank James Mathew - 1922 - 462 pages
...they were controlled by a responsible patron. Robert Willis wrote in Mount Tabor, printed in 1639 : " In the City of Gloucester the manner is (as I think...is in other like Corporations) that when Players of Interludes come to the town they first attend the Mayor to inform him what nobleman's servants they...
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The Elizabethan Stage, Volume 1

Edmund Kerchever Chambers - Actors - 1923 - 444 pages
...Willis, in a half-autobiographical, half-religious, treatise entitled Mount Tabor, published in 1639: 1 ' In the City of Gloucester, the manner is (as I think...that when Players of Enterludes come to towne, they first attend the Mayor, to enforme him what noble-mans servants they are, and so to get licence for...
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Shakespeare the Man and His Stage

Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn, George Bagshawe Harrison - Dramatists, English - 1923 - 140 pages
...and who wrote his recollections of the event in a book called Mount Tabor : servants they are, and so to get licence for their publike playing ; and if the Mayor like the actors, or would show respect to their lord and master, he appoints them to play their first play before himselfe and...
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A Literary History of the English People, Volume 1

Jean Jules Jusserand - English literature - 1926 - 658 pages
...child, probably stood " betweene his [father's] leggs," and got an early glimpse of theatrical life: "In the city of Gloucester the manner is, as I think...that, when players of enterludes come to towne, they first attend the Mayor to enforme him what noblemans servants they are, and so to get licence for their...
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A Literary History of the English People from the Origins to the ..., Volume 2

Jean Jules Jusserand - English literature - 1926 - 666 pages
...child, probably stood " betweene his [father's] leggs," and got an early glimpse of theatrical life: "In the city of Gloucester the manner is, as I think...that, when players of enterludes come to towne, they first attend the Mayor to enforme him what noblemans servants they are, and so to get licence for their...
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A Literary History of the English People, Volume 1

Jean Jules Jusserand - English literature - 1926 - 668 pages
...child, probably stood " betweene his [father's] leggs," and got an early glimpse of theatrical life: "In the city of Gloucester the manner is, as I think...that, when players of enterludes come to towne, they first attend the Mayor to enforme him what noblemans servants they are, and so to get licence for their...
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The Theatre in the Middle Ages: Western European Stage Conditions, C.800-1576

William Tydeman - Drama - 1978 - 322 pages
...describes the performance of a moral interlude at Gloucester during his youth ( 1 570-80), observing In the city of Gloucester the manner is (as I think...that when Players of Enterludes come to towne, they first attend the Mayor to enforme him what noble-mans servants they are, and so to get licence for...
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