Viewing Event Record: Audience members sit on stage at the Blackfriars and Cockpit for daily performances

Abstract

In their address 'To the great Variety of Readers' in the 1623 folio of Shakespeare's plays, John Heminges and Henry Condell refer to audience members who think they are 'Magistrate[s] of wit, and sit on the Stage at Black-Friers, or the Cock-pit, to arraigne Playes dailie[.]'

Date Event Recorded

Date
From: 1623 (Source of claim: original)

Date Event Happened

Date
From: 1623 (Source of claim: original)

Venues

Name
Blackfriars (II)
Name
Phoenix/Cockpit

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Event Type

  • audience context
  • cultural context
  • performance context
  • playhouse business
  • playhouse context