Viewing Troupe Record: Queen's Men

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• Queen's Men are formed; Tarlton and Wilson are founding players
• The Queen's Men perform 'The True Tragedy of Richard III'
• The Queen's Men perform at Greenwich
• Francis Henslowe buys a share in the Queen's Men when they go on a provincial tour
• Chamberlain's Office, 'Sharers' Papers': John Shanks replies to the players' petition
• Martin Marprelate laments the popularity of stage plays, regrets having used stage rhetoric himself
• Players are liveried servants of the Queen and therefore superior to the Martin Marprelate writers
• Martin Marprelate tracts adopt the style of popular drama
• 'Martin Marprelate' bequeaths his fooleries to John Laneham
• The Martin Marprelate controversy has produced comedies
• Greene is accused of selling 'Orlando Furioso' to two different companies
• The lord mayor asks the privy council to pull down the Theatre and Curtain but Burbage resists; violence at the Theatre
• Queen's Men petition the Privy Council for license to play within London
• A spy writes to Secretary Walsingham of London's debauched theatre scene
• Henslowe records performance receipts from the Rose and Newington Butts