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• Players use prop food: 'The City Wit'
• Plays upon their first performance tend to receive doubled estimation
• Wenches find dinner dates at the theatre, according to a character in 'Wit in a Constable'
• Actors sometimes rehearsed plays: Munday and Chettle
• Heywood discusses the authorized and unauthorized publication of plays
• Boys go to playhouses to meet girls: Gosson
• Theatre boxes can cost half a crown
• Theatres use a door-keeper to collect admission
• 'Alphonsus, King of Aragon' includes stage directions for ascent and descent of Venus
• The induction of 'A Warning for Fair Women' reveals much about performance and staging
• Dekker predicts another war of the theatres
• Playhouses have rooms available for a penny
• Jigs are commonly performed after plays: Jonson
• Playhouse flags are removed after the performance: Dekker
• A bed is used onstage in 'The City Wit'
• Written play titles may have been displayed to audiences: 'The City Wit'
• Descent machinery is called for in the stage directions of 'Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes'
• Shirley's 'The Witty Fair One' mocks attempts by University students to sell plays in London
• Bench seats cost a sixpence
• Written play titles may have been displayed to audiences: 'The Antipodes'
• Brome's 'The Antipodes' makes reference to a prompter
• Prologue speakers typically wear a long black coat
• Courtiers, gentlemen from the country and the Inns of Court, and citizens attend plays at Salisbury Court
• How to behave at a play: Jonson
• Factions may applaud or hiss playwrights
• Theatres use bills to advertise
• Brome's 'The Court Beggar' refers to playgoers taking sedans to see plays
• Brome's 'The Court Beggar' refers to playwrights who pay to have their plays performed
• Gallants sat onstage: Laquei Ridiculosi
• Paul Hentnzer describes the atmosphere of the London theatres
• Flags and trumpets announce performances: Field
• A stage direction in Thomas Middleton's 'A Chaste Maid in Cheapside' provides evidence about early staging practices
• A successful play is called a 'get-penny:' Jonson
• Tobacco, wine and beer are the common fare of playhouses
• Playhouses have two-penny galleries: Vox Graculi
• Printed plays cost sixpence
• Playwrights share in the third night's profit of the playhouse
• A character appears 'upon the walls' in Shakespeare's 'King John'
• Audiences are too critical
• 'The Valiant Welshman' calls for an ascent machinery and a trap-door on stage
• Gosson describes the behaviour of playhouse audiences
• The Privy Council issues a restraint on playing during plague time
• 'Gentlemen of the Court' and soldiers attend plays in London: Nashe
• 'Alphonsus, King of Aragon' includes stage directions for Venus to be lowered from top of stage
• The Prologue to 'The Staple of News' condemns 'Nut-crackers' in audience