Viewing Venue Record: Hope

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• The Hope plays host to a fencing tournament
• Exchequer, Crown vs William Henslowe and Jacob Meade: John Baxter deposes concerning the construction of the Hope
• Exchequer, Bishop of Winchester vs Jacob Meade and Edward Alleyn: Alleyn testifies that the Hope is still used as both a baiting-arena and a playhouse
• Prince Charles' Men leave the Hope and ask Alleyn for a loan
• Lady Elizabeth's Men write articles of oppression against Henslowe
• The Hope presents bull-baiting
• A contract for the audience of Jonson's 'Bartholomew Fair' at the Hope
• The Hope is to host a trial of wit, but one of the parties fails to attend
• Jonson's 'Bartholomew Fair' is performed at the Hope by the Lady Elizabeth's Men
• A report to the House of Commons recommends that all bear-baiting activities be curtailed
• Jacob Meade appears before the Privy Council
• Henslowe and Meade secure the actor Dawes for the Hope
• A summary of theatres built in London: Edmund Howes
• Henslowe and Meade contract with Katherens to build the Hope theatre
• 'Holland's Leaguer' (the pamphlet) names the open-air theatres visible from the eponymous brothel
• Theatres close because of the plague
• William Fennor challenges 'Kendall' to a versifying contest at the Fortune
• Players cannot play until the Queen is buried, and Richard Burbage is dead: Chamberlain
• Requests, Edward Alleyn vs William Henslowe: Henslowe is too ill to answer
• Requests, Edward Alleyn vs William Henslowe: Alleyn states his case
• The Privy Council orders theatres closed because of the plague
• The Privy Council orders playing companies and performances suppressed during the plague
• The Privy Council orders theatres closed because of the plague
• The Privy Council orders playing companies, 'as also the Keepers of Paris Garden,' to shut down their houses and cease playing
• Swetnam compares his misogynist pamphlet to a bear-baiting ring
• A handwritten addendum to Stowe's 1631 Annals outlines the post-Civil War fate of London's theatres
• The Hope is dirty
• The Hope has a tiring house
• Has the Hope's stage been around since Tarlton's time?
• Exchequer, Crown vs William Henslowe and Jacob Meade: John Baxter and John Taylor depose that Pope and Burnaby erected buildings for baiting and plays
• Exchequer, Crown vs William Henslowe and Jacob Meade: John Taylor deposes that William Payne built and operated a yard for bearbaiting
• Exchequer, Crown vs William Henslowe and Jacob Meade: John Taylor deposes that Payne and Poulton built scaffolds for the audiences of bearbaiting
• Exchequer, Crown vs William Henslowe and Jacob Meade: Taylor and Bachelor depose that William Payne leased Bear Garden properties upon the Stews
• Exchequer, Crown vs William Henslowe and Jacob Meade: John Taylor deposes that Wistow succeeded Payne as 'deputy of the Game of beares'
• Those suffering under James I's economic policies are like the bears baited at Paris Garden: Thomas Wentworth
• John Taylor ridicules William Fennor for his production of 'England's Joy' at the Swan
• Richard Margrave is jailed for publishing word of an assembly
• Bear-baiting occurs twice a week(?): Vox Graculi
• A character in Richard Brome's 'The Antipodes' mocks the Bear Garden dancing masters
• Characters in Richard Brome's 'The Antipodes' debate the appeal of bearbaiting
• A tourist goes to Paris Garden to see a bear-baiting, but instead must suffer a play
• Gilbert Katharens and John Browne plan for the construction of the Hope theatre
• The Spanish Ambassador sees animals baited at the Hope
• Exchequer, Crown vs Bishop of Winchester: Taylor recalls locations of Southwark bear gardens
• Nathan Field seeks bail from Philip Henslowe
• Exchequer, Crown vs Bishop of Winchester: John Browne deposes
• Henslowe drafts contract for a 'couenante servante'
• Henslowe records loans to Admiral's Men
• Father Thomas Leke responds to the archpriest of England's prohibition against playgoing
• Herbert licenses a camel show