Viewing Venue Record: Phoenix/Cockpit

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• Henry Wotton refers to the Cockpit as being in Shoe Lane
• Christopher Beeston apologizes for mounting a play during plague time
• Apprentices riot at the Cockpit: Edward Sherburne
• Apprentices riot at the Cockpit: John Chamberlain
• Requests, Smith vs Beeston: Beeston replies
• Christopher Beeston's widow proves his will
• Apprentices riot at the Cockpit: Privy Council response
• William Davenant becomes director of the Phœnix company and playhouse
• The Cockpit/Phoenix company is ordered to cease playing because they performed an unlicensed play
• William Beeston is made the governor of King's and Queen's Boys
• Christopher Beeston is made the governor of a new company of the King's and Queen's Boys
• Chancery, Worth and Blaney vs Baskervile and Browne: Baskervile and Browne reply
• Chancery, Hussey vs Kirke: John Best builds a tenement called the 'cockpit'
• Chancery, Hussey vs Kirke: Christopher Beeston leases land to build a theatre
• Christopher Beeston forces Queen Henrietta Maria's Men out of the Cockpit/Phoenix and to Salisbury Court
• Middleton alludes to the destruction of the Cockpit/Phoenix
• Queen Henrietta Maria's Men perform 'The Wedding' at the Phoenix
• The Phoenix auditorium is spherical
• Players of the Cockpit/Phoenix are given certificates of privilege
• The Cockpit/Phoenix repertory is granted official protection against performances by other companies
• William Beeston, George Stuttville, and Michael Mohun are arrested for performing an unlicensed play
• Performances occur at the Cockpit/Phoenix despite theatres being closed during the plague
• Queen Henrietta Maria's Men perform 'The Maid of Honour' at the Phoenix
• Lady Elizabeth's Men perform 'The Bondman' at the Cockpit
• A cast list is printed for 'The Renegado'
• Queen Henrietta Maria's Men perform 'The Great Duke of Florence' at the Phoenix
• Queen Henrietta Maria's Men perform 'A New Way to Pay Old Debts' at the Phoenix
• Massinger's 'The Renegado' is licensed to the Cockpit company
• The Master of the Revels receives payment from the Cockpit company for allowing playing during Lent
• The Cockpit company performs 'The Gipsy' at Whitehall
• Massinger's 'The Parliament of Love' is licensed to the Cockpit company
• Christopher Beeston is commanded to assemble a boy company for a same-day performance
• Henry Herbert sells a play to Christopher Beeston, and receives payment for licensing it and a pair of gloves
• William Beeston and his players are punished for the performance of an unlicensed play
• French Players perform at court and are allowed to play at the Cockpit/Phoenix during Lent
• Sir Henry Herbert lists the chief players at the Phoenix
• Brome's 'The Court Beggar' is performed at the Phoenix/Cockpit
• 'A Jovial Crew' is performed at the Cockpit
• Daborne's 'The Poor Man's Comfort' is performed at the Cockpit
• Queen Henrietta Maria's Men perform 'King John and Matilda' at the Cockpit
• Davenport's 'The City Nightcap' is performed at the Phoenix by Queen Henrietta Maria's Men
• Sir Humphrey Mildmay sees a comedy at the Cockpit
• Sir Humphrey Mildmay sees a base play at the Cockpit
• Collier forges a ballad about the destruction of the Cockpit
• Rowley's 'All's Lost by Lust' is performed at the Phoenix by Lady Elizabeth's Men and later revived there by Queen Henrietta Maria's Men
• Brome defends William Beeston in the epilogue to 'The Court Beggar'
• 'The Young Gallant's Whirligig' provides contextual information on private theatres
• Queen Henrietta Maria's Men perform 'The Renegado' at the Phoenix
• 'The Owl's Almanac' commemorates the destruction of the Cockpit/Phoenix
• Shirley's 'The School of Compliment' is licensed to the Cockpit Company as 'Love Tricks'
• Davenport's 'The City Nightcap' is licensed to the Cockpit company
• Heywood's 'The Captive' is licensed to the Cockpit company
• Dekker and Ford's 'Sun's Darling' is licensed to the Cockpit company
• Ford's 'The Lady's Trial' is licensed to the Cockpit company
• Stage-keepers played minor walk-on roles
• Cast lists are printed for '1 and 2 The Fair Maid of the West'
• Nabbes' prologue to 'Hannibal and Scipio' assures the audience that the play is a refined entertainment
• 'The Martyred Soldier' is licensed to the Palsgrave's Men after Herbert takes it from Lady Elizabeth's Men
• Henry Herbert confiscates 'The Martyred Soldier' from the Lady Elizabeth's Men at the Cockpit
• 'The Escapes of Jupiter' is allowed to another company despite having belonged to the Cockpit company
• Dekker's 'The False Alarm' is licensed to the Cockpit company
• 'The Princely Lovers' is licensed to the Cockpit company
• 'The Challenge' is allowed, after having been performed without a license at the Cockpit
• Cox's 'The Noble Revels' is licensed to the Cockpit company
• 'The Chevaliers' is licensed to the Cockpit company
• The prologue of the 'Ladies' Privilege' addresses audience expectations
• Marlowe's 'The Jew of Malta' is performed at Whitehall and the Cockpit by Queen Henrietta Maria's Men
• Queen Henrietta Maria's Men revive 'The White Devil' at the Phoenix
• Queen Henrietta Maria's Men perform 'The Antiquary' at the Cockpit
• Queen Henrietta Maria's Men perform ''Tis Pity She's a Whore' at the Phoenix
• Queen Henrietta Maria's Men perform 'The Gamester' at the Phoenix
• Shirley's 'The Bird in a Cage' is performed at the Phoenix
• The Privy Council warns Middlesex authorities of a planned assault on the Red Bull and Cockpit theatres
• Richard Heton writes instructions for a patent to govern an acting company at Salisbury Court
• Audience members sit on stage at the Blackfriars and Cockpit for daily performances
• Theatres proliferate in 1620s London
• Sir Henry Herbert sends four players to join the Salisbury Court company
• Theatres are sites of prostitution, and players the next thing to panders
• A summary of theatres built in London: Edmund Howes
• Requests, Smith vs the Queen's Men: Smith states his case
• Apprentices riot at the Cockpit: Edmund Howes
• Privy Council warns London of a planned assault on the Red Bull and Cockpit theatres
• Royal company players are sworn Grooms of the Chamber and William Beeston resumes governorship of the Phoenix/Cockpit
• Requests, Salisbury Court vs Brome: The owners and players state their case
• Requests, Salisbury Court vs Brome: Richard Brome responds to the charges
• The prologue for 'Holland's Leaguer' compares Salisbury Court to the Globe and Phoenix
• A character in 'Holland's Leaguer' alludes to an aborted scheme to build an amphitheatre
• Theatres close because of the plague
• Theatres close because of the plague
• The Company of the Revels promises Red Bull audiences reformed plays
• Thomas Crosfield records theatres and actors of the five main London companies
• Requests, Smith vs Beeston: Queen Anne's Men respond
• Chancery, Worth, Cumber and Blaney vs Baskervile and Browne: Worth and Blaney state their case
• 'Match Me in London' is performed first at the Red Bull and then revived at the Cockpit/Phoenix
• Carew insults the players of the Red Bull and Cockpit as an 'untuned kennel'
• Leonard Digges commemorates Shakespeare and disparages current playwrights
• Chancery, Worth and Blaney vs Baskervile and Browne: King deposes
• Lady Elizabeth's men perform 'The Bondman' at the Cockpit
• A sermon refers to the rebuilding and enlarging of the theatres
• Players cannot play until the Queen is buried, and Richard Burbage is dead: Chamberlain
• The Privy Council orders playing companies, 'as also the Keepers of Paris Garden,' to shut down their houses and cease playing
• 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 theatres closed because of the plague
• A handwritten addendum to Stowe's 1631 Annals outlines the post-Civil War fate of London's theatres
• Sir Humphrey Mildmay sees 'The Lady of Pleasure'