Viewing Venue Record: Fortune (I)

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• The Fortune burns: John Chamberlain
• The Fortune hosts the Spanish Ambassador: John Chamberlain
• The Privy Council stops construction of a new theatre
• A man is assaulted at the Fortune
• The Middlesex Justices of the Peace ban dances and jigs at plays
• Richard Bradley stabs Nicholas Bestney at the Fortune
• Alleyn leases part of the Fortune to Henslowe
• Alleyn purchases the freehold of the Fortune property
• Alleyn leases the Fortune to the Palsgrave's Men for thirty-one years
• Alleyn and Henslowe draw up a contract for sharing Fortune profits with players; the contract is not executed
• Alleyn purchases a lease on property to build the Fortune
• Alleyn tallies his expenditures for the Fortune and Bear Garden
• The inhabitants of Finsbury petition the privy council to allow the construction of the Fortune
• The Earl of Nottingham writes the Justices of Middlesex to allow the building of the Fortune
• Henslowe pays Alleyn his share of the first week's take at the new Fortune
• Alleyn and Henslowe contract with Peter Street to build the Fortune
• The Fortune and Red Bull provide wooing material for a clown
• The Fortune burns down and is rebuilt: Howes
• A character in 'The Roaring Girl' describes the Fortune's interior and audience
• A satirical epigram refers to three London playhouses
• 'The Roaring Girl' is acted at the Fortune by Prince Henry's Men
• Requests, Edward Alleyn vs William Henslowe: Alleyn states his case
• Requests, Edward Alleyn vs William Henslowe: Henslowe is too ill to answer
• Playing resumes following the plague
• The Privy Council warns Middlesex authorities of a planned assault on the Red Bull and Cockpit theatres
• Prince Henry's Men receive a royal patent to perform at the Fortune and elsewhere
• Prince Henry's men are listed in the Prince's household accounts
• Henslowe tallies all money owed to him by Downton and Juby of Prince Henry's Men
• Henslowe purchases the playbook of 'Tamar Cham' from Alleyn on behalf of a company
• The Fortune is square: Dekker
• An epigram on Dick Whittington may refer to the Fortune theatre
• Prynne attributes the burning of the Globe and Fortune to God
• The Privy Council restrains playing spaces, troupes and performance times
• Playhouses proliferate: only the Fortune and Globe are to be allowed
• King's, Queen's and Prince's companies are allowed to perform at the Globe, Fortune and Curtain after Lent
• Playing is allowed to resume following Lent
• The Privy council orders the Justices of Middlesex to allow the construction of the Fortune
• The Privy Council repeats an order to limit London playhouses
• Privy Council assigns the combined Oxford and Worcester's Men to play at the Boar's Head
• A summary of theatres built in London: Edmund Howes
• Jonson refers to the Privy Council order restraining plays in his 'Poetaster'
• Privy Council warns London of a planned assault on the Red Bull and Cockpit theatres
• Stage plays forbidden during the plague
• Thomas Platter -- a Swiss traveller -- visits the Theatre, Cockpit and Bear Garden
• Players cannot play until the Queen is buried, and Richard Burbage is dead: Chamberlain
• John Russell is charged with dishonesty, and removed from his position as gatherer at the Fortune
• The King forbids theatres in London, and the Fortune tenants cannot pay their rent
• A privy seal grants the Palatine's Men license to play
• Chancery, John Henslowe vs Edward Alleyn et al: Mr Moore reports on John Henslowe's claim
• A handwritten addendum to Stowe's 1631 Annals outlines the post-Civil War fate of London's theatres
• Chancery, John Henslowe vs Edward Alleyn et al: John Henslowe itemizes the leases held back by Edward Alleyn and Agnes Henslowe
• Chancery, John Henslowe vs Edward Alleyn et al: Mr Moore, a Master of the Chancery Court, considers that Edward Alleyn has acted suspiciously
• Chancery, John Henslowe vs Edward Alleyn et al: Alleyn must submit to the court all documents relating to the John Henslowe suit
• Chancery, John Henslowe vs Edward Alleyn et al: The papers submitted by Alleyn in April have now been seen by and distributed amongst the legatees
• Chancery, John Henslowe vs Edward Alleyn et al: Edward Alleyn is delinquent in the payment of annuities to the widow of a man involved in the suit
• A prospective order from the Privy Council is to prohibit all manner of public entertainment in London, Middlesex and Surrey
• The players have abandoned the Bankside theatres for Middlesex: John Taylor
• Prince Otto von Hessen-Cassell describes London's theatre scene in 1611
• Edward Alleyn enumerates charges for the Bear Garden and Fortune, and attends a play at the Red Bull
• Edward Alleyn 'rec. rent att ye banksid and Fortune'
• Robert Shaw sells 'The Four Sons of Aymon' to Henslowe and the Admiral's Men
• Alleyn visits the Fortune
• Alleyn records the burning of the Fortune
• Edward Alleyn lists costs for the building of the Fortune
• Alleyn purchases 'Inheritannc' of Fortune lease
• Samuel Rowley advises Henslowe to purchase 'Conquest of the Indies'
• Samuel Rowley urges Philip Henslowe to pay authors of 'The Six Yeomen of the West'
• Samuel Rowley urges Philip Henslowe to pay John Day and William Haughton
• Robert Shaw advises Philip Henslowe to commission a play
• Samuel Rowley writes to Philip Henslowe about the play 'John of Gaunt'
• Patrick Brewe writes to Edward Alleyn about the land of the Fortune theatre
• Patrick Brewe writes to Edward Alleyn about the sale of the Gill family property
• Patrick Brewe writes Edward Alleyn for Fortune theatre ground-rent
• Robert Browne seeks employment for a player's wife from Alleyn
• Edward Alleyn lists costume inventory
• Father Thomas Leke responds to the archpriest of England's prohibition against playgoing
• A letter justifies the prohibition against playgoing by secular priests of England
• An inventory of the theatrical goods of the Admiral's men provides details of costumes and props
• An inventory of the theatrical goods of the Admiral's men provides details of costumes and props
• A list of playbooks provides insight into the repertory of the Admiral's men
• A note of goods purchased for the Admiral's men provides details of the company's apparel