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• London has four 'amphitheatres'
• The Privy Council halts the run of a libellous play at the Curtain
• Plays are banned, and the Curtain and Theatre are to be pulled down
• To avoid conflict with traditional bear-baiting days, plays are banned Sundays and Thursdays
• The privy council orders a restraint on Sunday playing in Middlesex
• The Curtain has fallen into decay
• William Longe sells the Curtain estate to Thomas Harberte
• The Curtain estate is sold to Maurice and William Longe
• A German prince mentions four active theatres in London
• A purse is stolen at the Curtain
• King's, Queen's and Prince's companies are allowed to perform at the Globe, Fortune and Curtain after Lent
• The Privy council orders the Justices of Middlesex to allow the construction of the Fortune
• The lord mayor and aldermen of London ask the privy council to ban plays and playing
• Royal messengers carry messages to Prince Charles' Men at the Curtain
• Richard Fletcher plays his fencing scholar's prize at the Curtain
• Alexander Reyson plays his fencing master's prize at the Curtain
• Thomas Platter -- a Swiss traveller -- visits the Theatre, Cockpit and Bear Garden
• Curtain players are knavish, vain and sycophantic
• The Curtain and Theatre and other purpose-built playhouses are schools for wickedness
• The interior of the Curtain is round
• The muse of comedy makes old men young again
• A foolish lover culls his verses from contemporary plays
• The Theatre and Curtain are enemies to good manners
• 'The Hector of Germany' is performed at the Red Bull and the Curtain
• Red Bull and Curtain are popular: Vox Graculi
• 'Romeo and Juliet' is performed at the Curtain: Marston
• Armin associates himself with the Curtain
• Queen Anne's Men are licensed to perform at the Red Bull and Curtain
• Playing is allowed to resume following Lent
• London Consistory, Newton vs Waters: Waters responds
• London Consistory, Newton vs Waters: Hackleton deposes
• The Venetian ambassador visits the Curtain
• Stow's MS 'Survey of London' gives a slightly different location for the Curtain and Theatre than the published edition
• The Rose and Curtain feature comedies by Plautus, and pathetic Spanish tragedies
• The Theatre and Curtain destroy the body and soul: Field
• The Theatre and Curtain are enemies to good manners: Twyne
• Bills are used to advertise plays: Rankins
• 'The Plantation of Virginia' is licensed for a company at the Curtain pending revisions
• Andrew Bello plays his fencing scholar's prize at the Curtain
• Valentine Longe plays his fencing scholar's prize at the Curtain
• John Harris plays his fencing provost's prize at the Curtain
• Andrew Bello plays his fencing provost's prize at the Curtain
• Valentine Longe plays his fencing provost's prize at the Curtain
• 'Love's Royal Reward' is licensed to the Prince's Men at the Curtain
• 'Dutch Painter and French Brank' is licensed to the Prince's Men at the Curtain
• 'The Child hath found his Father' is licensed to the Prince's Men at the Curtain
• Martin Marprelate laments the popularity of stage plays, regrets having used stage rhetoric himself
• The Theatre and Curtain are located near Holywell: Stow
• Chancery, Brayne v Burbage: John Alleyn deposes
• The Privy Council restrains playing spaces, troupes and performance times
• Playhouses proliferate: only the Fortune and Globe are to be allowed
• The Worcester's Men draft a patent to become the Queen's Men
• The Theatre and Curtain are commonly used for plays
• Lord Mayor asks Lord Chamberlain to restrict playing in the suburbs
• The Privy Council repeats an order to limit London playhouses
• Chancery, Brayne v Burbage: Henry Lanman deposes
• A satirical epigram refers to three London playhouses
• The plague threatens: Theatres must close until Michaelmas
• The Middlesex Justices of the Peace ban dances and jigs at plays
• Chancery, Burbage v Brayne: Henry Bett deposes
• Multitudes flock to London's lewd playhouses
• The lord mayor of London asks Walsingham to forbid plays at playhouses in the liberties because of plague
• London Consistory, Newton vs Waters: Ireland deposes
• London Consistory, Newton vs Waters: Addison deposes
• London Consistory, Newton vs Waters: Hattrell deposes
• London Consistory, Newton vs Waters: Duke deposes
• London Consistory, Newton vs Waters: Newton responds
• A summary of theatres built in London: Edmund Howes
• Jonson refers to the Privy Council order restraining plays in his 'Poetaster'
• A character in 'Holland's Leaguer' alludes to an aborted scheme to build an amphitheatre
• Stage plays forbidden during the plague
• The lord mayor of London asks Burghley to stop construction of a new theatre and close all existing theatres
• The privy council orders theatres closed because of the plague
• The Privy Council orders theatres closed because of the plague
• The Privy Council orders playhouses reopened following the plague
• A play about the Sophy of Persia is performed at the Red Bull
• Playing resumes following the plague
• Chancery, Worth and Blaney vs Baskervile and Browne: King deposes
• 'The Escapes of Jupiter' is allowed to another company despite having belonged to the Cockpit company
• The Theatre and Curtain are palaces of Venus: Stubbes
• John Underwood makes his will
• The Theatre and Curtain are chapels of adultery: Rankins
• Audience members are injured and killed when parts of Paris Garden collapse during a Sunday bear-baiting
• The lord mayor asks the privy council to pull down the Theatre and Curtain but Burbage resists; violence at the Theatre
• Players cannot play until the Queen is buried, and Richard Burbage is dead: Chamberlain
• Public playhouses present secular drama: Stow
• The lord mayor and aldermen of London ask the privy council to close the Theatre and playhouses on the Bankside
• The privy council advises London authorities to restrict playhouses and other venues when the plague threatens
• Fleetwood assures Burghley that playhouses are closed during the plague
• Chancery, Brayne v Burbage: Interrogatories for John Alleyn
• Chancery, Brayne v Burbage: James Burbage deposes
• Chancery, Brayne v Burbage: Interrogatories for Ralph Miles
• 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
• The Lord Mayor of London writes to the Privy Council concerning the restraint of spectacles
• The Lord High Treasurer writes to the Lord Mayor about Sunday performances
• Paul Hentzner, a traveller in England, reports on London's theatrical scene
• Prince Otto von Hessen-Cassell describes London's theatre scene in 1611
• A letter justifies the prohibition against playgoing by secular priests of England
• The privy council advises London authorities to restrict playhouses and other venues when the plague threatens
• Father Thomas Leke responds to the archpriest of England's prohibition against playgoing