We do not know when Shakespeare joined the theatre after his marriage, or how he was employed in the meantime. ibid.
After the epidemic of plague dwindled, a number of actors who had previously belonged to different companies amalgamated to form the Lord Chamberlain’s Men. In the first official account that survives, Shakespeare is named, along with the famous comic actor Will Kemp and the tragedian Richard Burbage, as payee for performances in court during the previous Christmas season. ibid.
Shakespeare came upon the theatrical scene at an auspicious time. English drama and theatre had developed only slowly during the earlier part of the sixteenth century; during Shakespeare’s youth they exploded into vigorous life. ibid.
Permanent theatres were of two kinds, known now as public and private. Most important to Shakespeare were public theatres such as the Theatre, the Curtain, and the Globe. ibid.
85 theatres thrived in Times Square alone. The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table, 1987
Blaine Bugle: Theater Burns, Dozens Flee!!! BACKDRAFT put on back burner. Waiting for Guffman, 1996
What a real playwright has to do is to say to the audience in effect – this is what you think, you are seeing in life every day, and turn it around and say – This is what it really is. Arthur Miller: Writer, Sky Atlantic, 2018
My father had become a national icon of the theatre decades before I was born. ibid. daughter
We didn’t have a freezer. And we didn’t have a cake. ibid. Miller
I finished the play in about five days. ibid.
From the beginning writing meant freedom. ibid.
I felt that I was out of place more than anything else. ibid.
In the year 1600 on the streets of Elizabeth I’s London a bizarre and violent series of events took place: this is the true story of an abducted child and of how his father tried to get him back. Set behind the scenes in the golden age of Shakespeare, it sheds a shocking light on a world we can barely comprehend, long before children were thought to have rights. Abducted: Elizabeth I’s Children, Katherine Rundell, BBC 2019
He was delivered into the hands of the man who had organised and paid for his abduction – Henry Evans. ibid.
Companies of boy actors perform more frequently at court than companies of adult actors. ibid.
Clifton was absolutely furious and demanded the immediate release of Thomas. ibid.
Activist-people theatre, organic socialism with love and balls. Play for Today: Come the Revolution, BBC 1977