Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . In the one BenJonson obtained his first engagement as a writerand vamper of plays, and took to the stage for Southwark.] SHAKESPEARE IN SOUTHWARK. 49 a living. Encouraged by his double success atShoreditch, James Burbage grew bolder, and soonafterwards erected a third theatre at Blackfriars,under the nose of the Lord Mayor and of thelords and ladies who lived around the BridewellPalace; and in spite of their remonstrances, heheld his own, supported, no doubt, by Leicestersinfluence. In the year 1576 he opened the Bla
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . In the one BenJonson obtained his first engagement as a writerand vamper of plays, and took to the stage for Southwark.] SHAKESPEARE IN SOUTHWARK. 49 a living. Encouraged by his double success atShoreditch, James Burbage grew bolder, and soonafterwards erected a third theatre at Blackfriars,under the nose of the Lord Mayor and of thelords and ladies who lived around the BridewellPalace; and in spite of their remonstrances, heheld his own, supported, no doubt, by Leicestersinfluence. In the year 1576 he opened the Black-friars Theatre, which soon became the leading play- some sense, manager too, there was no combinedeffort at producing a genuine English drama. Butfrom the moment that James Burbage, like asecond Thespis, erected his wooden theatre inShoreditch, the calling of the player began toassume a definite character, and acting grew intothe dignity of an art and a profession. Shake-speare found all these theatres, and others too, inexistence when he came to London from Stratford. MAP OF SOUTH WAKK, 172O. house of the metropolis, and which is connectedwith the name of William Shakespeare. Several other playhouses now sprung up inquick succession—viz., the Red Bull and the Fortune, in the north of London ; and on thesouth of the river, in Southwark, the Rose, the Hope, the Swan, and the Globe, nearthe Bear Garden. Driven out of the City, andput to their wits end for an honest livelihood, thepoor players, who now began to style themselves Her Majestys Servants, began to build theatresin all the suburbs; and to James Burbage is duethe credit of having enabled them to do so. Infact, until he came forward to assist the poordramatists by his skill as a carpenter, and, in245 in 1585 or the following year; and it is quitepossible that, if it had not been for James Burbage,he would never have come to the metropolis, orwritten for us and for all time either Hamlet orMacbeth, as -he would have h
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