Thomas Dekker Edited, with an introd and notes . ociated,played at the Globe. Some twenty years after the erection of the theatre Alleynrecords in his diary under date December 9, 1621, This night, att12 of ye clock, ye Fortune was burnt. The year following thetheatre was rebuilt, and leased by Alleyn to various persons, heliaving then decided to retire from the stage. On the suppressionof the theatres by the Puritans the inside of the Fortune wasdestroyed by a company of soldiers, and the lessees failed to paytheir rent, whereby a considerable loss was sustained by theauthorities of Dulwich C
Thomas Dekker Edited, with an introd and notes . ociated,played at the Globe. Some twenty years after the erection of the theatre Alleynrecords in his diary under date December 9, 1621, This night, att12 of ye clock, ye Fortune was burnt. The year following thetheatre was rebuilt, and leased by Alleyn to various persons, heliaving then decided to retire from the stage. On the suppressionof the theatres by the Puritans the inside of the Fortune wasdestroyed by a company of soldiers, and the lessees failed to paytheir rent, whereby a considerable loss was sustained by theauthorities of Dulwich College, in whom the property of theFortune was vested. This eventually led to the Court of Assistantsordering the more dilapidated portions of the theatre to be pulleddown, and to their leasing the ground belonging to it for buildingpurposes. So recently, however, as the year 1819, the front of theold theatre was still standing, as represented in the frontispiece tothe present volume—a reduced copy of an engraving in Wilkinsons Londina. ? f. THE SHOEafAKE\S HOLIVAY; OR A PLEAS AN! COMEDY OF
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