Shakspere to Sheridan; a book about the theatre of yesterday and to-day . he Hay ^to the puppet-shows, during the recurring winter seasonsof his discontent, when he himself, under his summerpatent, was condemned to silence.^ And so it had been inthe Elizabethan age. Henslowe in the old days had madethe most of just such incidental crumbs of comfort. Wit-ness his entry of 40j-. to the credit of the Rose Theatre onNovember 4, 1598, when Jemes cranwigge . . playedhis callenge in my howsse. ^ If we may believe ThomasDekker,8 James Cranwigge was not the only fencer whoplayed his challenge in the El
Shakspere to Sheridan; a book about the theatre of yesterday and to-day . he Hay ^to the puppet-shows, during the recurring winter seasonsof his discontent, when he himself, under his summerpatent, was condemned to silence.^ And so it had been inthe Elizabethan age. Henslowe in the old days had madethe most of just such incidental crumbs of comfort. Wit-ness his entry of 40j-. to the credit of the Rose Theatre onNovember 4, 1598, when Jemes cranwigge . . playedhis callenge in my howsse. ^ If we may believe ThomasDekker,8 James Cranwigge was not the only fencer whoplayed his challenge in the Elizabethan theatres, andlater members of this profession held forth upon the stage ^ Taylors Works, 1630, p. 143 (305). ^ Reliquice Wottoniana, 3d ed., 1672, p. 402. 3 Genest, IV, 325. * See British Museum Playbills, Covent Garden, particularly those ofFebruary 20 and March 2, 1790; cf. Observations on Statement oj Differencesat Covent Garden, p. 31. * See above, pp. 134, 136. Fitzgerald, II, 230. 7 Diary, I, 98. * See his Newesjrom Hell, 1606 (Grosart, II, 92). . THE PLAYHOUSES 217 long after the Restoration. In the London Spy of 1699,Edward Ward deals at length with one of the playhousesof that time, and intimates that it, like the old Rose, wasnot altogether sacred to the sock and buskin. The Spyand his companion, in the course of their rambles overLondon, come to a Stately Edifice (the Front supportedby Lofty Columns) : — 1 enquired of my Friend what Magnanimous Don CressusResided in this Noble and Delightful Mansion? Who told me,No Body as he knew on, except Rats and Mice; and perhapsan old Superannuated Jack Pudding, to look after it, and totake Care that no Decayd Lover of the Drama, should get inand steal away the Poets Pictures, and Sell em to some Up-holsterers for Roman Emperours; I suppose there being littleelse to lose, except Scenes, Machines, or some such Jim-cracks. For this, says he, is one of the Theaters, but nowwholly abandond by the Players; and, tis
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