Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . e Market Cross. In 1601 an Englishcompany, headed by Laurence Fletcher, comedianto his Majestic, was again in Scotland; and Knight, in his Life of Shakspere, con-cludes that the illustrious dramatist must have beenin Scotland with Fletcher, and thus sketched outthe plan of his great Scottish tragedy. Accord-ing to the same testimony, the name of Shak-spere has been invariably associated with theTennis Court Theatre; but from the departure of niissioner, at his court at Holyrood, and soon afterthe theatre in t
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . e Market Cross. In 1601 an Englishcompany, headed by Laurence Fletcher, comedianto his Majestic, was again in Scotland; and Knight, in his Life of Shakspere, con-cludes that the illustrious dramatist must have beenin Scotland with Fletcher, and thus sketched outthe plan of his great Scottish tragedy. Accord-ing to the same testimony, the name of Shak-spere has been invariably associated with theTennis Court Theatre; but from the departure of niissioner, at his court at Holyrood, and soon afterthe theatre in the Tennis Court was in the zenithof its brief prosperity, in defiance of the city , on the 15th November, 1681, being theQueen of Brittains birthday, as Fountainhallrecords, while bonfires blazed in the city andsalutes were fired by cannon, there was performed, before their Royall Hynesses, a comedy, called Mithridates, King of Pontus, wherein the futureQueen Anne and the ladies of honour were theonly actresses. The drama vanished from Scotland at the Revo-. THE PALACE GA rE. (AfUr an Etihing by James Skrnt, n/RuHslaxu.) James VI. to England, in 1603, till the arrival ofhis grandson the Duke of Albany and York, in16S0, there are doubts if anything like a play wasperformed in the Edinburgh of that gloomy period ;though Sir George Mackenzie mentions that inJune, 1669, Thomas Sydserf, having pursuedMungo Murray for invading him in his Playhouse,&c., that invasion was not punished as hamesucken,but with imprisonment; and a Playhouse, keptat Edinburgh in the same month, when a thousandprisoners, after Bothwell Bridge, were confined inthe Greyfriars Churchyard, is referred to in theActs of Council in 1679. Some kind of a drama, called Marciano, or TheDiscovery, was produced on the festival of by Sir Thomas Sydserff (the same referred to),before His Grace the Earl of Rothes, High Coai- lution; and though a concert was given in 1705in the Tennis Court, under the pa
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