ISBN: 9781150483387

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: .Many other gracious marks of royal favour followed. On March 15, 1604, Shakespeare and eight other actors of the company walked from the Tower of London to Westminster in the procession which accompanied the King on his formal entry into London. Each actor received four and a half This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: .Many other gracious marks of royal favour followed. On March 15, 1604, Shakespeare and eight other actors of the company walked from the Tower of London to Westminster in the procession which accompanied the King on his formal entry into London. Each actor received four and a half yards of scarlet cloth to wear as a cloak on the occasion, and in the document authorising the grant Shakespeare's name stands first on the list. The dramatist Dekker was author of a somewhat bombastic account of the elaborate ceremonial, which accompanied a splendid series of copperplate engravings of the triumphal arches spanning the streets. On April 9, 1604, the King gave further proof of his friendly interest in the fortunes of his actors by causing an official letter to be sent to the Lord Mayor of London and the Justices of the Peace for Middlesex and Surrey, bidding them 'permit and suffer' the King's players to 'exercise their playes' at their 'usual house,' the Globe. Four months later-in August-every member of the company was summoned by the King's order to attend at Somerset House during the fortnight's sojourn there of the Spanish ambassador extraordinary, Juan Fernandez de Velasco, duke de Frias and Constable of Castile, who came to London to ratify the treaty of peace between England and Spain, and was magnificently entertained by the English Court. Between All Saints' Day November 1 and the ensuing Shrove Tuesday, which fell early in February 16o5, Shakespeare's company gave no fewer than eleven performances at Whitehall in the royal presence. XII THE HIGHEST THEMES OF TRAGEDY Under the incentive of such exalted patronage, Shake-Othello' speare's activity redoubled, but his work shows none of the fPJ1 conventional marks of literature that is produced in the Books, Biography & Autobiography~~General, Shakespeares-Life-And-Work~~Sidney-Lee, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<