Richard Robinson details

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: London, England
Surname/tag: Robinson

This separate free-space page provides details extracted from the original profile page for Richard Robinson. Also, information from the biography, research notes, and sources might be common for sharing with other English Renaissance Theatre profiles, such as Richard Burbage, William Shakespeare, etc. It has now been reorganized, structured, and formatted by topics with details about theatres, playing companies, playwrights, players, plays, and related English history context.

Contents 1 Theatres 1.1 The Theatre 1.2 Globe Theatre 1.3 Blackfriars Theatre 1.4 Sharer Complaints 2 Playing companies 2.1 Lord Chamberlain's Men 2.2 King's Men 3 Playwrights 3.1 William Shakespeare 3.2 Ben Jonson 3.3 John Fletcher 3.4 Francis Beaumont 3.5 Thomas Middleton 3.6 John Webster 3.7 Philip Massinger 3.8 Lodowick Carlell 4 Actors 4.1 Richard Burbage 4.2 Richard Robinson 5 Civil War 5.1 Theatre Closure 5.2 Plays Prohibited 6 Research Notes 7 Sources 8 Acknowledgements

Theatres

Shakespeare's King's Men company performed their plays at The Theatre, Globe Theatre, and Blackfriars Theatre.

The Theatre

In 1576, actor-manager James Burbage (c. 1531–1597) built The Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse in Shoreditch, just outside the City of London, which was the first English permanent theatre.

His financial partner was brother-in-law John Brayne, a grocer who shared a 50% interest, who had married Margaret Stowers in 1565; James had married his sister Ellen Brayne (c. 1542–1613) in 1559.

Earlier in 1567, John Brayne had hired two carpenters to build the Red Lion Theatre in Whitechapel, which was the first British professional playhouse and consisted of a stage with scaffolds for seating an audience. They also lent money to a third party in 1568 before John supplied most of the money to construct The Theatre, which bankrupted him and forced him to sell his grocery business and house.

In 1580, John had also leased the non-functioning George Inn in Whitechapel for 24 years, where he moved while working with friend Robert Miles as a partner to restore the inn and share its expenses and profits. John died in 1586 in a fight with Robert, and left his property to his widowed wife Margaret (who claimed he was "murdered"). Legal battles ensued for a long time, and she died of the plague in 1593.

The lease was originally obtained for only 20 years (until 1596), when there were problems with the landlord that forced them to stop playing there because he then stipulated that the playhouse could only be used for theatrical purposes another five years. James and his sons, Cuthbert and Richard, contested this requirement and began a lawsuit, just before he died early the next year. So they moved to the nearby Curtain Theatre, which Shakespeare's acting troupe used temporarily from 1597–1599.

Globe Theatre

During the disputes, Cuthbert and Richard Burbage had the Theatre pulled down and took the timbers across the Thames to Southwark to be used to build the Globe Theatre.

Globe Theatre

In 1599, Shakespeare and five other members of the Lord Chamberlain's Men opened the Globe theatre, an open-aired amphitheatre (capacity 3000) just south of the River Thames in Southwark, Surrey.

In 1613, it burned down when a theatrical cannon misfired and ignited the wooden beams and thatching during a performance of Henry VIII. No one was hurt except a man whose burning breeches were put out with a bottle of ale. The Globe was rebuilt the following year.

Cuthbert Burbage remained one of the keepers of the Globe until he died in 1636 at age 71. The Globe was closed down by the Puritans in 1642 like all other London theatres. It was pulled down in 1644–45 to make room for tenements. A modern reconstruction of the theatre called Shakespeare's Globe opened in 1997 near the original site.

Blackfriars Theatre

In 1596, James Burbage purchased the frater ["dining room] of the former priory and rooms below; this large space with high ceilings permitted several galleries along with stage boxes with a capacity of 600–1000. Initially, while being built, the residents of the wealthy neighborhood petitioned to forbid playing there, but they did not protest three years later when Richard Burbage managed to lease the property for the Children of the Chapel, part of the Chapel Royal, that combined chapel choristers with others from local grammar schools to provide entertainment for Queen Elizabeth (and child actors in Elizabethan and Jacobean England). Children sang in church because their high voices were considered closest to the angels.

Blackfriars Theatre

In 1608, the King's Men partnership also acquired the lease on the Blackfriars Theatre in the City of London, a more prestigious indoor theatre owned by the Burbage family, and the company played both venues. Initial sharers included William Shakespeare, Richard Burbage, Cuthbert Burbage, and a few others. This enabled them to have year-round performances using the Globe for summer and Blackfriars in winter; Blackfriars made twice the revenue of the Globe, even though it was was much smaller. The children's company moved to the new Whitefriars Theatre.

The theatre closed with the start of the English Civil War, and was eventually demolished in 1655 (before the Restoration in 1660 when theatres reopened). An indoor theatre similar to Blackfriars called the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse opened in 2014 next door to the open-air Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.

Sharer Complaints

Cuthbert Burbage, together with Richard Robinson, his wife Winifred, William Heminges, Joseph Taylor and John Lowin, filed a Bill of Complaint on 28 January 1632 in the Court of Requests against the owner of the Globe, Sir Matthew Brend, in order to obtain confirmation of an extension of the 31-year lease originally granted by Sir Matthew Brend's father, Nicholas Brend.

On 6 February 1632, received a response in their King's Men v Brend suit that refused to extend the initial lease term because the Brend inheritance would receive more profits from tenements than a playhouse.

In 1635, several players submitted a petition where they wanted a greater share of the profits by purchasing shares from the existing playhouse sharers of the Globe and Blackfriar's theatres, which include Richard Robinson, his wife Winifred Robinson, and Cuthbert Burbage, among others.

Playing companies

In English Renaissance Theatre (1558–1642), playing companies of actors were organized around a group of shareholders (or "sharers") who performed in the plays, but were also responsible for management. The Lord Chamberlain's Men company, which became the King's Men, had exclusive rights to perform Shakespeare's plays.

Lord Chamberlain's Men

The Lord Chamberlain's Men company was established in 1594 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I under the patronage of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, then the Lord Chamberlain, who was in charge of court entertainment.

It included William Shakespeare who wrote for them during most of his career, and premiered some of his early plays at The Theatre built by James Burbage.

In 1594, his son Richard Burbage (baptised 1568) became their leading actor and performed there until 1597. His older brother Cuthbert was also a manager and sharer in the playing company.

King's Men

The company became the King's Men in 1603 when King James ascended the throne and became the company's patron.

During the Elizabethan era, females did not perform on stage, so their parts were played by boys. They were apprentices in the King's Men who eventually were promoted to sharers when senior members retired or died. Many of the King's Men started out a boy player in female roles, like Richard Robinson who first appeared in 1611 as the Lady.

The company also toured Britain, and visited France and Belgium. Theatre was very popular at that time, with over 15,000 attending plays weekly out of about 200,000 people in London. Many also enjoyed cock-fighting, bull-baiting, and bear-baiting nearby. The theatres were in a rough part of London and surrounded by drinking, gambling, and prostitution.

On 20 December 1624, the King's Men submitted a written apology for their disobedience against Sir Henry Herbert, the Master of the Revels in the Lord Chamberlain's office, responsible for all royal festivals as well as licenses and censor for all London plays. They had performed an unlicensed play called The Spanish Viceroy by Philip Massinger at Blackfriar's, and Richard Robinson was included in the list of player signatures. It was recorded in his office-book later on 24 October 1633.

Joseph Taylor, who started out as a child actor with the Children of the Chapel in the first decade of the century, succeeded Richard Burbage as the leading actor of the King's Men and acted all the major roles of the Shakespean canon. After the deaths of Henry Condell (1627) and John Heminge (1630), Joseph Taylor and John Lowin became leaders of the King's Men.

Playwrights

The King's Men company peformed the plays of William Shakespeare at the Globe and Blackfriars theatres in London, as well as Benjamin (Ben) Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, and John Webster.

William Shakespeare

Poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare began his career with the Lord Chamberlain's Men playing company under Queen Elizabeth I. He was also in the company and premiered some of his early plays at The Theatre.

About 1613, Shakespeare apparently retired and returned to his birthplace Stratford-upon-Avon. On 23 April 1616, Shakespeare died; his role as the King's Men's leading playwright would be filled by John Fletcher and his various collaborators like Francis Beaufort, Phillip Massinger, and Nathan Field through the coming years.

Ben Jonson

Benjamin Jonson (1572–1637) was another playwright and poet with lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I.

In fact, William Shakespeare was one of the first actors to be cast in Ben's first great success, Every Man in His Humour (1598). Richard Robinson appeared in his Catiline (1611) and and probably played Wittipol in The Devil Is an Ass (1616).

Fellow playwright and poet Ben Jonson died about 16 August 1637 at age 65 in London. His funeral was held the next day, which was attended by "all or the greatest part of the nobility then in town". He is buried in the north aisle of the nave in Westminster Abbey, with the inscription "O Rare Ben Johnson [sic]" set in the slab over his grave.

A monument to Jonson was erected in about 1723 by the Earl of Oxford and is in the eastern aisle of Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner, which has memorials to Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Brontë sisters, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred Lord Tennyson, T.S. Eliot, John Keats, William Wordworth.

John Fletcher

In 1647, when the First Folio with 34 plays of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher were published, Richard Robinson is one of the ten King's Men signatures in the Dedication, along with Joseph Taylor and John Lowin, who were all idled by the 1642 closing of the theatres.^[1]

In 1679, when Beaumont/Fletcher Folio 2 with 50 plays was published, Richard Robinson is listed under the "Principal Actors" for The Double Marriage (), as La Castre in A Wild Goose Chase (1632 revival), and A Wife for a Month (1624) .^[2]

Francis Beaumont

Francis Beaumont was a dramatist in English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher.

Thomas Middleton

Like John Fletcher and Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) was one of the most successful and prolific playwrights during the Jacobean period, as well as a poet writing masques and pageants. In his The Second Maiden's Tragedy (1611) ,Richard Robinson played the Lady in his first documented role as a boy playing female parts.

John Webster

John Webster (1580–1632) was another English Jacobean dramatist best known for The Duchess of Malfi (1614) in which Richard Robinson appeared. His life and career overlapped with Shakespeare's.

Philip Massinger

Philip Massinger was an English dramatist that included plays such as The Roman Actor (1626) and Believe as You List (1631) that Richard Robinson appeared. He also collaborated with John Fletcher on The Double Marriage (1619–23) that was another play for Richard Robinson. He worked with John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, and Gerge Chapman on Rollo Duke of Normandy (1616–24), which was another play for Richard Robinson. He might have contributed the first two acts of the The Second Maiden's Tragedy by Thomas Middleton that included Richard Robinson.

Lodowick Carlell

Lodowick Carlell (1602–1675s) was a seventheenth-century English playwright, active mainly during the Cariline era of King Charles I and the Commonwealth period. Richard Robinson played Count Orsinio (The Hermit) in The Deserving Favourite (1629).

Actors

Richard Burbage was the most famous actor in the King's Men at the Globe Theatre. Richard Robinson started as a boy playing female parts as a Burbage apprentice, who was 27 years older; later he became a principal actor and was promoted to a sharer, which was the practice when senior members retired or died. After Burbage died, Robinson married his widow Winifred.

Richard Burbage

James Burbage had sons Cuthbert Burbage about 15 June 1565 and Richard Burbage about 1567 (he was baptised at St Stephen in London on 7 July 1568). They also had sisters Ellen (1574–1596), Alice (1576–), and Joane.^[3]

Richard played most of the lead roles, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, and Richard III.

Winifred Turner married Richard Burbage [transcribed as "Burbay"] on 2 October 1600 in St Mary, Rotherhithe, Southwark, Surrey, England.^[4]

They had eight children, with all dying in infancy except William Burbage who was born in 1616 and named after his father's friend William Shakespeare; little is known what became of him, except he was still alive in 1635 when he appears in the Blackfriars Sharers Papers.^[5] and again in 1636 as a witness to actor John Honyman's will.^[6]

Famous King's Men actor Richard Burbage died on 13 March 1619. An epitaph simply read "Exit Burbage".

Richard Robinson

Richard Robinson, one of the principal actors in the King's Men, performed the plays of William Shakespeare, Benjamin (Ben) Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, and John Webster at the Globe and Blackfriars theatres in London.

He was born about 1595 and started as a boy actor with the King's Men around 1611. After many early adult (male) roles, he advanced to sharer about 1616–19. Then he was a leading actor in later roles through 1632 before the theatres closed in 1642 at the start of the English Civil War.

When his fellow actor Richard Burbage died, Richard Robinson (age 27) married his widow Winifred (Turner) Burbage [transcribed as "Burbadge"] on 31 October 1622 at Saint Mary Magdalene Old Fish Street, City of London, London, England.^[7]

Apparently, they did not have any children, which is not surprising since she was 46 when they married. Winifred died about age 66 in 1642; she was born in 1576 (19 years older than him).

Then Richard Robinson, a "player", died 6 years later at age 53 before 23 March 1647/48, when he was buried at St Ann Blackfriars, City of London (destroyed in Great Fire of London in 1666).^[8][9][10] This same 1648 death date is included in correspondence between scholar Halliwell-Phillipps and genealogist Chester,^[8] as well as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.^[9]

See more information about his life and genealogy in the Richard Robinson profile.

Civil War

Theatre Closure

The King's Men company continued successfully until 1642, when the English Civil Wars broke out; then it was dissolved and theatres closed, which weren’t opened again for eighteen years in 1660 with the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy after King Charles II returned from exile in continental Europe.

In September 1642, public stage plays were ordered to cease as "Spectacles of Pleasure, too commonly expressing lascivious Mirth and Levity", which was considered inappropriate with Civil War being a time of "Humiliation, this being an Exercise of sad and pious Solemnity"; it was recommended that people should consider "Repentance, Reconciliation, and Peace with God, which probably may produce outward Peace and Prosperity, and bring again Times of Joy and Gladness".^[11]

Plays Prohibited

Although theatres were closed in 1642 with the outbreak of the First Civil War, and plays were prohibited (with players jailed) by ordinance in October 1647^[12], but they continued anyway in contempt, "which lies heavy upon this Kingdom, and to the disturbance of the peace thereof".

In fact, King's Men players were arrested in the midst of a clandestine performance of Rollo Duke of Normandy (also known as The Bloody Brother) at the Cockpit Theatre, including Joseph Taylor and John Lowin in leading roles as Rollo and Aubrey (cousin and successor); they were imprisoned for a time, and their costumes were confiscated.

So for further suppression, on 11 February 1647/8 (at the start of the Second Civil War), stage galleries, seats, and boxes were ordered to be demolished, players were declared to be "rogues" and punished with fines and/or jail (and deemed "incorrigible", if repeated), money gathered would be forfeited to the parish poor, and every spectator fined.^[13]

Research Notes

King James Bible
In 1611, the King James Version was published with an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England that was commisioned in 1604 and sponsored by King James I.

Correspondence
Richard Robinson was born about 1595 and died in 1648 based on references in letters from English Shakespearean scholar and early English literature researcher James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820–1889) of London to American genealogist Colonel Joseph Lemuel Chester (1821–1882) during 1870–1872 that include manuscripts mentioning Richard Robinson (c. 1595–1648) and Winifred Robinson (c. 1576-1642).^[8]

Halliwell-Phillipps published Nursery Rhymes of England (including The Three Little Pigs) and Life of Shakespeare, and Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare; he was instrumental in the purchase of New Place (Shakespeare's last place of residence, now a garden), and formation of the Shakespeare Museum in Stratford-upon-Avon (including excavations looking for the original house), now owned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

Chester moved to London in 1858 where he lived until his death in 1882, researching British genealogical records on American families for the US government that included extracts of 17-century British wills and parish registers.

Oxford DNB: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography contains an entry for Richard Robinson with his birth about 1595 and death in 1648. ^[9]

Birth
There was a possible baptism record for Richard Robinson in 1592 at London. This mentions his father was William Robinson so that might be a possble connection to follow, especially since it's close to the 1595 birth date in this profile.

Richard Robinson, son of William Robinson, was baptised on 13 August 1592 in All Hallows, Barking By the Tower, City of London, England.^[14]

Saltpetre Men
In 1596, there were several saltpetre men, including one named Richard Robinson, making the stuff used to make gunpowder in the oat barn on the void ground adjacent to the Globe Theatre. Several law suits attempted to remove them from the property, but eventually they managed to acquire a lease and continued their operations. This was around the time when the actor Richard Robinson was born in 1595, so this might possibly have been his father (with the same name), unless it was a cousin who had the same name.

Currently, we don't have a record of a father other than the 1592 baptism above which mentioned William Robinson. Of course, there was a lot going on in England at this time where gunpowder would be sought, including the plot to overthrow the monarchy several years later; however, there is nothing that really connects these two situations, but it's seemed like an interesting coincidence worth including here.

Gunpowder Plot
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was a failed assassination attempt against King James I to restore the Catholic monarchy to England. The plan was to blow up the Houses of Parliament during its opening on 5 November 1605, but they discovered and arrested Guy Fawkes guarding 36 barrels (1.5 tons) of gunpowder explosives hidden under a pile of firewood in a cellar under the House of Lords (with small lamp, fuse, and matches).^[15]

Death
Several articles about Richard Robinson mention his burial on 23 March 1647 at St Ann Blackfriars, London, near the theatres where he performed as a Shakespeare actor. Some indicate the date as 23 March 1648, which I have used for his profile; this possibly was related to the British change to new-style dates (and dual-dating) from a Julian to Gregorian calendar in September 1652, and the beginning of the (legal) year from March 25 to January 1.

Sources

1. ↑ Beaumont/Fletcher: Folio 1: Comedies and Tragedies Written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Gentlemen. London, 1647. Dedication.
   https://archive.org/details/BeaumontFletcher1647/page/n9/mode/2up
2. ↑ Beaumont/Fletcher: Folio 2: Beaumont, Francis., Fletcher, John. Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, Written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Gentlemen ; All in One Volume ; Published by the Authors Original Copies, the Songs to Each Play Being Added. United Kingdom: J. Macock [and H. Hills], 1679.
   https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fifty_Comedies_and_Tragedies_Written_by/uqBSAAAAcAAJ?hl=en
3. ↑ Visitation Burbage:
   http://archive.org/details/visitationoflond01stge/page/121/mode/1up?view=theater
4. ↑ Marriage: Winifred Burbage: "London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812"
   London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; London Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: P71/MRY/006
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 1624 #9941704 (accessed 18 August 2022)
   Winifred Turner marriage to Richard Burbay on 2 Oct 1600 in St Mary, Rotherhithe, Southwark, Surrey, England.
5. ↑ Sharers Papers: William Burbage: http://emlot.library.utoronto.ca/db/record/event/251/
6. ↑ John Honyman's Will: Witness: https://emlot.library.utoronto.ca/db/record/event/7903/
7. ↑ Marriage: Winifred Robinson: "England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973"
   England, Marriages, 1538-1973. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013; FHL Film Number: 374491
   Ancestry Record 9852 #6283623 (accessed 19 August 2022)
   Richard Robinson marriage to Winifred Burbadge on 31 Oct 1622 on Saint Mary Magdalene Old Fish Street, London, London, England.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Letters: Halliwell-Phillips to Chester: Autograph letters signed from James Orchard Halliwell-Phillips, London, to Colonel Joseph Lemuel Chester, 1870-1872 Authors:J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (Correspondent), Joseph Lemuel Chester
   Summary: (1) mentions there being important information on "obscure" actors in the registers of St. Ann's Blackfriars. (2) wants to find registers mentioning the Robinson-Burbage marriage Manuscript, English, 1870
   https://www.worldcat.org/title/281598741?oclcNum=281598741
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2} Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Robinson, Richard (c. 1595–1648), Lucy Munro
   https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/75572
   Published in print: 23 September 2004,
   Published online: 23 September 2004,
   This version: 04 January 2007
   Locked: requires UK library access or personal subscription ($30/month).
10. ↑ Burial: "London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812"
    London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; London Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: P69/Ann/A/008/Ms04510/001
    Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 1624 #5333633 (accessed 17 August 2022)
    Richard Robinson burial (died on Abt 1647) on 23 Mar 1647 in St Ann Blackfriars, City of London, London, England.
11. ↑ Play Closure: "September 1642: Order for Stage-plays to cease.," in Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660, ed. C H Firth and R S Rait (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1911), 26-27. British History Online, accessed October 22, 2021.
    http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/acts-ordinances-interregnum/pp26-27.
12. ↑ Plays Prohibited: "October 1647: An Ordinance for the Lord Major and City of London, and the Justices of Peace to suppress Stage-playes and Interludes.," in Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660, ed. C H Firth and R S Rait (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1911), 1027. British History Online, accessed July 28, 2016.
    http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/acts-ordinances-interregnum/p1027
13. ↑ Rogue Actors: "February 1648: An Ordinance for the utter suppression and abolishing of all Stage-Plays and Interludes, within the Penalties to be inflicted on the Actors and Spectators therein expressed," in Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660, ed. C H Firth and R S Rait (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1911), 1070-1072. British History Online, accessed October 22, 2021.
    http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/acts-ordinances-interregnum/pp1070-1072
14. ↑ Baptism: "London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812"
    London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; London Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: P69/Alh1/A/01/001
    Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry uk Record 1624 #22108172 (accessed 19 August 2022)
    Richard Robinson baptism on 13 Aug 1592, son of William Robinson, in All Hallows, Barking By the Tower, City of London, England.
15. ↑ Gunpowder Plot: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Gunpowder_Plot]

See also:

Books

● Herbert Berry, Shakespeare's Playhouses,

New York, NY (1987), ISBN-13: 978-04-0462-289-3,

Internet Archive (accessed 17 August 2022)

● Andrew Gurr, The Shakespearian Playing Companies,

Oxford University Press, 1996.

● E.K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage,

4 vols., Oxford, 1923. Volume ii, Page 336.

● Edwin Nungezer, A Dictionary of Actors and of Other Persons

Associated with the Public Representation of Plays in England before 1642,

Yale, 1929. Page 301.

● G.E. Bentley, The Jacobean and Caroline Stage,

7 vols, Oxford, 1941-68. Volume iii, Page 550.

● Mary Edmond, 'Yeomen, Citizens, Gentlemen, and Players: The Burbages and Their Connections', in Elizabethan Theater:

Essays in Honor of S. Schoenbaum, Delaware, 1996. Page 42.

● Skiles Howard, Acting Lines, Page 8, 1985.

Web Site (CORD): Known Roles

● Brian Jay Corrigan, The Compendium of Renaissance Drama ^[16]

Early Modern London Theatres (EMLoT)

● Richard Robinson: Primary Sources

● Shakespeare Folio: Principal Actors

● Royal License: King's Men

● Jonson's Catiline

● The Spanish Viceroy: An Apology

● King's Men v Brend

● Sharer Petition

● Further Petition

Acknowledgements

Doug Warren created this free-space profile from information extracted from the profile of Richard Robinson he improved for the England Project: Orphan Trail 2 (OT2) for the period 1600-1699.