Lord Chamberlain's Men

At one point, they pretend to be a fake French doctor and his patients, and they end up playing with a group of fiddlers.

At lowest point, they audition as actors for the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and one of them says Grumpily.

What must the basest, oh, what is it? The basest profession give us relief.

I haven't got that quote quite right.

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Lord Chamberlain's Men that were here for a show.

They all have, they all have the London accents, and I can't do it.

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They're here

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the Lord Chamberlain's Men is there.

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Last year, Courtney, you interviewed the playwrights, Sean Patrick Nill and one Elyse Sharp as well.

Cast member M.L. Roberts of Never Fear Shakespeare, which is a new family-friendly play about Shakespeare that used a lot of the research and work that we have done to inform its portrayal of Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain's men and theater in Shakespeare's time.

that play would not be the same without Shakespeare Anyone.

Almost like they share, there's some sort of brain

The boys in the company ranged in age from starting at the ages of like seven or eight to late adolescence.

And, quote, unquote.

We've talked about the Lord Chamberlain's Men and the King's Men and where the theater had to be built outside of London in the suburbs.

And these adult companies have to go out into the suburbs because theater's not allowed.

We're just guessing.

Um, Shakespeare's theater company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, performed it during those Christmas celebrations maybe.

But again, that first performance that we n- really know of was in February, so that's not in the Twelfth Night season.

So we sort of are, are guessing our way around why it's called that.

Después de esto, los registros se vuelven más claros.

Shakespeare se convirtió en miembro fundador de los Lord Chamberlain's Men, una de las compañías de actores más importantes de la época.

Esta compañía se convertiría en su hogar durante el resto de su carrera.

Finalmente, pasaría a llamarse King's Men después de que el rey Jacobo I ascendiera al trono en 1603.

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He moved to London in his 20s and became a managing partner in the Lord Chamberlain's Men acting company, later called the King's Men.

He wrote nearly 40 plays, over 150 sonnets, and several narrative poems, including comedies, histories, and tragedies.

To be

The afternoon of Saturday the 7th at the Globe on Bankside, which is just over the river from Essex's house on the Strand.

The Lord Chamberlain's Men, Shakespeare's theater company, put on a performance of Richard II, Shakespeare's amazing, lyrical, brilliant historical tragedy about the fall of the medieval King Richard II, who has his power seized by an aggrieved noble, Henry Bolingbroke, who then becomes Henry IV.

Now, we need to slightly roll back a few days into the earlier parts of the week when at some point, men associated with the Earl of Essex go to the Lord Chamberlain's Men and commission this play.

They say, "Will you put this on?" They give them a couple of days notice.

They say, "Will you on this Saturday perform this play?" And they offer 40 shillings or £2 above your box office in order to put on a play, which according to the theater company, is relatively out of date.

In a sense, they understand the importance of propaganda and literature.

It's notable that in 1599, Essex is the recipient of a dedication by the writer John Hayward of a book about Henry IV and Richard II, which is much more direct in saying, I kind of see these parallels and I sort of see you're a bit like Bolingbroke.

And in fact, Hayward gets into much more trouble than Shakespeare or the Lord Chamberlain's Men do for being so upfront about making that association.

The Oldcastles were still a powerful and influential family.

They took up the cudgels and said this was not acceptable, and clearly the Chamberlain's Men retracted that and renamed.

There's a couple of little fossils of this.

Hal teases Falstaff as, "My old lad of the castle," which is a line which makes no sense at all, except in, i-in the context of this lost name.