subordinate departments. In 1594, the Lord Chamberlain, Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, founded the Lord Chamberlain's Men, for which William Shakespeare was...
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The Lord Chamberlain's plays are a collection of manuscripts held by the British Library comprising scripts of all new plays in Britain that needed to...
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The Lord Great Chamberlain of England is the sixth of the Great Officers of State, ranking beneath the Lord Privy Seal but above the Lord High Constable...
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The Lord Chamberlain's Office is a department within the British Royal Household. It is concerned with matters such as protocol, state visits, investitures...
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The Lord Chamberlain's Men was a company of actors, or a "playing company" (as it then would likely have been described), for which William Shakespeare...
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Licensing Act 1737 (redirect from Plays Act 1736)
Reader's Report were held by the Lord Chamberlain's office and are now held by the British Library in the Lord Chamberlain's Plays collection. In the years 1922–1938...
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Neville Chamberlain's cousin and friend, W. Byng Kenrick] from the original letters then in the possession of Clara Martineau [daughter of Chamberlain's uncle...
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greatest plays were staged at the Globe Theatre and the Blackfriars Theatre. Shakespeare's fellow members of the Lord Chamberlain's Men acted in his plays. Among...
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Peace for our time (category Neville Chamberlain)
us peace in our time, O Lord!" It is not known how deliberate Chamberlain's use of such a similar phrase was. Chamberlain's aeroplane landed at Heston...
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County, Iowa Chamberlain (band), an American indie rock band from Indiana, active since 1996 Lord Chamberlain's Men, William Shakespeare's playing company...
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apology, Chamberlain was unrepentant. This public dispute finally ended Chamberlain's hopes of an Anglo-German alliance, but Chamberlain's popularity...
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television series of the same name, co-starring with Raymond Massey. Chamberlain's singing ability also led to some hit singles in the early 1960s, including...
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patronage of Lord Hunsdon, the Lord Chamberlain — which became famous as the company of William Shakespeare and Richard Burbage, the Lord Chamberlain's Men. A...
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At What a Price (category 1931 plays)
in the workplace. The only known surviving manuscript is in the Lord Chamberlain's Plays collection at the British Library. Ruth Maitland is a young black...
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Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (redirect from Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon)
nobleman and courtier. He was the patron of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, William Shakespeare's playing company. The son of Mary Boleyn, he was a cousin...
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close to the south bank of the Thames, by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men. It was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613. A second...
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Chamberlain's main motive was to create a situation in which Germany could pursue territorial revisionism in Eastern Europe peacefully. Chamberlain's...
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50508-50743) The Cecil of Chelwood Papers (Add MS 51071-51204) The Lord Chamberlain's Plays and Day-Books, 1824-1903 (Add MS 52929-53708) The Blenheim Papers...
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Eva Elwes (section Licensed plays)
Library Lord Chamberlain Plays Collection. References to other plays, not submitted for licence, can be found in newspapers of the time. Her first play was...
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Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (redirect from Lord Halifax)
further German aggression by promising to go to war to defend Poland. On Chamberlain's resignation early in May 1940, Halifax effectively declined the position...
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been deposited as part of the Lord Chamberlain's Plays collection. The Sticking Place theatre company revived the play at the Union Theatre in Southwark...
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who was with the Chamberlain's/King's troupe down to 1621. "Kit" might have been Christopher Beeston, who was with the Chamberlain's in the 1598–1602...
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Rodney Ackland (redirect from Before the Party (play))
following the abolition of the Lord Chamberlain's play licensing in 1968, Ackland was able to rewrite aspects of this play, re-titling it Absolute Hell...
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the grouping of plays, and the meaning of "to be staied" is unknown, but is thought to have been an attempt by the Lord Chamberlain's Men to prevent unauthorised...
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The title page of Q1 specifies that the play was acted by The Lord Chamberlain's Men, and attributes the play to a "W. S." A second quarto (Q2) was printed...
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reliable guide. Theatrical superstitions British theatrical censorship Lord Chamberlain's Office Lord Chamberlain's requirements "Censorship as Liberation"...
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history includes a number of important acting troupes including the Lord Chamberlain's Men, which employed Shakespeare as actor and playwright. After a dispute...
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"My Lord Chamberlain, His Galliard (an invention for two to play upon one lute)" is a piece by John Dowland for the lute. It was printed in his First Booke...
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Thomas Pope (actor) (section Chamberlain's)
Poope in the First Folio, was an Elizabethan actor, a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men and a colleague of William Shakespeare. Pope was a "comedian and...
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Alec Douglas-Home (redirect from Lord Home of the Hirsel)
called by the courtesy title Lord Dunglass) became a parliamentary aide to Neville Chamberlain, witnessing first-hand Chamberlain's efforts as prime minister...
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