• The Newington Butts Theatre was one of the earliest Elizabethan theatres, possibly predating even The Theatre of 1576 and the Curtain Theatre, which are...
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    Newington Butts in 1791. It is believed to take its name from an archery butts, or practice field. The area gave its name to an Elizabethan theatre which...
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    the Clink, and at Newington Butts near the established entertainment district of St. George's Fields in rural Surrey. The Theatre was constructed in...
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    playhouse of 1567) and the Newington Butts playhouse was set up, probably by Jerome Savage, some time between 1575 and 1577. The Theatre was rapidly followed...
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    The Theatre (1576) and Curtain (1577), the Newington Butts Theatre (between 1575 and 1577) and Philip Henslowe's Rose (1587–88). The Swan Theatre was...
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    William Shakespeare's time, there was a theatre called Newington Butts and later there were further theatres. Newington gained in importance with the creation...
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    and to the City of London via London Road and Newington Causeway at the northern junction. Newington Butts and Walworth Road adjoin the southern junction...
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  • Elizabethan theatre. It was the fourth of the public theatres to be built, after The Theatre (1576), the Curtain (1577), and the theatre at Newington Butts (c...
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    Henslowe recorded two further performances of the play, at the Newington Butts Theatre by the combined Admiral's Men and Lord Chamberlain's Men. The 24...
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  • business transporting theatre patrons across the Thames. He also had interests in the Newington Butts Theatre and The Swan Theatre in Southwark. Henslowe...
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  • to whether this indicates a "new" play or a performance at the Newington Butts theatre. The Admiral's Men performed The Guise or The Massacre ten times...
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    take to mean "new", although it could be an abbreviation for the Newington Butts theatre, which Henslow may have owned) and mentions that it had fifteen...
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  • Bankside Newington Butts The Red Bull, Clerkenwell The Red Lion, Mile End The Rose, Bankside The Swan, Bankside The Theatre, Shoreditch Blackfriars Theatre (two...
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  • Indians. 1576 – Jerome Savage takes out a sub-lease to start the Newington Butts Theatre outside London. 1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to...
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  • performed by the Lord Admiral's Men and the Lord Chamberlain's Men at Newington Butts Theatre; "begininge at newing ton my Lord Admeralle men & my Lorde chamberlen...
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    Southwark Playhouse (category Theatres in the London Borough of Southwark)
    happened and the temporary home on Newington Causeway remains, but a new permanent 300-seat venue on Newington Butts is currently planned to be opened...
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    Henslowe (who also had interests in the Swan Theatre and the Newington Butts Theatre) built the Hope Theatre in Bankside. He became increasingly autocratic...
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    Highpoint (also 80 Newington Butts, and previously referred to as 360 London) is a 142-metre, 46-storey, 458-apartment residential tower in Elephant and...
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    discoverers of all time." Michael Faraday was born on 22 September 1791 in Newington Butts, Surrey (which is now part of the London Borough of Southwark). His...
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    Dennis Day (Mouseketeer) (category LGBT theatre directors)
    Centre, producing Renaissance and Dickens Christmas fairs, playing Newington Butts at the Renaissance fairs and also coaching other actors. They moved...
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    but could now cross St George's Fields to the junction of Newington Causeway and Newington Butts which is where New Kent Road starts at Elephant & Castle...
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    style was particularly influenced by the Metropolitan Tabernacle in Newington Butts in London, where influential Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon used...
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    Frank Matcham (category English theatre architects)
    a few buildings over the next decade, including the Alexandra Theatre, Stoke Newington. Matcham continued to work with Purcell until around 1908 when...
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    included a ban on writing for the stage. Middleton died at his home at Newington Butts in Southwark in 1627, and was buried on 4 July in St Mary's churchyard...
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  • mid-14th century dissolved 1538; granted to Richard Moresyne and William Butts 1540/1; frater, library and kitchen granted to the King's Armourer; Michael...
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    October 2016. ISBN 9781473648197. Retrieved 22 June 2021. "Kenneth Branagh, Theatre's New Young King". Reader's Digest. Retrieved 2008-08-15. "Blue plaques...
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  • Duncan Holden. Cricket Co-ordinator and Safeguarding Officer, Stoke Newington Cricket Club. For services to Sport in London. Ian Watson Holland. Lately...
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  • novelist Matthew Freud, founder of Freud Communications Sonia Friedman, theatre producer David Furnish, filmmaker Martino Gamper, designer Guy Garvey,...
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    to some Place at or near the House called The Dog and Duck, and to Newington Butts, in the County of Surry; and for empowering the Trustees for carrying...
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    Northampton made a building agreement in 1803 with Henry Leroux of Stoke Newington for a large area fronting Upper Street, Canonbury Lane, and Hopping Lane...
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