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New Evidence About Tudor Royal Players, George and John Birche and Their Connection With James Burbage

2022; Oxford University Press; Volume: 69; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/notesj/gjac082

1471-6941

Siobhan Keenan,

Historical Influence and Diplomacy

St Stephen Coleman Street parish, London is probably best known to early modern theatre historians as the one-time home of joiner-turned-player and theatre builder, James Burbage, and as the birthplace of Shakespearean star actor, Richard Burbage; but as William Ingram has demonstrated, the mid-sixteenth century parish was home to a number of other performers and individuals with links to London’s early theatre and performance industries, including several minstrels; Peter Street, the carpenter who would later help Richard and Cuthbert Burbage build the Globe Theatre; and John Brayne, James Burbage’s brother-in-law and founder of the Red Lion playhouse, as well as Burbage’s collaborator in the building of the Theatre.1 More recently, David Kathman has found evidence to link at least two Tudor royal players to the parish in the 1540s—brothers, George and John Birche—the latter of whom was a joiner as well as a player (like James Burbage), prompting Kathman...