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The earliest recorded performance of Measure for Measure took place on St. Stephen's night, 26 December 1604. During the Restoration, Measure was one of many Shakespeare plays adapted to the tastes of a new audience.
Performance records are patchy, but it is known that the King's Men performed seven of Shakespeare's plays at court between 1 November 1604 and 31 October 1605, including two performances of The Merchant of Venice. [12] In 1608 the King's Men (as the company was then known) took possession of the Blackfriars Theatre.
First recorded performance: on 4 November 1604, in the banqueting hall of Whitehall Palace, performed by the King's Men for Charles I. [166] Evidence: writing in 1702, John Dennis claimed Shakespeare wrote the play in fourteen days at the behest of Queen Elizabeth.
On 19 October, Herbert forbad the performance of The Woman's Prize, Fletcher's sequel to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, because of its "foul and offensive" content. The company acted the Fletcher/Beaumont play The Scornful Lady instead. On 21 October, Herbert addressed a letter to Edward Knight, the "book-keeper" or prompter of the ...
The first known performance of a Shakespeare play in translation, Romeo and Juliet, is performed at Nördlingen in Bavaria in an anonymous German version, Von Romeo undth Julitha. [2] Construction takes place of the Red Bull Theatre at Clerkenwell in London. The last performances in England of the Beverley miracle plays are given.
1604 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1604th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 604th year of the 2nd millennium, the 4th year of the 17th century, and the 5th year of the 1600s decade. As of the start of 1604, the ...
The Merry Devil enters the historical record in 1604, ... Canada as a part of Edmonton's Winter Shakespeare Festival. The performance was a staged reading of a text ...
Although the performance records are patchy, the King's Men performed seven of Shakespeare's plays at court between 1 November 1604, and 31 October 1605, including two performances of The Merchant of Venice. [62]