AGES ERA PERIOD
16TH CENTURY
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the patron of the acting company, eg, the Lord Chamberlain
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the bishop of London
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the printer
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the acting company
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Detailed explanation-1: -(The companies owned the plays; the individual authors had no intellectual property rights once the plays had been sold to the actors.)
Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare was involved in many aspects of London’s professional theatrical world. He was an actor, a playwright, and a shareholder in an acting company known as the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, which became the King’s Men when James I became king in 1603.
Detailed explanation-3: -They kept the name Lord Chamberlain’s Men until the accession of James I in 1603, when they became the King’s Men. Most of Shakespeare’s plays were created for the Lord Chamberlain’s Men.
Detailed explanation-4: -Shakespeare’s company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, was one of several to perform at the Theatre, appearing there by about 1594. A few years later, the Burbages lost their lease on the Theatre site and began construction of a new, larger playhouse, the Globe, just south of the Thames.