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What do you mean, "Shakespeare's actors"? Shakespeare did not own actors. He did not hire actors. He was an actor himself, as well as a writer.

There was not a "licence" to act as we would understand it. Playing companies of the day had to have a noble or royal patron, like the Lord Chamberlain, or the Lord Admiral, or the King, or the Queen. If they didn't, they risked being prosecuted as vagrants. Shakespeare always worked in legit companies of this nature as did all of the actors he associated with.

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