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Shakespeare's acting company was first known as Lord Chamberlain's Men. The name was changed to The Kings Men in 1603 when King James I ascended the throne and became the company's patron.
None. It was against the law for women to act in this time in history.
A charter. He himself was the patron of the company. All acting companies at the time had to have a noble patron by law. This was to prevent vagabonds and conmen from pretending to be acting companies.
Ned Alleyn acted for The Admiral's Men. It was an acting company which played at a number of playhouses over the years.
Assuming you meant professions, Shakespeare was an actor, a poet and a playwright. He also owned shares in the acting company in which he performed and which put on his plays, and in the two theaters in which the company performed.
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Shakespeare's acting company was first known as Lord Chamberlain's Men. The name was changed to The Kings Men in 1603 when King James I ascended the throne and became the company's patron.
None. It was against the law for women to act in this time in history.
A charter. He himself was the patron of the company. All acting companies at the time had to have a noble patron by law. This was to prevent vagabonds and conmen from pretending to be acting companies.
The Lord Chamberlain's Men was one of the leading acting companies of its day.
Women were forbidden to act in Shakespeare's theater, but they could and did work behind the scenes as costume mistresses particularly.
Ned Alleyn acted for The Admiral's Men. It was an acting company which played at a number of playhouses over the years.
James I, who became patron of the acting company Shakespeare belonged to and who regularly had them play the palace, much more often than Queen Elizabeth did.
The first publication of a Shakespeare play was the Quarto Edition of Titus Andronicus in 1594. However, it was probably not published with Shakespeare's knowledge or consent. Plays did not belong to their author, the company who first performed them owned the exclusive rights. So, either the acting company authorized it or, more likely, it was a pirated, the way that some people pirate DVDs today.
They may have had water, wine, ale, or rum; the same as the audience.
We don't know because we don't know which of his plays was the first, and we don't know which acting company performed it. We do not know exactly which company or companies he worked with until 1594, by which time he had written all of the plays of his early period. We can say with certainty that one of the Henry VI plays was played at the Rose and Titus Andronicus at Newington Butts, but that is all we know.