Q1 is considerably shorter than Q2 or F1 and may be a memorial reconstruction of the play as Shakespeare's company performed it, by an actor who played a minor role ( most likely Marcellus ).

" The plays written after Shakespeare's company began using the Blackfriars in 1608, Cymbeline and The Winter's Tale for instance, have what most ... of the earlier plays do not have: a carefully planned five-act structure ".

Because Shakespeare was dead, the folio was compiled by John Heminges and Henry Condell ( fellow actors in Shakespeare's company ), and arranged into comedies, histories and tragedies.

It posits, essentially, that the Quarto derives from something close to Shakespeare's foul papers, and the Folio is drawn in some way from a promptbook, prepared for production by Shakespeare's company or someone else.

Such specially-commissioned private performances were not unusual for Shakespeare's company.

The action then shifts to later that night, when the theater company is performing Shakespeare's Hamlet, with Tura in the title role.

* Richard Burbage ( 1558 – 1619 ), actor in William Shakespeare's theater company

Harvey appeared twice more on Broadway, in 1957 with Julie Harris, Pamela Brown and Colleen Dewhurst in William Wycherley's The Country Wife, and as Shakespeare's Henry V in 1959, as part of the Old Vic company, which featured a young Judi Dench as Katherine, the Daughter of the King of France.

He probably was acting with the Admiral's Men in 1590, with Lord Strange's Men in 1592, and with the Earl of Pembroke's Men in 1593 ; but most famously he was the star of William Shakespeare's theatre company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men which became the King's Men on the ascension of James I in 1603.

It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613.

Katherine Duncan-Jones points out that this was the year Lord Hunsdon, the Lord Chamberlain, was admitted to the Order and that, as a patron of Shakespeare's playing company The Lord Chamberlain's Men he could have commissioned the play for performance that evening.

It is speculated that Richard Tarleton, who was a member of both William Shakespeare's acting company and of the London Masters of Defence weapons guild, was among the first fight directors in the modern sense.

In 1624 he was a member of the King's Men, Shakespeare's famous company, and in August of that year played in their notorious production of A Game at Chess — yet in the same year he worked on the now-lost play Keep the Widow Waking with Dekker, Ford, and Webster, which was intended for the Red Bull Theatre.

Critics also suggest that the regular act intervals indicate that it could have been written for the indoor Blackfriars Theatre, which Shakespeare's company acquired in 1608.

: Evidence: Acted by Shakespeare's company and published under his name, but the style is not his.

: Evidence: Acted by Shakespeare's company and published under his name, but the style is not his.

The play was entered into the Register of the Stationers Company on 7 February 1603, by the bookseller and printer James Roberts, with a mention that the play was acted by the Lord Chamberlain's Men, Shakespeare's company.

As Terry grew older, there seemed to be less opportunities for her in his company, and that was one of the reasons why she eventually left, moving on into less steady but nonetheless beloved work on the stage, including solo performances of Shakespeare's women.

* Lord Chamberlain's Men, William Shakespeare's playing company

* At the close of Shakespeare's play, Henry IV, Part 2 ( Act V, Scene V ), Falstaff is surprised when, instead of being promoted by the new king, the Chief Justice tells his officers to " Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet ; / Take all his company along with him.

The Globe, the outdoor theater used by William Shakespeare's acting company, was discovered to have been built on an icosagonal foundation when a partial excavation was done in 1989.

Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet does not actually have an opening title sequence-the only credits seen at the beginning are the name of the production company, Shakespeare's name, and the title of the film.

Heminges and Condell were in a position to do this because they, like Shakespeare, worked for the King's Men, the London playing company that produced all of Shakespeare's plays ( in Elizabethan England, plays belonged to the company that performed them, not to the dramatist who had written them ).

* Richard Burbage – Actor in the Lord Chamberlain's Men, Shakespeare's own Company.

* February 7 – The Lord Chamberlain's Men stage a performance of Shakespeare's Richard II at the Globe Theatre.

The entertainment includes a performance of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 by the Lord Chamberlain's Men.

From 1597 to 1599, it became the premier venue of Shakespeare's Company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, who had been forced to leave their former playing space at The Theatre after the latter closed in 1596.

The fact that both of these shareholders belonged to Shakespeare's company may indicate that the re-organization of the Curtain occurred when the Lord Chamberlain's Men were acting there.

Although the original Blackfriars building was erected in 1596, during Elizabeth's reign, local residents had successfully petitioned against it and the Lord Chamberlain's Men, Shakespeare's playing company, did not begin to use it until 1608, five years into Jacobean era.

Evidence for this includes allusions to historical events and literary sources which postdate 1604, as well as Shakespeare's adaptation of his style to accommodate Jacobean literary tastes and the changing circumstances of the King's Men.

More evidence is found in the fact that John Fletcher, Shakespeare's successor as house playwright for the King's Men, wrote The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed as a sequel to The Shrew, telling the story of Petruchio's remarriage after Katherina's death.

* Williamson, Marilyn L. "" When Men Are Rul'd by Women ": Shakespeare's First Tetralogy ", Shakespeare Studies, 19 ( 1987 ), 41 – 59

* Williamson, Marilyn L. "" When Men Are Rul'd by Women ": Shakespeare's First Tetralogy ", Shakespeare Studies, 19 ( 1987 ), 41 – 59

* Williamson, Marilyn L. "" When Men Are Rul'd by Women ": Shakespeare's First Tetralogy ", Shakespeare Studies, 19 ( 1987 ), 41 – 59

* January 31-The King's Men perform Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at St. James's Palace.

* December 8-The King's Men perform Shakespeare's Othello at Hampton Court Palace.

* November 17-King Charles I of England and Queen Henrietta Maria watch the King's Men perform Shakespeare's Richard III on the Queen's birthday at St. James's Palace.

* January 18-The King's Men perform Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale at Whitehall Palace.

* January 7-The King's Men perform Shakespeare's Henry V at court.

* January 1-The King's Men act Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Court on the evening of January 1 ;

Since plague tends to abate in winter, some performances take place then ; Lord Strange's Men act a play called Titus — perhaps Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus — three times in January.

Fleay saw grounds for assigning to Lodge Mucedorus and Amadine, played by the Queen's Men about 1588, a share with Robert Greene in George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield, and in Shakespeare's 2nd part of Henry VI ; he also regards him as at least part-author of The True Chronicle of King Leir and his three Daughters ( 1594 ); and The Troublesome Raigne of John, King of England ( c. 1588 ); in the case of two other plays he allowed the assignation to Lodge to be purely conjectural.