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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITAIN
 
  More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)

 
More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
Chamberlain's Men

The leading company of actors in the late Elizabethan and Jacobean period. Both *Shakespeare and *Burbage were prominent members from 1594, the year in which the *lord chamberlain provided his patronage, and Shakespeare wrote nearly all his plays for the company. They were based at the *Globe from 1599; from about 1608 they also had a covered theatre at Blackfriars for winter performances. On his accession in 1603 James I took them under his personal protection, and from then on they were known as the King's Men.
 








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