The Red Lion and the White Horse: Inns used by Patronized Performers in Norwich, 1583-1624

'What makes thou upon a stage?': Child Actors, Royalist Publicity, and the Space of the Nation in the Queen's Men's <em>True Tragedy of Richard the Third</em>

“…31 In other towns, the Queen's Men imposed in other ways: in Norwich in 1583, for example, they jumped off the stage to pursue a man for not paying to enter the yard where they were performing; they started a brawl that spilled out onto the street and resulted in the death of a bystander; and the local authorities seem to have banded together to protect them, allowing them to post bail for each other, ignoring the fact that they never returned to the city to stand trial, and welcoming them back to perform, apparently without any judicial consequence, within a year. 32 In Norwich, if your answer to the question 'what do you think of the monarchy?' was the wrong one, you might not have felt that membership in the new royalist public was entirely voluntary.…”