Christopher Beeston

A woman named Margaret White, the widow of a cloth worker, accused him of raping her on Midsummer night and leaving her pregnant.The hearing recommended that Beeston be prosecuted, but no records of a trial survive; it appears that the case did not follow through, perhaps for lack of evidence.The Cockpit offered credible competition to the King's Men at the Blackfriars Theatre for the wealthier set of playgoers; Beeston employed fashionable playwrights such as John Ford and James Shirley to attract these audiences.After the temporary demise and ultimate eclipse of the Fortune Theatre in 1621, the Red Bull was the main attraction in Middlesex for citizens and apprentices.Richard Halpern (1991), The Poetics of Primitive Accumulation: English Renaissance Culture and the Genealogy of Capital, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-9772-8.
impresarioearly 17th centuryThomas HeywoodThomas NasheRichard TarltonThe Seven Deadly SinsAugustine PhillipsLord Chamberlain's MenBen JonsonEvery Man in His Humourboy playerBridewellWorcester's MenQueen Anne's MenRed Bull TheatreQueen AnneCockpit TheatreDrury LanecockfightInigo JonesShrove TuesdayHenry HerbertMaster of the RevelsPrince Charles' MenQueen Henrietta's MenBeeston's BoysKing's MenBlackfriars TheatreJohn FordJames ShirleyFortune TheatreMiddlesexWilliam BeestonE. K. ChambersF. E. Halliday