Note 47 — V.—EARLY DRAMATIC EFFORTS
Reading edition
One of the many crimes laid to the charge of the dramatist Robert Greene was that of fraudulently disposing of the same play to two companies. ‘Ask the Queen’s players,’ his accuser bade him in Cuthbert Cony-Catcher’s Defence of Cony-Catching, 1592, ‘if you sold them not Orlando Furioso for twenty nobles [i.e. about £7], and when they were in the country sold the same play to the Lord Admiral’s men for as many more.’