Note 556 — Chapter XXIV · PLAYERS OF INTERLUDES
Reading edition
L. G. Bolingbroke, Pre-Elizabethan Plays and Players in Norfolk (Norfolk Archaeology, xi. 336). The corporation gave a lease of the ‘game-house’ on condition that it should be available ‘at all such times as any interludes or plays should be ministered or played.’ John Rastell’s 50s. stage in Finsbury about 1520-5 (cf. p. 184), although not improbably used for public representations, is not known to have been permanent.