A POET'S INCOME.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9613, 6 October 1909, Page 5

A POET'S INCOME.

SHAKESPEARE'S THE A.TRE INTERESTS.

INTERESTING DOCUMENT. United Press Association-By Eleotric Telegrap. Copyright. Received October 5, 9 a.m. LONDON, October 4. In connection with Dr. Charles Wallace's discovery (from lecords of a lawsuit' that Shakespeare, as one of Heminge's co-partner in the Globe and Black friars Theatres, drew profits amounting to £6OO per annum, "The Times" publishes the text of the doctor's documentary evidence. The document is stated to be the most interesting since Green's discovery of Shakespeare's will in 1747. The deed traces the history of the Globe and LSlackfriars Theatres from 1599 to 1616. Shakespeare owned a seventh share of the Blackfriars Theetre and one fourteenth of the Globe. The total annual rent of the Globe was £l4l 2a. The exact site of the Globe was not where the present brewery stands, as is generally supposed, but at the opposite side of Park street, which was called Maiden-lane in Shakespeare's time. Dr. Wallace states that Glooe, Rose, Bear Garden, and Hope Theatres were all between Maidenlane and Bankside. Shakespeare was connected with the Globe Theatre from its opening in 1599, and after that his plays all had their first productions there. He was one of those chiefly engaged in "the war of the theatres," in which Johnson, Marston, Dtkerand Chapman also figured; and which filled the plays of ihat date with bit ter allusions. Two years earlier he had become a shareholder in the Blackfriars Theatre, where his dramas were previously presented. It was known that he received considerable sums from these two ventures, but that they approached £6OO a year, then a large sum. was not public property. Shakespeare sold his interests in botn theatres in 1613, three years before his death.