When the theatre, in the palmy days of Shakespeare and burbage, was attracting a larger share of public patronage than the bear garden, she waxed indignant, and in 1591 an order was issued from the Privy Council, forbidding "plays to be performed on Thursdays because bear-baiting and such pastimes had usually been practised."
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
But he seems not to have observed that the players here introduced were strollers; and there is no reason to suppose that our author, Heminge, burbage, Lowin, etc.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith
Richard burbage and Edward Alleyn, the leading actors of their generation, made large fortunes.
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers
