BLACKFRIARS THEATRE BUILDING 29 
of the land on which it had stood, wishing in a suit at law to 
‘secure damages, placed upon it the nigh value of 700 /.1 
The cost of the Globe, constructed in 1599 partly from the old 
materials of the torn-down “Theatre,” 
600 /.? 
cannot have reached near 
The Fortune, erected the next year (1600) on the general plan 
of the Globe, was contracted for, to be built wholly out of new 
materials, at 440 /.° 
But the building when completed exceeded 
the contract-price, amounting to 520/.*| The lease of the grounds 
cost 240 1, 
grounds was 760 !.° 
*See data from suits in Halli- 
well-Phillips, op. cit., I, 371c. 
*Cf. infra, 29%. 
®See contract of Henslowe and 
Alleyn, owners, with Peter Street, 
carpenter. Original in Dulwich 
College Library, in the suburbs of 
London. Printed in E. Malone, 
Shakespeare Variorum (ed. Bos- 
well, 1821), III, 338-43; J. O. Hal- 
liwell-Phillips, op. cit., I, 304-6; 
G. P. Baker, The Development of 
Shakespeare as a Dramatist (1907), 
315-20 (from Malone, w. s.). 
“Peter Street was the builder of 
both the Globe (wu. s.) and the For- 
tune. His contract of 440/. to build 
the Fortune after the general plan 
of the Globe is based upon his ex- 
perience in erecting the Globe. That 
amount rather than the 520/., then, 
gives his approximate estimate of 
the cost of the Globe if it had been 
built not of old, but wholly of new 
material. Upon this basis the Globe, 
built partly of materials from “The 
Theatre,” cannot have cost so much 
as 440/. in actual cash outlay in 
1599. 
‘Data from Edward Alleyn’s 
memorandum of “What the Fortune 
cost me Novemb., 1599,” printed 
from the original MS. at Dulwich 
College in The Alleyn Papers (ed. 
J. P. Collier, Shakes. Soc. Pub. 
1843), xiv. Also in J. P. Collier, 
History of English Dramatic Poetry 
(18797), III, 119. [But there is an 
error by some one. The contract 
Hence the totai cost of the Fortune theatre and 
tor the Fortune (wu. s., 29°) is dated 
“the eighte daie of Januarye, 1599- 
[1600], and in the twoe and fortyth 
yeare of the reigne of our sov- 
ereigne ladie Elizabeth.” At this 
period the calendar year ended 
March 24. Has Alleyn in his Pock- 
et-book note above, ‘“Novemb., 
1599,” forgot to change the year 
after passing March 24? It should 
of course be “1600.” For similar 
errors, see Henslowe’s Diary (ed. 
Collier, S. S. Pub., 1845), 29, 47, 
99, 102, et passim]. ; 
Sometimes the cost of the For- 
tune is stated as 880/. But that 
includes private buildings that Al- 
leyn placed on the same grounds. 
Sometimes the amount is given as 
1320/. But that includes not only 
these private buildings, but addi- 
tional houses and leases in Golding 
Lane purchased by Alleyn, the ex- 
pense of all being itemized and 
summed up in the same account 
(uw. s.). Collier (Memoirs of Ed- 
ward Alleyn, S. S. Pub. 1841, 59), 
upon reconsideration after the first 
edition of his History (1831), de- 
cides that the 520/. was only Al- 
leyn’s half of the expense. But his 
assumption that Henslowe paid an 
equal amount is gratuitous and is 
supported by no document. On the 
contrary all the known data accord 
with 760/. as the total cost of the 
Fortune theatre and lease of 
grounds. 
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