30 CHILDREN OF THE CHAPEL AT BLACKFRIARS 
The cost of the Curtain and “the little Rose’? is unknown, but 
cannot have equaled that of the Fortune or the Globe. 
The outlay for the Bear Garden and especially for the Swan 
can be approximated through our knowledge of the Hope. In 
1613, the Bear Garden was torn down and the Hope built in its 
place on the model of the Swan in every detail.? The old mate- 
rials of the Bear Garden and of another old house were to be 
used in building the Hope,? and an adjoining two-story “bull 
house or stable” large enough to accommodate six bulis and three 
horses. Besides this old lumber, the cost in cash for labor and 
new materials was agreed upon as 360/. It is liberal in any case 
to estimate the materials. at half the total cost of the finished 
structure. But in this case the 360/. includes part of the mate- 
rials,—all the new. It includes also the labor on the “bull house 
or stable.” It would on this basis seem generous to estimate the 
cost of the Hope theatre exclusive of grounds at 500/. In no 
respect does it seem to have equaled the Fortune building, which 
cost 5201. 
The Bear Garden, then, at the time of pulling down, and most 
likely at first cost, was worth less than the new building of the 
Hope that displaced it. 
As to the Swan, it is fair to conclude that that theatre was not 
more pretentious in form nor worth than the Hope, for which it 
served as model. But according to a contemporary Dutch priest 
of St. Mary’s, Utrecht, Johannes De Witt, who stands absolutely 
alone in his testimony, the Swan was a magnificent theatre, ‘“‘con- 
structum ex coaceruato lapide pyrritide,”* and large enough to 
ing the Hope. Printed in E. Ma- 
lone, Shakespeare Variorum (ed. 
Boswell, 1821), III, 343-47; re- 
printed therefrom in G. P. Baker, 
*The Rose may have been worth 
more than half as much as the 
Blackfriars. The rental value 
placed upon the Rose in 1603 by a 
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prospective tenant was 20/., just 
half the yearly rent of the Black- 
friars. But Henslowe thought his 
“little Rose” worth more than 201., 
and declared he would pull it down 
rather than accept that amount.— 
Cf. Henslowe’s Diary (ed. Collier, 
S. S. Pub., 1845), 235-36. 
*See contract by Henslowe and 
Meade with Gilbert Katherens, car- 
penter, 29 August, 1613, for build- 
The Development of Shakespeare as 
a Dramatist (1907), 320-25. 
*The Hope was used for bull- 
baiting and bear-baiting two days 
in the week, and for plays four 
days. Cf. contract u. s.; also cf. 
infra, 33°. 
“Translated as “flint,” “flint 
stone,” “concrete of flint stone,” &c. 
But the translation or the meaning 
makes little difference, since the 
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