; 
‘ lines. 
With no other evidence than the comparative length of notices 
given to Blackfriars on the one side and the Globe, Fortune, and 
Bear Garden on the other, we should be justified in concluding 
the relative weight of impressions the visitors carried home with 
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the play of Samson at the Fortune, with a line and a half.t1 A 
bear- and bull-fight, of course at the Bear Garden, gets four: 
THE QUEEN’S REQUIREMENTS 
them. 
But the important evidence more than bearing out this 
conclusion is the action taken by the Duke in establishing a the- 
atre at his own court shortly after returning to Germany. 
In 1604 Duke Philip was declared of age, and took charge of 
the government of the dukedom of Pommern-Wolgast. 
Within 
two years we find a theatre of “etliche und zwantzig Englander’? 
established and maintained at his court at heavy expense.® 
It seems unlikely that this company traveled, as other English 
actors in Germany did. There is no evidence of it. 
It is hardly likely that they visited 
the same theatre twice. They were 
doing the sights. There is no 
known case of repetition on the 
whole journey. So I take it as 
practically certain that this notice 
of their first visit to a theatre re- 
fers to the more famous Globe. If 
the play they saw could be identi- 
fied, that would probably make the 
conclusion final. 
Ah | 
“14 [Sept. 1602].—Auf den 
Nachmittag ward eine tragica co- 
moedia vom Samsone und dem 
halben Stamm Benjamin agirt.”— 
Idem, VI, 10. 
The play of Sampson was then 
new. It is identified by the fol- 
lowing :— 
“Tent vnto Samwell Rowley & 
edwarde Jewbe to paye for the 
Boocke of Samson the 2 of 
Julye 1602 the some of...vi!'” 
—Henslowe’s Diary (ed. W. 'W. 
Greg, 1904), 169. 
This play was never published. 
“Sampson. Play, by Edward 
Jubye, (assisted by Samuel Row- 
ley). Acted in 1602. N. P.”—D. 
E. Baker, Biographia Dramatica 
(1812), II, 232. 
Jewby belonged to the company 
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Nor do we 
playing at the Fortune, in which 
Henslowe was interested. 
It is therefore established that 
the visitors attended the Fortune 
Sept. 14, 1602. 
*See full notice in Hausbuch des 
Herrn Joachim von Wedel auf 
Krempzow Schloss und Blumberg 
Erbgesessen, first published by J. 
von Bohlen Bohlendorf in Die Bib- 
liothek des Litterarischen Vereins 
in Stuttgart (1882), CLXI, 535. 
Quoted by C. F. Meyer in Shake- 
Speare-Jahrbuch (1902), XXXVIII, 
199. 
*The establishment of the thea- 
tre, particularly the purpose on a 
festival court occasion to act in the 
church at Loitz, the home of the 
Duke’s mother, roused the Coprt 
Preacher, Gregorius Hagius, to 
strenuous opposition. Of seven let- 
ters written by Hagius to the Duke 
and his mother between the 25 
and 28 of August, 1606, three are 
preserved. They are _ published 
in Shakespeare -Jahrbuch (1902), 
XXXVIII, 200-207, by C. F. Meyer, 
and make a contribution more val- 
uable, I think, than even Herr 
Meyer believed. 
