Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1913 — Queen Elizabeth Opened It. [ARTICLE]

Queen Elizabeth Opened It.

In connection with Granville Barker’s production of "Twelfth Night,” It is interesting to recall that we have Btill standing in London one of the halls in which the play was performed during Shakespeare’s lifetime. In the hall of the Middle Temple, opened by Queen Elizabeth in person in 1576, “Twelfth Night” was acted at Christmas, 1601, and there is a strong probability that Shakespeare himself played a part in that performance. In the early days the Inns of court were patrons of the drama, and the hall of Gray’s Inn can also claim to have witnessed a contemporary Shakespeare production, “A Comedy of Errors" having been given there in 1594. —London Chronicle.