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A legal document dated 1600 for a Star Chamber case titled Clifton vs. Robinson details how boys were abducted from London streets and forcibly held in order to train them as actors for the Blackfriars theatre. The taking of grammar-school boys for re-training as actors was not opportunistic; their abductions were planned. The theatre owners undertook this method of

Title : Child Actors on the London Stage, circa 1600: Their Education, Recruitment and Theatrical Success
Author : Julie Ackroyd
Language : en
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