Augustine Phillips (died May 4, 1605) was an Elizabethan actor who performed in troupes with Edward Alleyn and William Shakespeare. He was one of the first generation of English actors to achieve wealth and a degree of social status by means of his trade. May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years). ... 1605 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... English Renaissance theatre is English drama written between the Reformation and the closure of the theatres in 1642. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Edward Alleyn (September 1, 1566 - November 25, 1626), English actor, was a major figure of the Elizabethan theatre and founder of Dulwich College and Alleyns School. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Phillips first enters the historical record as a member of the amalgamation of Lord Strange's Men and the Admiral's Men that performed The Seven Deadly Sins (perhaps by Richard Tarlton) between 1590 and 1592. In the surviving "plot" of this performance, Phillips is assigned the role of Sardanapalus; he is one of the few actors not required to play a double role. He is named in the touring warrant issued to Strange's Men in 1592; after the death of their patron Ferdinando Stanley he joined the new Lord Chamberlain's Men, presumably as a sharer. This Elizabethan theatrical company was first known as the Lord Howards Men, named after their patron Charles Howard. ... Richard Tarlton (d. ... Bold text{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style=margin-left: 15px; |- | align=center colspan=2 | Years: 1587 1588 1589 - 1590 - 1591 1592 1593 |-vdsf gno[gldw[pvkijxaiamknn csogfhbvdowkhbfkqhjkhrjkhwgfhbjkpnkfokfgok3pkpk9pjhkt9erktyujkip9kijker9thhrkg9hkitr9gtkih9t0ykltk[u0jo0iey9uhyit90ertyhige9rity9riyh9ujirtyuhjnh-4e9tyigh9thiuy0h8tyh34tu8uy8u8u8u8rtu5y8ru8thu0tru0ut0rhutuh0trhu0hseogtrhr8uyhju8t89er9te9r8fy8shit ass dick bitch fuck | align=center colspan=2 | Decades: 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s |- | align=center | Centuries... Events January 30 - The death of Pope Innocent IX during the previous year had left the Papal throne vacant. ... Assurbanipal in a relief from the north palace at Nineveh There were several Assyrian kings named Assur-bani-pal, also spelled Asurbanipal, Assurbanipal (most commonly), Ashurbanipal and Ashshurbanipal, but the best known was Assurbanipal IV.  Ashurbanipal, or Assurbanipal, (reigned 668 - 627 BCE), the son of Esarhaddon and Naqia-Zakutu... Events January 30 - The death of Pope Innocent IX during the previous year had left the Papal throne vacant. ... Ferdinando Stanley (c. ... The Lord Chamberlains Men was the playing company that William Shakespeare worked for as actor and playwright throughout most of his career. ...

Phillips remained with the company through its change to the King's Men and to his death in 1605. Little is known with certainty of his roles with the company, except that he was probably already mature when the company assembled. He appears in the cast lists for Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour (1598), Every Man Out of His Humour (1599), and Sejanus (1603). He may be the author of a jig, Phillips His Slipper, entered for publishing in the Stationer's Register in 1595. It has been suggested that Lord Chamberlains Men be merged into this article or section. ... Benjamin Jonson (circa June 11, 1572 – August 6, 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. ... Every Man in His Humour was a 1598 play by British playwright Ben Jonson. ... Every Man out of His Humour is a 1599 play written by British playwright Ben Jonson. ... Lucius Aelius Seianus (or Sejanus) (20 BC – October 18, 31 AD) was an ambitious soldier, friend and confidant of Tiberius, and for a time the most influential and feared citizen of Rome. ... The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. ...

He was one of the six sharers in the Globe Theatre when it was built in 1598-9, with a one-eighth share. Over time this made him a comparatively wealthy man, at least as far as Elizabethan actors were concerned. Like Shakespeare, Phillips lived for many years near his occupation in Southwark, in Paris Garden near the Swan Theatre, and in Aldgate; but by the time of his death he owned a house in Mortlake, in Surrey. The modern reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, in London. ... The Borough or Southwark is an area of the London Borough of Southwark situated 1. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Aldgate was a gateway through London Wall to the City of London, located by the East End. ... Mortlake is a part of south west London between Sheen and Barnes and bounded by the river Thames to the north. ... Surrey is a county in southern England, part of the South East England region and one of the Home Counties. ...

In 1601, he was the representative of the company called to testify before the Privy Council about their involvement with the rebellion of the Earl of Essex; the Chamberlain's Men had been paid by supporters of the Earl to perform Shakespeare's Richard II before the abortive coup. Phillips' testimony seems to have assuaged whatever anger the court may have felt towards the players; they were not punished, and indeed played for the Queen at Whitehall on Feb. 24, 1601, the night before Essex was executed. (The choice of Phillips as representative is interesting; why him, and not Shakespeare or Burbage? He testified that the Lord Chamberlain's Men had played at the request of Essex's supporters, specifically because they were offered 40 shillings more than their normal fee. This might indicate that Phillips had a role in keeping the financial accounts of the company.) Events February 8 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Elizabeth I of England - revolt is quickly crushed February 25 - Robert Devereux beheaded Jesuit Matteo Ricci arrives in China Bad harvest in Russia due to rainy summer Dutch troops drive Portuguese from Málaga Battle of Kinsale, Ireland Births... Her Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. ... Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (10 November 1566 – 25 February 1601), favourite of Queen Elizabeth I of England, is the best-known of the many holders of the title Earl of Essex. He was a military hero, but following a poor campaign against... Title page of Richard II, from the fifth quarto, published in 1615. ... Whitehall, London, looking south towards the Houses of Parliament. ...

The evidence suggests a life deeply intertwined with the theater. He was a stepbrother of his fellow King's Man Thomas Pope, and his sister married another actor, Robert Gough.

Phillips' will includes a number of interesting and revealing bequests—

• a silver bowl worth £5 to each of the executors, John Heminges, Richard Burbage, and William Sly;

• a 30-shilling gold piece each to Shakespeare, Henry Condell, and Christopher Beeston (Beeston is described as Phillips' "servant;" he was almost certainly a former apprentice);

• 20 shillings in gold each to Lawrence Fletcher, Robert Armin, Alexander Cook, Richard Cowley, and Nicholas Tooley;

• 40s. to his apprentice James Sands, along with a cittern, a bandora, and a lute, all pending the "expiration of his term of years in his indenture of apprenticehood;"

• 40s. to his "late apprentice" Samuel Gilburne, plus Phillips' "mouse-colored" velvet hose, his black taffeta suit and white taffeta doublet, his purple cloak, his sword and dagger, and his bass viol;

• and £5 to be split among the hired men "of the company which I am of."

The musical instruments obviously imply that Phillips was a musician, and as such he was probably involved in the dramatic music used in productions throughout his career. John Heminges was an actor in the Kings Men, the playing company for which William Shakespeare wrote. ... Categories: Actor stubs | 1567 births | 1619 deaths ... Henry Condell was an actor in the Kings Men, the playing company for which William Shakespeare wrote. ... Christopher Beeston (c. ... Title page of Armins The History of the two Maids of More-Clacke, 1609. ... A woodcut of a Cittern The cittern is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance, having evolved considerably since that time. ... The cittern is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance, having evolved considerably since that time. ... The lute is a plucked string instrument with a fretted neck and a deep round back. ... Various sizes of viol, from Michael Praetorius Syntagma musicum (1618) The viol (also called viola da gamba) is any one of a family of bowed, fretted stringed musical instruments developed in the 1400s and used primarily in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. ...

Reference

F. E. Halliday, A Shakespeare Companion 1564-1964, Baltimore, Penguin, 1964.