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This page points to the district known as Whitefriars. For the theatre, see Whitefriars Theatre.
For an important and growing body of research about the sanctuary or liberty of Whitefriars, colloquially known as Alsatia, named after Alsace, see John Levin’s Alsatia: The Debtor Sanctuaries of London. See also: Chalfant 198-99.

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Whitefriars. The Map of Early Modern London, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 20 Jun. 2018, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/WHIT4.htm.

Chicago citation

Whitefriars. The Map of Early Modern London. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed June 20, 2018. http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/WHIT4.htm.

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2018. Whitefriars. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London. Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/WHIT4.htm.

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  • Whitefriars Theatre

    One of the lesser known halls or private playhouses of Renaissance London, the Whitefriars, was home to two different boy playing companies, each of which operated under several different names. Whitefriars produced many famous boy actors, some of whom later went on to greater fame in adult companies. At the Whitefriars playhouse in 1607–1608, the Children of the King’s Revels catered to a homogenous audience with a particular taste for homoerotic puns and situations, which resulted in a small but significant body of plays that are markedly different from those written for the amphitheatres and even for other hall playhouses.

    Whitefriars Theatre is mentioned in the following documents:

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