of actors on at least two occasions in the 1570s. It was his personal experience of a traveling actor's life that prompted him to establish the Theatre in Shoreditch in 1576 which he built with a loan from his brother-in-law John Brayne.

Family

Burbage married Ellen Brayne, the daughter of Thomas Brayne, a London tailor and sister of his later business partner John Brayne, on 23 April

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