leicester's company
Preserved but no longer current.
His plays and poems were written between 1591 (Love's Labour's Lost) and 1611 (The Tempest). In the latter year he retired to Stratford, but visited London frequently, keeping up his relations with actors and poets until his death.
Era: ca. 1898 (Victorian)
Sources & notes
Reproduced from Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898 edition, public domain; archive.org, retrieved 2026-07-31; OCR text, minor errors possible). Reflects the scholarship and attitudes of its era.
Common questions
What does “leicester's company” mean?
His plays and poems were written between 1591 (Love's Labour's Lost) and 1611 (The Tempest). In the latter year he retired to Stratford, but visited London frequently, keeping up his relations with actors and poets until his death.
Is “leicester's company” formal or informal?
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