Editing St Paul's Cathedral (section)

===St Paul's Theatre===

The St Paul's Theatre (1575-1606<ref name="shalt.dmu/st-pauls-1575">{{cite web |title=St Paul's, 1575-1606 |url=https://shalt.dmu.ac.uk/locations/st-pauls-1575-1606/indepth.html |website=Shakespearean London Theatres |publisher=[[De Montfort University]] |access-date=11 May 2025}}</ref>) was converted by Sebastian Westcott,<ref name="mumblewords/5-blossom">{{cite web |last1=Bullen |first1=Damian |title=The Young Shakespeare (5): Shakespeare's Blossom |url=https://mumblewords.uk/2021/01/02/the-young-shakespeare-5-shakespeares-blossom/ |website=Mumble Words |access-date=11 May 2025 |language=en |date=2 January 2021 |quote=A history enthusiast and poet from Burnley}}</ref> the cathedral's organist, from the Almoner's Hall of the cathedral. The genesis and layout was similar to [[Blackfriars Theatre]], but smaller. Music for organ was specified in a number of plays.<ref name="ou.ro.000107d4"/> The works were staged at the private St Paul's Theatre by the choristers of the St Paul's Cathedral.<ref name="ou.ro.000107d4">{{cite thesis |last1=Force |first1=David Robert Stuart |title='A Holding, Uniting-Constant Friend': The Organ in Seventeenth-Century English Domestic Music |journal=PhD Thesis |date=2019 |doi=10.21954/ou.ro.000107d4 |url=https://oro.open.ac.uk/67540/ |access-date=11 May 2025 |publisher=[[The Open University]]}}</ref> A boy company performed plays, without any involvement of adult actors.<ref name="shalt.dmu/st-pauls-1575"/> The boy actors at St Paul's were primarily choristers, playing to paying audiences.<ref name="shalt.dmu/st-pauls-1575"/>The boy companies were viewed as respectable, but played less frequently than the adult companies, and had little crowd trouble.<ref name="shalt.dmu/st-pauls-1575"/> The boy choristers of St Paul's Cathedral used the Almoner's Hall from 1575 until 1584.<ref name="Marsh/Shakespeare-Parish">{{cite book |last1=Marsh |first1=Geoffrey |title=Living with Shakespeare: Saint Helen's Parish, London, 1593-1598 |date=2021 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-1-4744-7972-1 |url=https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-living-with-shakespeare.html |language=en}}</ref>