Barnabe Barnes is perhaps best remembered for an interest free loan he made to William Shakespeare's playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, which gave the company the capital necessary to rent theater space until their construction of the new Globe Theater in 1614.
Barnabe Barnes is perhaps best remembered for an interest free loan he made to William Shakespeare's playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men. This loan gave the company the capital necessary to rent theater space until their construction of the new Globe Theater in 1614.