Prince Charles’s Company
Prince Charles’s Company or Prince Charles’s Men was a playing company in
early modern London. The group was formed in 1608 as
the Duke of York’s Men after Charles, who was then Duke of York and the second son of
King James I and Anne of
Denmark. When Charles’s elder brother, Prince Henry, died in 1612, the company gradually became
known as Prince Charles’s Company. Andrew
Gurr identifies this company as Prince Charles’s
Company (I) to distinguish it from the company established in 1631 after
the birth of the future Charles II, also called Prince
Charles’s Company, but usually referred to by theatre scholars as Prince Charles’s
Company (II) (395).
