Children of the Revels
(also Children of the Queen's Revels)
noun
Any of several companies of boy actors active in the early 17th cent.
- The best known of these companies was known as the Children of the Chapel (1600), Children of the (Queen’s) Revels (1604–6), Children of the Blackfriars (1606–9), Children of the Whitefriars (1609–10), and, partially reconstituted, as Children of the Queen’s Revels again (1610–13)..
Origin
Early 17th century.
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