@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt7zvg12.6,
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7zvg12.6},
 abstract = {Throughout the period the ranking players in the adult companies were the sharers, so called because their remuneration was not a weekly wage, as in the case of the hired men, or valuable training as in the case of the apprentices, but a share in the receipts for each performance by the company. Other terms for the same status were in common use: “patented member” because only the sharers were named in the royal patents for the companies; “fellow” in the first sense given in theOxford English Dictionary,“One who shares with another in a possession, official dignity, or},
 bookauthor = {GERALD EADES BENTLEY},
 booktitle = {The Profession of Player in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642},
 pages = {25--63},
 publisher = {Princeton University Press},
 title = {Sharers},
 year = {1984}
}