Benger was considered to be an ineffectual master of the revels, purely on account that a charter for his successor hadn't been drawn up at his death.
In December 1560, George Brediman, keeper of the wardrobe at Westminster, sent him cloth of gold, tinsel, "bawdkin" , and satin fabrics for "masking garments".
[4] Only eleven of his plays were performed by adult acting troupes, notably the Gray's Inn Men, and it is thought to be his group of child actors to which William Shakespeare refers in Hamlet act ii, scene ii, "an aery of children, little eyases that cry out on the top of question and are most tyrannically clapped for it: these are now the fashion; and so berattle the common stages that many wearing rapiers are afraid to goose quills and dare scarce come hither.
"[citation needed] Benger's use of boy actors from Children of Paul's, realistic three-dimensional scenery, and stage effects, were to define the courtly entertainments of Elizabeth's reign and set the standard required from the noble lords the Queen visited on her regular summer progressions.
[citation needed] Benger found the financial burden of the office too much for his family to bear and he made a special plea to the Queen as 'one of the last of the poor flock of Hatfield' to pay off his debts when he died as 'the charges for making of masks cam never to so little a sum as they do this year.