sentences:  The company seems to have run into financial problems quite early in its existence, with the result that its plays were sold off to printers —; something that theatre companies of the era generally avoided, since publication diminished the unique value of their basic assets, their plays.The company's financial state worsened, and it collapsed in litigation among its investors by 1609.Despite its short life, the King's Revels Children acquired an interesting repertory of plays in their active years.