 | Electronic journals - 1924 - 590 pages
...and not Derby's as has previously been supposed.13 " On May 10, 1601, ' the actors at the Curtain ' gave serious offense by representing on the stage...the Peace to examine into the case and to punish the offenders."" But Armin was not one of these offenders. As we have seen, the second edition of his Foole... | |
 | Andrew Gurr - Drama - 1996 - 330 pages
...Middlesex magistrates to suppress a play at the Curtain because it portrayed 'the persons of some gentlemen of good desert and quality that are yet alive, under...the hearers may take notice both of the matter and of the persons that are meant thereby' (ES 1.324). The 'obscure manner' of their representation probably... | |
 | Charlotte Carmichael Stopes - Great Britain - 1922 - 570 pages
...players at the Curtaine in Moorfields do represent in their interlude the persons of some gentlemen of good desert and quality that are yet alive, under obscure manner but yet in such sorte that all the hearers may take notice both of the matter and the persons that are meant thereby.... | |
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Middlesex received a letter from the Privy Council : '. . . We do understand that certain players that use to recite their plays at the Curtain in Moorfields do represent upon the stage in their interludes the persons of some gentlemen of good desert... 
