Viewing Event Record: 'A Whip for an Ape' advises ecclesiastical authorities to let John Laneham satirize Martin Marprelate

Abstract

'A Whip for an Ape' advises ecclesiastical authorities to rely on the player John Laneham to satirize Martin Marprelate: 'And ye graue men that answere Martins mowes, / He mockes the more, and you in vaine loose times: / Leaue Apes to dogges to baite, their skins to crowes, / And let old Lanam lash him with his rimes.'

Date Event Recorded

Date
From: circa 1589 (Source of claim: transcription)

Date Event Happened

Date
From: circa 1589 (Source of claim: transcription)

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People

Name Event Role(s) Document Role(s)
Laneham, John poet player

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Event Type

  • cultural context
  • dispute
  • player context