Viewing Event Record: Tarlton's play of 'The Seven Deadly Sins' is performed in London and Oxford: Harvey

Abstract

Gabriel Harvey in his 'Four Letters and Certain Sonnet' written against Robert Greene and Thomas Nashe notes that Nashe wrote his 'Pierce Penniless' 'according to the stile, and tenour of Tarletons president, his famous play of the seauen Deadly sinnes which . . . I might haue seene in London: and was verie gently inuited thereunto at Oxford, by Tarleton himselfe[.]'

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From: 1592 (Source of claim: original)

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From: before 1589 (Source of claim: externally supplied)

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