Viewing Event Record: Female french players perform at the Blackfriars

Abstract

Thomas Brande writes to an undisclosed recipient about the scandalous performance at the Blackfriars by a troupe of French female players. Freeman and Freeman, 'John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century,' pp 194–5, identify the record as a forgery.

Date Event Recorded

Date
From: 1629 (Source of claim: undefined)

Date Event Happened

Date
From: 1629 (Source of claim: transcription)

Feast

Name
Michaelmas (Source of claim: transcription)

Venues

Name
Blackfriars (II)

People

Name Event Role(s) Document Role(s)
Brande, Thomas correspondent

Event Type

  • forgery
  • performance context
  • playhouse context