Viewing Event Record: Poorly paid players flout sumptuary laws: Gosson

Abstract

Stephen Gosson in his anti-theatrical tract 'The School of Abuse' notes that players flout the sumptuary laws regulating the clothing different sorts of people are allowed to wear: 'the very hyerlings of some of our Players, which stand at reuersion of vi.s [six shillings], by the weeke, iet vnder Gentlemen's noses in sutes of silke[.]'

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From: 1579 (Source of claim: original)

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From: 1579 (Source of claim: original)

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  • anti-theatrical comment
  • performance context
  • player context
  • staging context