Viewing Event Record: Carew insults the players of the Red Bull and Cockpit as an 'untuned kennel'

Abstract

Thomas Carew contributes a prefatory poem to the 1630 quarto of William d'Avenant's 'The Just Italian' in which he insults the players of the Red Bull and Cockpit as an 'untuned kennel,' 'where not a tong . . . can a line repeat of serious sense: but like lips, meet like meat.' He compares these troupes unfavourably to the King's Men at the Blackfriars who produce the higher quality plays of Francis Beaumont and Ben Jonson.

Date Event Recorded

Date

From: 1630 (Source of claim: original)

Date Event Happened

Date

From: before 10 January 1630 (Source of claim: externally supplied)

Date notes

Notes

Event happened date derived from Stationers' Register entry.

Venues

Name

Red Bull

Name

Phoenix/Cockpit

Name

Blackfriars (II)

Name

Globe (II)

Troupes

Name

King's Men (1625-1642)

Name

Red Bull Company (c1625-1642)

Name

Queen Henrietta Maria's Men

People