Viewing Event Record: A tourist goes to Paris Garden to see a bear-baiting, but instead must suffer a play

Abstract

The comic 'North Country Song' is told from the point of view of a visitor to London. He is enraged to find that the day he visits Paris Garden [the Hope], that a play is slated for performance, rather than a bear-baiting, '[a]nd in Hunkes his house a crue of Players.'

Date Event Recorded

Date
From: 1656 (Source of claim: original)

Date Event Happened

Date
From: after 1614 To: before 1642 (Source of claim: externally supplied)

Venues

Name
Paris Garden
Name
Bear Garden
Name
Hope

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Event Type

  • bear-baiting
  • performance
  • playhouse context