Viewing Event Record: Bills are used to advertise plays: Rankins

Abstract

Williams Rankins writes in his anti-theatrical tract 'A Mirror of Monsters' that '[p]layers by sticking of their bills in Londo[n], defile the streetes with their infectious filthines.'

Date Event Recorded

Date
From: 1587 (Source of claim: original)

Date Event Happened

Date
From: 1587 (Source of claim: original)

Venues

Name
Curtain
Name
Theatre

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Event Type

  • anti-theatrical comment
  • cultural context
  • playhouse business
  • playhouse context