Viewing Event Record: Curtain players are knavish, vain and sycophantic

Abstract

The 1615 pamphlet 'This World's Folly' charges that actors are 'wont to Curtain over their defects with knavish conveyances and scum off the froth of all wanton vanity to qualify the eager appetite of their slapping favourites.'

Date Event Recorded

Date
From: 1615 (Source of claim: original)

Date Event Happened

Date
From: 1615 (Source of claim: original)

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Name
Curtain

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Event Type

  • anti-theatrical comment
  • player context
  • playhouse context