Ben Jonson's 'Bartholomew Fair' -- performed by the Lady Elizabeth's Men at the opening of the new Hope -- derides the theatre as 'as dirty as Smithfield and as stinking every whit.' The induction claims to secure a contract between the audience and the author of the play. References to Richard Tarlton, 'The Spanish Tragedy', 'Titus Andronicus', and the 'Mirror for Magistrates' all occur in the induction.