Viewing Event Record: Players of the Blackfriars answer to the High Commission regarding a performance of 'The Magnetique Lady'

Abstract

In a letter to Sir John Scudamore, newswriter John Pory reports that the players of the Blackfriars playhouse were called before a High Commission at Lambeth to be questioned about 'prophane speaches in abuse of Scripture and wholly thinges' in the performance of Ben Jonson's 'The Magnetique Lady.'

Date Event Recorded

Date
From: 17 November 1632 (Source of claim: transcription)

Date Event Happened

Date
From: before 17 November 1632 (Source of claim: transcription)

Venues

Troupes

Name
King's Men (1625-1642)

People

Name Event Role(s) Document Role(s)
Scudamore, John correspondent
Pory, John newswriter
Jonson, Benjamin playwright

Related Primary Sources

Event Type

  • company context
  • correspondence
  • cultural context
  • illicit performance
  • performance context
  • playwright context