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