Ptolemy

Anon. (1578)

Historical Records

Stephen Gosson, The School of Abuse (1579), 23 ([1]):

And as some of the players are farre from abuse: so some of their playes are without rebuke... Ptolome, showne at the Bull, ... very liuely discrybing howe seditious estates with their owne deuises, false friendes with their owne swoordes, and rebellious cōmons in their owne snares are ouerthrowne: neither with amorous gesture wounding the eye, nor with slouenly talke hurting the eares of the chast hearers.

Theatrical Provenance

At the Bull Inn (Gosson)

Probable Genre(s)

History (Harbage).

Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues

None known.

References to the Play

Only Gosson, above.

Critical Commentary

Under construction.

For What It's Worth

Under construction.

Works Cited

Gosson, Stephen. The School of Abuse. 1579. ed. John Payne Collier. London, 1841. Print. EEBO-TCP

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