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===Acts of the Privy Council===
===Acts of the Privy Council===


28 July 1597 ([http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=1202&sp=3&pg=313 Dasent, 313-13])
28 July 1597 ([http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=1202&sp=3&pg=313 Dasent, 27.313-13])
 
15 August 1597 ([http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=1202&sp=3&pg=338 Dasent, 27.338])
 
8 October 1597 ([http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=1203&sp=3&pg=33 Dasent, 28.33])




==Theatrical Provenance==
==Theatrical Provenance==


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Jonson, Ben Nashe, Thomas(1597)


Historical Records

Acts of the Privy Council

28 July 1597 (Dasent, 27.313-13)

15 August 1597 (Dasent, 27.338)

8 October 1597 (Dasent, 28.33)


Theatrical Provenance

Probable Genre(s)

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Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues

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References to the Play

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Critical Commentary

Privy Council Order

Wickham claims that the Swan "lost its license as a result of the performance of The Isle of Dogs in 1597 (vol.2, pt. 1, p. 134). [see xerox 2.1.279+ n#5 on "owners [of playhouses being brought] sharply to heel to reassure the government and admit of its entering upon a new agreement with the acting companies"; in note: companies "which acted regularly in London without inhibition after The Isle of Dogs affair of 1597 [were] the Lord Chamberlain's, another the Lord Admiral's and the third the Earl of Worcester's" (373, n. 5);

for more, see 2.part 2 xerox (whole chapter on 1597): p. 5 = "the performance ... which provoked an immediate Order from the Privy Council condemning both authors and actors to a spell in prison and authorizing the City Council to demolish all playhouses in and arund Londond." (2.2.5);

Forgeries

F. 29v (Greg, I.57)

Lent the 14 may 1597 to Jubie vppon a notte
from Nashe twentie shellinges more for the Jylle
of dogges wch he is wrytinge for the company


For What It's Worth

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Works Cited

Ingram, William. A London Life in the Brazen Age: Francis Langley, 1548-1602. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978.
Wickham, Glynne. Early English Stages, 1300 to 1660. 3 vols. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963.



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