Ptolemy
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Historical Records
Stephen Gosson, The School of Abuse (1579), 23 (also available through Internet Archive, p30):
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
Under construction.
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. Internet Archive
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