Anti-Catholic Play

Anon. (1606)

Historical Records

Ormerod, The Picture of a Papist (1606)

There is a certaine book latelye published, entituled, the double PP,* alias, the picture of a Iesuite, alias the picture of a traiterous Iesuit: which som in london haue reproted to be of my drawing: But be it known vnto you, that I am so farre from being the Author of that friuolous Pamphlet, as that J hold both it, and another that was thrown abroad vpon the stage at the late execution of the traitors, together with many other^e toyes lately printed againste the Papists, as fit for the fire as the coniuring bookes in the 19 of the Acts, verse, 19...
Oliver Ormerod, The Picture of a Papist (London, 1606), sig.A4^v

(Marginal note: "It is a very vnfit thing, that histrionicall iesters and stage players should bee suffred to writ books of such matters and in deed a greate disgrace to our Religion.")

Theatrical Provenance

Unknown. (See Critical Commentary below).

Probable Genre(s)

Topical history?

Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues

The historical records suggest this was a topical play about the Gunpowder Plot of November 1605, in which Catholic conspirators (chiefly Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy, Thomas Wintour and John Wright, though notoriously the mercenary Guy Fawkes too) attempted to blow up the English Parliament including the king.

References to the Play

Only the historical records above.

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