Viewing Event Record: A character in 'Holland's Leaguer' alludes to an aborted scheme to build an amphitheatre

Abstract

In Shakerly Marmion's 'Holland's Leaguer,' the scheming Agurtes refers to an old project to build an amphitheatre that threatened the other playhouses. He says he has 'plots of Architecture, and [is] erecting / New Ampitheatres, to draw the custome / From Play-houses once a week, and so pull / A curse upon my head from the poore scoundrels.'

Date Event Recorded

Date
From: 1632 (Source of claim: original)

Date Event Happened

Date
From: 30 July 1620 To: 28 September 1626 (Source of claim: externally supplied)

Event Type

  • playhouse context
  • playhouse restraint