Viewing Event Record: The Red Bull is more elegant than the Fortune

Abstract

A prologue ascribed to a play performed by the 'late Fortune players,' recently relocated to the Red Bull, asks the audience to take note of the silk curtains, and to refrain from their usual custom of throwing tile and pear at the players. By implication, the Red Bull is a more elegant establishment, and demands a different code of behaviour.

Date Event Recorded

Date
From: 1640 (Source of claim: original)

Date Event Happened

Date
From: before 1640 (Source of claim: externally supplied)

Venues

Name
Red Bull
Name
Fortune (II)

Event Type

  • audience context
  • playhouse context
  • staging context