Abstract
The extensive tour of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men in 1597 was not due to an outbreak of the plague but was instead visited upon them by their own. As the sixteenth century and the reign of Queen Elizabeth were drawing to a close, England’s playwrights were becoming bolder while keeping an eye to discretion. If Richard II was a gorgeously drawn indictment of the Queen, as Essex and his henchmen made it out to be, it was evidently subtle enough to escape official censure in performance (although, as we have seen, the deposition scene was cut from the three quartos published during Elizabeth’s lifetime). One dramatist, Thomas Nashe, clearly over-stepped the boundaries.
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Matus, I.L. (1991). Southern Travels (1597). In: Shakespeare: The Living Record. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21235-4_6
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