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Parts of the audience scaffolding at Paris Garden collapsed during a Sunday bearbaiting on 13 January 1583. Five days later John Field wrote a pamphlet, soon printed, that interpreted the deaths of seven spectators and injuries of many others as a…

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In his Survey of London, Stow notes the frequency of bear and bull baiting performances 'on the Banks side, wherein be prepared scaffolds for beholders to stand upon.'

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The mock almanac 'Vox Graculi' forecasts that 'The Dogge-dayes will all this yeare rage twice a weeke, and that very furiously; but their sorest out-rage will be about the Beare-garden.'

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Sackerson in Shakespeare's 'Merry Wives of Windsor' boasts he has seen Sackerson the Bear 'loose, twenty times,' and 'taken him by the Chaine.' Women, however, he observes, 'cannot abide' such 'ill-favour'd rough things.'

The primary source (archival document) transcribed: Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair (London, 1631), sig A4v (EMLoT Primary Source 1338 ).The secondary source containing the transcription: John Payne Collier, The History of English Dramatic Poetry, vol 3…

The primary source (archival document) transcribed: Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair (London, 1631), sig A6 (EMLoT Primary Source 1338 ).The secondary source containing the transcription: John Payne Collier, The History of English Dramatic Poetry, vol 3…

The primary source (archival document) transcribed: BL, Cotton MS Vitellius F.v, f 40v (EMLoT Primary Source 1999 ).The secondary source containing the transcription: John Payne Collier, The History of English Dramatic Poetry, vol 3 (London, 1831), p…

The primary source (archival document) transcribed: BL, Harleian MS 544 (EMLoT Primary Source 2110 ).The secondary source containing the transcription: John Payne Collier, The History of English Dramatic Poetry, vol 3 (London, 1831), pp 280-1n (EMLoT…

The primary source (archival document) transcribed: BL, Lansdowne MS 37, f 8 (EMLoT Primary Source 1176 ).The secondary source containing the transcription: Malone Society, 'Dramatic Records from the Lansdowne Manuscripts,' E.K Chambers and W.W.…
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