The Murder of John Lambe
Crowd Violence, Court Scandal and Popular Politics in Early Seventeenth-Century England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4777459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alastair Bellany (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 200 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-76 |
| Publication date | 2008-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Past & Present (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-2746 • E-ISSN: 1477-464X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pastj/gtn013 |
| OpenAlex | W2061593538 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
By the summer of 1628, the Fortune playhouse was one of only three open-air, public theatres still in business in London. In its heyday, before a devastating fire in the winter of 1621, the Fortune had been considered by some ‘the fairest playhouse’ in the town, and had drawn a respectable crowd;1 by 1628, five years after the reconstructed theatre had opened, the venue had perhaps begun to acquire what would become an ‘overwhelmingly plebeian’ reputation, drawing rowdy audiences that one contemporary dismissed as a rabble of ‘prentizes and apell-wyfes’.2 Situated north of the City walls on the eastern side of Golden (or Golding) Lane, in the impoverished parish of St Giles without Cripplegate, the Fortune, like other open-air theatres, offered a range of accommodation — from penny admission places among the groundlings to more expensive seats in the galleries. On a good day, perhaps three thousand people could pack themselves into the building.3
Art · Art history · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Reputation · Sociology · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2023 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |