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Was Hugh Peters ever on the Stage?
By EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
In a pamphlet entitled *Arbitrary Government displayed to the Life, in the illegal Transactions of the late Times under the tyrannick Usurpation of Oliver Cromwell*, ed. 1690, p. 98., we are informed that Hugh Peters, after he had been expelled the University of Cambridge, went to London, and enrolled himself as player in Shakspeare's company, "in which he usually performed the part of Clown." Is there any other authority for this statement?
Topics: Historical Customs, Theatre
Locations: University of Cambridge, London