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The Isle of Dogs (play)
''The Isle of Dogs'' is a play by Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson which was performed in 1597. It was immediately suppressed, and no copy of it is known to exist.
==The Play==
The play was performed, probably by Pembroke's Men, at the Swan Theatre in Bankside in July or August, 1597. A satirical comedy, it was reported to the authorities as a "lewd plaie" full of seditious and "slanderous matter". While existing records do not indicate what gave offence, a reference in ''The Returne from Parnassus (II)'' suggests that the Queen herself was satirised. Other evidence suggests that Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham may have been the target.
The Isle of Dogs is a location in London on the opposite bank of the Thames to Greenwich, home of a royal palace, Placentia, where indeed the Privy Council met. It was also believed to be where the queen kennelled her dogs, hence the name. David Riggs suggests that the satire might have been related to portrayal of the queen's councillors as lapdogs.〔David Riggs, ''Ben Jonson: A Life'', Harvard University Press, 1989, p.32.〕 However, the title alone does not indicate the play's content, since this area was also known as an unhealthy swamp where river sewage would accumulate. The Isle is also mentioned in ''Eastward Hoe'' (1605), another play for which Jonson was arrested. Nashe also referred to the location in ''Summer's Last Will and Testament'': "Here's a coyle about dogges without wit. If I had thought the ship of fooles would have stayed to take in fresh water at the Ile of dogges I would have furnished it with a whole kennel of collections to the purpose."
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