Cutting Ball
"Cutting" Ball was a notorious criminal during the Elizabethan Age.[1] (His name came from a "cutpurse", a thief.)
Thomas Nashe mentions a ballad written about him, which does not survive.[2] His sister Em was the mistress of writer Robert Greene. Greene, who wrote much about the London underworld, once hired Ball as a bodyguard.[3] Ball was hanged at Tyburn.
The San Francisco experimental Cutting Ball Theatre was named after him.[4]
Sources
- ^ Will in the World. Stephen Greenblatt. W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. page 205.
- ^ Works of Thomas Nashe. Ronald Brunlees McKerrow, ed. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1910. Volume 3, Page 55. See notes.
- ^ "Robert Greene: King of the Paper Stage," Stephanie Hopkins Hughes. page 14.
- ^ About Cutting Ball Theatre, Accessed July 12, 2012
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