ABSTRACT
In 1605, the Queen's Revels Children performed Eastward Hal at Blackfriars. The authors, Jonson, Chapman, and Marston, were soon apprehended and imprisoned, and for a time it was rumored that Jonson would suffer the loss of his nose and ears for satire directed against the king and his Scottish knights. A year later John Day's The Isle of Gulls resulted in similar charges, and again "sundry were committed to Bridewell."l When again at large, the company was reorganized as the Children of Blackfriars, but they ran into difficulty once more in 1608, this time managing to offend not only the king but the visiting French ambassador as well. A further round of imprisonments was one of the results; another was the dissolution of the company one of the last of the boys' troupes-by order of James himself.
