ABSTRACT
Little is known of Rankins. He wrote a book against stage-plays, ‘A Mirrour of Monsters’ (1587), and, probably, ‘The English Ape’ (1588), listing the vices Englishmen have taken over from foreign nations; he may also be the ‘Rankens’ who worked on plays for Philip Henslowe. The passage reproduced almost certainly refers to Marlowe.
