The Three Ladies of London

The Three Ladies of London
Written byRobert Wilson (attributed)
Date premieredc. 1581
SubjectUsury, social corruption, philo-Semitism
GenreComedy, Morality play
SettingLondon, allegorical

The Three Ladies of London is an Elizabethan comedy about usury that was probably first performed in 1581; it was published in a quarto edition in both 1584 and 1592. The play is unusual and noteworthy as a philo-Semitic response to the prevailing anti-Semitism of Elizabethan drama and in contemporaneous English society more generally.

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