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William Rankins is best known for his strident denunciation of the theater in A Mirrour of Monsters (1587). His career as a pamphleteer was marked by moralistic tirades. Like A Mirrour of Monsters’s concern with theater-goers transformed by the spectacle of a play, The English ape worries over the transformation of Englishmen who adopt foreign fashions or manners.
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© 2007 Ania Loomba and Jonathan Burton
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Loomba, A., Burton, J. (2007). William Rankins (fl. 1587–1601). In: Loomba, A., Burton, J. (eds) Race in Early Modern England. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230607330_41
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