Eastward Hoe
Eastward Hoe,a comedy by G. Chapman , Jonson , and J. Marston , printed 1605 , having been previously performed by the Children of the Revels at the Blackfriars. A passage derogatory to the Scots (iii. iii. 40–7) gave offence at court, and Chapman and Jonson were imprisoned, but released on the intercession of powerful friends. The play is particularly interesting for the light it throws on London life of the time. Like Dekker's Shoemaker's Holiday , it gives a sympathetic picture of a tradesman.
The plot contrasts the careers of the virtuous and idle apprentices, Golding and Quicksilver, of the goldsmith Touchstone; and the fates of his two daughters, the modest Mildred , who marries the industrious Golding , and the immodest Gertrude who, in order to ride in her own coach, marries the penniless adventurer Sir Petronel Flash . Golding soon rises to the dignity of a deputy alderman, while Sir...
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