Entertainers 'on the Vagabond Fringe': Jugglers in Tudor and Stuart England

In Tudor and Stuart England performers (either players or fringe entertainers), vagrant and criminals were associated by the law as they were in their daily activities. My purpose in this essay is to throw some light on certain aspects of marginal performance practices in those times. In order to do this, I will focus my attention on jugglers and on the complex social and cultural network of which they were part