Perkin

• Perkin Warbeck: (c. 1474 – 23 November 1499) pretender to the English throne; obtained Irish support
  • His story was turned into a history play by John Ford. T. S. Eliot called Perkin Warbeck "unquestionably Ford's highest achievement...one of the very best historical plays outside of the works of Shakespeare in the whole of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama." The quarto contained a dedication by Ford to William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle. On the title page is Ford's motto, "Fide Honor," and it states that the play was performed at the Phoenix or Cockpit Theatre.