sentences:  Histriomastix (play)
  
  Histriomastix or The Player Whipped is a late Elizabethan play, written by the satirist John Marston and acted in 1599.It was previously thought that the play was likely acted by the Children of Paul's, one of the companies of boy actors active at the time; but more recent research suggests that "Histriomastix" was performed at the 1598–9 Christmas revels of the Middle Temple.