Cutting Ball
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Who is Cutting Ball?
"Cutting" Ball was a notorious criminal during the Elizabethan Age.
Thomas Nashe mentions a ballad written about him, which doesn't survive. His sister Em was the mistress of writer Robert Greene. Greene, who wrote much about the London underworld, once hired Ball as a bodyguard. Ball was hanged at Tyburn.
The San Francisco experimental Cutting Ball Theatre was named after him.
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