17 June 2013
Updated at 20:50 ET
Elizabethan child actors 'kidnapped and whipped'
Sean Coughlan
BBC News education correspondent
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Child performers on the Elizabethan stage were subjected to abduction, cruelty and violence, reveals a study by a University of Oxford academic.
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