 In the mythical kingdom of Francelia, a band of robbers (the "goblins" of the title), led by their chieftain Tamoren, masquerade as devils and have the land in an uproar with their pranks.They mete out a kind of rough justice, much in the tradition of Robin Hood.As is true of many other plays of the later Caroline era, almost everything in "The Goblins" seems to have some precedent in other, earlier plays of English Renaissance theatre.