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Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2004
ISBN
1405111933, 9781405111942, 1405111941, 9781405111935, 9780470752968
LCC
PR3095 .S523 2004
Open Library ID
OL3675265M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2166658 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
387\387
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Shakespeare’s Theater: A Sourcebook brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater. A collection of the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater. Includes attacks on the stage by moralists, defences by actors and playwrights, letters by magistrates, mayors and aldermen of London, and extracts from legislation. Demonstrates just how heated debates about the theater became in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. A general introduction and short prefaces to each piece situate the writers and debates in the literary, social, political and religious history of the time. Brings together in one volume texts that would otherwise be hard to locate. Student-friendly - uses modern spelling and includes vocabulary glosses and annotation.

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