Shakespeare's Theater: A Source Book
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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. Content: Chapter 1 A Treatise Against Dicing, Dancing, Plays, and Interludes, with other Idle Pastimes (1577) (pages 1–18): John NorthbrookeChapter 2 The School of Abuse (1579) (pages 19–33): Stephen GossonChapter 3 An Apology of the School of Abuse (1579) (pages 34–36): Stephen GossonChapter 4 A Reply to Stephen Gosson's School of Abuse, in Defence of Poetry, Music, and Stage Plays (1579) (pages 37–61): Thomas LodgeChapter 5 A Second and Third Blast of Retreat from Plays and Theaters (1580) (pages 62–83): Anthony MundayChapter 6 Plays Confuted in Five Actions (1582) (pages 84–114): Stephen GossonChapter 7 Anatomy of Abuses (1583) (pages 115–123): Philip StubbesChapter 8 A Mirror of Monsters (1587) (pages 124–134): William RankinsChapter 9 The Art of English Poesy (1589) (pages 135–145): George PuttenhamChapter 10 An Apology For Poetry (1595) (pages 146–165): Philip SidneyChapter 11 The Theatre of God's Judgments (1597) (pages 166–169): Thomas BeardChapter 12 The Overthrow of Stage?Plays (1599) (pages 170–178): John RainoldsChapter 13 Letter to Dr. John Rainolds (1592) (pages 179–187): William GagerChapter 14 Virtue's Commonwealth (1603) (pages 188–197): Henry CrosseChapter 15 Preface to Volpone (1607) (pages 198–205): Ben JonsonChapter 16 The Gull's Horn Book (1609) (pages 206–212): Thomas DekkerChapter 17 An Apology for Actors (1612) (pages 213–254): Thomas HeywoodChapter 18 A Refutation of the Apology for Actors (1615) (pages 255–273): I. G. John GreeneChapter 19 Letter to Revd. Mr. Sutton (1616) (pages 274–278): Nathan FieldChapter 20 Histriomastix: The Player's Scourge (1633) (pages 279–298): William PrynneChapter 21 Discoveries (1641) (pages 297–300): Ben JonsonChapter 22 Legal Acts and Correspondence Pertaining to the Theater (pages 301–336):
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