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Title Shakespeare's theater : a sourcebook / edited by Tanya Pollard
Published Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004
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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 352 pages)
Contents A treatise against dicing, dancing, plays, and interludes, with other idle pastimes (1577) / John Northbrooke -- The school of abuse (1579) / Stephen Gosson -- An Apology of the School of Abuse (1579) / Stephen Gosson -- A reply to Stephen Gosson's School of Abuse, defence of poetry, music, and stage plays (1579) / Thomas Lodge -- A Second and Third Blast of Retreat from Plays and Theaters (1580) / Anthony Munday -- Plays confuted in five actions (1582) / Stephen Gosson -- Anatomy of abuses (1583) / Philip Stubbes -- A mirror of monsters (1587) / William Rankins -- The art of English poesy (1589) / George Puttenham -- An Apology for poetry (1595) / Philip Sidney -- The theater of God's judgments (1597) / Thomas Beard -- The overthrow of stage-plays (1599) / John Rainolds -- Letter to Dr. John Rainolds (1592) / William Gager -- Virtue's Commonwealth (1603) / Henry Crosse -- Preface to Volpone (1607) / Ben Jonson -- The gull's horn book (1609) / Thomas Dekker -- An apology for actors (1612) / Thomas Heywood -- A refutation of the apology for actors (1615) / I.G. [John Greene] -- Letter to Revd. Mr. Sutton (1616) / Nathan Field -- Histriomastix: the player's scourge (1633) / William Prynne -- Discoveries (1641) / Ben Jonson -- Legal acts and correspondences pertaining to the theater
Summary As the popularity of the theater exploded in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, so debates about its effects on audiences grew more and more heated. Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the theater. They include attacks on the stage by moralists, defenses by actors and playwrights, letters by magistrates, mayors and aldermen of London, and extracts from legislation. Many of these texts are made widely available here for the first time. 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. Students will also welcome the use of modern spelling and the inclusion of vocabulary glosses and annotation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvi-xxvii) and index
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- To 1625 -- Sources.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- England -- London -- Sources.
Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century -- Sources.
Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century -- Sources.
Genre/Form History.
Sources.
Form Electronic book
Author Pollard, Tanya.
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