Shakespeare's Theater A Sourcebook [Paperback]

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• 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.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Timeline.

Selected Bibliography.

Timeline of Theater History and Writings.

On works cited.

1. John Northbrooke, A Treatise Against Dicing, Dancing, Plays, and Interludes, with Other Idle Pastimes (1577).

2. Stephen Gosson, The School of Abuse (1579).

3. Stephen Gosson, Apology for the School of Abuse (1579).

4. Thomas Lodge, A Defense of Poetry, Music, and Stage Plays (1579).

5. Anglo-phile Eutheo [Anthony Munday], A Second and Third Blast of Retreat from Plays and Theaters (1580).