Shakespeare's Theater: A SourcebookISBN: 978-1-4051-1193-5
Hardcover
392 pages
January 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.