Shakespeare's Theater

A Sourcebook
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1194-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pollard, Tanya

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Plates viii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction x

Select Bibliography xxvi

Timeline of Theater History and Writings xxviii

On Works Cited xxxi

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

2 The School of Abuse (1579) 19
Stephen Gosson

3 An Apology of the School of Abuse (1579) 34
Stephen Gosson

4 A Reply to Stephen Gosson’s School Abuse, in Defence of Poetry, Music and Stage Plays (1579) 37
Thomas Lodge

5 A Second and Third Blast of Retreat from Plays and Theaters (1580) 62
Anthony Munday

6 Plays Confuted in Five Actions (1582) 84
Stephen Gosson

7 Anatomy of Abuses (1583) 115
Philip Stubbes

8 A Mirror of Monsters (1587) 124
William Rankins

9 The Art of English Poesy (1589) 135
George Puttenham

10 An Apology for Poetry (1595) 146
Philip Sidney

11 The Theatre of God’s Judgements (1597) 166
Thomas Beard

12 The Overthrow of Stage-Plays (1599) 170
John Rainolds

13 Letter to Dr. John Rainolds (1592) 179
William Gager

14 Virtue’s Commonwealth (1603) 188
Henry Crosse

15 Preface to Volpone (1607) 198
Ben Jonson

16 The Gull’s Horn Book (1609) 206
Thomas Dekker

17 An Apology for Actors (1612) 213
Thomas Heywood

18 A Refutation of the Apology for Actors (1615) 255
I. G. [John Greene]

19 Letter to Revd. Mr. Sutton (1616) 274
Nathan Field

20 Histriomastix: The Players’s Scourge (1633) 279
William Prynne

21 Discoveries (1641) 297
Ben Jonson

22 Legal Acts and Correspondence Pertaining to the Theater 301

Index 337

Über Autor(innen)

Tanya Pollard is Assistant Professor of English at Montclair State University in New Jersey.