"Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook" brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater. This is a collection of the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater. This title includes attacks on the stage by moralists, defences by actors and playwrights, letters by magistrates, mayors and aldermen of London, and extracts from legislation. It demonstrates just how heated debates about the theater became in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It presents 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. It brings together in one volume texts that would otherwise be hard to locate. It is student-friendly - uses modern spelling and includes vocabulary glosses and annotation.

Book Information
ISBN 9781405111935
Author Tanya Pollard
Format Hardback
Page Count 392
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 766g