{"product_id":"shakespeares-theater-9781405111935","title":"Shakespeares Theater","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShakespeare''s Theater: A Sourcebook\u003c\/i\u003e brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA collection of the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes attacks on the stage by moralists, defences by actors and playwrights, letters by magistrates, mayors and aldermen of London, and extracts from legislation.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDemonstrates just how heated debates about the theater became in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA general introduction and short prefaces to each piece situate the writers and debates in the literary, social, political and religious history of the time.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together in one volume texts that would otherwise be hard to locate.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eStudent-friendly - uses modern spelling and includes vocabulary glosses and annotation.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tanya Pollard's anthology usefully brings together in a single volume modernized, annotated selections from many writers who participated in the lively debate about the nature and morality of the theater in late 16th and early 17th century England. [...] \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent resource for students and a fine ancillary text for university-level courses on Shakespeare or English Renaissance drama.\" \u003ci\u003eKatharine Eisaman Maus, James Branch Cabell Professor of English, University of Virginia\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This wonderful collection of polemical documents shows early modern minds wrestling with the very concept of theatrical representation. A provocative and supremely valuable resource book.\" \u003ci\u003eLaurie Maguire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMagdalen College, Oxford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Pollard has performed a most valuable service to Shakespearian studies and to our knowledge of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatrical world by collecting them together in \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Theatre: A Sourcebook\u003c\/i\u003e. ... recommended for all libraries colecting materials in Shakespeare, the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, English literature, history and culture.\" \u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlates. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTimeline.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTimeline of Theater History and Writings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn works cited.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. John Northbrooke, \u003ci\u003eA Treatise Against Dicing, Dancing, Plays, and Interludes, with Other Idle Pastimes\u003c\/i\u003e (1577).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Stephen Gosson, \u003ci\u003eThe School of Abuse\u003c\/i\u003e (1579).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Stephen Gosson, \u003ci\u003eApology for the School of Abuse\u003c\/i\u003e (1579).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Thomas Lodge, \u003ci\u003eA Defense of Poetry, Music, and Stage Plays\u003c\/i\u003e (1579).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Anglo-phile Eutheo [Anthony Munday], \u003ci\u003eA Second and Third Blast of Retreat from Plays and Theaters\u003c\/i\u003e (1580).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Stephen Gosson, \u003ci\u003ePlays Confuted in Five Actions\u003c\/i\u003e (1582).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Philip Stubbes, \u003ci\u003eAnatomy of Abuses\u003c\/i\u003e (1583).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. William Rankins, \u003ci\u003eA Mirror of Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e (1587).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. George Puttenham, \u003ci\u003eThe Art of English Poesie\u003c\/i\u003e (London, 1589).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Philip Sidney, \u003ci\u003eApology for Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (1595).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Thomas Beard, \u003ci\u003eThe Theater of God’s Judgments\u003c\/i\u003e (1597).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. John Rainolds, \u003ci\u003eThe Overthrow of Stage Plays\u003c\/i\u003e (1599).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. William Gager, \u003ci\u003eLetter to Dr. John Rainolds\u003c\/i\u003e (1592).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Henry Crosse, \u003ci\u003eVirtue’s Commonwealth\u003c\/i\u003e (1603).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Thomas Dekker, \u003ci\u003eThe Gull’s Horn Book\u003c\/i\u003e (1609).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Thomas Heywood, \u003ci\u003eAn Apology for Actors\u003c\/i\u003e (1612).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. G. [John Greene], \u003ci\u003eA Refutation of the Apology for Actors\u003c\/i\u003e (1615).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Ben Jonson, \u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eVolpone\u003c\/i\u003e (1616).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Nathan Field, \u003ci\u003eLetter to Rev Mr. Sutton\u003c\/i\u003e (1616).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. William Prynne, \u003ci\u003eHistriomastix: The Player’s Scourge\u003c\/i\u003e (1633).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Ben Jonson, \u003ci\u003eTimber, or Discoveries\u003c\/i\u003e (1641).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Legal acts and correspondences pertaining to the theater.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407846482263,"sku":"9781405111935","price":109.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405111935.jpg?v=1730500724","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shakespeares-theater-9781405111935","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}