Critics and apologists of the English theatre
Subtitle: a selection of seventeenth-century pamphlets in facsimile.
Series: Theatrum redivivum
Publisher: Johnson Reprint
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Theater -- Moral and religious aspects; Theater -- England -- History
Notes: Gift of University of Washington Theatre Library
Table of contents: title: l. The actors' remonstrance or complaint for the silencing of their profession and banishment from their several playhouses.- 2. Mr. William Prynne, his defence of stage-plays, or a retractation of a former book of his called Histrio-Mastix, - 3. The players' petition to Parliament. Manuscript and printed texts.- 4. A short treatise against stage-plays.- 5. The stage-players' complaint.- 6. Testimonies of pagans, of infidels, of Christian fathers, on the nature and tendency of theatrical amusements.