An Apology for Actors
Subtitle: From the Edition of 1612, Compared with That of W. Cartwright. With an introduction and notes
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: October 22, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9781402161803
Subjects: theater,moral and religious aspects,actor's vindication,apology,actor,Thomas Heywood; Performing Arts / Acting & Auditioning; Performing Arts / Theater / General
First sentence: Mooved by the sundry exclamations of many seditious sectists in this age, who, in the fatnes and ranknes of a peacable common-wealth, grow up like unsavery tufts of grasse, which, though outwardly greene and fresh to the eye, yet are they both unpleasant and unprofitable, beeing too sower for food, and too ranke for fodder; these men, like the ancient Germans, affecting no fashion but their owne, would draw other nations to bee slovens like them-selves, and, undertaking to purifie and reforme the sacred bodies of the church and common-weale (in the trew use of both which they are altogether ignorant), would but like artlesse phisitions, for experiment sake, rather minister pils to poyson the whole body, then cordials to preserve any, or the least part.