Histrio-Mastix.  The Players Scovrge
Subtitle: or, Actors Tragaedie, Divided into Two Parts.  Wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers Arguments, by the concurring Authorities and Resolutions of sundry texts of Scripture, of the whole Primitive Church, both under the Law and Gospell; of 55 Synodes and Councels; of 71 Fathers and Christian Writers, before the yeare of our Lord 1200 ... and of our owne English Statutes, Magistrates, Vniversities, Writers, Preachers, That popular Stage-playes ... are sinful, heathenish, lewde, ungodly Spectacles, and most pernicious Corruptions ...  And that the Profession of Play-poets, of Stage players; together with the penning, acting, and frequenting of Stage-playes, are unlawful, infamous and misbeseeming Christians ...
By: By William Prynne, an Vtter-Barrester of Lincolnes Inne ...
Publisher: Printed by E.A. and W.I. for Michael Sparke [and are to be sold at the blue Bible, in Greene Arbour, in little Old Bayly
Published: 1633
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1006
Subjects: Theater -- Moral and religious aspects; Theater -- England -- History.