Shakespeare's Theater
Subtitle: A Sourcebook
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: January 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781405111942
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; Theatre, drama; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; Literary Criticism; To 1625; Drama; Plays / Drama; Sources; England; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Shakespeare; Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism; SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, 1564-1616_STAGE HISTORY; THEATER_GREAT BRITAIN_HISTORY; 17th century; Theater; 1564-1616; 16th century; History; Shakespeare, William,; Stage history
First sentence: When the preacher John Northbrooke wrote A Treatise Against Dicing, Dancing, Plays, and Interludes, with Other Idle Pastimes in 1577, he became the author of the first published work attacking the theater in England.