A second and third blast of retrait from plaies and theaters
By: by Anthony Munday. With a pref. for the Garland ed. by Arthur Freeman.
Contributors: Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.; Gosson, Stephen, 1554-1624.
Series: The English stage: attack and defense; 1577-1730
Publisher: Garland Pub.; Garland Publishing
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Theater -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Early works to 1800.; Theater -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Facsimile reprint.
Original t.p. reads: A second and third blast of retrait from plaies and theaters: the one whereof was sounded by a reuerend Byshop dead long since; the other by a worshipful and zealous gentleman now alive; one showing the filthines of plaies in times past; the other the abhomination of theaters in the time present ... Set forth by Anglo-phile Eutheo ... Allowed by authority, 1580.
"The second blast" is a translation of Book 6 of De gubernatione Dei by Salvianus.
"The first blast" is S. Gosson's The school of abuse.