Histrio-mastix
Subtitle: the players scourge, or, actors trag ie, divided into two parts. Wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers arguments, by the concurring authorities and resolutions of sundry texts of Scripture ... That popular stage-playes ... are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles, and most pernicious corruptions ; condemned in all ages, as intolerable mischiefes to churches, to republickes, to the manners, mindes, and soules of men. And that the profession of play-poets, of stage-players ; together with the penning, acting, and frequenting of stage-playes, are unlawfull, infamous and misbeseeming Christians. All pretences to the contrary are here likewise fully answered ; and the unlawfulnes of acting, of beholding academicall enterludes, briefly discussed ; besides sundry other particulars concerning dancing, dicing, health-drinking, &c. of which the table will informe you. By William Prynne, an vtter-barrester of Lincolnes Inne
Series: Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 1285:15.
Publisher: Printed by E[dward] A[llde, Augustine Mathewes, Thomas Cotes] and W[illiam] I[ones] 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; Early works to 1800; Moral and ethical aspects
Other titles: Players scourge, or, actors trag ie
Notes: Mathewes printed quires B-M; Cotes N-Z; Allde 2A-3Z, 3A*-3K*, and 5V to end; Jones the title page, preliminaries and 4A-5T, including a cancel for 4X2,3 (STC).

The first leaf is blank.

This state has errata on 3*4v.

Includes index.

Rare Book copy: P. 830 is misnumbered 832

STC (2nd ed.) 20464a.