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PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

ISBN-101405111941

ISBN-139781405111942

eBay Product ID (ePID)5978504

Product Key Features

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameShakespeare's Theater : a Sourcebook

Publication Year2004

SubjectTheater / History & Criticism, Shakespeare

TypeTextbook

AuthorTanya Pollard

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Performing Arts

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight20.5 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2003-011037

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsTanya Pollard's anthology usefully brings together in a single volume modernized, annotated selections from many writers who participated in the lively debate about the nature and morality of the theater in late 16th and early 17th century England. [...] Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook is an excellent resource for students and a fine ancillary text for university-level courses on Shakespeare or English Renaissance drama." Katharine Eisaman Maus, James Branch Cabell Professor of English, University of VirginiaThis wonderful collection of polemical documents shows early modern minds wrestling with the very concept of theatrical representation. A provocative and supremely valuable resource book." Laurie Maguire, Magdalen College, OxfordPollard has performed a most valuable service to Shakespearian studies and to our knowledge of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatrical world by collecting them together in Shakespeare's Theatre: A Sourcebook. ... recommended for all libraries colecting materials in Shakespeare, the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, English literature, history and culture." Reference Reviews, "Tanya Pollard's anthology usefully brings together in a single volume modernized, annotated selections from many writers who participated in the lively debate about the nature and morality of the theater in late 16th and early 17th century England. [...] Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook is an excellent resource for students and a fine ancillary text for university-level courses on Shakespeare or English Renaissance drama." Katharine Eisaman Maus, James Branch Cabell Professor of English, University of Virginia "This wonderful collection of polemical documents shows early modern minds wrestling with the very concept of theatrical representation. A provocative and supremely valuable resource book." Laurie Maguire , Magdalen College, Oxford "Pollard has performed a most valuable service to Shakespearian studies and to our knowledge of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatrical world by collecting them together in Shakespeare's Theatre: A Sourcebook . ... recommended for all libraries colecting materials in Shakespeare, the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, English literature, history and culture." Reference Reviews, "Tanya Pollard's anthology usefully brings together in a single volume modernized, annotated selections from many writers who participated in the lively debate about the nature and morality of the theater in late 16th and early 17th century England. [...] Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook is an excellent resource for students and a fine ancillary text for university-level courses on Shakespeare or English Renaissance drama." Katharine Eisaman Maus, James Branch Cabell Professor of English, University of Virginia"This wonderful collection of polemical documents shows early modern minds wrestling with the very concept of theatrical representation. A provocative and supremely valuable resource book." Laurie Maguire, Magdalen College, Oxford"Pollard has performed a most valuable service to Shakespearian studies and to our knowledge of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatrical world by collecting them together in Shakespeare's Theatre: A Sourcebook. ... recommended for all libraries colecting materials in Shakespeare, the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, English literature, history and culture." Reference Reviews

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal822.33

Table Of ContentPlates viii Acknowledgments ix Introduction x Select Bibliography xxvi Timeline of Theater History and Writings xxviii On Works Cited xxxi 1 A Treatise Against Dicing, dancing, Plays and Interludes with Other Idle Pastimes (1577) 1 John Northbrooke 2 The School of Abuse (1579) 19 Stephen Gosson 3 An Apology of the School of Abuse (1579) 34 Stephen Gosson 4 A Reply to Stephen Gosson's School Abuse, in Defence of Poetry, Music and Stage Plays (1579) 37 Thomas Lodge 5 A Second and Third Blast of Retreat from Plays and Theaters (1580) 62 Anthony Munday 6 Plays Confuted in Five Actions (1582) 84 Stephen Gosson 7 Anatomy of Abuses (1583) 115 Philip Stubbes 8 A Mirror of Monsters (1587) 124 William Rankins 9 The Art of English Poesy (1589) 135 George Puttenham 10 An Apology for Poetry (1595) 146 Philip Sidney 11 The Theatre of God's Judgements (1597) 166 Thomas Beard 12 The Overthrow of Stage-Plays (1599) 170 John Rainolds 13 Letter to Dr. John Rainolds (1592) 179 William Gager 14 Virtue's Commonwealth (1603) 188 Henry Crosse 15 Preface to Volpone (1607) 198 Ben Jonson 16 The Gull's Horn Book (1609) 206 Thomas Dekker 17 An Apology for Actors (1612) 213 Thomas Heywood 18 A Refutation of the Apology for Actors (1615) 255 I. G. [John Greene] 19 Letter to Revd. Mr. Sutton (1616) 274 Nathan Field 20 Histriomastix: The Players's Scourge (1633) 279 William Prynne 21 Discoveries (1641) 297 Ben Jonson 22 Legal Acts and Correspondence Pertaining to the Theater 301 Index 337

SynopsisA collection of the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater. Includes attacks on the stage by moralists, defences by actors and playwrights, letters by magistrates, mayors and aldermen of London, and extracts from legislation., Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater. A collection of the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater. Includes attacks on the stage by moralists, defences by actors and playwrights, letters by magistrates, mayors and aldermen of London, and extracts from legislation. Demonstrates just how heated debates about the theater became in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. A general introduction and short prefaces to each piece situate the writers and debates in the literary, social, political and religious history of the time. Brings together in one volume texts that would otherwise be hard to locate. Student-friendly - uses modern spelling and includes vocabulary glosses and annotation., As the popularity of the theater exploded in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, so debates about its effects on audiences grew more and more heated. Shakespeare s Theater: A Sourcebook brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the theater. They include attacks on the stage by moralists, defenses by actors and playwrights, letters by magistrates, mayors and aldermen of London, and extracts from legislation. Many of these texts are made widely available here for the first time.A general introduction and short prefaces to each piece situate the writers and debates in the literary, social, political, and religious history of the time. Students will also welcome the use of modern spelling and the inclusion of vocabulary glosses and annotation.

LC Classification NumberPR3095.S523 2004