Shakespeare's Theater by Tanya Pollard - 9781405111935

Shakespeare's TheaterA Sourcebook\nAuthor(s): Tanya Pollard\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9781405111935, 978-1405111935\nSynopsis\nShakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater.\n\nA collection of the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater.\nIncludes attacks on the stage by moralists, defences by actors and playwrights, letters by magistrates, mayors and aldermen of London, and extracts from legislation.\nDemonstrates just how heated debates about the theater became in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.\nA general introduction and short prefaces to each piece situate the writers and debates in the literary, social, political and religious history of the time.\nBrings together in one volume texts that would otherwise be hard to locate.\nStudent-friendly.