collection of the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobeantexts on the morality of the theater.Includes attacks on the stage by moralists, defences by actorsand playwrights, letters by magistrates, mayors and aldermen ofLondon, and extracts from legislation.Demonstrates just how heated debates about the theater becamein the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.A general introduction and short prefaces to each piece situatethe writers and debates in the literary, social, political andreligious history of the time.Brings together in one volume texts that would otherwise behard to locate.Student-friendly - uses modern spelling and includes vocabularyglosses and annotation.

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