About this Book

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.