Histrio-mastix. The players scourge, or, actors tragædie, 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
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Title: Histrio-mastix. The players scourge, or, actors tragædie, 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
Other titles: Players scourge, or, actors tragædie
Classmark: BC Lt/PRY
Creator(s): Prynne, William (1600-1669)
Additional creator(s): Allde, Edward (1628) (Other); Mathewes, Augustine (Other); Jones, William (fl. 1633) (Other); Sparke, Michael (1653) (Other); Cotes, Thomas (fl. 1620-1641) (Other)
Related people: Allde, Edward; Mathewes, Augustine; Jones, William; Sparke, Michael; Cotes, Thomas
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
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1633
Language: English
Size and medium: [36], 1-512 p., 513-68 leaves, 545-1006, [40] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/283545
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001746439705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
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.
For publishing this work both the publisher and the author were fined; Prynne was fined £5,000, degraded from his profession, and had his ears cropped while in the pillory.
Pagination slightly irregular.
Players scourge, or, actors tragædie.
Includes index.
Indexed in: STC (2nd ed.) 20464a.
Additional description
Title-page preceded by blank leaf which in this copy bears inscription recording author's presentation to Chief Justice Sir Thomas Richardson, inked over and repeated below possibly in another hand
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