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Thomas Cotes (fl. 1620-1641)

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Type of entity: Person

Name: Thomas Cotes

Date of birth: 1620-1641

Source of information: Special Collections

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BC Lt/PRY: 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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Strong Room Engl. fol. 1637/SCA: Lexicon graeco-latinum novum : in quo ex primitivorum & simplicium fontibus derivata atque composita... breviter & dilucidè deducuntur, cui appendix est exactissimus graeci idiomatis index