The Controversy Between the Puritans and the Stage, Issues 20-21 |
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... ridiculed him as one of the Martin Mar - Prelate zealots ; he told scandalous stories about his life ; and in his Anatomie of Absurditye , in 1590 , he referred again to Stubbes as a man able to see only evil in the arts.2 To these ...
... ridiculed him as one of the Martin Mar - Prelate zealots ; he told scandalous stories about his life ; and in his Anatomie of Absurditye , in 1590 , he referred again to Stubbes as a man able to see only evil in the arts.2 To these ...
Page 116
... ridicule on the stage . This certainly made it seem that an offensive and defensive alliance had been signed between the head of Canterbury and the London players . At any rate , the players were henceforth joined by Martin with his ...
... ridicule on the stage . This certainly made it seem that an offensive and defensive alliance had been signed between the head of Canterbury and the London players . At any rate , the players were henceforth joined by Martin with his ...
Page 120
... ridicule which the actors had been heaping on their administration , and ordered them to be more careful in their supervision.2 At the same time , the government showed firm determination to enforce throughout the country the laws ...
... ridicule which the actors had been heaping on their administration , and ordered them to be more careful in their supervision.2 At the same time , the government showed firm determination to enforce throughout the country the laws ...
Page 128
... ridicule of their opponents . It is fair , therefore , to assume that during the interim feeling against the drama advanced both in extent and in intensity . Evidences of this growth of sentiment are reflected even in the acts of the ...
... ridicule of their opponents . It is fair , therefore , to assume that during the interim feeling against the drama advanced both in extent and in intensity . Evidences of this growth of sentiment are reflected even in the acts of the ...
Page 132
... ridicule of every- thing great or holy . It seems that the players had been abusing the plantation , in anger , as Crashaw explained , because none of their number had been allowed to sail thither to the relief of over - competition at ...
... ridicule of every- thing great or holy . It seems that the players had been abusing the plantation , in anger , as Crashaw explained , because none of their number had been allowed to sail thither to the relief of over - competition at ...
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Page 243 - But deeds and language such as men do use, And persons such as Comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times. And sport with human follies, not with crimes; Except we make 'em such, by loving still Our popular errors, when we know they're ill.
Page 231 - A Confutation of monstrous and horrible Heresies, taught by HN and embraced of a number who call themselves the Familie of Love. By I. Knewstub. Imprinted in London at the three Cranes in the Vinetree, by Thomas Dawson, for Richard Sergier, 1579,
Page 174 - ... whereas Public Sports do not well agree with public Calamities, nor Public Stage-plays with the Seasons of Humiliation, this being an Exercise of sad and pious Solemnity, and the other being Spectacles of Pleasure, too commonly expressing lascivious Mirth and...
Page 19 - Not once or twice in our rough island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory : He that walks it, only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Love of self, before his journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses. Not once or twice in our fair island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory...
Page 235 - No fitter place. They are good silly people ; souls that will Be cheated without trouble. One eye is Put out with zeal, th' other with ignorance; And yet they think they're eagles.
Page 90 - Newe bookes I heare of none, but only of one,* that writing a certaine booke called The Schoole of Abuse, and dedicating it to Maister Sidney, was for hys labor scorned : if, at leaste, it be in the goodnesse of that nature to scorne.
Page 206 - She works religious petticoats,^) for flowers She'll make church-histories. Her needle doth So sanctify my cushionets: besides My smock-sleeves have such holy embroideries And are so learned, that I fear in time All my apparel will be quoted by Some pure instructor.
Page 83 - Then, these goodly pageants being done, euery mate sorts to his mate, euery one bringes another homeward of their way verye freendly, and in their secret conclaues (couertly) they play the Sodomits, or worse. And these be the fruits of Playes or Enterluds for the most part.
Page 248 - Puritan ; 1 if any, out of mere morality and civil honesty, discountenanced the abominations of those days, he was a Puritan, however he conformed to their superstitious worship ; if any showed favour to any godly honest person, kept them company, relieved them in want, or protected them against violent or unjust oppression, he was a Puritan...
Page 219 - ... were but the vaine names of commedies changde for the titles of commodities, or of playes for pleas; you should see all those grand censors, that now stile them such vanities, flock to them for the maine grace of their gravities...