Histrio-Mastix : The players scourge, or, Actors Tragaedie, divided into two parts : wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers Arguments ... that popular stage-playes ... are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles, and most pernicious corruptions ... 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

Prynne, William, 1600-1669 · 1633 · London : Printed by E.A. and W.I. for M. Sparke · 4 pictures

Theater · Puritans

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