<p><b><i>Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook</i> brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater.</b></p> <ul> <li>A collection of the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater.</li> <li>Includes attacks on the stage by moralists, defences by actors and playwrights, letters by magistrates, mayors and aldermen of London, and extracts from legislation.</li> <li>Demonstrates just how heated debates about the theater became in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Brings together in one volume texts that would otherwise be hard to locate.</li> <li>Student-friendly - uses modern spelling and includes vocabulary glosses and annotation.</li> </ul>