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. By William Prynne, an vtter-barrester of Lincolnes Inne.
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- 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. By William Prynne, an vtter-barrester of Lincolnes Inne.
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- Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
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- London :: 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,
- 1633.
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- Theater -- England -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Early works to 1800.
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"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. By William Prynne, an vtter-barrester of Lincolnes Inne." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10187.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- TO HIS MVCH HONOVRED FRIENDS, THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL MASTERS OF THE BENCH of the Honourable flourishing LAVV-SOCIETY of LINCOLNES-INNE.
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TO THE RIGHT CHRISTIAN, GENE∣ROVS YOVNG GENTLEMEN-Students of the 4 famous Innes of Court, and especially those of
LINCOLNES INNE. - TO THE CHRISTIAN READER.
- Autor ad Opus suum.
- ERRATAES.
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HISTRIO-MASTIX; OR, THE ACTORS TRAGEDIE.
- THE PROLOGVE.
- The Argument, Parts, and Method, of the ensuing TRAGAEDIE.
- ACTVS 1.
- ACTVS SECVNDVS.
- ACTVS 3.
- ACTVS 4.
- ACTVS 5.
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ACTVS 6
- SCENA PRIMA.
- SCENA SECVNDA.
- SCENA TERTIA.
- SCENA QVARTA.
- SCENA QVINTA.
- SCENA SEXTA.
- SCENA SEPTIMA.
- SCENA OCTAVA.
- SCENA NONA.
- SCENA DECIMA.
- SCENA VNDECIMA.
- SCENA DVODECIMA.
- SCENA DECIMA-TERTIA.
- SCENA DECIMA-QVARTA.
- SCENA DECIMA-QVINTA.
- SCENA DECIMA-SEXTA.
- SCENA DECIMA-SEPTIMA.
- SCENA DECIMA-OCTAVA.
- SCENA DECIMA-NONA.
- SCENA VICESSIMA.
- ACTVS 7.
- ACTVS 8.
- THE SECOND PART.
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A TABLE (VVITH SOME briefe Additions) of the chiefest Passages in this Treatise: p. signifying the Page: f. the Folioes
from pag. 513. to 545. (which exceeded the Printers Computation) m. the marginall notes: if you finde f. be∣fore any pages from 545. to 568. then looke the Folioes which are overcast: if p. then the pages following. - ERRATA.