Playes confuted in fiue actions : prouing that they are not to be suffred in a Christian common weale, by the waye both the Cauils of Thomas Lodge, and the Play of playes, written in their defence, and other obiections of players frendes, are truely set downe and directlye aunsweared

Alternate Title:

Playes confuted in five actions; Plays confuted in five actions

Name:

Gosson, Stephen, 1554-1624; Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1582

Language:

English

Provenance:

Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (donor); Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor); Cunliffe (bookplate); Armiger, Henry Cunliffe (bookplate)

Publisher:

Imprinted for Thomas Gosson dwelling in Pater noster row at the signe of the Sunne

Subject:

Theater -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Early works to 1800; Theater -- Moral and ethical aspects

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

122 unnumbered pages; 14 cm (8vo)

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

In part a reply to Thomas Lodge's A defence of poetry, music and stage plays.; Imprint date from STC.; Signatures: pi⁶(-pi1) A-G⁸. [Collation of first gathering uncertain; could also be pi⁴(pi4+1); stitching between 2nd and 3rd leaves.]; Manuscript notes on free endpapers.; Leaves B4 verso, line 6, and B8 recto, last line, have paste-on cancel slips.; Imperfect: closely cropped with frequent loss of running title and margin notes.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, PN2047 .G6 1582

Collection:

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania); English Renaissance in Context Collection (University of Pennsylvania)