The school of abuse, containing a pleasant invective against poets, pipers, players, jesters, &c. By Stephen Gosson. With an introduction regarding the author and his works / An apology for actors, in three books
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- The school of abuse, containing a pleasant invective against poets, pipers, players, jesters, &c. By Stephen Gosson. With an introduction regarding the author and his works / An apology for actors, in three books
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- Thomas Heywood
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- 1841
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The school of abuse, containing a pleasant invective against poets, pipers, players, jesters, &c. By Stephen Gosson. With an introduction regarding the author and his works / An apology for actors, in three books
Author: Gosson, Stephen ; [Collier, John P. (John Payne)] (ed.) / Heywood, Thomas ; [Collier, John P. (John Payne)] (ed.)
Year: 1841
Original cloth. The School of Abuse 8vo. pp. xvii, 51. Prose tract attacking the stage from Stephen Gosson (1579) reprinted for the Shakespeare Society. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 372-373; II, A37. An Apology for Actors 8vo. ff. [2], pp. xvi, 66. Prose tract by Thomas Heywood (1612) defending the stage. Reprinted in 1658 by William Cartwright, with alterations, under the title of "The actor's vindication." See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 372-373; II, A38.
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