William Carew Hazlitt

The English Drama and Stage Under the Tudor and Stuart Princes 1543-1664 William Carew Hazlitt

Documents and Treatifes direftly illuftrating the early hiftory of Englifh Dramatic Poetry and of the Eng Hfh Stage, which have not hitherto been made acceflible, or of which it was thought expedient to furnifti more fcrupuloufly accurate texts than thofe previoufly given in other books. The Editor did not confider that there would be any advantage gained by including in fuch a colle Aion as the prcfcnt fuch works as Northbrooke s Treatife againft Dancing, c., Goflbn s Schoolc of A bufe, Lodge s Defence of Plays, which have been republiihed of late years, and are to be purchafed at a very cheap rate :nor could he decide on the infertion of AM irrour of Monftcrs, 1587, by W. Rankins, fince, although the lad tra Ais certainty dire Aed in large mcafure againft the Stage, the writer does not throw even an incidental or cadial light on the A ibjeA, which he leems to have been equally incapable of treating inftru Aively and entertainingly. It is true enough, that the Second and Third Blaft of Retrait from plaics and Theaters, 1580, and AS hort Treatife againft Stage Playes, 1625, are not particularly edifying ;but the latter had the merit of brevity, as its title prepares one to expeA: and the former.
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