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An account of the English dramatick poets, or, Some observations and remarks on the lives and writings, of all those that have publish'd either comedies, tragedies, tragi-comedies, pastorals, masques, interludes, farces, or opera's in the English tongue
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A letter to A.H. Esq., concerning the stage
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Theatrum triumphans, or, A discourse of plays shewing the lawfulness and excellent use of drammatique poesy, and vindicateing the stage from all those groundless calumnies and misrepresentations, wherewith it is aspersed ... /
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The actors remonstrance, or complaint: for the silencing of their profession, and banishment from their severall play-houses. In which is fully set downe their grievances, for their restraint; especially since stage-plays, only of all publike recreations are prohibited; the exercise at the Beares Colledge, and the motions of puppets being still in force and vigour. As it was presented in the names and behalfes of all our London comedians to the great god Phœbus-Apollo, and the nine Heliconian sisters, on the top of Pernassus, by one of the masters of requests to the muses, for this present month. And published by their command in print by the Typograph Royall of the Castalian Province· 1643.
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Theatrum redivivum or the theatre vindicated by Sir Richard Baker in answer to Mr. Pryn's Histrio-mastix: wherein his groundless assertions against stage-plays are discovered, his miss-taken allegations of the fathers manifested, as also what he calls his reasons, to be nothing but his passions.
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The schoole of abuse conteining a plesaunt [sic] inuectiue against poets, pipers, plaiers, iesters, and such like caterpillers of a co[m]monwelth; setting vp the hagge of defiance to their mischieuous exercise, [and] ouerthrowing their bulwarkes, by prophane writers, naturall reason, and common experience: a discourse as pleasaunt for gentlemen that fauour learning, as profitable for all that wyll follow virtue. By Stephan Gosson. Stud. Oxon.
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An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for, the utter suppression and abolishing of all stage-playes and interludes. With the penalties to be inflicted upon the actors and spectators, herein exprest. Die Veneris 11 Februarii. 1647. Ordered by the Lords assembled in Parliament, that this ordinance for the suppression of stage-playes, shall be forthwith printed and published. Joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.
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The antient and modern stages survey'd, or, Mr. Collier's view of the immorality and profaness of the English stage set in a true light wherein some of Mr. Collier's mistakes are rectified, and the comparative morality of the English stage is asserted upon the parallel.
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By the Queene. Forasmuche as the tyme wherein common interludes in the Englishe tongue are wont vsually to be played ... The Quenes Maiestie doth straightly forbyd al maner interludes to be playde eyther openly or priuately, except the same be notified before hande ...
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The overthrow of stage-playes, by the way of controversie betwixt D. Gager and D. Rainoldes wherein all the reasons that can be made for them are notably refuted; the objections aunswered, and the case so cleared and resolved, as that the iudgement of any man, that is not froward and perverse, may easilie bee satisfied. Wherein is manifestly proved, that it is not onely vnlawfull to bee an actor, but a beholder of those vanities. Wherevnto are added also and annexed in the end certaine latine letters betwixt the said Maister Rainoldes, and Doct, [sic] Gentiles, reader of the civill law in Oxford, concerning the same matter.
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Maxims and reflections upon plays (In answer to a discourse, Of the lawfullness and vnlawfullness of plays. Printed before a late play entituled, Beauty in distress.) Written in French by the Bp. of Meaux. And now made English. The preface by another hand.
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Two ordinances of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. One for the Lord Major of the city of London, and the Justices of the Peace for the city, and parts adjacent, to suppresse stage-playes, interludes, and common playes, and commit the actors to the gaole, to be tryed at the next sessions, to be punished as rogues. The other for setling of the major, and sheriffes, and establishing officers for the city of Chester. And also for indempnifying of the charter of the city.
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Th'overthrow of stage-playes, by the way of controversie betwixt D. Gager and D. Rainoldes wherein all the reasons that can be made for them are notably refuted; th'objections aunswered, and the case so cleared and resolved, as that the iudgement of any man, that is not froward and perverse, may easelie be satisfied. Wherein is manifestly proved, that it is not onely vnlawfull to bee an actor, but a beholder of those vanities. Wherevnto are added also and annexed in th'end certeine latine letters betwixt the sayed Maister Rainoldes, and D. Gentiles, reader of the civill law in Oxford, concerning the same matter.
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Th'overthrow of stage-playes, by the way of controversie betwixt D. Gager and D. Rainoldes wherein all the reasons that can be made for them are notably refuted; th'objections aunswered, and the case so cleared and resolved, as that the iudgement of any man, that is not froward and perverse, may easelie be satisfied. Wherein is manifestly proved, that it is not onely vnlawfull to bee an actor, but a beholder of those vanities. Wherevnto are added also and annexed in th'end certeine latine letters betwixt the sayed Maister Rainoldes, and D. Gentiles, reader of the civill law in Oxford, concerning the same matter.
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