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Histriomastix: The Player's Scourge, or Actor's
Tragedy published in 1632 is a
critique of
professional theatre and actors,
written by the
Puritan author...
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Histriomastix or The
Player Whipped is a late
Elizabethan play,
written by the
satirist John
Marston and
acted in 1599. It was
previously thought that...
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disputed facts of the
matter yield a
schema like this: In his play
Histriomastix (1599),
Marston satirized Jonson’s
pride through the
character Chrisog****...
- Satire,
being prohibited in print,
breaks out in the
London theatres. In
Histriomastix,
Marston satirizes Jonson's
pride through the
character Chrisog****;...
- anti-theatrical
sentiment among Puritans, and
along with
William Prynne's
Histriomastix (1633), its text was the most
notorious attack on
theatre in English...
- of Court. Traditionally,
though without strong external attribution,
Histriomastix has been
regarded as his
first play;
performed by
either the Children...
-
rising anti-theatrical
sentiment among Puritans saw
William Prynne write Histriomastix (1633), the most
notorious attack on
theatre prior to the ban. Viewing...
-
abomination unto the Lord thy God." [KJV]
William Prynne's
encyclopedic Histriomastix: The Player's Scourge, or Actor's Tragedy,
represents the culmination...
- prostitution. A
major Puritan attack on the
theatre was
William Prynne's book
Histriomastix which marshals a
multitude of
ancient and
medieval authorities against...
-
compromise on any
aspect of his policy. Abbot's
chaplains had
licensed Histriomastix for
publication in 1630; the book
which attacked English theatre and...
