<i>Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook </i>brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater. <br><ul><br><li>A collection of the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater. <br><li>Includes attacks on the stage by moralists, defences by actors and playwrights, letters by magistrates, mayors and aldermen of London, and extracts from legislation. <br><li>Demonstrates just how heated debates about the theater became in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. <br><li>A general introduction and short prefaces to each piece situate the writers and debates in the literary, social, political and religious history of the time. <br><li>Brings together in one volume texts that would otherwise be hard to locate. <br><li>Student-friendly - uses modern spelling and includes vocabulary glosses and annotation. </li></ul>