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
by [Collier, Stephen Gosson, John P. (John Payne)] (ed.) [Collier
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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.
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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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