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'... a spectacle and schoole for all wickednesse and vice to be learned in.' *

Anti-theatrical tracts provide contempory views of the theatres in early modern England:

Stephen Gosson, The School of Abuse

Phillip Stubbes, Anatomie of Abuses

Anti-Theatrical tracts - shorter extracts

Thomas Overbury, Characters

Another primary source of information are the play texts:

Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair extract

These documents support the Renaissance Playhouse Practise module from the MA Shakespeare Studies: Text and Playhouse.

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