Our Old Actors (Classic Reprint)Fb&c Limited, 29 thg 1, 2018 - 472 trang Excerpt from Our Old Actors Closing of the theatres by the Puritans - Persecution of the players. IN England, as in France, plays founded upon Scriptural stories or on the lives of the saints were the earliest forms of dramatic representation. These were generally performed in the churches by monks and parish clerks. About the time of Henry VI. A new sort of entertainment came into vogue called The Morality, ' an allegory of the passions, the principal personage of which, The Vice, ' a witty attendant of the Devil, was afterwards developed into that indispensable character of the Elizabethan drama, the clown. In consequence of the profanity and indecency of these exhibitions, Bishop Bonner in 1542 issued a mandate in which he forbade any ecclesiastic henceforth appearing upon the public stage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
