Got home from Kalamazoo last night at about 11:30 or thereabouts. Will post more about it when I finish this confounded Shakespeare paper and get grades submitted for my students
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No, though he's also a Puritan. ;) William Prynne is probably best known as the author of Histriomastix, an overblown and ferocious attack on the public theater. It actually got him in a substantial amount of trouble because of its attacks on courtly culture (hence the reference to ear-cropping).
Incidentally, the full title of Histriomastix is:
Histriomastix, the Players Scourge, or Actors Tragaedie, Divided into Two Parts. Wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers Arguments, by the concurring Authorities and Resolutions of sundry texts of Scripture; of the whole Primitive Church, both under the Law and Gospell; of 55 Synodes and Councels; of 71 Fathers and Christian Writers, before the yeare of our Lord 1200; of above 150 foraigne and domestique Protestant and Popish Authors, since; of 40 Heathen Philosophers, Historians, Poets; of many Heathen, many Christian Nations, Republiques, Emperors, Princes, Magistrates; of sundry Apostolicall, Canonicall, Imperiall Constitutions; and of our owne English Statutes, Magistrates,
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Fascinating. Sounds worse than "Pilgrim's Progress". I like the phrase, though, "The Pompes of the Devill." They're down the hall from the pimps of the devil.
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::blinks rapidly:: Related to Hester?
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Incidentally, the full title of Histriomastix is:
Histriomastix, the Players Scourge, or Actors Tragaedie, Divided into Two Parts. Wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers Arguments, by the concurring Authorities and Resolutions of sundry texts of Scripture; of the whole Primitive Church, both under the Law and Gospell; of 55 Synodes and Councels; of 71 Fathers and Christian Writers, before the yeare of our Lord 1200; of above 150 foraigne and domestique Protestant and Popish Authors, since; of 40 Heathen Philosophers, Historians, Poets; of many Heathen, many Christian Nations, Republiques, Emperors, Princes, Magistrates; of sundry Apostolicall, Canonicall, Imperiall Constitutions; and of our owne English Statutes, Magistrates, ( ... )
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