A treatise against dicing, dancing, plays, and interludes. With other idle pastimes.

Abstract

Although dramatic performances in England had been incidentally condemned in several anterior pro- ductions, the tract now reprinted is the earliest, sepa- rate, and systematic attack upon them.It therefore forms the first of the series of publications of the kind, which from time to time will be presented to the members of the Shakespeare Society, because such works are importantly illustrative of the condition and history of the stage, and of the nature and character of the pieces exhibited upon it, only a few years before our great dramatist joined a theatrical company in London.It will be remarked that the title-page is without date ; but it was entered at Stationers' Hall

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