...the persons guilty of the late innovation, or practice of introducing personal abuse on the stage : ' Now to speake of some abuse lately crept into the quality, as an inueighing against the State, the Court, the Law, the Citty, and their gouernements, with the particularizing...

...the persons guilty of the late innovation, or practice of introducing personal abuse on the stage : ' Now to speake of some abuse lately crept into the quality, as an inueighing against the State, the Court, the Law, the Citty, and their gouernements, with the particularizing...

...and personality —as Hey wood was constrained to confess in his Apology for Actors : "Now to speak of some abuse lately crept into the quality, as an...inveighing against the state, the court, the law, the city, and their governments, with the particularizing of private men's humours, yet alive, noblemen...

...charters by yearely stage-playes, as at Manningtree in Suffolke, Kendall in the north, and others. . . . Now, to speake of some abuse lately crept into the...and others : I know it distastes many ; neither do I any way approve it, nor dare I by any meanes excuse it. The liberty which some arrogate to themselves,...

...In his Apology for Actors,* in which he speaks for the men of the profession, he writes as follows: Now to speake of some Abuse lately crept into the...Governements, with the particularizing of private Mens Humors (yet alive) Noble-men, and others, I know it distastes many; neither do I any way approve...

...and censorship. The type of play that permitted such liberties was deplored even as it flourished: Now to speake of some abuse lately crept into the...the State, the Court, the Law, the Citty, and their governments, with the particularizing of private metis humors (yet alive) Noblemen, and others. I knoew...

...from Madrid in 1625. Even Thomas Heywood's Apology for Actors admitted that some plays offended by "inveighing against the State, the Court, the Law, the Citty, and their governements," sometimes putting their criticisms in the mouths of children on the assumption that this would constitute...

...Apology for Actors, the playwright Thomas Heywood deplores "some abuse lately crept into the quality, an inveighing against the state, the court, the law, the citty, and their govemements, with the particularizing of private men's humors (yet alivel noble-men, and others." He...

...he wrote at about that time has the air of revulsion against something whose time has passed. Nowe to speake of some abuse lately crept into the quality,...the State, the Court, the Law, the Citty, and their governments, with the particularising of private mens humours (yet alive) Noble-men, & others. I knowe...