Article: Shakespeare's Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England.(Book Review)

Shakespeare's Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England. By Jeffrey Knapp. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. xvi + 277 pages.

Anthony Munday's succinct observation in his A Second and Third Blast of Retrait from Plaies and Theaters (1580) echoes a wide number of antitheatrical pamphlets of the Elizabethan and Jacobean years in England and has long been held to represent a dominant view. "The temple is despised, to run unto Theaters," he writes; "the Church is emptied, the yard is filled; we leave the sacrament, to feed our adulterous eyes with the impure, & whorish sight of most filthy pastime" (qtd. in Knapp, 115). ...

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