... been in preparation by its author for almost ten years prior to its final printing. Heywood states that "it represents the culmination of the Puritan attack on the Elizabethan theatre."(2). "Running to over a thousand pages, it marshals a multitude of ancient and medieval authorities against the "sin" of dramatic performance."(Heywood 2). Its Puritan theology was in any case unwelcome to the ecclesiastical ... ). Gosson, presuming on Sidney's more cultivated Puritan sympathies, dedicated his work to him. The 1911 Edition Encyclopedia says "Gosson's work occasioned Sidney's essay The Defe...

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