Plays for Puritans
Anne Barton, 18 December 1980
Puritanism and Theatre
by Margot Heinemann.
Cambridge, 300 pp., £12.50, March 1980,0 521 22602 3 Show More
by Margot Heinemann.
Cambridge, 300 pp., £12.50, March 1980,
John Webster: Citizen and Dramatist
by M.C. Bradbrook.
Weidenfeld, 205 pp., £10, October 1980,0 297 77813 7 Show More
by M.C. Bradbrook.
Weidenfeld, 205 pp., £10, October 1980,
“... wider sense. These were the people who flocked to the Globe on nine successive days to see the King’s Men perform Middleton’s savagely anti-Catholic play A Game at Chess, making it the greatest box-office success of the period, and infuriating King James. Middleton wrote A Game at Chess in 1624, in the wake of the ... ”