The School Of Abuse Containing A Pleasant Invective Against Poets Pipers Players Jesters C

Author : Stephen Gosson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330105573
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book The School of Abuse written by Stephen Gosson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The School of Abuse: Containing a Pleasant Invective Against Poets, Players, Jesters, &C Gosson was, in fact, (as appears by the registration of bis death, which will he introduced hereafter.) in his 18th year ; and the Oxford antiquary adds, that "he took one degree in arts, four years after his admission, left the university without completing that degree by determination, and went to the great city, where he was noted for his admirable penning of pastorals." Of his pastorals we know nothing; and certainly whatever Gosson has left behind him savours more of a satirical than of a rustic character. He became tutor in a family, and soon afterwards wrote at least three plays, some of which were acted: on p. 30 of the present republication he mention "Catalines Conspiracies, usually brought in at the Theatre," as "a pig of his own sow;" and he elsewhere admits himself to have been the author of a comedy called "Captain Mario," and of a moral play, which had for title "Praise at Parting." He asserts that he had been "drawn like a novice to these abuses," and he entirely abandoned them before he had completed his 25th year. The subsequent pages are full of self-reproaches for the offences he had in this respect committed. "The School of Abuse" came out in 1579; and possibly Go-Son had been led to see the error of his way by Northbrooke's "Treatise," which must then have been in the hands of the puritanical readers of such productions about a year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.