Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Government Regulation of the Elizabethan Drama
B 1despotism, gradual extension of royal power and the overriding Of the rights of local self-government; so that finally, instead Of regulation of plays by municipal and shire authorities, we find an Officer of the King's household, the Master of the King's Revels, endowed __with absolute licensing power over plays, players, and playhouses throughout the kingdom.
Of more concrete interest is the long controversy over plays in London, with edicts and counter-edicts from the royal Coun cil and the municipal government. In miniature we see here the same con?ict as in the civil war which was soon to come.
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