A10335:199
Th'overthrow of stage-plays, by the way of controversy betwixt D. Gager and D. Rainoldes…Th'overthrow of stage-playes, by the way of controversie betwixt D. Gager and D. Rainoldes…
Th'overthrow of stage-plays, by the way of controversy betwixt D. Gager and D. Rainoldes wherein all the reasons that can be made for them are notably refuted; th'objections answered, and the case so cleared and resolved, as that the judgement of any man, that is not froward and perverse, may easily be satisfied. Wherein is manifestly proved, that it is not only unlawful to be an actor, but a beholder of those vanities. Whereunto are added also and annexed in th'end certain latin letters betwixt the said Master Rainoldes, and D. Gentiles, reader of the civill law in Oxford, concerning the same matter.Th'overthrow of stage-playes, by the way of controversie betwixt D. Gager and D. Rainoldes wherein all the reasons that can be made for them are notably refuted; th'objections aunswered, and the case so cleared and resolved, as that the iudgement of any man, that is not froward and perverse, may easelie be satisfied. Wherein is manifestly proved, that it is not onely vnlawfull to bee an actor, but a beholder of those vanities. Wherevnto are added also and annexed in th'end certeine latine letters betwixt the sayed Maister Rainoldes, and D. Gentiles, reader of the civill law in Oxford, concerning the same matter.
Middelburg: printed by Richard Schilders, 1599
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Letter: ALBERICO GENTILI, I. C. professori regio, 10. Rainoldus S.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
ALBERICO GENTILI, I. C. professori regio, 10. Rainoldus S.
Qvae duo per epistolam, erudite Gentilis, à me videris petere, ea tibi lubens ambo concedo: alterum, ne aegrè feram commentarium à te in lucem editum, quimeam sententiam de Samuele pythonissae, & histrionibus oppugnet; alterum, ut literas chartasque tuas sic accipiam, ne me in opere, quod aggredior, vel tantillum morentur. Cur enim ego tibi magis irascar, quod de Samuele adversus aAugustinum, aliosque theologos à bme citatos disputes; aut quaestionem do histrionibus publicè tractâris antea quàm ego de iis cum altero controversarer: quàm tu succenseas mihi, quòd probationes opinions tuae à cBellarmino propositas jam pridem convellerim; & à pestibus scenicorum spectaculisque theatralibus dnostros dehortatus sim, prius quàm tu cathedram istam, ex qua ludios laudas, occupares. Nihil autem esse quamobrē me chartae tuae remorentur, verissimo colligis argumento: Neque enim tanti sunt, inquis. Huc accedit, quod actum agere vetamur proverbio. Et ego, in meis adversus Bellarminum de Samuele praelectionibus, rationes omnes, quibus econtendis Samuelem ipsum à pythonissa evocatum, satis superque refutavi. Binis porrò literis, quas ad familiarem tuum de ludis ludionibusque, uti scis, scripsi, ea quae ex Platone, Aristotele, Tertulliano, Augustino, Aquinate, aliisque citas, aut falsò, aut frustra urgeri, planum feci. Quin & ipse, quum fabularum, quales Terentianae sunt, verbis factisque inhonestis & improbis aspersae, actors pronuntias jure improbari, sententiam meam astruis. Nam Ulysses redux, Hippolytus, & Rivales (de quibus amici tui Momus hanc quae nobis est litem excitavit) non minus illis vitiis laborant, quàm nonnullae, immò Rivals multo magis, quàm ulla, Terentii. Itaque licet quaedam