Mastix

W that the great offence in Prynne's Histrio-Mastix was found, under the head "Women actors."

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

The Histrio-Mastix was, in fact, so big and so complex a thicket of confusion, that it had been licensed without examination by the licenser, who perhaps trusted that the world would have as little inclination to peruse it as he had.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

Histrio-Mastix of Prynne, its unfortunate history, 129 _et seq.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

Mastix_, or Scourge of the Stage, in which he not only denounced all stage plays, but music and dancing; and also declaimed against hunting, festival days, the celebration of Christmas, and Maypoles.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

In commonplace prose criticism, whatever form it may take, this can be done without supposed personal ill-will; for the Mastix is then only doing a duty plainly prescribed.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

Histrio-Mastix where he would have looked for that of a Hebrew Bible.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

In 1632 appeared William Prynne's noted book, _The Histrio-Mastix_, _The

A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 Henry R. Plomer 1901

Later on, in 1633, Prynne, in his _Histrio-Mastix_ (part 1, p. 208 et seq.), strongly condemned "this putting on of woman's array" by actors on the same ground, and adds that he has heard credibly reported of a scholar of Balliol College that he was violently enamoured of a boy-player.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899

That very day I dispersed my hoard of antiques, retaining only my Prynne's "Histrio-Mastix" and my Opera Quinti Horatii Flacci (8vo, Aldus, Venetiis, 1501).

The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac 1896

The late Mr. Halliwell Phillipps, in his curious privately printed volume (A Dictionary of Misprints, 1887), writes: "Such tests were really a thousandfold more necessary in editions of plays, but they are practically non-existent in the latter, the brief one which is prefixed to Dekker's Satiro-Mastix, 1602, being nearly the only example that is to be found in any that appeared during the literary career of the great dramatist."

Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893