“True it is that my plays are not exposed unto the world in volumes, to bear the title of works (as others).”

A modest refusal to package plays as monumental collected Works · Address to the Reader, The English Traveller

• Books
• Modesty
• Writers

“He that denies then theatres should be, he may as well deny a world to me.”

Defence of the stage as inseparable from the world itself · An Apology for Actors, The Author to his Booke, 1612

• Defence
• Theatre
• World

“Playing is an ornament to the city, which strangers of all nations repairing hither report of in their countries.”

London's stages presented as a civic attraction to visitors · An Apology for Actors, 1612

• City
• Culture
• Theatre