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A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage / Together with the Sense of Antiquity on this Argument

Jeremy Collier

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 195 pages

A polemical essay from 1698 in which Jeremy Collier attacks the Restoration stage for immorality, profanity and indecency. Drawing on antiquity and Christian moral argument, it became a central document in debates over theatre, censorship and public morals. Worth listening as a vigorous example of late seventeenth-century controversy.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. PREFACE
  2. CONTENTS.
  3. THE INTRODUCTION.
  4. CHAP. I.
  5. CHAP. II.
  6. CHAP. III.
  7. CHAP. IV.
  8. CHAP. V.
  9. CHAP. VI.
  10. NOTES (In margin in the Original).

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