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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