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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

by Jeremy Collier

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A scathing critique exposes how the English stage corrupts virtue by promoting vice, lewdness, and irreverence, challenging the morality and purpose of contemporary plays. Dive into a fierce argument against theatrical immorality and its impact on society.

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10 chapters in all. The first chapter is free to read with no account.

02CONTENTS.
03THE INTRODUCTION.
04The Immodesty of the Stage.
05The Profaness of the Stage.
06The Clergy abused by the Stage.
07The Stage-Poets make their Principal Persons Vitious, and reward them at the End of the…
08Remarks upon Amphytrion, King Arthur, Don Quixote, and the Relapse.
09The Opinion of Paganism, of the Church, and State, concerning the Stage.
10NOTES (In margin in the Original).

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