A Short View of the Immorality of the English Stage
by Jeremy Collier
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About this eBook
- Author
- Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726
- Title
- A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage Together with the Sense of Antiquity on this Argument
- Credits
- Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
- Subject
- Theater -- England -- Early works to 1800
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 44645
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44645
- Release Date
- January 11, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.PREFACE — CONTENTS. — THE INTRODUCTION. — CHAP . I.
- 2.The Immodesty of the Stage. — CHAP . II.
- 3.The Profaness of the Stage. — CHAP . III.
- 4.The Clergy abused by the Stage. — CHAP . IV.
- 5.The Stage-Poets make their Principal Persons Vitious, and reward them at the End of the Play. — CHAP . V.
- 6.Remarks upon Amphytrion, King Arthur, Don Quixote, and the Relapse. — SECTION I. — SECT . II. — Remarks upon Don Quixot, &c. — SECT . III. — Remarks upon the Relapse. — CHAP . VI.
- 7.The Opinion of Paganism, of the Church, and State, concerning the Stage. — NOTES (In margin in the Original).
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