A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage: Together with the Sense of Antiquity on this ArgumentCollier, Jeremy
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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
Collier, Jeremy
Theater -- England -- Early works to 1800; Theater -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Early works to 1800
SECT. III.
_Remarks on the_ Relapse. p. 209
_A Misnommer in the Title of the_ Play. p. 210
_The_ Moral _Vitious_. p. 211
_The_ Plot _ill Contriv'd_. p. 212
_The_ Manners _or_ Characters _out of Order_. p. 218
_The three_ Dramatick Unities _broken_. p. 228
CHAP. VI.
_The Opinion of the_ Heathen _Philosophers_, _Orators_, _and
Historians_, _concerning the_ Stage. p. 233
_The_ Stage _censured by the_ State. _This proved from the_
Constitutions _of_ Athens, Sparta, _and_ Rome. p. 240
_Farther Instances of this publick Discountentance in the_
Theodosian Code. p. 241
_In our own_ Statute Book. p. 242
_And in the late Order of the_ French King. p. 243
_An_ Order _of the Bishop of_ Arras _against_ Plays. p. 245
_The_ Stage _Condemn'd by the_ Primitive Church. p. 250
_The_ Councils _of_ Illiberis, Arles, &c. _cited_. Ibid.
_The Testimony's of the_ Fathers _against the_ Stage,
_particularly, of_ Theophilus Antiochenus. p. 252
_Of_ Tertullian. p. 253
_Of_ Clemens Alexandrinus. p. 260
_Of_ Minutius Foelix. p. 261
_Of St._ Cyprian. Ibid.
Lactantius. p. 265
_St._ Chrisostom. p. 267
_St._ Hierom. p. 272
_And St._ Augustine _cited to the same purpose_. p. 273
_The Censure of the_ Fathers, _and_ Councils _&c. applicable to
the_ English Stage. p. 276
_The Conclusion._ p. 280
_ERRATA._
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