Project Gutenberg 2014-01-11 Public domain in the USA. 343 Collier, Jeremy 1650 1726 A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage Together with the Sense of Antiquity on this Argument Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage" by Jeremy Collier is a critical work written in the late 17th century. The book serves as a rigorous examination and condemnation of the perceived moral failings and vulgarity present in English theatre of the time. Collier aims to highlight how the stage contributes to the corruption of society by promoting immorality and lewdness, undermining virtue and religious values. The opening portion of the book presents Collier's firm stance against the English theatre, focusing on its role in debauching the morals of the audience. He argues that playwrights intentionally employ indecent language and themes, thereby encouraging lewdness and diminishing the moral fabric of society. Collier offers a critique of specific characters and plays, illustrating how they exemplify these corrupting influences. He contends that, unlike classical playwrights who approached themes of love and morality with decorum, modern English plays are rife with obscenity, suggesting that this trend not only undermines public decency but also misleads the audience about virtue itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/44645/44645-h/images/cover.jpg en Theater -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Early works to 1800 Theater -- England -- Early works to 1800 PN Text Browsing: History - British Browsing: Literature 580096 580105 2024-09-18T17:17:19.528686 2023-09-19T12:42:26.729955 text/html text/html 569548 2014-01-11T14:26:16 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 430751 2014-01-11T14:29:02 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 465937 2024-09-18T17:17:33.726120 application/epub+zip 473155 2024-09-18T17:17:22.344710 application/epub+zip 343030 2024-09-18T17:17:20.851708 application/epub+zip 868843 2024-09-18T17:17:40.613087 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 730414 2024-09-18T17:17:31.780158 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 693112 2022-09-20T11:26:47.016523 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 399171 399070 2024-09-18T17:17:16.808725 2023-09-19T12:42:24.202927 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 398851 2014-01-11T14:26:16 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 158586 2014-01-11T14:29:02 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 398972 2014-01-11T14:27:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 158441 2014-01-11T14:29:02 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20131 2024-09-18T17:17:40.788077 application/rdf+xml 22065 2024-09-18T17:17:21.102695 image/jpeg 3417 2024-09-18T17:17:20.979675 image/jpeg 475437 2024-09-18T17:17:19.582687 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog