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Theater - England - Early works to 1800

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    A complete history of the English stage. ... by Mr. Dibdin. ...

    Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814. | Date: [1800]
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    The evil and danger of stage-plays: shewing their natural tendency to destroy religion, and introduce a general corruption of manners; in almost two thousand instances, taken from the plays of the two last years, against all the Methods lately used for their Reformation. By Arthur Bedford, M. A. Chaplain to his Grace Wriothesly Duke of Bedford; and Vicar of Temple in the City of Bristol.

    Bedford, Arthur, 1668-1745. | Date: 1706
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    The theatre, by Sir Richard Steele; to which are added, The anti-theatre; the character of Sir John Edgar; Steele's case with the Lord Chamberlain the Crisis of Property, with the Sequel, Two Pasquins, &c. &c. Illustrated with literary and historical anecdotes by John Nichols.

    Steele, Richard, Sir, 1672-1729. | Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]
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    The literary museum; or, ancient and modern repository. Comprising scarce and curious tracts, poetry, biography and criticism.

    | Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]
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    The stage the high road to hell: being an essay on the pernicious nature of theatrical entertainments; shewing them to be at once inconsistent with religion, and subversive of morality. ...

    | Date: [1767]
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