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Theater - Moral and ethical aspects - Early works to 1800

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    Effects of the stage on the manners of a people: and the propriety of encouraging and establishing a virtuous theatre. By a Bostonian.

    Haliburton, William. | Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]
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    A representation of the impiety & immorality of the English stage, with reasons for putting a stop thereto: and some questions addrest to those who frequent the play-houses.

    | Date: 1704
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    A representation of the impiety and immorality of the English stage. With reasons for putting a stop thereto: and some questions addrest to those who frequent the play-house.

    | Date: 1704
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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 following extracts from the writings of pious men, of Different Denominations, and at Different Periods of Time, exposing the evil and pernicious effects of stage plays, and Other Vain Amusements, are recommended to the serious perusal of all who profess Christianity.

    | Date: M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]
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