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Title: A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The
Occasional Paper No. IX (1698)
Author: Anonymous
Release Date: November 15, 2004 [eBook #14047]
Language: English
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works, drawn largely from the collections of the University of
California's library. The two anonymous essays here were part of a
series of essays on the stage.
Series Three: Essays on the Stage
No. 1
A LETTER TO A.H. ESQ; CONCERNING THE STAGE (1698)
and
THE OCCASIONAL PAPER: NO. IX (1698)
With an Introduction by H. T. Swedenberg, Jr.
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INTRODUCTION
In the spring of 1698 the rumblings against the excesses of the
English stage broke into a roar with the publication of Jeremy
Collier's _Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English
Stage_. A wild joyousness marked Collier's attack,
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