THE ENGLISH DRAMA PURIFIED: BEING A SPECIMEN OF SELECT PLAYS, IN WHICH ALL THE PASSAGES THAT HAVE APPEARED TO THE EDITOR TO BE OBJECTIONABLE IN POINT OF BY JAMES PLUMPTRE, B. D. FELLOW OF CLARE-HALL, CAMBRIDGE. It is very possible, that Plays might be so framed, and governed by such rules, as not only to be innocently diverting, but instructing and useful, to put some vices and follies out of countenance, which cannot, perhaps, be so decently reproved, nor so effectually exposed and corrected any other way. See Archbp. Tillotson's Sermon on The Evil of Corrupt Communication. VOL. II. CONTAINING THE PROVOK'D HUSBAND. THE CONSCIOUS LOVERS. THE GOOD-NATURED MAN. THE CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE. CAMBRIDGE, PRINTED BY F. HODsgn: And Sold by F. C. and J. RIVINGTON, No. 62, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, and 1812. P |