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PC.767.056
23-30 Mar 1767:374, 381 (1/10)
[Continuation of "The Absolute Unlawfulness of the Stage-
Entertainment fully demonstrated."]
Thus it is in the reason of the thing; and if we should now
consider the state of our play-house, as it is in fact, we
should find it answering all these characters, and producing
effects suitable to its nature. But I shall forbear this
consideration, it being as unnecessary to tell the reader,
that our play-house is in fact the sink of corruption and
debauchery; that it is the general rendezvous of the most
profligate persons of both sexes; that it corrupts the air,
and turns the adjacent places into public nuisances; . . .
[1 1/2 column railing against the stage, mostly on religious
grounds.]
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