The English Drama Purified, Vol. 3

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Excerpt from The English Drama Purified, Vol. 3: Being a Specimen of Select Plays, in Which All the Passages That Have Appeared to the Editor to Be Objectionable in Point of Morality, Are Omitted or Altered, Containing Lionel and Clarissa, the King and Miller, the Toy-Shop, Sir John CockleThere is certainly some fear lest the play should have this cheat upon village maids, and, on that account, I should consider it as a play rather for the higher classes than the lower. It must be remembered, however, that Patty, though born in a lowly sphere of life, is a woman of virtue, of great delicacy of mind, and who has had a good education, which is a most important point in one who is to be the partner for life of a man of rank. The moral might be more strongly defined, but it would be well for the great if they never made a worse choice. The play is not without its alloy of grossness. The same oh jections must be made to Mervin and Theodosia in this play, as to Eustace and Lucinda in Love in a Village, and Giles and Fanny are as objectionable as Hodge and Madge.What the dramatic critic and author has said, respect ing the introduction of a Theatrical Company into a Vil lage, is curious, and deserves most serious consideration. 'he attributes powerful effects to such a measure. Might not this be turned to a good purpose? See my Discourses on the Stage, p. 187, &c., About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.