Excerpt from The English Drama Purified, Vol. 1: 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 the Gamester, Jane Shore, George Barnwell, Douglas, Lady Jane GrayTo this I shall reply only by saying, that I conceive acie-rgyman to be labouring in his caning, in endea deavouring to remove impiety and immorality, wherever it may exist, and especially from a source of such ex tensive in¿uence, that my endeavour has been to re move the world and the flesh from the Stage, and to fashion it according to the Doc-rams of Christ. I! Works are before the world let Oandour decide.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.