Theater — Moral and ethical aspects -- Early works to 1800 — Audiobooks

A Treatise of Daunses, Wherin It is Shewed, That They Are as It Were Accessories and Dependants (Or Thynges Annexed) to Whoredome Where Also by the Way is Touched and Proued, That Playes Are Ioyned and Knit Togeather in a Rancke or Rowe with Them (1581)

by Anonymous

Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699)

by Thomas D'Urfey

Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage (1704); Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady (1704)

A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698)

A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage Together with the Sense of Antiquity on this Argument

by Jeremy Collier