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• Theater -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Theater -- Early works to 1800

• Theater -- Moral and ethical aspects -- England -- Early works to 1800

• The Actors Remonstrance, or Complaint, for the Silencing of Their Profession, and Banishment From Their Severall Play-Houses (London: Printed for Edw. Nickson, 1643) (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage: Together with the Sense of Antiquity Upon This Argument (second edition; London: Printed for S. Keble et al., 1698), by Jeremy Collier (page images at Utah)
• Wits Common Wealth, the Second Part (London: Printed by W. Stansby for R. Royston, 1634), ed. by Francis Meres (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Playes Confuted in Five Actions, by Stephen Gosson (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)
• Pierce Penilesse: His Supplication to the Divell, by Thomas Nash (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• The Schoole of Abuse, by Stephen Gosson (HTML at Renascence Editions)

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• 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) (Gutenberg text)
• Plays and Puritans, and Other Historical Essays, by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg texts)

• A Complete History of the English Stage (5 volumes; London: Printed for the author, ca. 1800), by Charles Dibdin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Actors Remonstrance, or Complaint, for the Silencing of Their Profession, and Banishment From Their Severall Play-Houses (London: Printed for Edw. Nickson, 1643) (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage: Together with the Sense of Antiquity Upon This Argument (second edition; London: Printed for S. Keble et al., 1698), by Jeremy Collier (page images at Utah)
• Wits Common Wealth, the Second Part (London: Printed by W. Stansby for R. Royston, 1634), ed. by Francis Meres (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Playes Confuted in Five Actions, by Stephen Gosson (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)
• Pierce Penilesse: His Supplication to the Divell, by Thomas Nash (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Stage, and of the Economy and Usages of the Ancient Theatres in England (Basel, Switzerland: J. J. Tourneisen, 1800), by Edmond Malone, contrib. by George Steevens
  • page images in Germany
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Dramatic Records of Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, 1623-1673 (1917), by Great Britain Office of the Revels and Henry Herbert, ed. by Joseph Quincy Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, by Colley Cibber
  • volume 1: illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • volume 2: illustrated HTML at Virginia

• The Shows, or De Spectaculis, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)