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• Christians and the Theater, by J. M. Buckley (page images at MOA)
• [Christian pamphlets. Vol. 5]. (s.n., 1864), by Charles LeRoy Goodell, Edward P. Goodwin, James Burrill Angell, H. Q. Butterfield, Jacob Chamberlain, Geo. F. Walker, William W. Wheildon, Jonathan Edwards, Addison Ballard, R. V. Dodge, Henry Mills, Ill.) Chicago Theological Seminary. Triennial Convention 1882 : Chicago, Ill.) Chicago Theological Seminary. Triennial Convention 1876 : Chicago, and Massachusetts Bible Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Klēros kai theatron (Typographeion Aristomenous Z. Dialēsma, 1914), by Chrēstos Androutsos (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tanz und Theaterbesuch : Je zwei freie vorträge hierüber, in vier dazu veranstalteten erbauungsstunden gehalten ... (Lutherischer Concordia-verlag, 1886), by C. F. W. Walther (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christians and the theater (Nelson & Phillips, 1875), by J. M. Buckley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A plain talk about the theater (F.H. Revell, 1882), by Herrick Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Shows, or De Spectaculis, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• Treatise wherein dicing, dauncing, vaine plaies or enterludes with other idle pastimes, etc. commonly used on the Sabboth day, are reprooved, by the authoritie of the worde of God and auncient writers (At London : Imprinted by H. Bynneman, for George Byshop, [1577?]), by John Northbrooke (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The idea of the theater in Latin Christian thought : Augustine to the fourteenth century (University of Michigan Press, 2004), by Donnalee Dox (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The idea of the theater in Latin Christian thought : Augustine to the fourteenth century (University of Michigan Press, 2004), by Donnalee Dox (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• A Voice From Richmond, and Other Addresses to Children and Youth (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, c1842), by Robert May (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Propos de the atre. La morale au the atre--Aristophane--Sophocle--The atre indien--Shakspeare--Corneille--Molie re--Racine--Racine et Sarcey. (Socie te Franc aise dI mprimerie et de Librairie, 1903), by Émile Faguet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A treatise against dicing, dancing, plays, and interludes. With other idle pastimes. (Reprinted from the Shakespeare society, 1843), by John Northbrooke and John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The moralist and the theatre; a series of articles which originally appeared in "Music and drama," embracing a brief history of the stage, its relation to the church, its influence, its present condition and needed reform. (D. Fraser & sons, 1887), by Otto Peltzer and John Fraser (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English drama and stage under the Tudor and Stuart princes, 1543-1664, illustrated by a series of documents, treatises, and poems. With a preface and index. (Printed for the Roxburghe library [by Whittingham and Wilkins], 1869), by William Carew Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les comédiens hors la loi (Calmann Lévy, 1887), by Gaston Maugras (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres sur les spectacles; avec une histoire des ouvrages pour & contre les théaters (La veuve Desaint [etc.], 1780), by Charles Desprez de Boissy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare and the Bible : to which is added prayers on the stage, proper and improper ; Shakespeare's use of the sacred name of Deity ; the stage viewed from a scriptural and moral point ; the old mysteries and moralities--the precursors of the English stage. (Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1876), by James Rees (page images at HathiTrust)
• The controversy between the Puritans and the stage (H. Holt, 1903), by Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The controversy between the Puritans and the stage (AMS Press, 1972), by Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The theatre. (W. S. Martien, 1840), by S. G. Winchester (page images at HathiTrust)
• The world's argument; or, Justice and the stage. A dramatic debate. (Sedwyn Pub. Co., 1887), by Frank A. Swallow (page images at HathiTrust)
• La inmoralidad del teatro moderno. (Imp. del Asilo de Huérfanos del S. C. de Jesús, 1899), by Pedro Antonio González (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theatre, in its influence upon literature, morals, and religion. (Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1839), by Robert Turnbull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Representation of the impiety and immorality of the English stage (1704) anon. and Some thoughts concerning the stage (1704) anon. (Augustan Reprint Society, 1947), by Josiah Woodward and Emmett Langdon Avery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertation svr la condemnation des théâtres. (Chez N. Pepingve, 1666), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dramatic traditions of the Dark Ages. (University of Chicago Press, 1907), by Joseph Salathiel Tunison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The relation of public amusements to public morality, especially of the theatre to the highest interests of humanity. An address, delivered at the Academy of Music, New York before "The American Dramatic Fund Society," for the benefit of the fund. (C.S. Francis, 1857), by Henry W. Bellows (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church and the stage (Trübner, 1886), by William Henry Hudson (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the stage; in which the arguments in its behalf, and those against it, are considered; and its morality, character, and effects illustrated. (Printed by D. Chalmers, and sold by W. Gracie, Berwick [etc.], 1820), by Alexander Sutor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theater und Kirche in ihrem gegenseitigen Verhältniss (Plahn Buchhandlung (L. Nitze), 1846), by Heinrich Alt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sittengeschichte des Theaters : eine Darstellung des Theaters, seiner Entwicklung und Stellung in zwei Jahrtausenden. (Verlag für Kulturforschung, 1927) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Commentatio de personis vvlgo larvis sev mascheris von der carnavals-lvst, critico, historico, morali atqve ivridico modo diligenter conscripta (apud G.M. Knochivm, 1723), by Christoph Heinrich Berger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pulpit and the stage. Four lectures (C.H. Clarke, 1878), by J. Panton Ham and Frederick Whymper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire comparée du théâtre et des moeurs en France, dès la formation de la langue. (Hachette, 1844), by Pierre Joseph Jean Baptiste Onésime Léroy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre a M. d'Alembert sur les spectacles. (Librairie Hachette, 1910), by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and L. Brunel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Della christiana moderatione del theatro libro, detto L'instanza : per supplicare a'signori superiori, che si moderi christianamente il theatro dall'oscenità, e da ogni altro eccesso nel recitare, secondo la dottrina di S. Tomaso e d'altri theologi, antichi, e moderni (Nella stamperia di Gio. Antonio Bonardi ..., 1652), by Giovanni Domenico 1583-1670 Ottonelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• A serious inquiry into the nature and effects of the stage : and a letter respecting play actors (Whiting and Watson, 1812), by John Witherspoon and Samuel Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• La mimographe, ou Idées d'une honnête-femme pour la réformation du théâtre national ... (Chez Changuion ...;, 1770), by Restif de La Bretonne and P. J. B. Nougaret (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les imaginaires, ou Lettres sur l'heresie imaginaire ... (Chez Adolphe Beyers., 1667), by Pierre Nicole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber den sittlichen Einfluss der Schaubühne (W. Wallis, 1825), by Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre à M. d'Alembert sur les spectacles : publiée avec une introduction, un sommaire, des apprendices et des notes historiques et grammaticales (Hachette, 1922), by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Jean Le Rond d' Alembert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pourquoi les pères de l'église ont condamné le théâtre de leur temps (H. Champion, 1914), by Jean-Baptiste Eriau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A voice from Richmond, and other addresses to children and youth. (American Sunday-School Union, 1842), by Robert May (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des comédiens, et du clergé; suivi de réflexions sur le mandement de monseigneur l'archevêque de Rouen ... (Chez P. Dupont, 1825), by Etienne-Félix Hénin de Cuvillers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christians and the theater. (Nelson & Phillips, 1875), by J. M. Buckley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amusements in the light of reason, history, and revelation. (Walden and Stowe;, 1882), by Samuel Milton Vernon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wie stellt sich Düsseldorf zu den Reformbestrebungen sienes Schauspielhauses? Ein Beitrag zur modernen Decadence und der Geistesfreiheit der katholischen Kirche. (M. DuMont Schauberg, 1907), by Hans Wehberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Theatrical entertainments; a premium tract (American Baptist Publication and S.S. Society, 1837), by William S. Plumer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alarum against usurers. (Printed for the Shakespeare society, 1853), by Thomas Lodge and David Laing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die moderne bühne und die sïttlichkeit. (Rehtwisch & Seeler, 1891), by Karl Friedrich Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'influence des moeurs sur la comédie : discours suivi de deux études sur les roles du Misanthrope et du Tartufe. (Dauvin et Fontaine, 1848), by Adrien Perlet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pulpit and the stage ; or, The two itinerancies. An historic, biographic, philosophic miscellany (Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1860), by Charles Booth Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
• May I go to the theatre? a discourse delivered in Baltimore, before the Society of the Church of the Savio[u]r. Sunday evening, Feb'y 5th, 1871. (Sun printing office, 1871), by John F. W. Ware (page images at HathiTrust)
• The school of Abuse [August?] 1579. And a short apologie of the schoole of abuse [November?] 1579. (A. Constable, 1902), by Stephen Gosson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Stellung des Christen zu den Schauspielen nach Tertullians Schrift De spectaculis (C. Fromme, 1897), by Paul Wolf (page images at HathiTrust)
• A practical treatise upon Christian perfection : to which is nowded, by the same author, the absolute unlawfulness of the stage entertainment fully demonstrated. ([s.n.], 1807), by William Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theater-wespen. Enthüllungen, skizzen, bilder und chargen aus dem theaterleben. Als beitrag zur erledigung der reorganisirungsfrage des theaterwesens. (R. Schlingmann, 1863), by Adolf Bertram (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theatrical amusements : with some remarks on the Rev. Henry W. Bellows' address before the Dramatic Fund Society, N.Y. (Wm. S. Young, 1857), by D. Hayes Agnew (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sports that kill (Harper & Brothers, 1875), by T. De Witt Talmage (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ethical outlook of the current drama (W. Briggs, 1902), by J. C. Speer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tanz und Theaterbesuch. Je zwei Vorträge hierüber, in vier dazu veranstalteten Erbauungsstunden gehalten... (Lutherischer Concordia Verlag, 1885), by C. F. W. Walther (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theatre : an essay upon the non-accordancy of stage-plays with the Christian profession (The Author, 1884), by Josiah W. Leeds (page images at HathiTrust)
• The truth about the stage (Wyman, 1885), by Corin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theatre : an essay upon the non-accordancy of stage-plays with the Christian profession (Hastings, 1896), by Josiah W. Leeds (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church and the theatre (Chicago, 1882), by Otto Peltzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the character, immoral, and antichristian tendency of the stage (R. Tilling, 1806), by John Styles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theatrical amusements : a discourse on the character and influence of the theater (Baker and Scribner [etc.], 1847), by Joseph P. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der kampf der geistlichkeit gegen das theater in Deutschland im 17. jahrhundert ... (1912), by Ernst Hövel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage: together with the sense of antiquity upon this argument. (Printed for S. Keble, and R. Sare, 1699), by Jeremy Collier, Seymour B. Durst, and McAlpin Collection of British History and Theology (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [A reply to Stephen Gosson's School of abuse, in defence of poetry, musick, and stage plays. (1580), by Thomas Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The anatomie of abuses (W. Pickering ;, 1836), by Phillip Stubbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theatre and Christian parents (Benziger, 1885), by Maurice Francis Egan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Absolute unlawfulness of the stage entertainment fully demonstrated (Printed for W. Baynes, 1807), by William Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• Free thoughts upon Methodists, actors, and the influence of the stage ... (Hull : Printed for the author, and J. Craggs [etc.], 1814., 1814), by Robert Mansel (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to A.H. Esq., concerning the stage (London : Printed for A. Baldwin ..., 1698), by Charles Hopkins and Anthony Hammond (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Beauty in distress as it is acted at the theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields by His Majesties servants / written by Mr. Motteux ; with a discourse of the lawfulness & unlawfulness of plays, lately written by the learned Father Caffaro, divinity-professor at Paris, sent in a letter to the author by a divine of the Church of England. (London : Printed for Daniel Brown ... and Rich. Parker ..., 1698), by Peter Anthony Motteux and Francesco Caffaro (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The stage condemn'd, and the encouragement given to the immoralities and profaneness of the theatre, by the English schools, universities and pulpits, censur'd King Charles I Sundays mask and declaration for sports and pastimes on the Sabbath, largely related and animadverted upon : the arguments of all the authors that have writ in defence of the stage against Mr. Collier, consider'd, and the sense of the fathers, councils, antient philosophers and poets, and of the Greek and Roman States, and of the first Christian Emperours concerning drama, faithfully deliver'd : together with the censure of the English state and of the several antient and modern divines of the Church of England upon the stage, and remarks on diverse late plays : as also on those presented by the two universities to King Charles I. (London : Printed for John Salusbury ..., 1698), by George Ridpath (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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