The Society for the Reformation of Manners was founded in the Tower Hamlets area of London in 1691. Its aims were the suppression of profanity, immorality, and other lewd activities in general, and of
An account of the Societies for Reformation of Manners, 1700.
"A woman of all trades from Covent Garden". The caption on this engraving is a euphemism for a prostitute
Jeremy Collier
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Jeremy Collier was an English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian.
Society for the Reformation of Manners
…The new attitude to the theatre may be judged from the anti-theatre pamphlet Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage by Jeremy Collier, from 1698, who attacked the lack of moral instruction contained in contemporary plays, such as Love For Love (1695) by William Congreve and The Relapse…
Jeremy Collier