A DEFENCE

OF

THE DRAMA,

CONTAINING

MANSEL'S FREE THOUGHTS,

EXTRACTS

From the most Celebrated Writers,

AND

A DISCOURSE

- on the

Lawfulness & Unlawfulness

OF PLAYS,

BY THE CELEBRATED

FATHER CAFFARO,

Divinity Professor at Paris.

"Nothing can more strongly prove the importance of Dramatic amuse-
ments, than the opposite opinions entertained on the subject.-Opinions that
have uniformly run like parallel lines for centuries, unbending and with-
out the smallest inclination to converge; From a reflecting mind this view
of it alone must claim the most serious investigation.”

NEW-YORK.

PUBLISHED BY GEORGE CHAMPLEY,
196 BROADWAY.

1826.

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