The English Drama Purified: Being a Specimen of Select Plays, in which all the passages that have appeared to the editor to be objectionable in point of morality, are omitted or altered. With prefaces and notes. By James Plumptre, B.D. Fellow of Clark-Hall, Cambridge.

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Title The English Drama Purified: Being a Specimen of Select Plays, in which all the passages that have appeared to the editor to be objectionable in point of morality, are omitted or altered. With prefaces and notes. By James Plumptre, B.D. Fellow of Clark-Hall, Cambridge.
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Signed Author Written by Edward Moore; Written by Nicholas Rowe, Esq.; By George Lillo; By John Home; By Nicholas Rowe, Esq.; Written by Sir J. Vanbrugh, and Colley Cibber, Esq.; Written by Sir Richard Steele; Written by Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.; Written by Hugh Kelly; Written by George Colman, and David Garrick; Written by Isaac Bickerstaff; Written by Robert Dodsley; Written by Robert Dodsley; Written by Robert Dodsley; Written by Robert Dodsley; Written by Frederick Pilon; Written by Mrs. Brooke
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Pagination I 420; II 408; III 408
Date of Publication 1812
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Notes Each play individual paginated with its own title page.

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Vol. 3: Mrs. Brooke
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Pilon, Frederick, Colman, George (the elder), Moore, Edward, Dodsley, Robert, Bickerstaff, Isaac, Garrick, David, Kelly, Hugh, Goldsmith, Oliver, Steele, Richard, Cibber, Colley, Vanbrugh, John, Home, John, Lillo, George, Rowe, Nicholas, Brooke, Frances. The English Drama Purified: Being a Specimen of Select Plays, in which all the passages that have appeared to the editor to be objectionable in point of morality, are omitted or altered. With prefaces and notes. By James Plumptre, B.D. Fellow of Clark-Hall, Cambridge.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 12819, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/12819. Accessed 2025-05-29.

Pilon, Frederick, George (. e. Colman, Edward Moore, Robert Dodsley, Isaac Bickerstaff, David Garrick, Hugh Kelly, Oliver Goldsmith, Richard Steele, Colley Cibber, John Vanbrugh, John Home, George Lillo, Nicholas Rowe, and Frances Brooke. The English Drama Purified: Being a Specimen of Select Plays, in which all the passages that have appeared to the editor to be objectionable in point of morality, are omitted or altered. With prefaces and notes. By James Plumptre, B.D. Fellow of Clark-Hall, Cambridge. Cambridge: 1812. 

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