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The United States was born in the Enlightenment. What characteristics define the Enlightenment?
 
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There were many pamphlets published during the Restoration, such as Jeremy Collier's Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage and others like The Evil and Dangers of Stage-Plays that attacked the theatre. What was the basis for their attacks?
 
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Answer to Question 1

The Age of Reason is an apt name for the Enlightenment, which was a period that glorified humans' power to reason and analyze. It was a time when fear, superstition, and ignorance gave way to science and secular reasoning, leading to social transformation and new forms of government.

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The writers of these and other anti-theatre books believed that the theatre encouraged idleness, perverted the youth, and promoted impiety. They documented thousands of abominations perpetrated by the theatre and saw the issues as at least partly due to the shortcomings in English education.





 

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