Both Uses of
Puritans
in
Man And Superman
- In the preface to my Plays for Puritans I explained the predicament of our contemporary English drama, forced to deal almost exclusively with cases of sexual attraction, and yet forbidden to exhibit the incidents of that attraction or even to discuss its nature.†
Chpt Ded.
- Romance and Asceticism, Amorism and Puritanism are equally unreal in the great Philistine world.†
Chpt Ded. *
Definition:
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(Puritans) English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries wanted more purity and less ritual in worship, and who stressed hard work above pleasure
(a Protestant is any of the Western Christian religious denominations that broke off from the Catholic Church. In the US, the best known are Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, and Episcopalians.)