A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage by Collier
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"A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage" by Jeremy Collier is an anti-theatre pamphlet published in 1698. Collier launches a fierce attack on leading playwrights of Restoration comedy, accusing them of profanity, blasphemy, and undermining public morality. Through exhaustive analysis, he condemns their failure to punish vice and enforce poetic justice. His innovative critical approach sparked a pamphlet war lasting nearly three decades, as outraged playwrights defended
their art while public sentiment shifted toward theatrical reform. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726 |
|---|---|
| Title |
A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage Together with the Sense of Antiquity on this Argument |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_View_of_the_Immorality_and_Profaneness_of_the_English_Stage |
| Credits |
Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 72.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections |
| Subject | Theater -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Early works to 1800 |
| Subject | Theater -- England -- Early works to 1800 |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 44645 |
| Release Date | Jan 11, 2014 |
| Last Update | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 674 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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