A short view of the immorality, and profaneness of the English stage together with the sense of antiquity upon this argument / by Jeremy Collier ...

Title

A short view of the immorality, and profaneness of the English stage together with the sense of antiquity upon this argument / by Jeremy Collier ...

Author

Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.

Publication

London :: Printed for S. Keble ... R. Sare ... and H. Hindmarsh ...,

1698.

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Subject terms

Theater -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Theater -- Great Britain.

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Contents

• title page
• THE PREFACE.
• THE CONTENTS.
• ERRATA.
• advertisement
• THE INTRODUCTION.
• CHAP. 1. The Immodesty of the Stage.
• CHAP. II. The Profaness of the Stage.
• CHAP. III. The Clergy abused by the Stage.
• CHAP. IV. The Stage-Poets make their Principal Per∣sons Vitious, and reward them at the End of the Play.
• CHAP. V. Remarks upon Amphytrion, King Arthur, Don Quixote, and the Relapse.
  • SECTION I.
  • SECT. II. Remarks upon Don Quixot, &c.
    • The Translation runs thus.
  • SECT. III. Remarks upon the Relapse.
• CHAP. VI. The Opinion of Paganism, of the Church, and State, concerning the Stage.
• MANDEMENT DE MONSEIGNEUR L' Illustrissime Et Reverendissime EVE QUE D' ARRAS CONTRE LA COMEDIE.
• In English thus, An Order of the most Illu∣strious and most Reverend Lord Bishop of Arras a∣gainst Plays.