Title |
Short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage |
Subject |
Theater--Moral and ethical aspects; Theater--England |
Creator |
Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726 |
Description |
Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726) London. Printed for S. Keble...,1698 Second edition Jeremy Collier was an English clergyman who supported James II. He is best known for his combative anti-theater pamphlet, mostly directed toward the plays of William Congreve and John Vanbrugh. Collier charged that these plays lacked poetic justice and exemplary morality. He described all the characters as wicked and immoral and denounced the playwrights for failing to punish them. He objected to exclamations such as, "Heavens!" Collier's little tract created a pamphlet war, including a lengthy and serious refutation from Congreve and a brief, casual response from Vanbrugh, who charged Collier of being more sensitive to unflattering portrayals of the clergy than to profanity. |
Date |
1698 |
Type |
Text |
Format |
image/jpeg |
Format Creation |
Original scanned with Kirtas APT BookScan 2400 as CR2 RAW files and converted to 400 ppi uncompressed TIFFs in Cannon EOS Viewer Utility . Display images generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000 at 15:1 compression. |
Identifier |
index.cpd |
Source |
PN2047 .C6 1698 |
Language |
eng |
Rights Management |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
Holding Institution |
Rare Books Division, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
Scanning Technician |
Kelly Taylor |
Call Number |
PN2047 .C6; Record ID 99220410102001 |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6th8xt3 |
Setname |
uum_rbc |
ID |
79502 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6th8xt3 |