Jeremy Collier, "A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage" (1698)
Contents
Introduction
Introduction
The Charges Against the English Stage
A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698)
The Immodesty of the Stage
Chapter I: The Immodesty of the Stage
Smuttiness and Obscenity of the Stage
To argue the matter more at large.
Scandalousness of Women in the Plays
Protagonists are Villains Who Win In the End
From Chapter IV. The Stage-Poets Make Their Principal Persons Vicious and Reward Them at the End of the Play
The Debauched Portrayal of the Gentleman in English Plays
Rebuttal of Dryden's Defence Against these Charges
(Continued)
(Continued)
The Dangerous and Debauched Nature of Comedy
Glossary
Glossary
Act [of a play]
Alexandrine Couplets
Breeches Roles
Chorus
Comedy
Comedy of Manners
Cross-Dressing
Episodic Plot
Farce
Iambic Dialogue
Irony
Masques
Melodrama
Neoclassical Dramaturgy
Neoclassicism
New Comedy
Old Comedy
Pastoral Drama
Plot
Protagonist
Restoration Comedy
Role-Playing
Satire
Tragedy
Tragi-Comedy
Unities [of action, time and place]
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