The Jeremy Collier Stage Controversy, 1698-1726 ...Marquette University Press, 1937 - 328 pages |
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Page 69
... wou'd his Faults defend ? All wou'd submit ; for all but Fools will mend ; " " '40 he asserts that the stage - condemners have misinterpreted the glosses of the poets : " But , when to common sense they give the Lie , And turn distorted ...
... wou'd his Faults defend ? All wou'd submit ; for all but Fools will mend ; " " '40 he asserts that the stage - condemners have misinterpreted the glosses of the poets : " But , when to common sense they give the Lie , And turn distorted ...
Page 79
... wou'd have excell'd themselves in the more Natural Way of the Ancients . " 41 His preference for the Ancients in the following passages is note- worthy : " The Antients differ'd from the Moderns , in the choice of their Subject . We are ...
... wou'd have excell'd themselves in the more Natural Way of the Ancients . " 41 His preference for the Ancients in the following passages is note- worthy : " The Antients differ'd from the Moderns , in the choice of their Subject . We are ...
Page 85
... wou'd endure ? Must all easie Conversation be lost , unless Men have leave to be loose and profane ? And can there be no coming together of Strangers or Friends , but some naked Vice must dance and be praised , or some Virtue made a ...
... wou'd endure ? Must all easie Conversation be lost , unless Men have leave to be loose and profane ? And can there be no coming together of Strangers or Friends , but some naked Vice must dance and be praised , or some Virtue made a ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
A Vindication of the Stage 71 | 6 |
CHAPTER II | 26 |
Copyright | |
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18 Ibid abuse acted Ancients Andrew Kippis Animadversions Anonymous Answer anti-stage arguments asserts attack authorship Baker Beauty in Distress Bedford Ben Jonson Book Bossuet Caffaro caustic censure chapter characters Charles Gildon Church Cibber clergy Colley Cibber comedy concerning Congreve's controversy criticism D'Urfey Defence of Dramatick Defence of Plays Dennis discourse Dissuasive diversion dramatic Dramatick Poetry Dryden Edward Filmer English Stage Entertainment Epilogue Epistle Essays evidence Farther Vindication Filmer Gildon gives Ibid Impiety inasmuch irreligion Jeremy Collier John Dennis Lady lbid Letter Lewdness London ment Moderns moral Motteux Non-Juror Number Occasional Paper opinion pamphlet Person Phaeton play-house players poets Post-Man Preface printed profaneness prove Provok'd Wife published quotes reader reason refers Reformation of Manners refutes Relapse Religion Remarks reply satire says Second Defence Short View Stage Condemned Stage Consider'd stage-controversy stage-poets stage-reform statement tells Theatre Theatre-Royal Thomas Thomas D'Urfey tion Vanbrugh vices William Congreve William Law writing Wycherley