Jeremy Collier's Angriff auf die
englische
Bühne.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08
11.
1828.
Thomas Shadwell. Colburn's Monthly Magazine, New Ser, vol. III. 1873.
Sir John Vanbrugh
(1) Plays
(a) Early Editions
The Relapse; or Virtue in Danger. Being the sequel of the Fool in Fashion.
A Comedy acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By the author of
a late Comedy called the Provok'd Wife. 1697.
The Provok'd Wife. A Comedy as it is acted at the New Theatre, in little
Lincolns-Inn-Fields. 1697.
Æsop. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane.
1697. Another ed. 1702.
The Pilgrim, a comedy by John Fletcher. Altered with additions by Sir
J. V. 1700.
The False Friend. 1702.
The Confederacy: A Comedy. As it is acted at the Queen's Theatre in the
Hay-Market. By her Majesty's sworn servants. 1705.
The Mistake. As it is Acted at the Queen's Theatre in the Hay-Market. 1706.
The Country House: a farce translated from La Maison Rustique of F. C.
d'Ancourt. 1715.
A Journey to London being part of a comedy written by the late Sir John
Vanbrugh and printed after his own Copy, which (since his decease) has
been made an entire play by Mr Cibber, and calld the Provok'd Husband.
1728.
The Cornish Squire: A comedy done from the French of Molière's Monsieur
de Pourceaugnac. 1734.
Plays written by Sir J. Vanbrugh. In two vols. Eds. 1730, 1735, 1759, 1765,
1776.
(6) Modern Editions
Vanbrugh's plays have been edited by Ward, W. C. , with a valuable
biographical introduction, 1893; and by Swaen, A. E. H. , in Mermaid Series,
1896. See, also, under Congreve (1) (6), ante.
(2) Other Works
A Short Vindication of the Relapse and the Provok'd Wife, from Immorality
and Prophaneness. 1698.
Justification of what he depos’d in the 'Duchess of Marlborough's late Tryal. '
1718.
(3) Biography and Criticism
Dametz, M. John Vanbrughs Leben und Werke. Vienna, 1898.
Disraeli, Isaac. Curiosities of Literature. 14th ed. 3 vols. 1849.
Lovegrove, G. H. The Life, Work, and Influence of Sir John Vanbrugh. 1902.
Tenison, T. A Letter from several members of the Society for the Refor-
mation of Manners. 1704. [On the immorality of Vanbrugh's plays. ]
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B. JEREMY COLLIER AND THE CONTROVERSY CONCERNING THE
MORALITY OF THE STAGE
8
Animadversions on Mr Congreve's Late Answer to Mr Collier. In a Dialogue
between Mr Smith and Mr Johnson. With the Characters of the present
Poets; And some offers towards New-Modeling the stage. 1698.
Bedford, Arthur. Serious Reflections on the Scandalous Abuse and Effects of
the Stage: in a Sermon preach'd at the Parish-Church of St Nicholas in
the City of Bristol, on Sunday the 7th day of January, 1704/5. 1705.
A second Advertisement concerning the Profaneness of the Play-House.
Bristol. 1705.
The Evil and Danger of Stage Plays: Shewing their Natural Tendency
to Destroy Religion, and introduce a General Corruption of Manners; In
almost Two Thousand instances, taken from the Plays of the two last
years, against all the Methods lately used for their Reformation.
1706.
The Great Abuse of Musick. In Two Parts, Containing an Account
of the Use and Design of Musick among the Antient Jews, Greeks,
Romans, and others; with their Concern for, and Care to prevent
the Abuse thereof. And also An Account of the Immorality and Pro-
faneness which is occasioned by the Corruption of that most Noble
Science in the Present Age. 1711.
A serious Remonstrance in Behalf of the Christian Religion, against The
Horrid Blasphemies and Impieties which are still used in the English
Play-Houses, to the great Dishonour of Almighty God, and in contempt
of the Statutes of this Realm. 1719.
Blackmore, Sir R. Prince Arthur. An Heroick Poem in Ten Books.
1695.
Essays upon several subjects. 1716.
Brown, T. The Stage Beaux toss'd in a Blanket, or Hypocrisie Alamode.
Expos'd in a True picture of Jerry. . . a Pretending Scourge to the English
Stage. A Comedy with a Prologue on Occasional Conformity; being a
full Explanation of the Poussin Doctor's Book; and an Epilogue on the
Reformers. 1704.
Collier, Jeremy. A short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of The
English Stage: Together with The Sense of Antiquity upon This Argu-
ment. 1696.
A Defence of the Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the
English Stage, etc. Being a Reply to Mr Congreve's Amendments, etc.
And to the Vindication of the Author of the Relapse. 1699.
A Second Defence of the Short View of the Prophaneness and Immor-
ality of the English Stage, etc. Being a Reply to a Book, Entituled,
The Ancient and Modern Stages Surveyed, etc. 1700.
Mr Collier's Dissuasive from the Play-House; in a Letter to a Person of
Quality, Occasion'd By The late Calamity of the Tempest. 1703.
A Farther Vindication of the Short View of the Profaneness and Im-
morality of the English Stage, In which the Objections of a late Book,
Entituled, A Defence of Plays are consider'd. 1708.
D. A. The Stage Acquitted. Being a Full Answer to Mr Collier, and the
other Enemies of the Drama. With a Vindication of King Charles the
Martyr, and the Clergy of the Church of England, from the Abuses of a
Scurrilous Book, called The Stage Condemned. To which is added, The
Character of the Animadverter, and The Animadversions on Mr Con-
greve's Answer to Mr Collier. 1699.
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Dennis, J. The Usefulness of the Stage, to the Happiness of Mankind, to
Government, and to Religion. Occasioned by a late Book, written by
Jeremy Collier, M. A. 1698.
The Stage defended from Scripture, Reason, Experience, and the Com-
mon Sense of Mankind, for Two Thousand Years, Occasion'd by Mr Law's
late Pamphlet against Stage Entertainments. 1726. [See Law, William,
below. ]
Drake, J. The Antient and Modern Stages survey'd. Or Mr Collier's View
of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage Set in a True
Light wherein some of Mr Collier's Mistakes are rectified, and the com-
parative Morality of the English Stage is asserted upon the Parallel.
1699.
Dryden, J. Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse From
Homer, Ovid, Boccace and Chaucer: with Original Poems. 1700.
Filmer, E. A Defence of Dramatick Poetry: Being a Review of Mr Collier's
View of the Immorality & Profaneness of the Stage. 1698.
A Farther Defence of Dramatick Poetry: Being the Second Part of
the Review of Mr Collier's View of the Immorality and Profaneness of
the Stage. 1698.
A Defence of Plays: or, The Stage Vindicated, From several Passages
in Mr Collier's Short View, etc. Wherein is offer'd the most Probable
Method of Reforming our Plays. With a Consideration How far Vicious
Characters may be allow'd on the Stage. 1707.
Immorality, The, of the English Pulpit, as justly subjected to the Notice of
the English Stage, as the Immorality of the Stage is, to that of the
Pulpit. In a Letter to Mr Collier. Occasion'd by the Third Chapter of
his Book, Entitl'd, A Short View of the Immorality of the English Stage.
1698.
Law, William. The Absolute Unlawfulness of the Stage Entertainment
fully demonstrated. 1726.
Motteus, P. A. Beauty in Distress. A Tragedy As it is acted at the Theatre
in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, By His Majesty's Servants. Written by
Mr Motteux. With a Discourse of the Lawfulness and Unlawfulness of
Plays, Lately written in French by the Learned Father Caffaro, Divinity
Professor at Paris. Sent in a Letter to the Author, by a Divine of the
Church of England. 1698.
Representation, A, of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage,
with Reason for putting a stop thereto; and some questions addrest to
those who frequent the Play-Houses. 1704.
Rymer, T. The Tragedies of the last Age Consider'd and Examin'd By the
Practice of the Ancients, and by the common sense of all Ages, In a
Letter to Fleetwood Shepheard Esq. 1678.
A Short View of Tragedy; Its Original, Excellency, and Corruption
with some Reflections on Shakspear, and other Practitioners for the
Stage. 1693.
Some Remarks upon Mr Collier's Defence of his Short View of the English
Stage, etc. , in Vindication of Mr Congreve, etc. 1698.
Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady. 1701.
Stage, The, Condemned, and the Encouragement given to the Immoralities
and Profaneness of the Theatre, by the English Schools, Universities and
Pulpits, censur'd. . . . The Arguments of all the Authors that have Writ
in Defence of the Stage against Mr Collier, Consider'd. And the Sense
of the Fathers, Councils, Antient Philosophers and Poets, and of the
Greek and Roman States, and of the First Christian Emperors concern-
ing the Drama, Faithfully Deliver'd. 1698.
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Bibliography
Vindication of the Stage, A. With the Usefulness and advantages of
Dramatick Representations. In Answer to Mr Collier's Late Book,
Entituled, A View of the Prophaneness and Immorality, etc. In a
Letter to a Friend. 1698.
Wright, J. Country Conversations. 1694.
Ballein, Dr J.
Jeremy Collier's Angriff auf die englische Bühne. 1910.
Hofherr, A. Thomas Rymers dramatische Kritik. Heidelberg, 1908.
CHAPTER VII
THE RESTORATION DRAMA. III
See, also, the bibliographies to chaps. 1 (last section), v C, and viA.
An account of several of the authors under notice will be found in the
Dictionary of National Biography; while their principal plays are reprinted
in Bell's British Theatre, 24 vols. , 1776-84; The British Drama, 2 vols. ,
1824-6; The Modern British Drama, 5 vols. , 1811; and Mrs Inchbald's British
Theatre, Collection of Farces, and Modern Theatre, 42 vols. , 1808-15.
ANON.
The Imperial Tragedy. By a gentleman. 1669. [Not by Sir William
Killigrew. )
John BANKS
The Rival Kings, or The Loves of Oroondates and Statira. A Tragedy, acted
at the Theatre Royal. 1677. [Founded on La Calprenède's Cassandre. ]
The Destruction of Troy. A Tragedy acted at His Royal Highness the
Duke's Theatre. 1679.
The Unhappy Favourite, or The Earl of Essex. A Tragedy, acted at the
Theatre Royal, by their Majesty's Servants. 1682. Prologue and
epilogue by Dryden.
Vertue Betray'd, or Anna Bullen. A Tragedy, acted at His Royal Highness
the Duke's Theatre. 1682.
The Island Queens, or The Death of Mary Queen of Scotland. 1684. [It
was at first forbidden to act this piece; but it was subsequently acted
under the name of The Albion Queens. ]
The Innocent Usurper, or The Death of the Lady Jane Gray. A Tragedy.
1694.
Cyrus the Great, or The Tragedy of Love, as it is acted at the Theatre
in Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, by His Majesties Servants. 1696. [Taken
from Madeleine de Scudéry's Le Grand Cyrus. ]
ROBERT BARON (f. 1645).
Mirza. A Tragedie, really acted in Persia in the last age. [c. 1647. ]
MRS APARA BEAN
See bibliography to chap. v A, ante.
SIR WILLIAM BERKELEY (d. 1677)
The Lost Lady. A tragi-comedy, 1639.
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WILLIAM CHAMBERLAYNE (1619-1689)
Love's Victory. A Tragi-Comedy. 1658.
Wits led by the Nose. (New version of Love's Victory). 1678.
CATHARINE COCKBURN (MRS TROTTER) (1679-1749)
Agnes de Castro. A Tragedy. 1696.
Fatal Friendship. A Tragedy. 1698.
Love at a Loss. A Tragedy. 1701.
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The Revolutions of Sweden. 1706.
JOAN CROWNE
(1) Plays
Dramatic Works. With prefatory memoir and notes by Maidment, J. and
Logan, W. H. 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1873–7.
Part of the series called Dramatists of the Restoration Contains :
Juliana; The History of Charles VIII of France; Calisto; Thyestes;
City Politiques; The Destruction of Jerusalem; The Countrey Wit;
The Ambitious Statesman; Sir Courtly Nice; Darius; The English
Frier; Regulus; The Married Beau; Caligula.
Juliana, or the Princess of Poland. A Tragi-Comedy as it is acted at his
Royal Highness the Duke of York's Theatre. 1671.
The History of Charles the Eighth of France, or the Invasion of Naples
by the French, as it is acted at his Highness the Duke of York's
Theater. 1672.
Andromache. A Tragedy as it is acted at the Duke's Theatre. 1675. Trans.
from Racine.
The Prologue to Calistho, with the Chorus's between the Acts. 1675.
Calisto, or the Chast Nymph. The late Masque at Court as it was frequently
presented there by several persons of great Quality. With the Prologue
and the Songs between the Acts. 1675.
The Countrey Wit. A Comedy acted at the Duke's Theatre. 1675.
The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian, in Two Parts, as it is acted
at the Theatre Royal. 1677.
The Ambitious Statesman, or the Loyal Favourite, as it was acted at the
Theatre Royal by his Majesty's Servants. 1679.
The Misery of Civil War. A Tragedy as it is acted at the Duke's Theatre by
his Royal Highnesses Servants. 1680. Re-issued in 1681 as Henry the
Sixth, the Second Part, or the Misery of Civil War.
Henry the Sixth, the First Part. With the Murder of Humphrey, Duke of
Glocester, as it was acted at the Duke's Theatre. 1681.
Thyestes. A Tragedy acted at the Theatre Royal 1681.
City Politiques. A Comedy as it is acted by his Majesty's Servants. 1683.
Sir Courtly Nice, or It cannot be. A Comedy as it is acted by his Majesties
Servants. 1685. Translated into German. Bremen, 1767.
Darius, King of Persia. A Tragedy as it is acted by their Majesties Servants.
1688.
The English Frier, or the Town Sparks. A Comedy as it is acted by their
Majesty's Servants. 1690.
Regulus. À Tragedy as it is acted by their Majesties Servants. 1694. Pro
duced in 1692.
The Married Beau, or the Curious Impertinent. A Comedy acted at the
Theatre Royal by their Majesties Servants. 1694.
Caligula. A Tragedy as it is acted at the Theatre Royal by his Majesty's
Servants. 1698.
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(2) Other Works
Pandion and Amphigenia, or the history of the coy Lady of Thessalia.
Adorned with sculptures. 1665.
A Poem on the lamented death of king Charles the II. With a Congratula-
tion to the happy succession of king James the II. 1685
Doneids. An heroique poem in four cantos. 1692. [Trans. from the Lutrin
of Boileau, with alterations and suppressions. ]
The history of the famous love between a fair noble Parisian Lady, and
a beautiful young Singing-Man. An heroic poem in four cantos, being
an imitation of Virgil's Dido and Æneas. 1692.
JOHN DENNIS
A Plot and No Plot. A Comedy, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal, Drury
Lane. [1697. ]
Rinaldo and Armida. A Tragedy, acted at Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields.
1699.
Iphigenia. A Tragedy, acted at the Theatre in Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields.
1700.
The Comical Gallant, or the Amours of Sir John Falstaffe. A Comedy, as it
is acted at the Theatre Royal, in Drury Lane, by His Majesty's Servants.
1702. [Altered from The Merry Wives of Windsor. ]
Liberty Asserted. A Tragedy, as it is acted at the New Theatre in Little
Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. 1704.
Gibraltar, or The Spanish Adventure. A Comedy. 1705.
Appius and Virginia. A Tragedy, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in
Drury Lane, by Her Majesty's Sworn Servants. [1709. ) [Adapted from
Webster. ]
The Invader of his Country, or The Fatal Resentment. A Tragedy. 1720.
See, also, bibliography to chap. vi B, ante.
Thomas GOFFE (1591-1629)
The Raging Turke; or, Bajazet the Second. 1631. Rptd 1656.
GEORGE GRANVILLE, LORD LANSDOWNE
The She-Gallants. A Comedy, as it is acted at the Theatre in Little
Lincoln's-Inn-Fields by His Majesty's Servants. 1696.
Heroick Love. A Tragedy, as it is acted at the Theatre in Little Lincoln's
Inn-Fields. 1698.
The Jew of Venice. A Comedy. 1701.
The British Enchanters, or No Magic like Love. A Tragedy, as it is acted
at the Queen's Theatre in the Hay-Market by Her Majesty's Sworn
Servants. 1706.
Three Plays, viz. The She-Gallants, Heroick Love, and the Jew of Venice.
1713.
Four Plays, viz. Heroick Love, The Jew of Venice, The She-Gallants, The
British Enchanters. 1732.
JOSEPH HARRIS (A. 1666-1699)
The Mistakes, or The False Report. 1691.
Love's a Lottery. 1699.
Thomas Shadwell. Colburn's Monthly Magazine, New Ser, vol. III. 1873.
Sir John Vanbrugh
(1) Plays
(a) Early Editions
The Relapse; or Virtue in Danger. Being the sequel of the Fool in Fashion.
A Comedy acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By the author of
a late Comedy called the Provok'd Wife. 1697.
The Provok'd Wife. A Comedy as it is acted at the New Theatre, in little
Lincolns-Inn-Fields. 1697.
Æsop. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane.
1697. Another ed. 1702.
The Pilgrim, a comedy by John Fletcher. Altered with additions by Sir
J. V. 1700.
The False Friend. 1702.
The Confederacy: A Comedy. As it is acted at the Queen's Theatre in the
Hay-Market. By her Majesty's sworn servants. 1705.
The Mistake. As it is Acted at the Queen's Theatre in the Hay-Market. 1706.
The Country House: a farce translated from La Maison Rustique of F. C.
d'Ancourt. 1715.
A Journey to London being part of a comedy written by the late Sir John
Vanbrugh and printed after his own Copy, which (since his decease) has
been made an entire play by Mr Cibber, and calld the Provok'd Husband.
1728.
The Cornish Squire: A comedy done from the French of Molière's Monsieur
de Pourceaugnac. 1734.
Plays written by Sir J. Vanbrugh. In two vols. Eds. 1730, 1735, 1759, 1765,
1776.
(6) Modern Editions
Vanbrugh's plays have been edited by Ward, W. C. , with a valuable
biographical introduction, 1893; and by Swaen, A. E. H. , in Mermaid Series,
1896. See, also, under Congreve (1) (6), ante.
(2) Other Works
A Short Vindication of the Relapse and the Provok'd Wife, from Immorality
and Prophaneness. 1698.
Justification of what he depos’d in the 'Duchess of Marlborough's late Tryal. '
1718.
(3) Biography and Criticism
Dametz, M. John Vanbrughs Leben und Werke. Vienna, 1898.
Disraeli, Isaac. Curiosities of Literature. 14th ed. 3 vols. 1849.
Lovegrove, G. H. The Life, Work, and Influence of Sir John Vanbrugh. 1902.
Tenison, T. A Letter from several members of the Society for the Refor-
mation of Manners. 1704. [On the immorality of Vanbrugh's plays. ]
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B. JEREMY COLLIER AND THE CONTROVERSY CONCERNING THE
MORALITY OF THE STAGE
8
Animadversions on Mr Congreve's Late Answer to Mr Collier. In a Dialogue
between Mr Smith and Mr Johnson. With the Characters of the present
Poets; And some offers towards New-Modeling the stage. 1698.
Bedford, Arthur. Serious Reflections on the Scandalous Abuse and Effects of
the Stage: in a Sermon preach'd at the Parish-Church of St Nicholas in
the City of Bristol, on Sunday the 7th day of January, 1704/5. 1705.
A second Advertisement concerning the Profaneness of the Play-House.
Bristol. 1705.
The Evil and Danger of Stage Plays: Shewing their Natural Tendency
to Destroy Religion, and introduce a General Corruption of Manners; In
almost Two Thousand instances, taken from the Plays of the two last
years, against all the Methods lately used for their Reformation.
1706.
The Great Abuse of Musick. In Two Parts, Containing an Account
of the Use and Design of Musick among the Antient Jews, Greeks,
Romans, and others; with their Concern for, and Care to prevent
the Abuse thereof. And also An Account of the Immorality and Pro-
faneness which is occasioned by the Corruption of that most Noble
Science in the Present Age. 1711.
A serious Remonstrance in Behalf of the Christian Religion, against The
Horrid Blasphemies and Impieties which are still used in the English
Play-Houses, to the great Dishonour of Almighty God, and in contempt
of the Statutes of this Realm. 1719.
Blackmore, Sir R. Prince Arthur. An Heroick Poem in Ten Books.
1695.
Essays upon several subjects. 1716.
Brown, T. The Stage Beaux toss'd in a Blanket, or Hypocrisie Alamode.
Expos'd in a True picture of Jerry. . . a Pretending Scourge to the English
Stage. A Comedy with a Prologue on Occasional Conformity; being a
full Explanation of the Poussin Doctor's Book; and an Epilogue on the
Reformers. 1704.
Collier, Jeremy. A short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of The
English Stage: Together with The Sense of Antiquity upon This Argu-
ment. 1696.
A Defence of the Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the
English Stage, etc. Being a Reply to Mr Congreve's Amendments, etc.
And to the Vindication of the Author of the Relapse. 1699.
A Second Defence of the Short View of the Prophaneness and Immor-
ality of the English Stage, etc. Being a Reply to a Book, Entituled,
The Ancient and Modern Stages Surveyed, etc. 1700.
Mr Collier's Dissuasive from the Play-House; in a Letter to a Person of
Quality, Occasion'd By The late Calamity of the Tempest. 1703.
A Farther Vindication of the Short View of the Profaneness and Im-
morality of the English Stage, In which the Objections of a late Book,
Entituled, A Defence of Plays are consider'd. 1708.
D. A. The Stage Acquitted. Being a Full Answer to Mr Collier, and the
other Enemies of the Drama. With a Vindication of King Charles the
Martyr, and the Clergy of the Church of England, from the Abuses of a
Scurrilous Book, called The Stage Condemned. To which is added, The
Character of the Animadverter, and The Animadversions on Mr Con-
greve's Answer to Mr Collier. 1699.
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Dennis, J. The Usefulness of the Stage, to the Happiness of Mankind, to
Government, and to Religion. Occasioned by a late Book, written by
Jeremy Collier, M. A. 1698.
The Stage defended from Scripture, Reason, Experience, and the Com-
mon Sense of Mankind, for Two Thousand Years, Occasion'd by Mr Law's
late Pamphlet against Stage Entertainments. 1726. [See Law, William,
below. ]
Drake, J. The Antient and Modern Stages survey'd. Or Mr Collier's View
of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage Set in a True
Light wherein some of Mr Collier's Mistakes are rectified, and the com-
parative Morality of the English Stage is asserted upon the Parallel.
1699.
Dryden, J. Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse From
Homer, Ovid, Boccace and Chaucer: with Original Poems. 1700.
Filmer, E. A Defence of Dramatick Poetry: Being a Review of Mr Collier's
View of the Immorality & Profaneness of the Stage. 1698.
A Farther Defence of Dramatick Poetry: Being the Second Part of
the Review of Mr Collier's View of the Immorality and Profaneness of
the Stage. 1698.
A Defence of Plays: or, The Stage Vindicated, From several Passages
in Mr Collier's Short View, etc. Wherein is offer'd the most Probable
Method of Reforming our Plays. With a Consideration How far Vicious
Characters may be allow'd on the Stage. 1707.
Immorality, The, of the English Pulpit, as justly subjected to the Notice of
the English Stage, as the Immorality of the Stage is, to that of the
Pulpit. In a Letter to Mr Collier. Occasion'd by the Third Chapter of
his Book, Entitl'd, A Short View of the Immorality of the English Stage.
1698.
Law, William. The Absolute Unlawfulness of the Stage Entertainment
fully demonstrated. 1726.
Motteus, P. A. Beauty in Distress. A Tragedy As it is acted at the Theatre
in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, By His Majesty's Servants. Written by
Mr Motteux. With a Discourse of the Lawfulness and Unlawfulness of
Plays, Lately written in French by the Learned Father Caffaro, Divinity
Professor at Paris. Sent in a Letter to the Author, by a Divine of the
Church of England. 1698.
Representation, A, of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage,
with Reason for putting a stop thereto; and some questions addrest to
those who frequent the Play-Houses. 1704.
Rymer, T. The Tragedies of the last Age Consider'd and Examin'd By the
Practice of the Ancients, and by the common sense of all Ages, In a
Letter to Fleetwood Shepheard Esq. 1678.
A Short View of Tragedy; Its Original, Excellency, and Corruption
with some Reflections on Shakspear, and other Practitioners for the
Stage. 1693.
Some Remarks upon Mr Collier's Defence of his Short View of the English
Stage, etc. , in Vindication of Mr Congreve, etc. 1698.
Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady. 1701.
Stage, The, Condemned, and the Encouragement given to the Immoralities
and Profaneness of the Theatre, by the English Schools, Universities and
Pulpits, censur'd. . . . The Arguments of all the Authors that have Writ
in Defence of the Stage against Mr Collier, Consider'd. And the Sense
of the Fathers, Councils, Antient Philosophers and Poets, and of the
Greek and Roman States, and of the First Christian Emperors concern-
ing the Drama, Faithfully Deliver'd. 1698.
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Vindication of the Stage, A. With the Usefulness and advantages of
Dramatick Representations. In Answer to Mr Collier's Late Book,
Entituled, A View of the Prophaneness and Immorality, etc. In a
Letter to a Friend. 1698.
Wright, J. Country Conversations. 1694.
Ballein, Dr J.
Jeremy Collier's Angriff auf die englische Bühne. 1910.
Hofherr, A. Thomas Rymers dramatische Kritik. Heidelberg, 1908.
CHAPTER VII
THE RESTORATION DRAMA. III
See, also, the bibliographies to chaps. 1 (last section), v C, and viA.
An account of several of the authors under notice will be found in the
Dictionary of National Biography; while their principal plays are reprinted
in Bell's British Theatre, 24 vols. , 1776-84; The British Drama, 2 vols. ,
1824-6; The Modern British Drama, 5 vols. , 1811; and Mrs Inchbald's British
Theatre, Collection of Farces, and Modern Theatre, 42 vols. , 1808-15.
ANON.
The Imperial Tragedy. By a gentleman. 1669. [Not by Sir William
Killigrew. )
John BANKS
The Rival Kings, or The Loves of Oroondates and Statira. A Tragedy, acted
at the Theatre Royal. 1677. [Founded on La Calprenède's Cassandre. ]
The Destruction of Troy. A Tragedy acted at His Royal Highness the
Duke's Theatre. 1679.
The Unhappy Favourite, or The Earl of Essex. A Tragedy, acted at the
Theatre Royal, by their Majesty's Servants. 1682. Prologue and
epilogue by Dryden.
Vertue Betray'd, or Anna Bullen. A Tragedy, acted at His Royal Highness
the Duke's Theatre. 1682.
The Island Queens, or The Death of Mary Queen of Scotland. 1684. [It
was at first forbidden to act this piece; but it was subsequently acted
under the name of The Albion Queens. ]
The Innocent Usurper, or The Death of the Lady Jane Gray. A Tragedy.
1694.
Cyrus the Great, or The Tragedy of Love, as it is acted at the Theatre
in Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, by His Majesties Servants. 1696. [Taken
from Madeleine de Scudéry's Le Grand Cyrus. ]
ROBERT BARON (f. 1645).
Mirza. A Tragedie, really acted in Persia in the last age. [c. 1647. ]
MRS APARA BEAN
See bibliography to chap. v A, ante.
SIR WILLIAM BERKELEY (d. 1677)
The Lost Lady. A tragi-comedy, 1639.
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WILLIAM CHAMBERLAYNE (1619-1689)
Love's Victory. A Tragi-Comedy. 1658.
Wits led by the Nose. (New version of Love's Victory). 1678.
CATHARINE COCKBURN (MRS TROTTER) (1679-1749)
Agnes de Castro. A Tragedy. 1696.
Fatal Friendship. A Tragedy. 1698.
Love at a Loss. A Tragedy. 1701.
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The Revolutions of Sweden. 1706.
JOAN CROWNE
(1) Plays
Dramatic Works. With prefatory memoir and notes by Maidment, J. and
Logan, W. H. 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1873–7.
Part of the series called Dramatists of the Restoration Contains :
Juliana; The History of Charles VIII of France; Calisto; Thyestes;
City Politiques; The Destruction of Jerusalem; The Countrey Wit;
The Ambitious Statesman; Sir Courtly Nice; Darius; The English
Frier; Regulus; The Married Beau; Caligula.
Juliana, or the Princess of Poland. A Tragi-Comedy as it is acted at his
Royal Highness the Duke of York's Theatre. 1671.
The History of Charles the Eighth of France, or the Invasion of Naples
by the French, as it is acted at his Highness the Duke of York's
Theater. 1672.
Andromache. A Tragedy as it is acted at the Duke's Theatre. 1675. Trans.
from Racine.
The Prologue to Calistho, with the Chorus's between the Acts. 1675.
Calisto, or the Chast Nymph. The late Masque at Court as it was frequently
presented there by several persons of great Quality. With the Prologue
and the Songs between the Acts. 1675.
The Countrey Wit. A Comedy acted at the Duke's Theatre. 1675.
The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian, in Two Parts, as it is acted
at the Theatre Royal. 1677.
The Ambitious Statesman, or the Loyal Favourite, as it was acted at the
Theatre Royal by his Majesty's Servants. 1679.
The Misery of Civil War. A Tragedy as it is acted at the Duke's Theatre by
his Royal Highnesses Servants. 1680. Re-issued in 1681 as Henry the
Sixth, the Second Part, or the Misery of Civil War.
Henry the Sixth, the First Part. With the Murder of Humphrey, Duke of
Glocester, as it was acted at the Duke's Theatre. 1681.
Thyestes. A Tragedy acted at the Theatre Royal 1681.
City Politiques. A Comedy as it is acted by his Majesty's Servants. 1683.
Sir Courtly Nice, or It cannot be. A Comedy as it is acted by his Majesties
Servants. 1685. Translated into German. Bremen, 1767.
Darius, King of Persia. A Tragedy as it is acted by their Majesties Servants.
1688.
The English Frier, or the Town Sparks. A Comedy as it is acted by their
Majesty's Servants. 1690.
Regulus. À Tragedy as it is acted by their Majesties Servants. 1694. Pro
duced in 1692.
The Married Beau, or the Curious Impertinent. A Comedy acted at the
Theatre Royal by their Majesties Servants. 1694.
Caligula. A Tragedy as it is acted at the Theatre Royal by his Majesty's
Servants. 1698.
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Bibliography
(2) Other Works
Pandion and Amphigenia, or the history of the coy Lady of Thessalia.
Adorned with sculptures. 1665.
A Poem on the lamented death of king Charles the II. With a Congratula-
tion to the happy succession of king James the II. 1685
Doneids. An heroique poem in four cantos. 1692. [Trans. from the Lutrin
of Boileau, with alterations and suppressions. ]
The history of the famous love between a fair noble Parisian Lady, and
a beautiful young Singing-Man. An heroic poem in four cantos, being
an imitation of Virgil's Dido and Æneas. 1692.
JOHN DENNIS
A Plot and No Plot. A Comedy, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal, Drury
Lane. [1697. ]
Rinaldo and Armida. A Tragedy, acted at Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields.
1699.
Iphigenia. A Tragedy, acted at the Theatre in Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields.
1700.
The Comical Gallant, or the Amours of Sir John Falstaffe. A Comedy, as it
is acted at the Theatre Royal, in Drury Lane, by His Majesty's Servants.
1702. [Altered from The Merry Wives of Windsor. ]
Liberty Asserted. A Tragedy, as it is acted at the New Theatre in Little
Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. 1704.
Gibraltar, or The Spanish Adventure. A Comedy. 1705.
Appius and Virginia. A Tragedy, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in
Drury Lane, by Her Majesty's Sworn Servants. [1709. ) [Adapted from
Webster. ]
The Invader of his Country, or The Fatal Resentment. A Tragedy. 1720.
See, also, bibliography to chap. vi B, ante.
Thomas GOFFE (1591-1629)
The Raging Turke; or, Bajazet the Second. 1631. Rptd 1656.
GEORGE GRANVILLE, LORD LANSDOWNE
The She-Gallants. A Comedy, as it is acted at the Theatre in Little
Lincoln's-Inn-Fields by His Majesty's Servants. 1696.
Heroick Love. A Tragedy, as it is acted at the Theatre in Little Lincoln's
Inn-Fields. 1698.
The Jew of Venice. A Comedy. 1701.
The British Enchanters, or No Magic like Love. A Tragedy, as it is acted
at the Queen's Theatre in the Hay-Market by Her Majesty's Sworn
Servants. 1706.
Three Plays, viz. The She-Gallants, Heroick Love, and the Jew of Venice.
1713.
Four Plays, viz. Heroick Love, The Jew of Venice, The She-Gallants, The
British Enchanters. 1732.
JOSEPH HARRIS (A. 1666-1699)
The Mistakes, or The False Report. 1691.
Love's a Lottery. 1699.
