Question
For 10 points each, name these targets of ire in Jeremy Collier’s A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage.
[10e] Collier criticizes this author of Marriage à la Mode and Mac Flecknoe for “making debauch’d persons his Protagonists” and for “making them happy in the Conclusion of the Play.”
ANSWER: John Dryden
[10m] Collier criticizes the characters of Pinchwife and Lady Fidget in this comedy. In this play, Horner remarks that the churchman is the “greatest atheist,” which Collier cites as an example of the abuse of clergy.
ANSWER: The Country Wife (by William Wycherley)
[10h] Collier quotes several “profane” songs from this author’s Comical History of Don Quixote. This author, who collected bawdy songs in the book Wit and Mirth, wrote the play The Campaigners in response to Collier’s attacks.
ANSWER: Thomas D’Urfey [or Tom Durfey]
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