Jeremy Collier
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Jeremy Collier was an English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian.
Jeremy Collier
Thomas d'Urfey
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Thomas d'Urfey was an English writer and playwright. He wrote plays, songs, jokes, and poems. He was an important innovator and contributor in the evolution of the ballad opera.
Jeremy Collier
…and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698), which draws for its ammunition mostly on the plays of William Congreve, John Vanbrugh, John Dryden, and Thomas D'Urfey. At the start of the English Civil War (1642) theatres were closed and in 1647 a law was passed to punish anyone who participated in or viewed drama…
Thomas d'Urfey
Memorial to Durfey at St James's Church, Piccadilly