Jeremy Collier’s Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698) attacked ______.
A. the practice of mixing tragic and comic themes in Shakespeare’s plays.
B. the bawdiness of “low” characters in Shakespeare’s plays.
C. the coarseness and ugliness of Restoration Theatre.
D. irreligious themes and irreverent attitudes in the plays of the seventeenth century.
Answer:C
Jeremy Collier’s Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698) attacked ______.
A. the practice of mixing tragic and comic themes in Shakespeare’s plays. B. the bawdiness of “low” characters in Shakespeare’s plays. C. the coarseness and ugliness of Restoration Theatre. D. irreligious themes and irreverent attitudes in the plays of the seventeenth century.