Jeremy Collier

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Jeremy Collier: Facts & Related Content

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Born	September 23, 1650 • England
Died	April 26, 1726 (aged 75) • London • England
Notable Works	“A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage”
Subjects Of Study	English literature • England • morality

Thomas Sackville, 1st earl of Dorset

English statesman, poet, and dramatist

Thomas Fuller

English scholar, preacher, and author

William Shakespeare

English author

Samuel Johnson

English author

Charles Dickens

British novelist

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

Graham Greene

British author

David Garrick

English actor, poet, and producer

Matthew Arnold

British critic

Henry Fielding

English author

Robert Browning

British poet

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

English poet

John Dryden

British author

Ben Jonson

English writer

Christopher Marlowe

English writer

Sir Philip Sidney

English author and statesman

Joseph Addison

English author

William Congreve

English dramatist

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