Bibliographics

This is a table of authors, titles, dates and other bibliographic information; it is a list metadata describing the content of your study carrel. Think of it as your library.

id	author	title	date	words	sentences	pages	cache	text
A29842	Baker, Richard, Sir, 1568-1645.	Theatrum redivivum, or, The theatre vindicated by Sir Richard Baker, in answer to Mr. Pryn''s Histrio-mastix ...	1662	28579	8398	nan	./cache/A29842.xml	./txt/A29842.txt
A28844	Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 1627-1704.	Maxims and reflections upon plays (In answer to a discourse, Of the lawfullness and vnlawfullness of plays. Printed before a late play entituled, Beauty in distress.) Written in French by the Bp. of Meaux. And now made English. The preface by another hand.	1699	37548	11188	nan	./cache/A28844.xml	./txt/A28844.txt
A51496	Caffaro, Francesco, ca. 1650-1720.	Beauty in distress as it is acted at the theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields by His Majesties servants / written by Mr. Motteux ; with a discourse of the lawfulness & unlawfulness of plays, lately written 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	476825	77846	nan	./cache/A51496.xml	./txt/A51496.txt
A32678	Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	Whereas complaint hath often been made to us that divers persons do rudely press and with evil language and blows force their way into our theatres ... at the time of their public representations and actings, without paying the price established ...	1673	1334	194	nan	./cache/A32678.xml	./txt/A32678.txt
A33919	Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.	A short view of the immorality, and profaneness of the English stage together with the sense of antiquity upon this argument / by Jeremy Collier ...	1698	63399	21565	nan	./cache/A33919.xml	./txt/A33919.txt
A33903	Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.	A defence of The short view of the profaneness and immorality of the English stage, &c. being a reply to Mr. Congreve''s Amendments, &c. and to the vindication of the author of The relapse / by Jeremy Collier ...	1699	35087	11416	nan	./cache/A33903.xml	./txt/A33903.txt
A33918	Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.	A second defence of the Short view of the prophaneness and immorality of the English stage, &c. being a reply to a book, entituled, The ancient and modern stages surveyed, &c. / by Jeremy Collier ...	1700	36917	12295	nan	./cache/A33918.xml	./txt/A33918.txt
A35682	Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726. Short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage.	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. / by Mr. Dennis.	1698	26798	7578	nan	./cache/A35682.xml	./txt/A35682.txt
A36512	Drake, James, 1667-1707.	The antient and modern stages survey''d, or, Mr. Collier''s view of the immorality and profaness of the English stage set in a true light wherein some of Mr. Collier''s mistakes are rectified, and the comparative morality of the English stage is asserted upon the parallel.	1699	76373	23373	nan	./cache/A36512.xml	./txt/A36512.txt
B03016	England and Wales. Parliament.	An ordinance of both Hovses of Parliament for the suppressing of publike stage-playes throughout the kingdome, during these calamitous times.	1642	682	118	nan	./cache/B03016.xml	./txt/B03016.txt
A41298	Filmer, Edward, b. ca. 1657.	A Defence of dramatick poetry being a review of Mr. Collier''s View of the immorality and profaneness of the stage.	1698	24951	7990	nan	./cache/A41298.xml	./txt/A41298.txt
A41299	Filmer, Edward, b. ca. 1657.	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 / done by the same hand.	1698	16474	5231	nan	./cache/A41299.xml	./txt/A41299.txt
A39719	Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?	Love''s kingdom a pastoral trage-comedy : not as it was acted at the theatre near Lincolns-Inn, but as it was written, and since corrected / by Richard Flecknoe ; with a short treatise of the English stage, &c. by the same author.	1664	237360	68861	nan	./cache/A39719.xml	./txt/A39719.txt
A49536	Gildon, Charles, 1665-1724.	The lives and characters of the English dramatick poets also an exact account of all the plays that were ever yet printed in the English tongue, their double titles, the places where acted, the dates when printed, and the persons to whom dedicated, with remarks and observations on most of the said plays / first begun by Mr. Langbain ; improv''d and continued down to this time, by a careful hand.	1699	80325	27727	nan	./cache/A49536.xml	./txt/A49536.txt
A50839	Hammond, Anthony, 1668-1738.	A letter to A.H. Esq., concerning the stage	1698	6566	1790	nan	./cache/A50839.xml	./txt/A50839.txt
A03185	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	An apology for actors Containing three briefe treatises. 1 Their antiquity. 2 Their ancient dignity. 3 The true vse of their quality. Written by Thomas Heywood.	1612	18776	5813	nan	./cache/A03185.xml	./txt/A03185.txt
A49533	Langbaine, Gerard, 1656-1692.	An account of the English dramatick poets, or, Some observations and remarks on the lives and writings of all those that have publish''d either comedies, tragedies, tragi-comedies, pastorals, masques, interludes, farces or opera''s in the English tongue by Gerard Langbaine.	1691	145996	50552	nan	./cache/A49533.xml	./txt/A49533.txt
A10187	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	Histrio-mastix The players scourge, or, actors tragædie, divided into two parts. Wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers arguments, by the concurring authorities and resolutions of sundry texts of Scripture ... That popular stage-playes ... are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles, and most pernicious corruptions; condemned in all ages, as intolerable mischiefes to churches, to republickes, to the manners, mindes, and soules of men. And that the profession of play-poets, of stage-players; together with the penning, acting, and frequenting of stage-playes, are unlawfull, infamous and misbeseeming Christians. All pretences to the contrary are here likewise fully answered; and the unlawfulnes of acting, of beholding academicall enterludes, briefly discussed; besides sundry other particulars concerning dancing, dicing, health-drinking, &c. of which the table will informe you. By William Prynne, an vtter-barrester of Lincolnes Inne.	1633	516703	188290	nan	./cache/A10187.xml	./txt/A10187.txt
A57291	Ridpath, George, d. 1726.	The stage condemn''d, and the encouragement given to the immoralities and profaneness of the theatre, by the English schools, universities and pulpits, censur''d King Charles I Sundays mask and declaration for sports and pastimes on the Sabbath, largely related and animadverted upon : 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 Emperours concerning drama, faithfully deliver''d : together with the censure of the English state and of the several antient and modern divines of the Church of England upon the stage, and remarks on diverse late plays : as also on those presented by the two universities to King Charles I.	1698	66254	20841	nan	./cache/A57291.xml	./txt/A57291.txt