A defence of dramatick poetry: being a review of Mr. Collier's View of the immorality and profaneness of the stage.

All titles

• A defence of dramatick poetry: being a review of Mr. Collier's View of the immorality and profaneness of the stage.
• Defence of dramatick poetry
• Review of Mr. Collier

People / Organizations

• Elkanah Settle (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for Eliz. Whitlock, near Stationer's Hall, 1698.

Publication year

1698-1698

ESTC No.

R202014

Grub Street ID

79289

Description

[16], 118, [2]; [8], 72 p. ; 8⁰

Note

Dedication signed by Elkanah Settle. Sometimes also attributed to Edward Filmer and to Thomas Rymer. Variant: dedication signed "E.S." (the initials hand-stamped).

Half-title reads: A review of Mr. Collier.

A corrected reprinting of part 1 (Wing S2675bA), with a four-leaf dedication A? inserted after [A]2, and part 2, "A farther defence of dramatick poetry" (Wing S2682A), added. Some pages in part 1 have been reset; E5r line 4 up has "Musick-House?".

On A4v: ".. the distrust of my own merits chose .. to let my first part of this unfinish'd piece start alone into the world. But now the reception it has met, has more hardned my courage to present it to Your Lordship. .. I thought it my duty not to make Your Lordship any thing less than an intire oblation in this second compleat impression of the whole, ..".

Uncontrolled note

Match to this record only copies containing the reprint of part 1, or copies of the reprint of part 1 alone. Mixed copies should be matched to the records for the constituent parts