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Jeremy Collier ( / ˈkɒliər /; 23 September 1650 – 26 April 1726) was an English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian. Life. Born Jeremiah Collier, in Stow cum Quy, Cambridgeshire, Collier was educated at Caius College, University of Cambridge, receiving the BA (1673) and MA (1676).
Jeremy Collier was an English bishop and leader of the Nonjurors (clergy who refused to take the oaths of allegiance to William III and Mary II in 1689 and who set up a schismatic episcopalian church) and the author of a celebrated attack on the immorality of the stage.
In March 1698, Jeremy Collier published his anti-theatre pamphlet, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage; in the pamphlet, Collier attacks a number of playwrights: William Wycherley, John Dryden, William Congreve, John Vanbrugh, and Thomas D'Urfey.
Jeremy Collier (1650–1726) was a clergyman who refused to swear allegiance to William III and Mary II after the revolution of 1688. In 1696 he was outlawed for publicly absolving two prisoners involved in a plot to assassinate William III.
Jeremy Collier (born Sept. 23, 1650, Stow by Quy, Cambridgeshire, Eng.—died April 26, 1726, London) was an English bishop and leader of the Nonjurors (clergy who refused to take the oaths of allegiance to William III and Mary II in 1689 and who set up a schismatic episcopalian church) and the author of a celebrated attack on the immorality of th...
Jeremy Collier. (1650—1726) anti-theatrical polemicist and bishop of the nonjuring Church of England. Quick Reference. (1650–1726), became a non‐juring bishop in 1713.
Jeremy Collier has 114 books on Goodreads with 324 ratings. Jeremy Collier’s most popular book is A short view of the immorality and profaneness of the E...
