Discussion
The pamphlet 'A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage' is penned by :
Answer: C
The pamphlet was written by Jeremy Collier.
Collier, a nonjuring clergyman, published A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage in 1698. He attacked Restoration comedy for indecency, profanity and the mockery of the clergy, and named playwrights including Congreve, Vanbrugh, Dryden and D'Urfey. The pamphlet started a long controversy and helped push comedy towards the more sentimental style of the eighteenth century.
Vanbrugh and D'Urfey were among Collier's targets and replied to him rather than writing the attack. William Prynne wrote an earlier assault on the stage, Histriomastix (1633).
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