• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: 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
  • Work titles: Maximes et réflexions sur la comédie
  • Contributor: Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne [Author]; Collier, Jeremy [Other]
  • Published: London: printed for R. Sare, at Grays-Inn Gate, in Holborne, 1699
    Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999
  • Published in: Early English Books Online / EEBO
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource ([16], 127, 112-118, [2] p)
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Caffaro, Francesco ca. 1650-1720 Lettre d'un théologien consulté par l'auteur pour savoir si la comédie puet être permise ; Theater Religious aspects Early works to 1800 ; Theator Moral and ethical aspects Early works to 1800 ; Theater France History 17th century Early works to 1800
  • Place of reproduction: Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2144:5)
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Augustan Reprint Society: preface only
    Occasioned by Lettre d'un théologien consulté par l'auteur pour savoir si la comédie puet être permise, which has been attributed to Francesco Caffaro
    With a table of contents and a final advertisement leaf
    Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B3786
    Text and register are continuous despite pagination
    A translation of: Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne. Maximes et réflexions sur la comédie
    Reproduction of the original in the British Library
  • Description: eebo-0018