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William Congreve
William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
In response to the public campaign against the perceived immorality of contemporary comedies, led by Jeremy Collier in his 1698 tract A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, William Congreve published a direct rebuttal titled Amendments of Mr. Collier’s False and Imperfect Citations (1698).12