The Works Of John Dryden Vol 15 Of 18
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Author | : John Dryden |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1990-05-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520905334 |
For the first time since 1695, a complete text of De Arte Graphica as Dryden himself wrote it is available to readers. In all, Volume XX presents six pieces written during Dryden's final decade, each of them either requested by a friend or commissioned by a publisher. Two are translations, three introduce translations made by others, and the sixth introduces an original work by one of Dryden's friends. The most recent version of De Arte Graphica, Saintsbury's late nineteenth-century reissue of Scott's edition, based the text of the translated matter on an edition that was heavily revised by someone other than Dryden. In fact, only one of the pieces offered here, the brief Character of Saint-Evremond, has appeared complete in a twentieth-century edition. The commentary in this volume supplies biographical and bibliographical contexts for these pieces and draws attention to the views on history and historians, poetry and painting, Virgil and translation, which Dryden expresses in them. Many other volumes of prose, poetry, and plays are available in the California Edition of The Works of John Dryden.
Author | : John Dryden |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 2023-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520905261 |
Volumes V and VI concern Dryden's most involved labor: the complete translation of Virgil into English. Volume VI contains books 7-12 of The Aeneid, as well as commentary and textual notes to the full works of Virgil translated in these two volumes.
Author | : John Dryden |
Publisher | : Edinburgh, Paterson |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : John Dryden |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1956-05 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0520003586 |
This volume contains the poems of Dryden extending from 1649 to 1680. Along with the poems of Dryden and associated extensive commentaries and textual notes from the editors, this volume contains the dramatic prologues and epilogues Dryden wrote for the plays of other writers from this period of time.
Author | : John Dryden |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2023-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520905113 |
Volume X contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: The Tempest, Tyrannick Love, and An Evening's Love.
Author | : John Dryden |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 2023-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520915127 |
In the last decade of Dryden's life, he brought four new works before the theatre-going public: a dramatic opera, a tragedy, a tragicomedy, and a number of appendages to an old comedy by John Fletcher, which was revived partly so that Dryden might have the author's third-night profits. He died that night, but his family received the money. The dramatic opera, King Arthur, benefited from a fine score by Henry Purcell and has remained in the operatic repertoire to this day. Cleomenes, the tragedy, was banned until Dryden was able to convince Queen Mary that it did not reflect any seditious sympathy with the exiled James II, after which it was successful. The fate of Love Triumphant, the tragicomedy, was different; possibly because of a growing swell of moral reform, the play was universally damned, even though its themes of incest and miscellaneous fornication had never brought rejection to Dryden in the past. The Secular Masque, Dryden's principal contribution to The Pilgrim by Fletcher, had undistinguished music, but its lively verse and broad review of the previous century kept the piece on the stage for the next fifty years, and in anthologies up to the present.
Author | : John Dryden |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 1008 |
Release | : 2023-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 052090527X |
Dryden's last three years of published works begin with Alexander's Feast and end with Fables, his largest miscellany of poetical translations. Alexander's Feast, like the earlier Song for St. Cecilia's Day (Works, III), was commissioned by the Musical Society for performance at its annual tribute to sacred music. The Fables included selections from Homer, Ovid, Boccaccio, and Chaucer. Extensive and detailed notes to these translations show readers how well Dryden succeeded in transmitting the styles and the very sounds of his originals. Volume VII ends with a section of miscellaneous pieces published at other times, including Dryden's only known Latin work. The presentation of the writings in this volume, like that of the entire twenty-volume series, is a tribute not only to Dryden but also to the editors who have guided it through five decades.
Author | : John Dryden |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 653 |
Release | : 1993-03-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520911636 |
Kept women, comic clerics, and political schemers enliven the four plays in this volume of the California Dryden. Dryden asserted that The Kind Keeper was a moral play, dedicated to exposing the "crying sin" of keeping a mistress. The production was closed after three nights, but whether because of the play's success in moralizing, or in exposing, is hard to know.
Author | : John Dryden |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 547 |
Release | : 1972-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520905199 |
This collection of prose writing from the pen of Dryden dates from 1668 to 1691, and contains work that the editors describe as "a sampler of Dryden as biographer-historian, political commentator, religious controversialist, literary polemicist, literary theorist, and practical critic. Among the works contained here is his "Essay of Dramatick Poesie."
Author | : John Dryden |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2024-03-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520905326 |
This volume contains Dryden's 1688 translation of Dominiques Bouhours "The Life of St. Francis Xavier," a sixteenth century Jesuit and missionary to the Far East.