The Works Of John Dryden Volume Xv
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Author | : John Dryden |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2023-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 052090530X |
Volume XV contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, and Amphitryon.
Author | : John Dryden |
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Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : John Dryden |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 1008 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0520021231 |
This is the final volume in The Works of John Dryden and the last volume of poetry written by Dryden before he died in 1700.
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 |
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Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1924 |
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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 |
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Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1752 |
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Author | : Aphra Behn |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 956 |
Release | : 2021-03-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108899226 |
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) is renowned as the first professional woman of literature and drama in English. Her career in the Restoration theatre extended over two decades, encompassing remarkable generic range and diversity. Her last five plays, written and performed between 1682 and 1696, include city comedies (The City-Heiress, The Luckey Chance), a farce (The Emperor of the Moon), a tragicomedy (The Widdow Ranter), and a comedy of family inheritance (The Younger Brother). These plays exemplify Behn's skills in writing for individual performers, and exhibit the topical political engagement for which she is renowned. They witness to Behn's popularity with theatre audiences during the politically and financially difficult years of the 1680s and even after her death. Informed by the most up-to-date research in computational attribution, this fully annotated edition draws on recent scholarship to provide a comprehensive guide to Behn's work, and the literary, theatrical and political history of the Restoration.
Author | : John Dryden |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0520021290 |
The plays of John Dryden.
Author | : John Dryden |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2014-06-13 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1408144263 |
Dryden's audiences in 1671, both aristocratic and middle-class, would have been quick to respond to the themes of disputed royal succession, Francophilia and loyalty among subjects in his most successful tragicomedy. In the tragic plot, written in verse, young Leonidas has to struggle to assert his place as the rightful heir to the throne of Sicily and to the hand of the usurper's daughter. In the comic plot, written in prose, two fashionable couples (much more at home in London drawing-rooms than at the Sicilian court) play at switching partners in the 'modern' style. The introduction of this edition argues that Dryden's own ambivalence about King Charles and his entourage, on whom he came to rely more on more for patronage, manifests itself in both plots; most of all perhaps in the excessively Francophile Melantha, whose affectation cannot quite hide her endearing joie-de-vivre.