Author: John DrydenPublisher: Edinburgh, Paterson
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Works of John Dryden: Life
Author: John DrydenPublisher: Edinburgh, Paterson
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Eminent Literary and Scientific Men: John Dryden. Two centuries of minor poets. Matthew Prior. Alexander Pope. Edward Young. Mark Akenside
Author: Robert BellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Works of John Dryden, Volume II
Author: John DrydenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520905237
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This volume contains the poems of Dryden extending from 1681 to 1684. 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.
The Major Works
Author: John DrydenPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192840776
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Dryden's poetry and prose - all the major poems in full, literary criticism, and translations - to give theessence of his work and thinking.John Dryden (1631-1700) was the leading writer of his day and a major cultural spokesman following the restoration of Charles II in 1660. His work includes political poems, satire, religious apologias, translations, critical essays and plays. This anthology includes all the major poems such asMacFlecknoe and Absalom and Achitophel as well as Dryden's classical translations; his versions of Homer, Horace, and Ovid are reproduced in full. There are also substantial selections from Dryden's Virgil, Juvenal, and other classical writers. Fables, Ancient and Modern, taken from Chaucer, Ovid,Boccaccio, and Homer, his last and possibly greatest work, also appears in full.
The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden
Author: Steven N. ZwickerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521531443
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
John Dryden, Poet Laureate to Charles II and James II, was one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden s tactics and triumphs in negotiating the extraordinary political and cultural revolutions of his time. The newly commissioned essays introduce readers to the full range of his work as a poet, as a writer of innovative plays and operas, as a purveyor of contemporary notions of empire, and most of all as a man intimate with the opportunities of aristocratic patronage as well as the emerging market for literary gossip, slander and polemic. Dryden s works are examined in the context of seventeenth-century politics, publishing and ideas of authorship. A valuable resource for students and scholars, the Companion includes a full chronology of Dryden s life and times and a detailed guide to further reading.
Marriage A-La-Mode
Author: John DrydenPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408144263
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
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.
All For Love
Author: DrydenPublisher: The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Troilus and Cressida, Or, Truth Found Too Late
Author: John DrydenThe Poetical Works of John Dryden
Author: John DrydenThe Works of John Dryden, Volume XII
Author: John DrydenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520913647
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
The three plays in this volume, composed between 1672 or 1673 and 1675, demonstrate Dryden's versatility and inventiveness as a dramatist. Amboyna, a tragedy written to stir the English to prosecute the Third Dutch War, describes the destruction by the Dutch of English trading posts on two Indonesian islands. Regarded in its time as sensationalist, it is really a dignified drama that decries violence. The State of Innocence, termed an opera, is a rhymed version of Milton's Paradise Lost. Though never performed or set to music, it became one of Dryden's most widely read dramas. Aureng-Zebe, the last and generally considered the best of Dryden's rhymed heroic plays, portrays the rise to power of Mogul emperor Aureng-Zebe (1618-1707).