The Works of John Dryden: Life
Author: John Dryden
Publisher: Edinburgh, Paterson
Published: 1882
Total Pages: 480
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Author: John Dryden
Publisher: Edinburgh, Paterson
Published: 1882
Total Pages: 480
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Dryden
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1990-05-30
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 0520905334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor 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
Published: 1956
Total Pages: 1008
ISBN-13: 0520021231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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
Published: 2023-11-15
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 0520904834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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
Published: 1993-03-01
Total Pages: 653
ISBN-13: 0520911636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKept 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
Published: 1956
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 0520003608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume IX contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: Indian Emperour, Secret Love, and Sir Martin Mar-All.
Author: John Dryden
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-15
Total Pages: 654
ISBN-13: 0520905261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolumes 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: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-15
Total Pages: 605
ISBN-13: 0520905148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains the poems of Dryden extending from1685 to 1692. 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
Published: 2023-11-15
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780520915121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 1024
ISBN-13: 9780192840776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.