The Works of John Dryden, Volume XII
The Works of John Dryden, Volume XII

Author: John Dryden

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-11-15

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 0520913647

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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).

The Works of John Dryden, Volume VII
The Works of John Dryden, Volume VII

Author: John Dryden

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1956

Total Pages: 1008

ISBN-13: 0520021231

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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.

The Works of John Dryden, Volume III
The Works of John Dryden, Volume III

Author: John Dryden

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-11-15

Total Pages: 605

ISBN-13: 0520905148

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This 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.

Plays 1682–1696: Volume 4, The Plays 1682–1696
Plays 1682–1696: Volume 4, The Plays 1682–1696

Author: Aphra Behn

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-03-25

Total Pages: 956

ISBN-13: 1108899226

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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.

The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden
The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden

Author: Steven N. Zwicker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-05-20

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780521531443

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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.