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Drydens Exemplary Drama
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Book Synopsis Dryden's Exemplary Drama by : Richard Seltzer
Download or read book Dryden's Exemplary Drama written by Richard Seltzer and published by B&R Samizdat Express. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of Dryden's "heroic" plays, which were immensely popular in his day (the Restoration) but are now very difficult to appreciate. Examining the meaning of the characters and their typical verbiage in the context of Dryden's time, the author seeks insight into the broader issue of changes in literary taste. He also touches on why Dryden and his contemporaries found Shakespeare primitive and unreadable, and why they felt his plays needed to be rewritten.
Book Synopsis English Drama by : Felix Emmanuel Schelling
Download or read book English Drama written by Felix Emmanuel Schelling and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Dryden written by P. Hammond and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-06-25 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Dryden was England's most outstanding and controversial writer for the last four decades of the seventeenth century. He dominated the literary world as a satirist, a skilled and versatile dramatist, a pioneer of literary criticism, a writer of religious poetry, and an eloquent translator from the great classical poets. The present book discusses Dryden's career both chronologically and thematically, taking issue with his enemies' denigration of his integrity, and revealing him as a subtle, passionate and sceptical writer.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden by : Steven N. Zwicker
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden written by Steven N. Zwicker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-20 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis British Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan by : George Winchester Stone
Download or read book British Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan written by George Winchester Stone and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representative selections from Restoration and eighteenth-century drama, comedy, satire, tragedy, and farce are prefaced by descriptions of the theaters, acting styles, methods of play production, and audiences.
Download or read book John Dryden written by David J. Latt and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Patterns and Perspectives in English Renaissance Drama by : Eugene M. Waith
Download or read book Patterns and Perspectives in English Renaissance Drama written by Eugene M. Waith and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays bring attention to the designs that the English Renaissance playwrights imposed on their work. Among the patterns explored are those inspired by the literature, drama, or poetics of classical times and visual patterns derived from traditions of stage presentation.
Book Synopsis The Restoration: drama; Dryden by : David Daiches
Download or read book The Restoration: drama; Dryden written by David Daiches and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Anglo-Saxon times to the present, the poetry, prose, and dramatic achievements of each period in English literature.
Book Synopsis Chaucer to Dryden by : Thomas Seccombe
Download or read book Chaucer to Dryden written by Thomas Seccombe and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of John Dryden, Volume X by : John Dryden
Download or read book The Works of John Dryden, Volume X written by John Dryden and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume X contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: The Tempest, Tyrannick Love, and An Evening's Love.
Book Synopsis English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century, 1642-1780 by : George Henry Nettleton
Download or read book English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century, 1642-1780 written by George Henry Nettleton and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1642-1780) by : George Henry Nettleton
Download or read book English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1642-1780) written by George Henry Nettleton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Horror Plays of the English Restoration by : Anne Hermanson
Download or read book The Horror Plays of the English Restoration written by Anne Hermanson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decade after the Restoration of Charles II, a disturbing group of tragedies, dubbed by modern critics the horror or the blood-and-torture villain tragedies, burst onto the London stage. Ten years later they were gone - absorbed into the partisan frenzy which enveloped the theatre at the height of the Exclusion Crisis. Despite burgeoning interest, until now there has been no full investigation into why these deeply unsettling plays were written when they were and why they so fascinated audiences for the period that they held the stage. The author’s contention is that the genre of horror gains its popularity at times of social dislocation. It reflects deep schisms in society, and English society was profoundly unsettled and in a (delayed) state of shock from years of social upheaval and civil conflict. Through recurrent images of monstrosity, madness, venereal disease, incest and atheism, Hermanson argues that the horror dramatists trope deep-seated and unresolved anxieties - engaging profoundly with contemporary discourse by abreacting the conspiratorial climate of suspicion and fear. Some go as far as to question unequivocally the moral and political value of monarchy, vilifying the office of kingship and pushing ideas of atheism further than in any drama produced since Seneca. This study marks the first comprehensive investigation of these macabre tragedies in which playwrights such as Nathaniel Lee, Thomas Shadwell, Elkanah Settle, Thomas Otway and the Earl of Rochester take their audience on an exploration of human iniquity, thrusting them into an examination of man’s relationship to God, power, justice and evil.
Book Synopsis Selected Dramas of John Dryden by : John Dryden
Download or read book Selected Dramas of John Dryden written by John Dryden and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Othello written by Virginia Mason Vaughan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-12-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Othello has exercised a powerful fascination over audiences for centuries with its portrayal of destructive jealousy. This study is a major exercise in the historicisation of Othello in which the author examines contemporary writings and demonstrates how they were embedded in the text of Othello: discourse about conflict between Turk and Venetian treatises on the professionalisation of England's military forces, representations of Africans and blackamoors, and narratives depicting jealous husbands. The second section traces Othello's history in England and the United States from the Restoration to the late 1980s, using illustrations where appropriate. Each chapter highlights a specific historical period, actor or production to demonstrate how and why elements from Shakespeare's text were emphasised or repressed. Othello is revealed as a significant shaper of cultural meaning.
Book Synopsis Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689 by : Hero Chalmers
Download or read book Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689 written by Hero Chalmers and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-10-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royalist Women Writers aims to put women back on the map of seventeenth-century royalist literature from which they have habitually been marginalised. Looking in detail at the work of Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn, it argues that their writings inaugurate a more assertive model of the Englishwoman as literary author, which is crucially enabled by their royalist affiliations. Chalmers reveals new political sub-texts in the three writers' work and shows how these inflect their representations of gender. In this way both their texts and manner of presenting themselves as authors emerges as freshly pertinent to their male and female royalist contemporaries for whom supporting them could be an act of political self-definition.
Book Synopsis The correspondence of John Dryden by : Stephen Bernard
Download or read book The correspondence of John Dryden written by Stephen Bernard and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The correspondence of John Dryden is the definitive edition of the letters of the most important playwright and poet of the late seventeenth century. He defined an age and his newly transcribed disparate correspondence is placed in the context of contemporaneous and current debates about literature, politics and religion. It is also the most important account of the relationship between an author and his bookseller of the time. The illustrated correspondence contains a full biographical, textual introduction and calendar of letters. It is transcribed diplomatically and structured chronologically, with contextualising sections about particular correspondences. The readership will be undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students and academics with an interest in seventeenth century literature, politics, religion and culture. The editor won the MLA Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters.
