This collection of essays offers a variety of perspectives on John Dryden's work and its contexts. A towering literary figure in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Dryden authored a series of highly successful plays and poems, in addition to influential essays of literary criticism.
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"The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden will prove to be a vital resource for seventeenth-century scholars." Renaissance Quarterly
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Dryden was a towering literary figure in the late seventeeth and early eighteenth-centuries, he wad the author of a string of highly successful plays and poems, and influential essays of literary criticsm. This collection of essays offers a variety of perspectives on Dryden's work and the contexts he worked in.
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John Dryden has come down to us through the exemplary practices of literary editing: a large number of uniform volumes, learnedly prefaced, packed with history and explanatory notes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, Dramatic Poesy, Paul Hammond, Religio Laici, Church of England, New Haven, Paradise Lost, Duke of York, Short View, Roman Catholic, Duke of Buckingham, Don Sebastian, King Charles, Marriage A-la-Mode, Jacob Tonson, John Evelyn, Restoration England, City of London, Earl of Rochester, Tercentenary Essays, Will's Coffee House, Sir Robert Howard, Alexander Pope, Astraea Redux New!
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John Dryden has come down to us through the exemplary practices of literary editing: a large number of uniform volumes, learnedly prefaced, packed with history and explanatory notes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
heroic plays, historiographer royal, scribal publication, heroic drama, commendatory poem, imperial imagination, humor characters, manuscript circulation, twelfth book, literary patronage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, Dramatic Poesy, Paul Hammond, Religio Laici, Church of England, New Haven, Paradise Lost, Duke of York, Short View, Roman Catholic, Duke of Buckingham, Don Sebastian, King Charles, Marriage A-la-Mode, Jacob Tonson, John Evelyn, Restoration England, City of London, Earl of Rochester, Tercentenary Essays, Will's Coffee House, Sir Robert Howard, Alexander Pope, Astraea Redux New!
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- Absalom And Achitophel by John Dryden on 56 pages
- John Dryden: Tercentenary Essays by Paul Hammond on 20 pages
- The Indian Emperor by John Dryden on 11 pages
- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on 10 pages
- Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare on 5 pages
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