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The Works of John Dryden, Volume XII: Plays Ambboyna, The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe [Hardcover]

John Dryden (Author), Vinton A. Dearing (Editor)

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Publication Date: March 15, 1995 | Series: Works of John Dryden

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).

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Vinton A. Dearing is Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles.

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Hardcover: 556 pages
Publisher: University of California Press (March 15, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520082478
ISBN-13: 978-0520082472
Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.5 x 1.8 inches
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AFTER so many Favors, and those so great, Conferr'd on me by Your Lordship these many yeares; which, I may call more properly one Continued Act of Your Generosity and Goodness; I know not whether I should appear either more Ungrateful in my silence, or more Extravagantly Vaine in my endeavours to acknowledge them. Read the first page

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rhymed heroic tragedies, parallel betwixt painting, pretended plot, see headnote, uncorrected state, heroic plays, first citation, see dedication, humane life

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The State of Innocence, Van Herring, Royal Highness, English Man, Enter Beamont, Enter Towerson, Enter Ysabinda, Exit Fiscal, Heroique Poetry, Min Heer, Poetique Licence, Asaph Chan, Cowley's Odes, English Starts, Enter Lucifer, Exit Perez, Fazel Chan, Re-enter Arimant, The Angel, Thusculane Questions

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This book cites 55 books:

All for Love (New Mermaids) by John Dryden on 8 pages
Ovid's Metamorphoses (Fifteen Books in 1) by H. Dryden on 6 pages
The Works of John Dryden (Poetry Library) by John Dryden on 4 pages
The Way Things Are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus by Lucretius on 4 pages
On the Sublime (Texts & Studies in Religion) by Longinus in Back Matter, Index (1), and Index (2)

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