Kept 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.
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Vinton A. Dearing is Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles.
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I CANNOT easily excuse the printing of a Play at so unseasonable a time, when the Great Plot of the Nation, like one of Pharaoh's lean Kine, has devour'd its younger Brethren of the Stage: But however weak my defence might be for this, I am sure I shou'd not need any to the World, for my Dedication to your Lordship; and if you can pardon my presumption in it, that a bad Poet should address himself to so great a Judge of Wit, I may hope at least to scape with the Excuse of Catullus, when he writ to Cicero: Gratias tibi Maximas Catullus Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Kind Keeper, The Vindication, London Stage, The Massacre of Paris, The Wild Gallant, Father Aldo, Love Triumphant, John Dryden, The Man of Mode, Don Sebastian, King of Navarre, French League, Holy League, Sir Fopling, The Alan of Mode, The Medall, Great Rebellion, The State of Innocence, Alphonso Corso, Julian the Apostate, Complete Works, London Spy, Restoration Comedy, City of London, Enter Grillon New!
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I CANNOT easily excuse the printing of a Play at so unseasonable a time, when the Great Plot of the Nation, like one of Pharaoh's lean Kine, has devour'd its younger Brethren of the Stage: But however weak my defence might be for this, I am sure I shou'd not need any to the World, for my Dedication to your Lordship; and if you can pardon my presumption in it, that a bad Poet should address himself to so great a Judge of Wit, I may hope at least to scape with the Excuse of Catullus, when he writ to Cicero: Gratias tibi Maximas Catullus Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Kind Keeper, The Vindication, London Stage, The Massacre of Paris, The Wild Gallant, Father Aldo, Love Triumphant, John Dryden, The Man of Mode, Don Sebastian, King of Navarre, French League, Holy League, Sir Fopling, The Alan of Mode, The Medall, Great Rebellion, The State of Innocence, Alphonso Corso, Julian the Apostate, Complete Works, London Spy, Restoration Comedy, City of London, Enter Grillon New!
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- All for Love (New Mermaids) by John Dryden on 5 pages
- The Beggar's Opera (Penguin Classics) by John Gay on page 519, and Index
- The Old Wives' Tale (Revels Plays Companion Library) by George Peele on page 418, and Index
- A Universal Etymological English Dictionary: Dic Universal Etymological English (Anglistica & Americana Series) by Nathan Bailey on page 415, and Index
- The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century by Robert D. Hume on page 366, and page 511
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- Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity: An Introductory Essay by Michelle Martindale on page 209
- The Tempest (Oxford Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on page 2
- The Tempest: Critical Essays (Shakespeare Criticism) by Patrick M. Murphy on page 77
- Colonial Women: Race and Culture in Stuart Drama by Heidi Hutner in Back Matter
- The Tempest (Shakespeare in Production) by William Shakespeare in Back Matter
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