All for Love (Regents Restoration Drama) (Regents Restoration Drama Series) - Softcover

Dryden, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803253796 ISBN 13: 9780803253797

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1972

Synopsis

Although John Dryden the poet is best known for his alexandrine epics, John Dryden the playwright is most honored for this blank verse tragedy. The summit of Dryden's dramatic art, All For Love (1677) is a spectacle of passion as felt, feared, and disputed in the suspicious years following the English Civil War.

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Synopsis:

Although John Dryden the poet is best known for his alexandrine epics, John Dryden the playwright is most honored for this blank verse tragedy. The summit of Dryden's dramatic art, "All for Love" (1677) is a spectacle of passion as felt, feared, and disputed in the suspicious years following the English Civil War. Due to its dramatic compression and elegance, "All for Love" is one of the most enduring plays of the Restoration repertory. It was so successful that in the eighteenth century Dryden's tragedy drove Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra from the stage. The play depicts the catastrophic passion of Cleopatra and Marc Antony, who could not be conquered but by love. Fidelity to family and friends, adherence to codes of honor, national loyalties, and the rule of law compete with each other, tearing the world with violence.

About the Author:

Vinton A. Dearing, editor of the California Dryden edition, is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0803253796
• ISBN 13: 9780803253797
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184
• Editor: Vieth David M.