The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI

Plays: King Arthur, Cleomenes, Love Triumphant, and The Secular Masque and Other Contributions to The Pilgrim

By:

John Dryden

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Hardback

Series:

Works of John Dryden

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In the last decade of Dryden's life, he brought four new works before the theatregoing public: a dramatic opera, a tragedy, a tragicomedy, and a number of appendages to an old comedy by John Fletcher, which was revived partly so that Dryden might have the author's third-night profits. He died that night, but his family received the money. The dramatic opera "King Arthur" benefited from a fine score by Henry Purcell and has remained in the operatic repertoire to this day. "Cleomenes", the tragedy, was banned until Dryden was able to convince Queen Mary that it did not reflect any seditious sympathy with the exiled James II, after which it was successful. The fate of "Love Triumphant", the tragicomedy, was different; possibly because of a growing swell of moral reform, the play was universally damned, even though its themes of incest and miscellaneous fornication had never brought rejection to Dryden in the past. "The Secular Masque", Dryden's principal contribution to "The Pilgrim" by Fletcher, had undistinguished music, but its lively verse and broad review of the previous century kept the piece on the stage for the next 50 years, and in anthologies up to the present.

Author Biography:

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

Release date Australia

February 1st, 1998

Author

John Dryden

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Edited by Vinton A. Dearing

Pages

572

Series

Works of John Dryden

Dimensions

165x241x46

ISBN-13

9780520087668

Product ID

6872037

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