Author: John Dryden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Works of John Dryden: Life
Author: John Dryden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Indian Queen
Author: John Dryden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
The first true "heroic" drama in England, this 1664 tragedy in a French baroque ramantic novel set among the Aztecs and Incas. With oversize sentiments, settings and derring-do, it is grand opera in heroic couplets.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
The first true "heroic" drama in England, this 1664 tragedy in a French baroque ramantic novel set among the Aztecs and Incas. With oversize sentiments, settings and derring-do, it is grand opera in heroic couplets.
The Life of Alexander the Great
Author: Plutarch
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 1588363473
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father’s empire through-out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander’s prediction that the new king “should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.” The Life of Alexander the Great is one of the first surviving attempts to memorialize the achievements of this legendary king, remembered today as the greatest military genius of all time. This exclusive Modern Library edition, excerpted from Plutarch’s Lives, is a riveting tale of honor, power, scandal, and bravery written by the most eminent biographer of the ancient world.
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 1588363473
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father’s empire through-out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander’s prediction that the new king “should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.” The Life of Alexander the Great is one of the first surviving attempts to memorialize the achievements of this legendary king, remembered today as the greatest military genius of all time. This exclusive Modern Library edition, excerpted from Plutarch’s Lives, is a riveting tale of honor, power, scandal, and bravery written by the most eminent biographer of the ancient world.
The Poetical Works of John Dryden
Author: John Dryden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Memoirs of John Dryden
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The Poetical Works of John Dryden
Author: John Dryden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
All for Love
Author: John Dryden
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803253797
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
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.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803253797
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
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.
Selected Poems of John Dryden
Author: John Dryden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Memoirs of John Dryden
Author: Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Daisy Dryden
Author: Mrs. S. H. Dryden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description