Volume VIII contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: Wild Gallant, Rival Ladies, and Indian Queen.
The presentation of the writings in this volume, like that of the entire twenty-volume series, is a tribute not only to Dryden but also to the editors who have guided it through five decades.
The notice there says: “Perform'd at Stationers-Hall, on MONDAY, November 22. 1697.” Alexander's Feast was subsequently performed on 9 December at Thomas Hickford's dancing school in Panton Street, and on 16 December in York Buildings ...
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 book explores the many ways in which the work of Dr. Pettigrew has fostered new developments in the field, with each chapter presenting both Dr. Pettigrew's landmark work as well as the most recent and relevant advances.
The newly commissioned essays introduce readers to the full range of his work as a poet, as a writer of innovative plays and operas, as a purveyor of contemporary notions of empire, and most of all as a man intimate with the opportunities ...
Reproduction of the original: The Works of John Dryden by Walter Scott
Volume VI contains books 7-12 of The Aeneid, as well as commentary and textual notes to the full works of Virgil translated in these two volumes.
Selected Poetry and Prose
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
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