Whether for love or ambition, for parental approval or reasons of state, marriage has complicated the lives of all who enter into it. First performed in 1671, Dryden's Marriage a la Mode portrays the motives high and low that make marriage the pivotal institution of a nation. Like Dryden's best tragicomedies, Marriage a la Mode has a double plot. The hopes that marriage excites and the regrets it suffers, the possibilities it opens and the opportunities it denies, its potential nobility and its vulnerability to decay provided Dryden with plentiful dramatic material. Comedy and pathos...

Dryden's retelling of Antony and Cleopatra story as a heroic tragedy.

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All for Love or, the World Well Lost, is a heroic drama by John Dryden. Today, it is Dryden's best-known and most performed play. It is a tragedy written in blank verse and is an attempt on Dryden's part to reinvigorate serious drama. It is an acknowledged imitation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, and focuses on the last hours of the lives of its hero and heroine.

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Originally published in 1911 and part of the English Literature for Schools series, this book contains three books from the 1697 edition of John Dryden's translation of Virgil's Aeneid. Hamilton Thompson supplies an introduction on the history of the Aeneid and Dryden's translation of it, as well as critical notes on variations in the translation's text. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of Classical education.