The Works of John Dryden, Volume X: Plays: The Tempest, Tyrannick Love, An Evening's Love

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University of California Press, 15. nov 2023 - 576 pages
Volume X contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: The Tempest, Tyrannick Love, and An Evening's Love.
 

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THE TEMPEST OR THE ENCHANTED ISLAND
1
TYRANNICK LOVE OR THE ROYAL MARTYR
103
AN EVENINGS LOVE OR THE MOCKASTROLOGER
193
COMMENTARY
313
STAGING
481
TEXTUAL NOTES
487
APPENDIX
535
INDEX TO THE COMMENTARY
547
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Page 2 - Latin proverb, were not always the least happy. And as his fancy was quick, so likewise were the products of it remote and new. He borrowed not of any other; and his imaginations were such as could not easily enter into any other man.
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John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. Maximillian E. Novak is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. George R. Guffey is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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