At the time of his death in 1700, John Dryden was acknowledged as England's greatest writer, his reputation even rivaling that of Shakespeare. Certainly, whether considered as a poet, a dramatist, or as a critic, Dryden far outstripped his contemporaries in the sheer scope and variety of his literary production. The amazing versatility of his pen was matched only by the transformational energy that shapes individual works, from heroic dramas to great satires.
For Enchanted Ground, Jayne Lewis and Maximillian E. Novak have brought together many of the world's experts on Dryden, and their essays reflect a range of new, uniquely twenty-first-century views of him. The book is divided into two sections. The first explores Dryden's role as a public poet who had made himself the voice of the restored Stuart court. The second considers Dryden's relationship to the arts and particularly to the past and to Shakespeare.
Dryden was a poet for all ages. These essays provide fresh readings of Dryden and bring scholarship on him fully up-to-date.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 821/.4
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Published in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Anderson [i.e. Andrews] Clark Memorial Library Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781442674400 0802089402
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- PR3424
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- E53 2004eb
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- 1 electronic text (xiv, 344 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00601034 (OCoLC)244768719 (CaOOCEL)418605
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Figures 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Contributors 12
- Introduction 18
- PART I: ENCHANTED GROUND 44
- 1 Dryden and the Consumption of History 46
- 2 Dryden, Marvell, and the Design of Political Poetry 67
- 3 Dryden and Dissent 85
- 4 The Politics of Pastoral Retreat: Dryden's Poem to His Cousin 106
- 5 Dryden's Emergence as a Political Satirist 126
- 6 The Political Economy of All for Love 142
- 7 Wit, Politics, and Religion: Dryden and Gibbon 162
- 8 How Many Religions Did John Dryden Have? 186
- PART II: THE GROUNDS OF ENCHANTMENT 198
- 9 Anxious Comparisons in John Dryden's Troilus and Cressida 200
- 10 Dryden and the Canon: Absorbing and Rejecting the Burden of the Past 218
- 11 'Betwixt two Ages cast': Theatrical Dryden 241
- 12 Dryden's Baroque Dramaturgy: The Case of Aureng-Zebe 259
- 13 'The Rationall Spirituall Part': Dryden and Purcell's Baroque King Arthur 288
- 14 Dryden's Songs 305
- 15 'Thy Lovers were all untrue': Sexual Overreaching in the Heroic Plays and Alexander's Feast 333
- Index 352
- A 352
- B 352
- C 353
- D 353
- E 355
- F 355
- G 355
- H 355
- J 356
- K 356
- L 356
- M 356
- N 357
- O 357
- P 357
- Q 357
- R 358
- S 358
- T 358
- U 359
- V 359
- W 359
- Z 359
