UID:
almafu_9958353251102883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781442674400
Content:
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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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Figures --
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Acknowledgments --
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Contributors --
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Introduction --
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Part I: Enchanted Ground --
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1. Dryden and the Consumption of History --
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2. Dryden, Marvell, and the Design of Political Poetry --
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3. Dryden and Dissent --
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4. The Politics of Pastoral Retreat: Dryden's Poem to His Cousin --
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5. Dryden's Emergence as a Political Satirist --
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6. The Political Economy of All for Love --
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7. Wit, Politics, and Religion: Dryden and Gibbon --
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8. How Many Religions Did John Dryden Have? --
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Part II: The Grounds of Enchantment --
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9. Anxious Comparisons in John Dryden's Troilus and Cressida --
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10. Dryden and the Canon: Absorbing and Rejecting the Burden of the Past --
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11. 'Betwixt two Ages cast': Theatrical Dryden --
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12. Dryden's Baroque Dramaturgy: The Case of Aureng-Zebe --
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13. 'The Rationall Spirituall Part': Dryden and Purcell's Baroque King Arthur --
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14. Dryden's Songs --
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15. Thy Lovers were all untrue': Sexual Overreaching in the Heroic Plays and Alexander's Feast --
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Index
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442674400
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442674400
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442674400
