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  2. Aureng-zebe - Wikipedia

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    Aureng-zebe is a Restoration drama by John Dryden, written in 1675. It is based loosely on the figures of Aurangzeb (Aureng-zebe), the then-reigning Mughal emperor of India; his brother, Murad Baksh (Morat); and their father, Shah Jahan (Emperor). The piece is the last drama that Dryden wrote in rhymed verse.

  3. Aurangzeb - Wikipedia

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    Aurangzeb has prominently featured in the following books 1675 – Aureng-zebe , play by John Dryden , written and performed on the London stage during the Emperor's lifetime. 1688 – Alamgirnama by Mirza Mohammed Qasim official biographer at Aurangzeb's court [ 287 ]

  4. History of Aurangzib - Wikipedia

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    History of Aurangzib is a book in five volumes by Indian historian Jadunath Sarkar about the Mughal ruler Aurangzeb. The book is considered to be the magnum opus of Jadunath Sarkar and was written between 1912 and 1924. [1] It has been called the most authoritative account of Aurangzeb. [2] [3]

  5. John Dryden - Wikipedia

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    Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was the rector of All Saints.He was the eldest of fourteen children born to Erasmus Dryden and wife Mary Pickering, paternal grandson of Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Barone t (1553–1632), and wife Frances Wilkes, Puritan landowning gentry who supported the Puritan cause and ...

  6. 1675 in literature - Wikipedia

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    John Dryden – Aureng-zebe; Thomas Duffet – Psyche Debauch'd; Sir Francis Fane – Love in the Dark; Nathaniel Lee – Nero, Emperor of Rome; Sophonisba; Thomas Otway – Alcibiades; Henry Nevil Payne – The Siege of Constantinople; Thomas Shadwell – The Libertine; William Wycherley – The Country Wife

  7. Restoration literature - Wikipedia

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    In tragedy, the leading style in the early Restoration period was the male-dominated heroic drama, exemplified by John Dryden's The Conquest of Granada (1670) and Aureng-Zebe (1675) which celebrated powerful, aggressively masculine heroes and their pursuit of glory both as rulers and conquerors, and as lovers.

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  9. List of artistic works with Orientalist influences - Wikipedia

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    John Dryden, Aureng-zebe (1675), a heroic drama in theory based on the life of the reigning Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb; Antoine Galland – Les mille et une nuits (1704–1717), first European translation of Arabian Nights; François Pétis de la Croix — Les mille et un jours (The Thousand and One Days) (1710–1712)