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John Dryden, who formulated and wrote the heroic drama in the 1670s. Heroic drama is a type of play popular during the Restoration era in England, distinguished by both its verse structure and its subject matter. [1] [2] The subgenre of heroic drama evolved through several works of the middle to later 1660s; John Dryden's The Indian Emperour ...
Pages in category "Plays by John Dryden" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. All for Love (play)
All for Love; or, the World Well Lost, is a 1677 heroic drama by John Dryden which is now his best-known and most performed play. It is dedicated to Earl of Danby.It is a tragedy written in blank verse and is an attempt on Dryden's part to reinvigorate serious drama.
The playwright John Dryden wrote The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards in closed couplets of iambic pentameter, and in the Preface to the printed edition of the play, Dryden proposed a new genre of drama that celebrated heroic figures and heroic actions in metre and rhyme that emphasised the dignity of heroic action.
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The Indian Emperour, or the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, being the Sequel of The Indian Queen is an English Restoration era stage play, a heroic drama written by John Dryden that was first performed in the Spring of 1665. The play has been considered a defining work in the subgenre of heroic drama, in which "rhymed heroic tragedy comes ...
The Rehearsal was a satirical play aimed specifically at John Dryden and generally at the sententious and overly ambitious theatre of the Restoration tragedy.The play was first staged on 7 December 1671 at the Theatre Royal, and published anonymously in 1672, but it is certainly by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and others.
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