The Works of John Dryden, Volume XII: Plays Ambboyna, The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe 1st Edition A. Dearing (Editor)

Works of John Dryden. Volume 12 Plays: Ambboyna. The State of Innocence. Aureng-Zebe – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780520913646,0520913647

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• ISBN 10: 0520913647
• ISBN 13:9780520913646
• Author: John Dryden
  

The three plays in this volume, composed between 1672 or 1673 and 1675, demonstrate Dryden’s versatility and inventiveness as a dramatist. Amboyna, a tragedy written to stir the English to prosecute the Third Dutch War, describes the destruction by the Dutch of English trading posts on two Indonesian islands. Regarded in its time as sensationalist, it is really a dignified drama that decries violence. The State of Innocence, termed an opera, is a rhymed version of Milton’s Paradise Lost. Though never performed or set to music, it became one of Dryden’s most widely read dramas. Aureng-Zebe, the last and generally considered the best of Dryden’s rhymed heroic plays, portrays the rise to power of Mogul emperor Aureng-Zebe (1618-1707).

Table contents:

1. AMBOYNA OR THE CRUELTIES OF THE DUTCH TO THE ENGLISH MERCHANTS
2. THE STATE OF INNOCENCE AND FALL OF MAN
3. AURENG-ZEBE
4. COMMENTARY
5. TEXTUAL NOTES

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