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The Works of John Dryden, Volume V: Poems, 1697 (Works of John Dryden)

Volumes V and VI concern Dryden's most involved labor: the complete translation of Virgil into English. Volume V contains The Pastorals and The Georgics in their entirety; the first six books of The Aeneid is contained as well.

The Indian Emperor

"The Indian Emperor"

This 1665 stage play written by English Poet Laureate John Dryden, revised in 1667, has been adapted to modern play format and combined with additional materials by screenwriter/author Suzanne Alexander. "The Indian Emperor" is a dramatic heroic rhyme play structured in five acts, and while not historically accurate, it provides an interesting look into the 1519 conquest of Mexico by Hernando Cortez.

Dryden chose to craft a love story between Montezuma's daughter Cydaria and Cortez with a supporting cast of characters that includes a scheming set of siblings of the deceased Queen, a noble son of Montezuma and his less noble brother, and a host of warriors, ghosts, and Spanish soldiers. Also included are Dryden's Epistle Dedicatory, Prologue, Epilogue, Cast List, Preface, and Defense of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy, written in response to criticism of his dramatic rhyme style.

The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI: Plays: King Arthur, Cleomenes, Love Triumphant, and The Secular Masque and Other Contributions to The Pilgrim (Works of John Dryden)

In the last decade of Dryden's life, he brought four new works before the theatre-going public: a dramatic opera, a tragedy, a tragicomedy, and a number of appendages to an old comedy by John Fletcher, which was revived partly so that Dryden might have the author's third-night profits. He died that night, but his family received the money. The dramatic opera, King Arthur, benefited from a fine score by Henry Purcell and has remained in the operatic repertoire to this day. Cleomenes, the tragedy, was banned until Dryden was able to convince Queen Mary that it did not reflect any seditious sympathy with the exiled James II, after which it was successful. The fate of Love Triumphant, the tragicomedy, was different; possibly because of a growing swell of moral reform, the play was universally damned, even though its themes of incest and miscellaneous fornication had never brought rejection to Dryden in the past. The Secular Masque, Dryden's principal contribution to The Pilgrim by Fletcher, had undistinguished music, but its lively verse and broad review of the previous century kept the piece on the stage for the next fifty years, and in anthologies up to the present.

Marriage A La Mode (New Mermaids)

New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:

• The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards
• Textual notes recording significant changes to the copytext and variant readings
• Glossing notes explaining obscure words and word-play
• Critical, contextual and staging notes
• Photographs of productions where applicable
• A full introduction which provides a critical account of the play, the staging conventions of the time and recent stage history; discusses authorship, date, sources and the text; and gives guidance for further reading.

Edited and updated by leading scholars and printed in a clear, easy-to-use format, New Mermaids offer invaluable guidance for actor, student, and theatre-goer alike.

All for Love (New Mermaids)

The Works of John Dryden, Volume XV: Plays: Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, Amphitryon (Works of John Dryden)

Volume XV contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, and Amphitryon.

All for Love (Regents Restoration Drama Series)

Although John Dryden the poet is best known for his alexandrine epics, John Dryden the playwright is most honored for this blank verse tragedy. The summit of Dryden's dramatic art, All For Love (1677) is a spectacle of passion as felt, feared, and disputed in the suspicious years following the English Civil War.

Cleopatra. I Am No Queen: Is This To Be A Queen, To Be Besieged By Yon Insulting Roman, And To Wait Each Hour The Victor's Chain? These Ills Are Small: For Antony Is Lost, And I Can Mourn For Nothing Else But Him. Now Come, Ctavius, I Have No More To Lose! Prepare Thy Bands.

The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works (Works of John Dryden)

For the first time since 1695, a complete text of De Arte Graphica as Dryden himself wrote it is available to readers. In all, Volume XX presents six pieces written during Dryden's final decade, each of them either requested by a friend or commissioned by a publisher. Two are translations, three introduce translations made by others, and the sixth introduces an original work by one of Dryden's friends.
The most recent version of De Arte Graphica, Saintsbury's late nineteenth-century reissue of Scott's edition, based the text of the translated matter on an edition that was heavily revised by someone other than Dryden. In fact, only one of the pieces offered here, the brief Character of Saint-Evremond, has appeared complete in a twentieth-century edition. The commentary in this volume supplies biographical and bibliographical contexts for these pieces and draws attention to the views on history and historians, poetry and painting, Virgil and translation, which Dryden expresses in them.
Many other volumes of prose, poetry, and plays are available in the California Edition of The Works of John Dryden.

Of dramatick poesie,: An essay, 1668

A facsimile edition of Dryden's famous essay preceded by a dialogue on poetic drama by T. S. Eliot. This is a very rare work.

Plays: All for Love, Oedipus, Troilus and Cressida (The Works of John Dryden, Vol 13)