Works of John Dryden v.16
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 appages 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...
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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 appages 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, wa
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Format: papier
Publisher: University of California Press
Edition language: Polski
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