All for Love

John Dryden

Kessinger Publishing, 2004 - Drama - 132 pages

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.

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Review: All for Love

User Review  - Tony - Goodreads

ALL FOR LOVE. (1678). John Dryden. ***. This play by Dryden (1631-1700) was subtitled, “The World Well Lost,” and was written “in imitation of Shakespeare's style.” It is written in blank verse, and ...

Review: All for Love

User Review  - Rohit Yadav - Goodreads

tremendous love story and a struggle of a hero between honour and love. a woman who has been able to dominate wold's most powerful emperor and politician julius caesar can't resist her true love ...

Contents

• IV: 16
• V: 36
• VI: 56
• VII: 77
• VIII: 103

About the author

Born August 9, 1631 into a wealthy Puritan family, John Dryden received an excellent education at Westminster School and Cambridge University. After a brief period in government, he turned his attention almost entirely to writing. Dryden was one of the first English writers to make his living strictly by writing, but this meant he had to cater to popular taste. His long career was astonishingly varied, and he turned his exceptional talents to almost all literary forms. Dryden dominated the entire Restoration period as a poet, playwright, and all-round man of letters. He was the third poet laureate of England. In his old age Dryden was virtually a literary "dictator" in England, with an immense influence on eighteenth-century poetry. His verse form and his brilliant satires became models for other poets, but they could rarely equal his standard. Dryden was also a master of "occasional" poetry - verse written for a specific person or special occasion. Like most poets of his time, Dryden saw poetry as a way of expressing ideas rather than emotions, which makes his poetry seem cool and impersonal to some modern readers. Dryden also wrote numerous plays that helped him make him one of the leading figures in the Restoration theatre. Today, however he is admired more for his influence on other writers than for his own works. He died on April 30, 1700 in London.

Bibliographic information

• Title: All for Love; Kessinger Publishing's rare reprints
• Author: John Dryden
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, 2004
• ISBN: 141910554X, 9781419105548
• Length: 132 pages
• Subjects: Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh