John Dryden: Tercentenary Essays

by Paul Hammond, David Hopkins

Overview

This volume is designed to celebrate and re-assess the work of John Dryden (1631-1700) in the tercentenary year of his death. It assembles specially-commissioned essays by an international team of scholars who address Dryden's political writing, drama, and translations, his literary collaborations, contemporary reputation, and posthumous reception.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198186441
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/05/2000
Pages:	429
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

University of Leeds

University of Bristol

Table of Contents

A note on contributorsIntroduction: Is Dryden a classic?, Paul HammondMac Flecknoe, Heir of Augustus, Howard Erskine-HillDryden's Milton and the theatre of imagination, Nicholas von MaltzahnDryden and the staging of popular politics, Paulina KewesConstructing classicism: Dryden and Purcell, Harold LoveDryden and Congreve's collaboration in The Double Dealer, Jennifer BradyAlexander's Feast, or the Power of Music: The poem and its readers, Tom Mason and Adam RounceDryden, Tonson, and the patrons of The Works of Virgil (1697), John Barnard'The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache', Robin Sowerby'According to my Genius': Dryden's translation of 'The First Book of Homer's Ilias', James A. WinnThe final 'Memorial of my own Principles': Dryden's alter egos in his later career, Cedric D. Reverand IIDryden and the dissolution of things: The decay of structures in Dryden's later writing, Steven N. ZwickerEditing, authenticity, and translation: Re-presenting Dryden's poetry in 2000, David HopkinsAppendix: Some contemporary references to Dryden, Paul HammondIndex