{"product_id":"all-for-love-von-john-dryden-4","title":"All for Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe age of Elizabeth, memorable for so many reasons in the history of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngland, was especially brilliant in literature, and, within literature, in \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe drama. With some falling off in spontaneity, the impulse to great \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edramatic production lasted till the Long Parliament closed the theaters in \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1642; and when they were reopened at the Restoration, in 1660, the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estage only too faithfully reflected the debased moral tone of the court \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esociety of Charles II. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Dryden (1631-1700), the great representative figure in the literature \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the latter part of the seventeenth century, exemplifies in his work most \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the main tendencies of the time. He came into notice with a poem on \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe death of Cromwell in 1658, and two years later was composing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecouplets expressing his loyalty to the returned king. He married Lady \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Howard, the daughter of a royalist house, and for practically all \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe rest of his life remained an adherent of the Tory Party. In 1663 he \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebegan writing for the stage, and during the next thirty years he attempted \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enearly all the current forms of drama. His \"Annus Mirabilis\" (1666), \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecelebrating the English naval victories over the Dutch, brought him in \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1670 the Poet Laureateship. He had, meantime, begun the writing of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethose admirable critical essays, represented in the present series by his \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface to the \"Fables\" and his Dedication to the translation of Virgil. In \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethese he shows himself not only a critic of sound and penetrating \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ejudgment, but the first master of modern English prose style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9791041989591\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9791041989591","offer_id":48413298262341,"sku":"9791041989591","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/2967ef02-2d6e-4854-9e06-c13191281023.jpg?v=1748067202","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/all-for-love-von-john-dryden-4","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}