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All for Love; or, the World Well Lost, is a 1677 heroic drama by John Dryden which is now his best-known and most performed play. It is dedicated to Earl of Danby. It is a tragedy written in blank verse and is an attempt on Dryden's part to reinvigorate serious drama.
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All for Love is a tragedy by John Dryden, first performed in 1677. The play is a retelling of the story of Antony and Cleopatra. After his defeat at Actium, Mark Antony...
Dryden became a fierce royalist after the Restoration, and for the rest of his life he remained wary of the dangers of rebellion, civil war, and threats to hierarchical authority—a political stance reflected in All For Love.
John Dryden (1631−1700), the great representative figure in the literature of the latter part of the seventeenth century, exemplifies in his work most of the main tendencies of the time. He came into notice with a poem on the death of Cromwell in 1658, and two years later was composing couplets expressing his loyalty to the returned king.
John Dryden's All For Love is a neoclassical tragedy that retells the story of Antony and Cleopatra. The play deals with themes such as tragic love, honor, political power, and the consequences of uncontrollable passion.
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