John Dryden

A Mrs Aubin, probably PA , received the profits from a benefit performance of Dryden 's The Spanish Friar at Lincoln's Inn Fields .

It gathered together published and unpublished work (some written at boarding-school) both religious and secular: hymns, epistles, odes, pastorals (including an imitation of Anne Killigrew and an elegy for Queen Mary ), praise of King William

In the first of this group of poems, Melissa declares her own inferiority to Fidelia (with a brief survey of other poets including Pope , Buckingham , Prior , Dryden and Finch ).

She defends the reputation of Queen Elizabeth , mentions John Dryden 's dismissal of her in his preface to The Hind and the Panther (published this year) as anti-Catholic, but not one who merits an...

Her title is a near-quotation from the lyric by Dryden which closes The Secular Masque; NL both quotes Dryden and thanks him. Her preface says Madeline Smith—may the earth lie lightly upon her—gave...

AB 's comedy The Widdow Ranter; or, The History of Bacon in Virginia, the first play to be set in British North America, had a posthumous performance at Drury Lane which may have been...

On the death of John Dryden , DM edited The Nine Muses, an all-female collection of elegies on him.

MW has adapted two German plays for English productions: Heinrich von Kleist 's Penthesilea, about the Amazons (1977), and Ernst Toller 's The Blind Goddess (1981). She also adapted Githa Sowerby 's Rutherford and...

The title is a complex allusion to traditional gender roles, specifically to the sex appeal of male martial prowess. John Dryden 's line None but the brave deserve the fair (itself in context a propaganda...

The American title echoes Dryden 's All for Love (Act 4, scene 1): Men are but children of a larger growth. The book is dedicated To Another Father and Mother in gratitude for a wide...

CD 's second novel, Wandering Fires (titled from John Dryden ), appeared the same year as Chaste as Ice, Pure as Snow.

Like most of her peers, MMB maintained a lively correspondence. Some of it is reproduced in A House of Letters, edited by Ernest Betham (though he prints more letters to than from her). She...

LED marked the death from smallpox of her elder grandson with Sions Lamentation, Lord Henry Hastings , His Funerals Blessing.

This volume also included work by Milton , Dryden , Addison , Pope , Carter , and Barbauld .

CAD 's volume of public poems composed as national Laureate, Ritual Lighting, with illustrations by Stephen Raw, was published to coincide with an exhibition of laureates' manuscripts at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh:...