Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Wealth and Poverty | Penelope Aubin | A Mrs Aubin, probably PA
, received the profits from a benefit performance of Dryden
's The Spanish Friar at Lincoln's Inn Fields
. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Barker | JB
writes to one male friend (my Adopted Brother) on his approaching marriage, not to congratulate but to dissuade. Barker, Jane. Poetical Recreations. Benjamin Crayle. 11 |
| Textual Production | Jane Barker | The full title-page makes clear how this is not a novel as understood today: A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies; or Love and Virtue Recommended: In a Collection of Instructive Novels. Related After a Manner... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Battier | HB
's mock epithalamium is a close parody of Dryden
's Alexander's Feast, and had the ROYAL Battier, Henrietta. Marriage Ode Royal. Sold at No. 17, Fade Street. title-page |
| Education | Sybille Bedford | The idea had been that Jack and Suzan Robbins should select a boarding school for Sibylle and have her to stay for the holidays. Instead, with the money provided by her family and trustees, they... |
| Performance of text | Aphra Behn | An amateur performance at Court of Dryden
's The Indian Emperor used a prologue which AB
included in her Covent Garden Drolery, but probably did not write. Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press. 210n42 |
| Textual Production | Aphra Behn | 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... |
| Author summary | Aphra Behn | It is difficult to summarise AB
's immense and complex importance for the history of women's writing. Virginia Woolf
said she deserved from all women a tribute of flowers because she was the first to... |
| Textual Features | Aphra Behn | She praised Creech's version (the first available in English) as making ancient learning available to women, whose education (according to the scanted Customs of the Nation) Behn, Aphra. The Works of Aphra Behn. Editor Todd, Janet, William Pickering. 1: 25 |
| Anthologization | Aphra Behn | Apart from many more or less creatively distant imitations, AB
produced several actual translations. Scholars sometimes differ about what to class as largely original and what not. |
| Textual Production | Mary Matilda Betham | 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Eliza Bleecker | She used the writing of the pastoral to build a relationship with Tomhanick, Americanizing the topographical tradition to create a suitable backdrop for the life of a poet. Her work includes meditations on death... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Boyd | The two subsidiary poems are Macareus to Æolus, Done in imitation of Dryden
's Canace to Macareus and Æolus to Pluto. Boyd, Elizabeth. Variety. T. Warner and B. Creake. 77ff, 87ff |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Boyd | A first prologue addresses Pope
, and invokes the ghosts of Shakespeare
(The Wonder, as the Glory of the Land) and Dryden
(Shakespear's Freind) as mentors to EB
's performance in... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Brereton | 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
). |
Timeline
1658: Aurangzeb seized the Mughal (or Mogul) throne,...
National or international item
1658
Aurangzeb
seized the Mughal (or Mogul) throne, becoming Emperor of a territory including most of present-day India and parts of what are now other countries. His near fifty-year rule was less than half over at...
May 1660: John Dryden published Astræa Redux, a poem...
Writing climate item
May 1660
John Dryden
published Astræa Redux, a poem of welcome to the returning Charles II
; he followed it with other monarchist poems.
5 February 1663: John Dryden's first play, The Wild Gallant,...
Writing climate item
5 February 1663
John Dryden
's first play, The Wild Gallant, a comedy, opened on stage.
16 January 1664: The Indian Queen, the first heroic tragedy...
Writing climate item
16 January 1664
The Indian Queen, the first heroic tragedy on the English stage, by John Dryden
and Sir Robert Howard
, opened in London.
: John Dryden's The Indian Emperour (sequel...
Writing climate item
Spring1665
John Dryden
's The Indian Emperour (sequel to The Indian Queen) was first performed in London.
3 June 1665: The English fleet defeated the Dutch in a...
National or international item
3 June 1665
The English fleet defeated the Dutch in a sea-battle fought close enough to shore for the cannonade to be heard in London; John Dryden
set the dialogue of An Essay of Dramatick Poesie (1667...
January or February 1667: John Dryden published his heroic, or epic,...
Writing climate item
January or February 1667
John Dryden
published his heroic, or epic, poemAnnus Mirabilis.
2 March 1667: Dryden's Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen...
Writing climate item
2 March 1667
Dryden
's Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen had its first performance at Drury Lane Theatre
, with Nell Gwyn
in the cast and Samuel Pepys
, Charles II
, and the future James II
in the audience.
August 1667: John Dryden published An Essay of Dramatick...
Writing climate item
August 1667
John Dryden
published An Essay of Dramatick Poesie, bearing the title-page date of 1668.
13 April 1668: Six days after the death of Sir William Davenant,...
Writing climate item
13 April 1668
Six days after the death of Sir William Davenant
, the Poet Laureate, John Dryden
was appointed to fill the position.
7 November 1670: The joint operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's...
Writing climate item
7 November 1670
The joint operatic adaptation of Shakespeare
's The Tempest by John Dryden
and the late Sir William Davenant
was first staged.
December 1671: The Rehearsal, containing Buckingham's merciless...
Writing climate item
December 1671
The Rehearsal, containing Buckingham
's merciless satirical portrait of Dryden
, finally reached the stage.
By 17 November 1675: John Dryden's heroic tragedy Aureng-Zebe...
Writing climate item
By 17 November 1675
John Dryden
's heroic tragedyAureng-Zebe had its first performance.
12 December 1677: John Dryden's tragedy All for Love; or, The...
Writing climate item
12 December 1677
John Dryden
's tragedyAll for Love; or, The World Well Lost (a blank-verse re-writing of Shakespeare
's Antony and Cleopatra) received its first known (perhaps not its first) performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
.
1680: John Dryden, with others, published a collaborative...
Writing climate item
1680
John Dryden
, with others, published a collaborative versetranslation of Ovid
's Epistles (or Heroides).
Texts
Dryden, John. “Biographical Table”. Dryden: Poetry, Prose and Plays, edited by Douglas Grant, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952.
Dryden, John. Dryden, Poetry, Prose and Plays. Editor Grant, Douglas, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952.
Dryden, John. Selected Poetry and Prose of John Dryden. Editor Miner, Earl, The Modern Library, 1985.
Dryden, John. The Letters of John Dryden: With Letters Addressed to Him. Editor Ward, Charles E., Duke University Press, 1942.