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 .

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...

It gathered together published and unpublished work (some written at boarding-school) both religious and secular: hymns, epistles, odes, pastorals (including an imitation of Anne Killigrew and an elegy for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

SC contributed an elegy to The Nine Muses, the volume which Delarivier Manley edited on the death of John Dryden .

ET published, as a Young Lady, an elegy on Dryden in the collection Luctus Britannici.

Mary, Lady Chudleigh , wrote a poem in praise of Dryden 's translation of Virgil , which was about to be published. It seems that she would not allow her tribute to be printed with...

ET wrote a somewhat inaccurate account of Dryden 's death and funeral, which was published by Curll in Memoirs of Congreve on 11 August 1729 (dated 1730).

Dundee 's death, distressing news for Jacobites, drew a lament in Latin by Archibald Pitcairne , translated by Dryden .

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...

MP contributed to The Nine Muses, edited by Delarivier Manley in 1700, a volume of elegies by women on the lately-dead John Dryden .

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...