Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Thirty of her poems from The Athenian Mercury were recycled with other contents of the magazine in a new venture of Dunton's, a collection entitled The Athenian Oracle. Her poems also appeared in Divine... |
| Anthologization | Sarah, Lady Piers | SLP
was one of the contributors to The Nine Muses, the all-female anthology of elegies on the death of Dryden
which was edited by Delarivier Manley
, and published in 1700. She expressed some... |
| Anthologization | Sarah Fyge | SF
contributed an elegy on Dryden
's death to The Nine Muses; she wrote the same year for another collection on the same topic. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 30-1 |
| Anthologization | Catharine Trotter | |
| 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. |
| Education | Tabitha Tenney | Whether or not TT
's education was Puritanical (most sources about her life have no higher status than gossip) she was well read in the emergent canon of English literature, from Shakespeare
and Milton
through... |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Isham | She had already had enquiries from prospective husbands when she was in London, but the time of wooing came after her return home: a time marked also by her sister's illness and her own religious... |
| Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Woolf wrote to Eliot, whose Prufrock and Other Observations he had read, to invite him to send some work to the Hogarth Press
. The letter led to a meeting, and ultimately to the... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | MLC
's circle of friends was largely maintained by correspondence. She discussed literary and philosophical ideas with John Dryden
, Mary Astell
(Almystrea in Chudleigh's poetry), Elizabeth Thomas
, and other women who are... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Thomas | |
| Friends, Associates | William Congreve | As a young man Congreve formed a friendship with the older and distinguished Dryden
. He later belonged to the Whig Kit-Cat Club
, and counted most of its members among his friends, while remaining... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | MCH
raises the tone of her work with chapter-headings from Wordsworth
, Shakespeare
, Dryden
, and others, most of them asserting the value of the poor and powerless, or protesting about the deficiencies of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | The title-page quotes Dryden
. The story opens in Scotland, twenty miles from Glasgow, with the humble clergyman Dr Woodville giving reluctant permission for his unsophisticated young daughter, Anna, to attend a charity ball... |
| 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 |
Timeline
1658: Aurangzeb seized the Mughal (or Mogul) throne,...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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January or February 1667
John Dryden
published his heroic, or epic, poemAnnus Mirabilis.
2 March 1667: Dryden's Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.