All for love dryden. John Dryden 2022-11-16
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"All for Love" is a play written by John Dryden in 1677. It is a tragic love story that is based on the tale of Antony and Cleopatra, two of the most famous lovers in history.
In the play, Antony is a Roman general who is married to Octavia, the sister of Roman Emperor Augustus. Despite his marriage, Antony is deeply in love with Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt. Cleopatra is also in love with Antony and they are willing to risk everything to be together.
Antony's love for Cleopatra causes him to neglect his duties as a Roman general and he becomes embroiled in a power struggle with Augustus. Eventually, Antony is forced to choose between his love for Cleopatra and his duty to Rome. He ultimately decides to follow his heart and goes to Egypt to be with Cleopatra.
Tragically, their love is not meant to be. Augustus declares war on Egypt and Antony is defeated in battle. In the end, Antony and Cleopatra are both killed, choosing death over a life without each other.
"All for Love" is a poignant and tragic tale of love that transcends all boundaries. It is a powerful reminder that love can drive us to do great things, but it can also bring us to our lowest moments. Dryden's writing is beautiful and the themes of the play are still relevant today, making it a timeless classic.
John Dryden
Dryden ends by noting that the scene between Antony and Ventidius is his favorite that he has written. At this news, all the fight goes out of Antony. Should I be ashamed, And not be proud? He was air-lifted to a London hospital and largely recovered after surgery in Los Angeles. But his statement about the duties of a poet to the truth also reveals his conflicting attitudes about continuity and change. He wanted to show them that women can be beautiful and loyal , because women in the Resoration age were not loyal because it is easy to have virtue when you are not beautiful. He contributed politically satirical prologues and epilogues to several plays.
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All For Love Preface Summary & Analysis
Cleo: Peace, peace, my lover's Juno. The summit of Dryden's dramatic art, All For Love 1677 is a spectacle of passion as felt, feared, and disputed in the suspicious years following the English Civil War. I wonder not Your bonds are easy: you have long been practised In that lascivious art: He's not the first For whom you spread your snares: Let Cæsar witness. It's interesting mostly for comparison - it doesn't work nearly as well as Shakespeare's version. Respect is for a wife: Am I that thing, That dull, insipid lump, without desires, And without power to give them? As she dies, she challenges Octavius to ever separate them now. Both Antonys are men acknowledging the doom of their fate, but Dryden puts up more of a fight.
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All For Love by John Dryden Plot Summary
Dryden gives the example of the ancient tyrant Nero, who longed to be a poet and made his subjects sit through his terrible plays. Be't so, then; take thy wish. Dryden's Cleopatra is a much diminished figure from Shakespeare's mercurial, emotional Queen. Dry, serviceable blank verse drama, with no subplot or comic relief. Cleopatra appears informed of her defeat.
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All for Love Summary
Cleopatra says that she has suffered more because Octavia has the name of wife to protect her, whereas Cleopatra has lost her crown and reputation for Antony. The controlling fiction of the poem is the two sides of the medal, one with a portrait of Shaftesbury, the other with a portrait of the City of London. Dryden adopts blank verse and seeks to imitate the elevated style of Shakespeare. What occurs in these last days and hours is a series of conversations between Marc Antony, Cleopatra, and various friends, family members, and servants as they all try to influence the course of action. His sons were Catholic, and the youngest was studying to be a priest. The next, but far above him In my esteem, is he whom law calls yours, But whom his love made mine. He was known as well for his literary criticism and satires, including Mac Flecknoe 1670 and The English Civil War dominated political, religious, and cultural life in England in the middle of the seventeenth century.
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All for Love by John Dryden
From the truly rebellious aristocrats implicitly a mere fringe group he selects his old enemy Buckingham, whom he portrays as too inconstant in his moods, postures, and political positions to remain constant to any one—or, by implication, to the king. . But the match was certainly advantageous for Dryden, who was now a member of the powerful Howard family, several members of which aside from Sir Robert were playwrights. Great quotes from the play: Prologue: Half-wits are fleas; so little and so light, We scarce could know they live, but that they bite. Antony then asks Ventidius to kill him first, but Ventidius stabs himself instead.
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All for Love Characters
It is as if Dryden wrote Monmouth into a text from which he could not escape. In a wonderful marriage of sound, sight, and sense, the middle triplet here inserts a third line into the usual couplet form as if in imitation of the insinuation of Antichrist Shimei into the midst of his disciples. But unlike satire, it comes to a final, tragic resolution. Dryden's aim was to interpret the highly elevated romantic vision of the greatest of the Elizabethan dramatist in a simplified and restrained manner. .
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All For Love Study Guide
Serapion A priest of Isis who portends bad fortune for Rome. It shows that the love of the great is for sure a ruin. Most of the work of his last years was in translation, apparently as a way of achieving a modicum of political and economic. But though in this coherent, thoroughly theatrical play there is much to be admired, particularly by actors and directors, it lacks the violent, irrepressible soul in Shakespeare's telling of this same story. To step away from the rather unavoidable Shakespeare comparison, Dryden avoids a distracting subplot which also, I think unfortunately, eliminates any levity and much of his language is romantic and beautiful.
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But maybe Shakespeare had so many characters to give his play scale, a quality Dryden's weak imitation hasn't considered. Octavia tells Antony that she is still loyal to him as a wife despite his abandonment of her. I come to claim you as my own; to show My duty first; to ask, nay beg, your kindness: Your hand, my lord; 'tis mine, and I will have it. And if one can separate out his development as a poet per se—a difficult task when his plays have so much verse, so many songs, and prologues and epilogues in couplets—one would have to conclude that, despite the absence during these years of isolated poems, Dryden achieved a virtuosity of verse and wit unequaled during the Restoration. But the poem is a paean to the triumph of art over all military power, over all rulers with delusions of divinity.
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