Synopsis
Enchanting Restoration-era drama unfolds in this enduring collection featuring John Dryden’s dramatic works, including the passionate, politically charged Don Sebastian.
The text offers rich verse, tense loyalties, and the clash of love, duty, and power set against a backdrop of royal intrigues and perilous alliances. This edition presents the drama in its original voice, inviting readers to hear the swift exchanges, bold rhetoric, and heartrending choices that drive the story.
- Experience sharp, stage-ready dialogue and vivid character tensions
- Explore themes of love, loyalty, treason, and the costs of power
- See how ambition collides with personal conscience and public duty
- Appreciate the period language, imagery, and dramatic structure of a classic English tragedy
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Vinton A. Dearing, editor of the California Dryden edition, is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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