John Dryden Tercentenary Essays [Hardcover]

This volume is designed to celebrate and re-assess the work of John Dryden (1631-1700) in the tercentenary year of his death. It assembles specially-commissioned essays by an international team of scholars who address Dryden's political writing, drama, and translations, his literary collaborations, contemporary reputation, and posthumous reception.

A note on contributors
Introduction: Is Dryden a classic?,Paul Hammond
Mac Flecknoe, Heir of Augustus,Howard Erskine-Hill
Dryden's Milton and the theatre of imagination,Nicholas von Maltzahn
Dryden and the staging of popular politics,Paulina Kewes
Constructing classicism: Dryden and Purcell,Harold Love
Dryden and Congreve's collaboration inThe Double Dealer,Jennifer Brady
Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music: The poem and its readers,Tom Mason and Adam Rounce
Dryden, Tonson, and the patrons ofThe Works of Virgil(1697),John Barnard
'The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache',Robin Sowerby
'According to my Genius': Dryden's translation of 'The First Book of Homer's Ilias',James A. Winn
The final 'Memorial of my own Principles': Dryden's alter egos in his later career,Cedric D. Reverand II
Dryden and the dissolution of things: The decay of structures in Dryden's later writing,Steven N. Zwicker
Editing, authenticity, and translation: Re-presenting Dryden's poetry in 2000,David Hopkins
Appendix: Some contemporary references to Dryden,Paul Hammond
Index