John Dryden's masque King Arthur is still performed, largely thanks to Henry Purcell's music, though seldom unabridged.

A common example is John Dryden's MacFlecknoe, a poem that ridicules Dryden's contemporary, Thomas Shadwell.

The hero who speaks these words in Dryden's play is a Spanish Muslim, who, at the end of the play, in keeping with the requirements of a heroic drama, is revealed to have been, unbeknownst to himself, the son of a Christian prince ( since heroic plays by definition had noble and exemplary protagonists ).

Dryden's use of the phrase is a striking oxymoron.

John Dryden's 1690 Amphitryon is based on Molière's 1668 version as well as on Plautus.

Notable innovations from Dryden's adaptation include music by Henry Purcell and the character of Phaedra, who flirts with Sosia but is eventually won over by Mercury ’ s promises of wealth.

The familiar phrase “ Man proposes: God disposes ” is an example of antithesis, as is John Dryden's description in The Hind and the Panther: “ Too black for heaven, and yet too white for hell .”

One of his masterpieces of this period is the depiction of an amateur performance of John Dryden's The Indian Emperor, or The Conquest of Mexico ( 1732 – 1735 ) at the home of John Conduitt, master of the mint, in St George's Street, Hanover Square.

Dryden's eastern boundary is located near Aaron Provincial Park on Thunder Lake.

Dryden's mayor is Craig Nuttall.

Dryden is known by people passing by as the home of " Max the Moose ", Dryden's high mascot on the Trans-Canada Highway.

), English dramatist and poet, the object of Dryden's satire, was probably of English birth, although there is no corroboration of the suggestion of Joseph Gillow, that he was a nephew of a Jesuit priest, William Flecknoe, or more properly Flexney, of Oxford.

* May 5-Within a few days of John Dryden's death ( May 1 ), his last written work, The Secular Masque, is performed as part of Vanbrugh's version of The Pilgrim.

* In response to events of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, John Dryden's topical play Amboyna, about events in the East Indies, is reportedly " contrived and written in a month " — certainly one of the fastest acts of solo dramatic composition known.

John Dryden's version is the work of a stronger artist ; but Conington's is more faithful, preserves the general effect of the original, and stands as an independent poem.

John Dryden's work Absalom and Achitophel is a satire partially concerned with equating biblical events with the Monmouth Rebellion.

What is interesting is that the word " parody " had not been used for prose before, and the definition he offers is arguably a parody of John Dryden defining " parody " in the Discourse of Satire ( the Preface to Dryden's translations of Juvenal's and Persius ' satires ).

Shadwell is chiefly remembered as the unfortunate Mac Flecknoe of Dryden's satire, the " last great prophet of tautology ," and the literary son and heir of Richard Flecknoe:

In John Dryden's satire, Absalom and Achitophel, he is " Hushai ," the friend of David in distress.

Among his more successful productions were some Shakespeare plays, including: Hamlet, Henry VIII, and Macbeth, as well as non-Shakespeare plays such as Sir Samuel Tuke's The Tragedy of Five Hours and John Dryden's comedy Sir Martin Marall.

) Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster and Dryden's The Maiden Queen were also staged with all-women casts in this time ; Dryden wrote new Prologues for the productions.

His studies in English literature were no less comprehensive, and included the valuable revision of Sir Walter Scott's edition of John Dryden's Works ( Edinburgh, 18 vols., 1882 – 1893 ), Dryden ( 1881 ) in the " English Men of Letters " series, History of Elizabethan Literature ( 1887 ), History of Nineteenth Century Literature ( 1896 ), A Short History of English Literature ( 1898, 3rd ed.

It has been suggested that Wesley's words were written specifically for the tune by Purcell to which Dryden's song had been set, and to which the hymn's words themselves were later set ( under the tune name " Westminster ") by John Wesley in his Sacred Melody, the " annex " to his Select Hymns with tunes annext ( 1761 et seq.

These attacks were on top of Tom Brown's previous attacks, as well as Dryden's.

Dryden's sentiments about Shakespeare's matchless imagination and capacity for painting " nature " were echoed without a break in the 18th century by, for example, Joseph Addison (" Among the English, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others "), Alexander Pope (" every single character in Shakespeare is as much an Individual as those in Life itself "), and Samuel Johnson ( who scornfully dismissed Voltaire's and Rhymer's neoclassical Shakespeare criticism as " the petty cavils of petty minds ").

A feature of live Airplane sets at the time were free-form improvisational jams, with Dryden's licks complementing Casady's fluid style, examples of which can be heard on " Thing " and " Bear Melt " from Bless Its Pointed Little Head.

The life of Virgil prefixed to Dryden's translation, and a " Preface to the Pastorals with a short defence of Virgil, against some of the reflections of Monsieur Fontenella ," both ascribed at one time to Walsh, were the work of Dr Knightly Chetwood ( 1650 – 1720 ).

The sub-genre of heroic drama evolved through several works of the middle to later 1660s ; John Dryden's The Indian Emperour ( 1665 ) and Roger Boyle's The Black Prince ( 1667 ) were key developments.

The poem begins with a mock-epic opening ( as had Pope's Rape of the Lock and as had Dryden's MacFlecknoe ), calling all the muses to witness the glory of Philips's prosodic reform:

Dryden's replacement as the Airplane's drummer was Joey Covington, an L. A. musician who had been sitting in with Hot Tuna during 1969.

Dryden's poem tells the story of the first foment by making Monmouth into Absalom, the beloved boy, Charles into David ( who also had some philandering ), and Shaftesbury into Achitophel.

Pope had translated Homer and produced an errant edition of William Shakespeare, and the 1727 Dunciad was an updating and redirection of John Dryden's poison-pen battle of MacFlecknoe.

In particular, Dryden's The Conquest of Granada, which had been his most popular play ( and the one whose preface had defined " heroic drama "), is the play Buckingham parodies.

The oceanic city of Venice had been used as a stand-in for London before, but the subtext most noticeable to contemporaries was the parallel with the Exclusion Crisis ( see, for example, Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel ).

However, Pope's poem is far more wide-ranging and specific than Dryden's had been.

To some degree, this imagery of unholy consecration had been present in Dryden's MacFlecknoe, but Pope's King of Dunces is much more menacing than Thomas Shadwell could ever have been in Dryden's poem.

The two had already collaborated on stage works ( Dryden had written the prologue for Dioclesian and Purcell the incidental music for Dryden's comedy Amphitryon ) and Dryden was effusive in his praise of Purcell's musical abilities.

Literary critic Anthony W. Lee notes in his essay " Dryden's Cinyras and Myrrha " that this translation, along with several others, can be interpreted as a subtle comment on the political scene of the late seventeenth-century England.

Dryden's innovation is a notable turn in poetic diction in England, as he was attempting to find an English meter and vocabulary that could correspond to the ancient Latin heroic verse structure.

The Great Fire of London, which took place on September 2, 1666, was one of the major events that affected England during Dryden's " year of miracles ".

Here are three examples from Book IV of Dryden's translation of the Aeneid.

For example, Dryden's All for Love, a redaction of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, attempted to compress the sprawl of action and multiple settings from Egypt to Rome to a single place, and within a 24 hour time frame.

Le Feint Astrologue, imitated from the Spanish of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and itself imitated in Dryden's An Evening's Love, came the following year.

Eccles was very active as a composer for the theatre, and from the 1690s wrote a large amount of incidental music including music for William Congreve's Love for Love, John Dryden's The Spanish Friar and William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

The best examples of blank verse from this time are probably John Dryden's tragedy All for Love and James Thomson's The Seasons.

Whether The Rehearsal or the she-tragedy made popular by the acting of Elizabeth Barry did it, there was a turn away from the Classical heroes of Dryden's heroic drama.

The title of Dryden's poem, used without capitalisation, annus mirabilis, derives its meaning from its Latin origins and describes a year of particularly notable events.

The growth of Shakespeare's reputation is illustrated by a timeline of Shakespeare criticism, from John Dryden's " when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too " ( 1668 ) to Thomas Carlyle's estimation of Shakespeare as the " strongest of rallying-signs " ( 1841 ) for an English identity.

It has been said that when Tonson bought the copy of Troilus and Cressida ( 1679 ), the first play of John Dryden's that he published, he was obliged to borrow the purchase money (£ 20 ) from Abel Swalle, another bookseller.

In 1681 the brothers Richard and Jacob joined in publishing Dryden's Spanish Friar, and in 1683 Jacob obtained a valuable property by purchasing from Barbazon Ailmer, the assignee of Samuel Simmons, one half of his right in Paradise Lost.

Dryden's collection of translations from Boccaccio, Chaucer, and others, known as The Fables, was published by Tonson in November 1699 ; a second edition did not appear until 1713.

The story takes its title from the subtitle of John Dryden's verse drama All for Love.