ISBN: 9780520082472 - the works of john dryden, volume xii: plays ambboyna, the state of innocence, aureng-zebe (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Volume 12. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1050grams, ISBN:9780520082472. …

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. The three plays in this volume, composed between 1672 or 1673 and 1675, demonstrate Dryden s versatility and inventiveness as a dramatist.&Uumlber den AutorVinton A. Dearing is Professor of English, University of California, Los Ang.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 556 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The three plays in this volume, composed between 1672 or 1673 and 1675, demonstrate Dryden's versatility and inventiveness as a dramatist. Amboyna, a tragedy written to stir the English to prosecute the Third Dutch War, describes the destruction by the Dutch of English trading posts on two Indonesian islands. Regarded in its time as sensationalist, it is really a dignified drama that decries violence. The State of Innocence, termed an opera, is a rhymed version of Milton's Paradise Lost. Though never performed or set to music, it became one of Dryden's most widely read dramas. Aureng-Zebe, the last and generally considered the best of Dryden's rhymed heroic plays, portrays the rise to power of Mogul emperor Aureng-Zebe (1618-1707).…