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Despite his significant influence as a courtier, diplomat, playwright and theatre manager, Thomas Killigrew (1612-1683) remains a comparatively elusive and neglected figure. The original essays in this interdisciplinary volume shine new light on a singular, contradictory Englishman 400 years after his birth. They increase our knowledge and deepen our understanding not only of Killigrew himself, but of seventeenth-century dramaturgy, and its complex relationship to court culture and to evolving aesthetic tastes. The first book on Killigrew since 1930, this study re-examines the significant phases of his life and career: the little-known playwriting years of the 1630s; his long exile during the 1640s and 1650s, and its personal, political and literary repercussions; and the period following the Restoration, when, with Sir William Davenant, he enjoyed a monopoly of the London stage. These fresh accounts of Killigrew build on the recent resurgence of interest in royalists and the royalist exile, and underscore literary scholars' continued fascination with the Restoration stage. In the process, they question dominant assumptions about neatly demarcated seventeenth-century chronological, geographic and cultural boundaries. What emerges is a figure who confounds as often as he justifies traditional labels of dilettante, cavalier wit and swindler.
Introducing fresh archival evidence, author Lisa Banner here demonstrates how Francisco G? de Sandoval y Rojas, first Duke of Lerma, served as a vital link in Habsburg architectural patronage. She traces Lerma's trajectory as, beginning with the ancient royal city of Valladolid, he embarked on a career of renovating or building religious foundations in various towns and cities around seventeenth-century Spain. The unintended consequence of his architectural patronage and involvement was to proliferate the distinctive royal architectural style developed under Philip II, which connected the foundations of Lerma indelibly with the traditions of noble patronage in Habsburg Spain.
Dominating the literary life of Restoration England, Dryden produced a large oeuvre of poetry, plays, essays and translations that were without their equal, inspiring later critics to refer to his era simply as the 'Age of Dryden'. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete poetical works and plays of John Dryden for the first time in digital publishing history, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Dryden's life and works * Concise introductions to the poetry and other works * Excellent formatting of the poems, with line numbers, ideal for students * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes Dryden's complete 28 plays and operas - spend hours exploring the poet's dramatic works * Features no less than four biographies, including Sir Walter Scott's seminal study - discover Dryden's literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Poetry Collections EARLY POEMS ANNUS MIRABILIS MAC FLECKNOE ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL THE MEDALL RELIGIO LAICI THE HIND AND THE PANTHER EPISTLES AND COMPLIMENTARY ADDRESSES ELEGIES AND EPITAPHS SONGS, ODES AND LYRICAL PIECES FABLES ANCIENT AND MODERN POETRY FROM THE PLAYS TRANSLATIONS The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Plays THE WILD GALLANT THE RIVAL LADIES THE INDIAN QUEEN THE INDIAN EMPEROR SECRET-LOVE SIR MARTIN MAR-ALL THE TEMPEST TYRANNICK LOVE AN EVENING'S LOVE ALMANZOR AND ALMAHIDE MARRIAGE ¿ LA MODE THE ASSIGNATION AMBOYNA AURENG-ZEBE THE STATE OF INNOCENCE AND FALL OF MAN ALL FOR LOVE OEDIPUS TROILUS AND CRESSIDA LIMBERHAM THE SPANISH FRYAR THE DUKE OF GUISE ALBION AND ALBANIUS DON SEBASTIAN, KING OF PORTUGAL AMPHITRYON KING ARTHUR CLEOMENES, THE SPARTAN HERO LOVE TRIUMPHANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO VANBRUGH'S ADAPTATION OF FLETCHER'S THE PILGRIM The Non-Fiction ESSAY OF DRAMATIC POESY HIS MAJESTIES DECLARATION DEFENDED PLUTARCH'S LIVES The Biographies THE LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN by Sir Walter Scott LIVES OF THE POETS: DRYDEN by Samuel Johnson THE AGE OF DRYDEN by Richard Garnett BRIEF LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN by George Gilfillan Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "An English Garner" (Critical Essays & Literary Fragments) by Various. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Cervantes in Seventeenth-century England garners well over a thousand English references to Cervantes and his works, thus providing the fullest and most intriguing early English picture ever made of the writings of Spain's greatest writer. Besides references to the nineteen books of Cervantes's prose available to seventeenth-century English readers (including four little-known abridgments), this new volume includes entries by such notable writers as Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, William Wycherley, Aphra Behn, Thomas Hobbes, John Dryden, and John Locke, as well as many lesser-known and anonymous writers. A reader will find, among others, a counterfeiter, a midwife, an astrologer, a princess, a diarist, and a Harvard graduate. Altogether this broad range of writers, famed and forgotten alike, brings to light not only sectarian and political tensions of the day, but also glimpses of the arts-of weaving, singing, acting, engraving, and painting. Even dancing, for there was a dance called the "Sancho Panzo". The volume opens with a wide-ranging Introduction that among other things traces the English reception of both Cervantes's Don Quixote and his Novelas ejemplares, including the part they played in English drama. In the main body of the work, individual items are arranged chronologically by year and, within that framework, alphabetically by author, thus providing little-known seventeenth-century evidence regarding the nature and breadth of British interest in Cervantes in various decades. Thorough annotation helps readers to place individual entries in their historical, social, political, and in some instances religious contexts. The volume includes twenty-nine germane seventeenth-century pictures, an index of references to chapters in Don Quixote, and a full bibliography and index.