The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIV
Subtitle: Plays; The Kind Keeper, The Spanish Fryar, The Duke of Guise, and The Vindication (Works of John Dryden)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 1, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 646
ISBN-13: 9780520075610
Subjects: Drama texts: 16th to 18th centuries; Theater - General; 18th Century English Drama; 18th Century English Literature; Literary Criticism; Plays / Drama; English; Literature: Classics; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General
First sentence: I CANNOT easily excuse the printing of a Play at so unseasonable a time, when the Great Plot of the Nation, like one of Pharaoh's lean Kine, has devour'd its younger Brethren of the Stage: But however weak my defence might be for this, I am sure I shou'd not need any to the World, for my Dedication to your Lordship; and if you can pardon my presumption in it, that a bad Poet should address himself to so great a Judge of Wit, I may hope at least to scape with the Excuse of Catullus, when he writ to Cicero: Gratias tibi Maximas Catullus