- John Dryden's
Essay of
Dramatick Poesy was
likely written in 1666
during the
Great Plague of
London and
published in 1668. Dryden's
claim in this essay...
- Moon.
Neander Lake, a lake in
Minnesota Neander,
character from
Essay of
Dramatick Poesie Neandertal (valley) (formerly Neanderthal) in
Germany Neanderthal...
- Winter's Tale.
First Folio. Act IV,
scene i, line 3-6. Dryden, An
Essay of
Dramatick Poesie (1668), para. 56. Greene,
Donald (1989),
Samuel Johnson: Updated...
-
abducted by his arch-enemy, the
Saxon King
Oswald of Kent. King
Arthur is a "
dramatick opera" or semi-opera: the prin****l
characters do not sing,
except if...
- the
theatres in 1665,
Dryden retreated to
Wiltshire where he
wrote Of
Dramatick Poesie (1668),
arguably the best of his
unsystematic prefaces and essays...
- of merit. Dryden's
Essay on
Satire and the
dedication of the
Essay of
Dramatick Poesie are
addressed to him.
Walpole (Catalogue of
Noble Authors, iv.)...
-
Account of the
English Stage Doran's
Annals of the Stage, ed. Lowe Davies's
Dramatick Miscellanies Clark Russell's
Representative Actors Dibdin's
History of...
- 1756,
Johnson published his
Proposals for Printing, by Subscription, the
Dramatick Works of
William Shakespeare,
which argued that
previous editions of Shakespeare...
-
Divertimento giocoso Italian alternative name for
opera buffa Dramatic (or
dramatick)
opera English alternative name for semi-opera
Drame forain French alternative...
- do****ented in The
Craftsman with the
following entries: "This W**** a
Dramatick Entertainment has been
exhibited at the
Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields...
