- John Dryden's
Essay of
Dramatic Poesy (also
Essay of
Dramatick Poesie) was
likely written in 1666
during the
Great Plague of
London and
published in 1668...
- the
theatres in 1665,
Dryden retreated to
Wiltshire where he
wrote Of
Dramatick Poesie (1668),
arguably the best of his
unsystematic prefaces and essays...
- 1756,
Johnson published his
Proposals for Printing, by Subscription, the
Dramatick Works of
William Shakespeare,
which argued that
previous editions of Shakespeare...
-
Poetry was
originally an
addendum to Eliot's
preface to Dryden's
Essay of
Dramatick Poesie (1928 reprint).
Further essays include The
Metaphysical Poets (1921)...
-
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...
-
Divertimento giocoso Italian alternative name for
opera buffa Dramatic (or
dramatick)
opera English alternative name for semi-opera
Drame forain French alternative...
- 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...
- Series.
Clarendon Press, 1891, page 99.) Fischer, A., Schneider, P., "The
dramatick disappearance of the ⟨-ick⟩ spelling", in Text
Types and Corpora, Gunter...
- in
Dublin in 1809. In 1779
Mason published in
London an
edition of the
Dramatick Works of
Philip M****inger (4 vols.)
which the
Dictionary of
National Biography...
