Download or read book Drayden s Queen written by Jennifer Fleming and published by Jennifer Fleming. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Peydra ascends to the throne, but has a mere 12 years until Ruling Council will murder her. Can she escape the “Curse of Royalty”? Peydra must decide what she will do as she nears her coronation in a kingdom whose ruling body has used something they call the Protection Dictum to justify murdering the royal family for more than two centuries. Instead of being the warning against tyranny it was intended to be, the practice has become commonplace and threatens not only her life, but destabilizes the kingdom. How does one fight against centuries of barbaric ritualism? Newly crowned and grieving the loss of her mother, Queen Peydra decides to lead her court on an inaugural tour to introduce herself to the populace. But the new queen soon finds that she has risked the lives of the whole ruling body as the tour caravan faces invaders and imminent war. Drayden’s Queen is the first installment of Fleming’s four book series, Curse of Royalty. Follow the queen as she grows through loss, struggles against the darkness of the curse, discovers how weighty the crown can be, and experiences the baffling loyalty of a secretive attendant she calls First Boy. Curse of Royalty is about the inevitability of death, back lit by the hope of true salvation, and surprising loyalty of others despite considerable obstacles, both from without and within.
Download or read book Representative English Dramas from Dryden to Sheridan written by Frederick Tupper and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of John Dryden Volume XVII written by John Dryden and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of prose writing from the pen of Dryden dates from 1668 to 1691, and contains work that the editors describe as "a sampler of Dryden as biographer-historian, political commentator, religious controversialist, literary polemicist, literary theorist, and practical critic. Among the works contained here is his "Essay of Dramatick Poesie."
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals Explained in Their Different Meanings written by Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dryden Smyth Duke King Sprat Halifax written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Robert Gordon Latham and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of John Dryden Volume XVI written by John Dryden and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade of Dryden's life, he brought four new works before the theatre-going public: a dramatic opera, a tragedy, a tragicomedy, and a number of appendages to an old comedy by John Fletcher, which was revived partly so that Dryden might have the author's third-night profits. He died that night, but his family received the money. The dramatic opera, King Arthur, benefited from a fine score by Henry Purcell and has remained in the operatic repertoire to this day. Cleomenes, the tragedy, was banned until Dryden was able to convince Queen Mary that it did not reflect any seditious sympathy with the exiled James II, after which it was successful. The fate of Love Triumphant, the tragicomedy, was different; possibly because of a growing swell of moral reform, the play was universally damned, even though its themes of incest and miscellaneous fornication had never brought rejection to Dryden in the past. The Secular Masque, Dryden's principal contribution to The Pilgrim by Fletcher, had undistinguished music, but its lively verse and broad review of the previous century kept the piece on the stage for the next fifty years, and in anthologies up to the present.
Download or read book Baker s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians written by Theodore Baker and published by New York : G. Schirmer. This book was released on 1919 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Otherworldly John Dryden written by Jack M. Armistead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminding readers of John Dryden’s persistent use of occult rhetoric, Jack M. Armistead argues that Dryden’s otherworldliness involves more than Christian apologetics, biblical typology, or intermittent borrowings from the supernatural materials in classical literature. Rather, it manifests throughout his career in occult materials drawn from many traditions, including but going well beyond the standard classical and Christian ones. As Armistead shows, Dryden’s practice of juxtaposing pre- and post-scientific treatments of such occult topics as alchemy, astrology, and demonology pervades many of his poems and plays. In its engagement with works such as The Indian Queen, Annus Mirabilis, All for Love, and Absalom and Achitophel, among many others, Otherworldly John Dryden not only enhances our understanding of Dryden’s works, but also tracks the writer’s attitudes about Providence and the ability of the poet to perceive a hidden design in earthly events.
Download or read book John Dryden written by David J. Latt and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper Dryden Smith Duke King Sprat Halifax Parnell Garth Rowe Addison written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dryden s Final Poetic Mode written by Cedric D. Reverand II and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two months before he died, Dryden published a collection of verse translations and original poetry, Fables Ancient and Modern, the work for which he was most admired throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Cedric Reverand argues that Fables, which has for the most part escaped modern scrutiny, embodies a purposeful, subversive strategy, and constitutes a new poetic mode that emerged when the laureate, public spokesman for king and country, lost his official post and became an outcast, a minority voice. In Dryden's Final Poetic Mode, Reverand focuses on Dryden's characteristic concerns—love and war, power and kingship, the heroic code, the Christian ideal—tracing how Dryden assembles informing ideals and yet dissolves them as well. By examining Dryden's treatment of familiar issues, Reverand demonstrates that this final poetic mode is not discontinuous with the earlier poetry bill is a further development, a reevaluation of the principles that sustained the poet throughout his career. Fables expresses Dryden's personal experience dealing with a changed and changing world. With the values he cherished crumbling, he is trapped into trying to reconcile the irreconcilable. His book reveals the fragility of various systems of value and the futility of discovering abiding ideals in a universe of perpetual flux, but it also reveals a poet who actively pursues meaning rather than surrendering to despair. It is this attempt to accommodate to a changing, subversive world that Reverand asserts is the impulse behind Fables and the central issue of Dryden's life in the1690s. Dryden's Final Poetic Mode will interest students and scholars of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature.
Download or read book The Works of John Dryden written by John Dryden and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dramatic Works of John Dryden written by John Dryden and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Dramas of John Dryden written by John Dryden and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of John Dryden Dramatic works written by John Dryden and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
