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'''''All for Love''''' is a [[heroic drama]] by [[John Dryden]] written in [[1677]]. Today, it is Dryden’s best-known and most performed play {{Fact|date=February 2007}}. It is a [[tragedy]] written in [[blank verse]] and is an attempt on Dryden's part to reinvigorate serious drama {{Fact|date=February 2007}}. It is an acknowledged imitation of [[Shakespeare]]’s ''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'', and focuses on the last hours of the lives of its [[hero]] and [[heroine]]. |
'''''All for Love''''' or, the World Well Lost, is a [[heroic drama]] by [[John Dryden]] written in [[1677]]. Today, it is Dryden’s best-known and most performed play {{Fact|date=February 2007}}. It is a [[tragedy]] written in [[blank verse]] and is an attempt on Dryden's part to reinvigorate serious drama {{Fact|date=February 2007}}. It is an acknowledged imitation of [[Shakespeare]]’s ''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'', and focuses on the last hours of the lives of its [[hero]] and [[heroine]]. |
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Combining the unities of classical theatre and the style of [[English Renaissance theatre|Shakespearean drama]], Dryden creates an elaborately formal production in which fashionable philosophies of the time could be discussed and debated in a public atmosphere.{{Fact|date=February 2007}} Dryden used the theatre as a forum for testing problematic philosophical, moral and political questions.{{Fact|date=February 2007}} The results of these investigations were to form the basis of his later works.{{Fact|date=February 2007}} |
Combining the unities of classical theatre and the style of [[English Renaissance theatre|Shakespearean drama]], Dryden creates an elaborately formal production in which fashionable philosophies of the time could be discussed and debated in a public atmosphere.{{Fact|date=February 2007}} Dryden used the theatre as a forum for testing problematic philosophical, moral and political questions.{{Fact|date=February 2007}} The results of these investigations were to form the basis of his later works.{{Fact|date=February 2007}} |
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All for Love or, the World Well Lost, is a heroic drama by John Dryden written in 1677. Today, it is Dryden’s best-known and most performed play [citation needed]. It is a tragedy written in blank verse and is an attempt on Dryden's part to reinvigorate serious drama [citation needed]. It is an acknowledged imitation of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, and focuses on the last hours of the lives of its hero and heroine.
Combining the unities of classical theatre and the style of Shakespearean drama, Dryden creates an elaborately formal production in which fashionable philosophies of the time could be discussed and debated in a public atmosphere.[citation needed] Dryden used the theatre as a forum for testing problematic philosophical, moral and political questions.[citation needed] The results of these investigations were to form the basis of his later works.[citation needed]