Islam in English LiteraturePrinted at the American Press, 1939 - 258 pages |
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... Dryden's Aureng - Zebe ( 1675 ) 4 written in defiance of the lashing . wit of The Rehearsal , was the last of his heroic plays . It deals with contemporary Indian history - Aurangzeb survived Dryden by seven years . The source is ...
... Dryden's Aureng - Zebe ( 1675 ) 4 written in defiance of the lashing . wit of The Rehearsal , was the last of his heroic plays . It deals with contemporary Indian history - Aurangzeb survived Dryden by seven years . The source is ...
Page 47
... Dryden's Don Sebastian , and Nicholas Rowe's Tamerlane . Don Sebastian ( 1689 ) , written in blank verse and prose , is a care- fully - finished drama , considered to be Dryden's best , or second - best tragedy . Historically , the ...
... Dryden's Don Sebastian , and Nicholas Rowe's Tamerlane . Don Sebastian ( 1689 ) , written in blank verse and prose , is a care- fully - finished drama , considered to be Dryden's best , or second - best tragedy . Historically , the ...
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... Dryden's play begins after the battle , with Sebastian a prisoner in the hands of the Moorish emperor , Muley - Moluch ; and ends with Sebastian retiring to a lonely hermitage to expiate the crime of incest , because he had married his ...
... Dryden's play begins after the battle , with Sebastian a prisoner in the hands of the Moorish emperor , Muley - Moluch ; and ends with Sebastian retiring to a lonely hermitage to expiate the crime of incest , because he had married his ...
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THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE | 1 |
THE AGE OF DRYDEN | 19 |
THE AGE OF POPE | 55 |
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