The preface to this work likens it to a try at the "bow of Ulysses" as the "subject... has been treated by the greatest wits of our nation," while its
The preface to this work likens it to a try at the "bow of Ulysses" as the "subject... has been treated by the greatest wits of our nation," while its prologue likens critics to "vultures... gaping for the carcase of a play!" As it opens, Serapion tells a nightmare he's had to Myris but this is overheard near the temple of Isis. After a flourish at the beginning of Act III, Scene 1, the female lead crowns the male who responds by calling her his "brighter Venus!" Her offstage suicide in Act V, Scene 2, is communicated to him in Alexas' "Sir, she is gone." FTP, name this blank verse drama based on Antony and Cleopatra; the greatest tragedy of John Dryden, which describes what the main characters sacrifice in the title phrase.
The preface to this work likens it to a try at the "bow of Ulysses" as the "subject... has been treated by the greatest wits of our nation," while its prologue likens critics to "vultures... gaping for the carcase of a play!"
All for Love; or the World Well Lost