by John Dryden (Author), Trevor Griffiths (Editor)

Dryden's retelling of Antony and Cleopatra story as a heroic tragedy.

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Although John Dryden the poet is best known for his alexandrine epics, John Dryden the playwright is most honored for this blank verse tragedy. The summit of Dryden's dramatic art, All For Love (1677) is a spectacle of passion as felt, feared, and disputed in the suspicious years following the English Civil War.