The works of John Dryden, XIV.

Kept women, comic clerics, and political schemers enliven the four plays in this volume of the California Dryden. Dryden asserted that The Kind Keeper was a moral play, dedicated to exposing the "crying sin" of keeping a mistress. The production was closed after three nights, but whether b...

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Main Author: Dryden, John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1993.
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Summary:Kept women, comic clerics, and political schemers enliven the four plays in this volume of the California Dryden. Dryden asserted that The Kind Keeper was a moral play, dedicated to exposing the "crying sin" of keeping a mistress. The production was closed after three nights, but whether because of the play's success in moralizing, or in exposing, is hard to know.
Physical Description:1 online resource (653 pages)
ISBN:9780520911635
0520911636
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.