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University of California Press

The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIV

Plays; The Kind Keeper, The Spanish Fryar, The Duke of Guise, and The Vindication

by John Dryden (Author)
Price: $89.95 / £75.00
Publication Date: Mar 1993
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 652
ISBN: 9780520911635
Trim Size: 6 x 9
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About the Book

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.