The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIII: Plays: All for Love, Oedipus, Troilus and Cressida

672 Pages·1984·29.847 MB·English

by  Dearing, Vinton A., Dryden, John, Dryden, John, Guffey, George R., Novak, Maximillian Erwin, Roper, Alan

The Works of John Dryden:
Plays: All for Love Oedipus
Troilus and Cressida,
Volume XIII
John Dryden
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN
General Editor
ALAN ROPER
Textual Editor
VINTON A. DEARING
VOLUME THIRTEEN
EDITOR
Maximillian E. Novak
TEXTUAL EDITOR
George R. Guffey
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Alan Roper
VOLUME XIII
The Works
of John Dryden
Plays
ALL FOR LOVE
OEDIPUS
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
University of California Press
Berkeley Los Angeles London
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
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London, England
The copy texts of this edition have been drawn in the
main from the Dryden Collection of the
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Copyright © 1984 b\ The Regents of the University of California
Printed in the United States of America
ISBN: 978-0-520-02127-3
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FACADE OF DORSET GARDEN THEATRE FROM
ELKANAH SETTLE, The Empress of Morocco (1673)
To the Memory
of
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr.
(1906-1978)
The preparation of this volume of the California edition of
The Works of John Dryden has been made possible by a
grant from the Editing Program of the National Endow-
ment for the Humanities and by a matching grant from The
UCLA Foundation.
Preface
The editors of this volume divided their labors as follows:
George R. Guffey prepared the text; Maximillian E. Novak
wrote the commentary to All for Love and Troilus and Cressida
and supplied notes and suggestions used in the commentary to
Oedipus; Alan Roper wrote the commentary to Oedipus. In ad-
dition to those whose support is separately acknowledged on the
preceding page, the editors are particularly indebted to the
following:
To the staffs of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library,
the Henry E. Huntington Library, and the British Library for
advice and assistance.
To Vice-Chancellor William D. Schaefer for encouragement
and support.
To Professors A. R. Braunmuller and Robert W. Dent for re-
searching and answering many questions.
To Professor David M. Vieth for very kindly lending us micro-
film copies of the quartos he collated for his Regents edition of
All for Love.
To Jane Abelson, Michael Berens, Dianne Dugaw, Barbara
Fox, Lester Field, Robert Hunt, Janette Lewis, and the follow-
ing graduate students of the UCLA Department of English for
their assistance in gathering and verifying materials used in
the commentary, and for their help in preparing and proofing
the text: Kathryne Lindberg, Geraldine Moyle, Eric Schroeder,
Diana Van Zile, and Susan Wing.
To Mrs. Geneva Phillips and Mrs. Grace Stimson for pre-
paring the manuscript so carefully for the printer, and to the
former for coordinating the work of editors and research assis-
tants.
To Chancellor Charles E. Young, and to the Research Com-
mittee of the University of California, Los Angeles, for sabbatical
leave and annual grants-in-aid.
The editors' deepest debt is recorded in the dedication of this
volume to H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., cofounder of the California
Dryden and sole General Editor for more than twenty years.
Without his leadership, the editors are learning to walk by them-
selves, but slowly, and non passibus aequis.
V.A.D. G.R.G. M.E.N.
G.P. A.R.