The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIV: Plays; The Kind Keeper, The Spanish Fryar, The Duke of Guise, and The Vindication

653 Pages·1993·31.996 MB·English

by  John Dryden

THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN
Editor
VINTON A. BEARING
VOLUME FOURTEEN
EDITORS
Vinton A. Bearing Alan Roper
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ANTHONY LEIGH AS FATHER DOMINIC IN The Spanish Fryar
Courtesy of Harvard Theatre Collection
VOLUME XIV
The Works
of John Dryden
Plays
THE KIND KEEPER
THE SPANISH FRYAR
THE DUKE OF GUISE
and
THE VINDICATION OF
THE DUKE OF GUISE
University of Calif orni a Press
Berkeley Los Angeles London
1992
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, LTD.
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 © 1992 by The Regents of the University of California
Printed in the United States of America
ISBN: 0—520—07561—7
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 55-7149
Designed by Ward Ritchie
In Gratitude
for Their Labors on Behalf of This Edition
This Volume of the California Dryden
Is Dedicated to All the Research Assistants
Who Have Gathered, Checked, and Contributed
So Much Material over So Many Years
The preparation of this volume of the California edition of
The Works of John Dryden has been made possible in part
by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humani-
ties, an independent federal agency, and by a matching grant
from The UCLA Foundation.
Acknowledgments
Dryden's plays in the present volume all have one or another
quality in superlative degree. The Kind Keeper is his most sa-
lacious play; The Spanish Fryar, his most popular for many years;
The Duke of Guise, the strongest defense of the Stuart monarchy
in his dramas and, for that reason rather than for aesthetic rea-
sons, requiring his Vindication.
While this volume was in preparation, its general editorship
devolved from Alan Roper to Vinton Bearing. Roper wrote the
commentary on The Duke of Guise and The Vindication of the
Duke of Guise and handed on such notes as he had made on the
other plays. Dearing prepared all the texts and wrote the com-
mentary on The Kind Keeper and The Spanish Fryar.
Besides the National Endowment for the Humanities and The
UCLA Foundation, whose grants-in-aid are acknowledged on
the facing page, the editors wish to thank Chancellor Charles E.
Young and the Research Committee of the University of Cali-
fornia, Los Angeles, for sabbatical leave and additional grants-
in-aid. We wish also to thank former Vice-Chancellor William D.
Schaefer for encouragement and support.
Those who have given of their time and effort to the California
Dryden are deeply indebted to the staffs of the libraries and other
institutions they have visited or who have responded to their re-
quests of various kinds. First among these must necessarily be the
staff of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, on whose
collections the edition principally rests, and especially John Bid-
well, its Librarian. Both editors have at one time or another in
connection with this edition incurred a debt to the British Li-
brary, the Guildhall Library, and so on. We trust that these help-
ful people, and the public whose gifts and taxes support their
institutions, will feel our gratitude for benefits bestowed even if
we do not undertake to be more specific.
Professors Michael]. B.Allen and Marga Cottino-Jones helped
the editor of The Kind Keeper understand the fractured Italian
therein. Professors Allen, H. A. Kelly, V. A. Kolve, Jayne Lewis,
Maximillian E. Novak, Jonathan F. S. Post, Florence Ridley, and
especially A. R. Braunmuller responded generously to questions