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A Short Biography of John Dryden

Author Name:

John Dryden

Born As:

John Dryden

Other Names:

John Dryden

Born:

19 Aug 1631

Died:

12 May 1700




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Poet and dramatist                          
Selected Works:

Astraea Redux - 1660
The Indian Emperor - tragedy - 1665
Annus Mirabilis - poem - 1667

The Enchanted Island - comedy - 1667 - an adaptation with William D'Avenant of Shakespeare's The Tempest

An Essay of Dramatick Poesie - 1668
An Evening's Love - comedy - 1669
Tyrannick Love (tragedy - 1669
The Conquest of Granada - 1670
Marriage A-la-Mode - 1672
Aureng-zebe - 1675
All for Love - 1678

Oedipus  - heroic drama - 1679 - an adaptation with Nathaniel Lee of Sophocles' Oedipus

Absalom and Achitophel - 1681
MacFlecknoe - 1682
The Medal - 1682
Religio Laici - 1682
The Hind and the Panther - 1687
Amphitryon - 1690
Don Sebastian - 1690
Amboyna - or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants - 1673
The Works of Virgil - 1697
Fables - Ancient and Modern 1700.                          
Mother Mary Pickering
Father Erasmus Dryden, John was the eldest of fourteen children.