Reviews for All for Love
Review - All for Love
Boring. Anthony and Cleopatra act like little children while their armies collapse around them.
Reviewed by Roger on 2001-02-19 08:00:38
All for Loveby John Dryden | |
| Category: |
"Drama" |
|---|---|
| Pages: | 120 |
| Year of Publication: | 1677 |
| Date Read: | 02/16/2001 |
| Notes: | Dryden adapted a number of Shakespeare's plays including The Tempest and All for Love, a retelling of Antony and Cleopatra. COMMENTS — In the history of the drama Dryden occupies a peculiar place. He had no great genius for the theater, and yet he imposed his ideas upon the English play-going world. He was that unusual product, a politician with a poetical mind. For a time he was attached to the Puritans, and wrote an ode on the death of Cromwell; but, on the accession of Charles, he found no difficutly in transferring his muse to the royalist party. |
| My Rating: | 4 |