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ALL FOR LOVE - JOHN DRYDEN KARTONIERT (TB)

All for Love or  The World Well Lost is John Dryden's 1677 adaptation of the tragedy of Antony
and Cleopatra into a neo-classical quintet with supporting voices: After Cleopatra's desertion
of Antony at the battle of Actium  not only his wife Octavia but also his general Ventidius and
his friend Dolabella strive to win him over to their side. Antony  torn between the claims of
duty  friendship  dignity and love  despairs when he hears the rumour of Cleopatra's death 
which is not  as in Shakespeare's version  spread by the queen herself but by her deceitful
eunuch. This edition includes Dryden's dedication of the play to the Earl of Danby and his
preface  in which he defends against French neo-classicist strictures the liberties he took
with his sources  it further discusses the play's austere power in the theatre  which is
unjustly considered to be inferior to Shakespeare's quite distinct version of the story.

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