The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04
by John Dryden
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Chapters (101)
- WORKS
- JOHN DRYDEN,
- IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES.
- WITH NOTES,
- A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,
- WALTER SCOTT, Esq. VOL. IV. LONDON:
- 1808.
- CONTENTS
- VOLUME FOURTH.
- ALMANZOR AND ALMAHIDE:
- CONQUEST OF GRANADA
- SPANIARDS. A TRAGEDY.
- THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA.
- TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE[1].
- OF HEROIC PLAYS.
- AN ESSAY.
- ON MR DRYDEN'S PLAY, THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA.
- PROLOGUE TO THE FIRST PART, SPOKEN BY MRS ELLEN GWYN, IN A BROAD-BRIMMED HAT, AND WAIST-BELT.[1]
- DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
- ALMANZOR AND ALMAHIDE,
- CONQUEST OF GRANADA.
- ACT I. SCENE I.
- ACT II. SCENE I.
- ACT III. SCENE I.
- THE ZAMBRA DANCE. SONG.
- ACT IV. SCENE I.
- SCENE II.
- SONG.
- ACT V. SCENE I.
- SCENE II.
- EPILOGUE.
- ALMANZOR AND ALMAHIDE:
- CONQUEST OF GRANADA
- SPANIARDS. A TRAGEDY. THE SECOND PART.
- PROLOGUE TO THE SECOND PART.
- ALMANZOR AND ALMAHIDE,
- CONQUEST OF GRANADA.
- ACT I SCENE I.—A Camp.
- SCENE II.—The Alhambra.
- ACT II. SCENE I.—A Wood.
- SCENE II.—The Albayzyn.
- SCENE III.—The Alhambra.
- ACT III. SCENE I.—The Alhambra.
- SCENE II.—The Albayzyn.
- SCENE III.—The Albayzyn.
- ACT IV. SCENE I.
- SCENE II.—The Albayzyn.
- SCENE III.—A Gallery in the Alhambra.
- SONG, IN TWO PARTS.
- ACT V. SCENE I.
- SCENE II.
- EPILOGUE.
- DEFENCE OF THE EPILOGUE;
- AN ESSAY ON THE DRAMATIC POETRY OF THE LAST AGE.
- MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE:
- A COMEDY.
- MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE
- TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF ROCHESTER[1].
- PROLOGUE.
- DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
- MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE.
- ACT I. SCENE I.—Walks near the Court.
- ACT II. SCENE I.
- ACT III. SCENE I.
- SCENE II.
- ACT IV. SCENE I.
- SCENE II.
- SCENE III.
- SONG.
- SCENE IV.
- SCENE V.
- ACT V. SCENE I.
- EPILOGUE.
- THE ASSIGNATION;
- LOVE IN A NUNNERY. A COMEDY.
- THE ASSIGNATION.
- TO MY MOST HONOURED FRIEND, SIR CHARLES SEDLEY, BART[1].
- PROLOGUE.
- DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
- THE ASSIGNATION;
- LOVE IN A NUNNERY.
- ACT I. SCENE I.—A Room, a great glass placed.
- ACT II. SCENE I.—The front of a Nunnery.
- SCENE II.—A Street.
- SCENE III.—A Night-piece of a Garden.
- ACT III. SCENE I.—The Front of the Nunnery.
- SCENE II.
- SONG AND DANCE.
- SCENE III.
- ACT IV. SCENE I.—A Dressing-chamber.
- SCENE II.
- SCENE III.—A Chapel.
- SCENE IV. —The Nunnery-Garden.
- SCENE V.
- SCENE VI.
- ACT V. SCENE I.
- SCENE II.—The Street.
- SCENE III.
- SCENE IV.—The Nunnery Garden.
- EPILOGUE
- END OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.
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