The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07
by John Dryden
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Chapters (73)
- WORKS
- JOHN DRYDEN,
- IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES.
- WITH NOTES,
- A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,
- WALTER SCOTT, Esq. VOL. VII. LONDON:
- 1808.
- CONTENTS
- VOLUME SEVENTH.
- DUKE OF GUISE.
- A TRAGEDY.
- THE DUKE OF GUISE.
- A RAREE SHOW.
- TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LAWRENCE, EARL OF ROCHESTER, &c.[1]
- PROLOGUE WRITTEN BY MR DRYDEN. SPOKEN BY MR SMITH.
- DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
- THE DUKE OF GUISE.
- ACT I. SCENE I.—The Council of Sixteen seated; an empty Chair prepared for the Duke of Guise.
- SCENE II.
- SCENE III.
- ACT II. SCENE I.
- SCENE II.—The Louvre.
- ACT III. SCENE I.
- SCENE II.
- ACT IV. SCENE I.—The Louvre.
- SCENE II.—A Night Scene.
- SCENE III.
- SCENE IV.
- SCENE V.—The Louvre.
- ACT V. SCENE I.—The Castle of Blois.
- SCENE II.—Scene opens, and discovers Men and Women at a Banquet, Malicorn standing by.
- A SONG BETWIXT A SHEPHERD AND SHEPHERDESS.
- SCENE III.—Enter Duke of Guise; Cardinal, and Aumale.
- SCENE II.—The Court before the Council-hall.
- SCENE III.—The Council-hall.
- EPILOGUE. WRITTEN BY MR DRYDEN[1]. SPOKEN BY MRS COOK.
- THE VINDICATION:
- VINDICATION OF THE DUKE OF GUISE.
- THE VINDICATION OF THE DUKE OF GUISE.
- ALBION AND ALBANIUS:
- AN OPERA
- ALBION AND ALBANIUS.
- THE PREFACE.
- POSTSCRIPT.
- PROLOGUE
- Names of the Persons, represented in the same order as they appear first upon the stage.
- THE FRONTISPIECE.
- ALBION AND ALBANIUS. AN OPERA.
- ACT I.
- ACT II.
- CHACON[3].
- ACT III.
- EPILOGUE
- DON SEBASTIAN.
- A TRAGEDY.
- DON SEBASTIAN.
- TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE PHILIP, EARL OF LEICESTER, &c.[1]
- THE PREFACE.
- PROLOGUE SENT TO THE AUTHOR BY AN UNKNOWN HAND, AND PROPOSED TO BE SPOKEN BY MRS MOUNTFORD, DRESSED LIKE AN OFFICER.[1]
- PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY A WOMAN.
- DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
- DON SEBASTIAN, KING OF PORTUGAL.
- ACT I. SCENE I.
- ACT II. SCENE I.—Supposed to be a Terrace Walk, on the side of the Castle of Alcazar.
- SCENE II.—Supposed a Garden, with lodging rooms behind it, or on the sides.
- ACT III. SCENE I.—A Terrace Walk; or some other public place in the castle of Alcazar.
- SCENE II.—A Night-Scene of the Mufti's Garden, where an Arbour is discovered.
- ACT IV. SCENE I.—BENDUCAR'S Palace, in the Castle of Alcazar.
- SCENE II.—A Night-Scene of the Mufti's Garden.
- SCENE III.—Changes to the Castle Yard,
- ACT V. SCENE I. The Scene is, a Room of State.
- EPILOGUE, SPOKEN BETWIXT ANTONIO AND MORAYMA
- END OF THE SEVENTH VOLUME.
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