All for Love - Paperback

by John Dryden (Author)

All for Love or, the World Well Lost, is a heroic drama by John Dryden. Today, it is Dryden's best-known and most performed play. It is a tragedy written in blank verse and is an attempt on Dryden's part to reinvigorate serious drama. It is an acknowledged imitation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, and focuses on the last hours of the lives of its hero and heroine.