The Works of John Dryden, Volume XI: Plays: The Conquest of Granada, Part I and Part II; Marriage-à-la-Mode and The Assignation: Or, Love in a Nunnery PDF
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The Works of John Dryden: Plays: The Conquest of Granada Marriage A-la-Mode The Assignation, Volume XI John Dryden UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN General Editor H. T. SWEDENBERG, JR. Associate General Editors GEORGE R. GUFFEY ALAN ROPER Textual Editor VINTON A. DEARING VOLUME ELEVEN EDITORS John Loftis David Stuart Rodes TEXTUAL EDITOR Vinton A. Dearing ASSOCIATE EDITORS George R. Guffey Alan Roper H. T. Swedenberg, Jr. This page intentionally left blank BAYES EXPLAINING THAT HE WROTE THE PART OF "ARMARILLIS" FOR His MISTRESS: ACT I, SCENE I, The Rehearsal FROM The Works of Buckingham (1715), II VOLUME XI The Works of John Dryden Plays THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE THE ASSIGNATION University of California Press Berkeley Los Angeles London 1978 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley and Los Angeles, California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, LTD. London, England The copy texts of this edition have been drawn in the main from the Dryden Collection of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Copyright © 1978 by The Regents of the University of California Printed in the United States of America ISBN: 0-520-02125-8 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 55-7149 Designed by Ward Ritchie With Especial Gratitude for Their Timely Efforts and Assistance and for Their Continuing Support of This Edition the Editors Dedicate This Volume to Charles E. Young Chancellor, the University of California, Los Angeles, and to Robert Vosper Director, the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA The preparation of this volume of the California edition of The Works of John Dryden has been made possible by a grant from the Editing Program of the National Endow- ment for the Humanities and by a matching grant from the UCLA Foundation. Preface The plays in this volume were first performed and published with- in thirty months. But those thirty months—from late December 1670 to early June 1673—were so crucial in Dryden's theatrical career, their story so complicated, that an adequate commentary demanded the research and knowledge of more than one scholar. The editors divided their labors in this way: David Stuart Rodes wrote the commentary to Marriage A-la-Mode, and is grateful to Dr. Jane L. Curry and Professor Robert D. Hume for reading a draft of it and suggesting improvements; Rodes also prepared the section on actors and actresses; George R. Guffey supplied the annotations to The Assignation, and John Loftis wrote the headnote, with Alan Roper contributing its concluding discus- sion of the play's first publication and dedication. H. T. Sweden- berg, Jr., and Roper assisted the other editors in putting their commentaries into final form and contributed the commentary upon The Conquest of Granada, with Swedenberg writing the annotations to the play and postscript, Roper the annotations to the dedication and preface; Roper wrote the headnote, with Swedenberg researching and drafting the section on sources. Vinton A. Dearing provided the text for this volume. The editors are indebted to the following student assistants of the UCLA Department of English for helping to gather and verify materials used in the commentary and for assistance in preparing and proofreading the text: Jane Abelson, Laurence Behrens, Lynda Boose, Judith Games, Sandra Fischer, Susan Grayson, Faye Joseph, David Latt, Janette Lewis, Sharon McMurray, Christine Metteer, Susan Nierengarten, Frances Reed, Diana Van Zile and Robert Hunt. The editors are grateful to Mrs. Geneva Phillips and Mrs. Grace Stimson for preparing the manuscript so carefully for the printer, and to the former for coordinating the work of editors and research assistants. Work on this volume, like work on pre- viously published volumes in this edition, called for and received the generous assistance of the staff of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The production of such a volume in such an edition is in- evitably expensive, and, in addition to the grants separately ac-
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