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RESTORATION DRAMA -- DRYDEN, John (1631-1700). The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: in two parts. Acted at the Theater-Royall. London: by T.N. for Henry Herringman, 1672. 2 parts in one volume, 4° (214 x 155mm). (Washed, title and following leaf restored, title with residual soil marks.) Early 20th-century straight-grained red morocco gilt, gilt edges. FIRST EDITION. There are references to Shakespeare in both the essay 'Of Heroique Plays' which precedes part one, and the 'Essay on the Dramatique Poetry of the last Age' following the epilogue. Arber I, 96; Bartlett 382; MacDonald 76a; Wing D-2256.
J. DRYDEN. All for Love; or, The world well lost. A tragedy. London: by Tho. Newcomb for Henry Herringman, 1678. 4° (208 x 156mm). (Title soiled, one or two headlines slightly shaved, some short tears at upper margins.) Late 19th-century mottled calf gilt, gilt edges. Provenance: Theophila [?] Obijno (early signature on title). FIRST EDITION of Dryden's celebrated adaptation of Anthony and Cleopatra, first performed in December 1677 at the Theatre Royal. In this copy, the preface had been bound in before the dedication. There was no separate edition of Shakespeare's original text in the 17th century. Barlett 163; MacDonald 82a; Jaggard p. 282; Pforzheimer 313; Wing D-2229.
J. DRYDEN. Troilus and Cressida; or, truth found too late. A tragedy as it is acted at the Dukes Theatre. London: for Abel Swall and Jacob Tonson, 1679. 4° (215 x 159mm). (Title rather soiled, crease-marked and torn in several places with repairs on verso, repairs at lower margin of a1, C4 and to margins of end leaves, soiling to A3r, b3v and elsewhere, G3 onwards rather crease-marked, dampstaining near end.) Provenance: some marginal annotations to the preface in a contemporary hand (cropped by the binder); inscription along outer margin of I2v; 'Mancher September 17 1821' (inscription along outer margin of I3r). Late 19th-century blue morocco gilt, gilt edges. FIRST EDITION. Dryden's preface, containing a long essay on the grounds of criticism in tragedy, is full of allusions to Shakespeare and quotations from Hamlet and Richard II. This adaptation was first performed at Dorset Garden in the spring of 1679 with a prologue 'spoken by Mr. Betteron representing the ghost of Shakespeare'; Betterton took the lead as Troilus and his wife played Andromache. Shakespeare's original text was first printed in 1609. Bartlett 164; Jaggard p. 476; MacDonald 84a; Pforzheimer 915; Wing D-2388; together with Dryden's The Rival Ladies, London, 1675, third edition, in later boards. Here, in his dedication to Lord Orrery, Dryden defends his own use of blank verse, and mentions Shakespeare as 'the first, who to shun the pains of continual Rhyming invented that kind of writing ....' (4)
J. DRYDEN. All for Love; or, The world well lost. A tragedy. London: by Tho. Newcomb for Henry Herringman, 1678. 4° (208 x 156mm). (Title soiled, one or two headlines slightly shaved, some short tears at upper margins.) Late 19th-century mottled calf gilt, gilt edges. Provenance: Theophila [?] Obijno (early signature on title). FIRST EDITION of Dryden's celebrated adaptation of Anthony and Cleopatra, first performed in December 1677 at the Theatre Royal. In this copy, the preface had been bound in before the dedication. There was no separate edition of Shakespeare's original text in the 17th century. Barlett 163; MacDonald 82a; Jaggard p. 282; Pforzheimer 313; Wing D-2229.
J. DRYDEN. Troilus and Cressida; or, truth found too late. A tragedy as it is acted at the Dukes Theatre. London: for Abel Swall and Jacob Tonson, 1679. 4° (215 x 159mm). (Title rather soiled, crease-marked and torn in several places with repairs on verso, repairs at lower margin of a1, C4 and to margins of end leaves, soiling to A3r, b3v and elsewhere, G3 onwards rather crease-marked, dampstaining near end.) Provenance: some marginal annotations to the preface in a contemporary hand (cropped by the binder); inscription along outer margin of I2v; 'Mancher September 17 1821' (inscription along outer margin of I3r). Late 19th-century blue morocco gilt, gilt edges. FIRST EDITION. Dryden's preface, containing a long essay on the grounds of criticism in tragedy, is full of allusions to Shakespeare and quotations from Hamlet and Richard II. This adaptation was first performed at Dorset Garden in the spring of 1679 with a prologue 'spoken by Mr. Betteron representing the ghost of Shakespeare'; Betterton took the lead as Troilus and his wife played Andromache. Shakespeare's original text was first printed in 1609. Bartlett 164; Jaggard p. 476; MacDonald 84a; Pforzheimer 915; Wing D-2388; together with Dryden's The Rival Ladies, London, 1675, third edition, in later boards. Here, in his dedication to Lord Orrery, Dryden defends his own use of blank verse, and mentions Shakespeare as 'the first, who to shun the pains of continual Rhyming invented that kind of writing ....' (4)
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