The Works Of John Dryden Volume Xiv

Download or read book The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIV written by John Dryden and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-03-01 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kept women, comic clerics, and political schemers enliven the four plays in this volume of the California Dryden. Dryden asserted that The Kind Keeper was a moral play, dedicated to exposing the "crying sin" of keeping a mistress. The production was closed after three nights, but whether because of the play's success in moralizing, or in exposing, is hard to know.