All for Love

6 best books like All for Love (John Dryden): Dr. Faustus, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, The Country Wife, The Rape of the Lock, The Beggar's Opera, The Man of Mode

Dr. Faustus

Author	Christopher Marlowe
ISBN	0486282082

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe's death in 1593. Two different...

Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded

Author	Samuel Richardson
ISBN	0192829602

One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of one contemporary, it divided the world "into two different Parties, Pamelists and Anti-pamelists,"...

The Country Wife

Author	William Wycherley
ISBN	0713632879

I taught this play on a yearly basis at the end of the first half of English Lit sophomore survey, Anglo-Saxon to Restoration (more than half except to cramped moderns). After teaching it for the fifth year, it was performed by our best local (Providence, RI) theater; my school had 25 tickets for students,...

The Rape of the Lock

Author	Alexander Pope
ISBN	1557429162

I’ve always believed that miracles can happen and that great physical and/or mental suffering can engender greatness. This indeed proved to be the case with this splendid work by Alexander Pope.

I find Pope a fascinating individual. He was a catholic, at a time when legislation was repressive...

The Beggar's Opera

Author	John Gay
ISBN	0140432205

An 18th Century parody of the Italian Opera
23 December 2013

I want to give this play a high score simply because of it's context and content, and as it is one of the only satirical operas that has survived from the early 18th Century should also give this play, or more properly opera, some...

The Man of Mode

Author	George Etherege
ISBN	0713666897

Verbal brilliance, urbane sophistication and sexual conquest are the measures of success for the fashionable set who watched themselves being represented on the Restoration stage. Yet idealisation and satire, as this edition of Etherege's masterpiece shows, are flip sides of the same coin, and...