Approaches to teaching the works of John Dryden

Abstract

"Offers pedagogical techniques ... including bringing issues of translation, adaptation, religion, literary rivalry, criticism, and occasional poetry ... Genres covered include satire, elegy, heroic tragedy, and comedy. Includes information on editions, translations, reference works, biographies, and online resources"--

Contents

Drama: Introducing John Dryden the Dramatic -- Teaching Marriage á-la-Mode in a Course on Restoration Comedy -- Teaching Dryden's Heroic plays - Teaching the Passions in All for Love -- Multimedia Dryden: All for Love and a Performative Baroque Aesthetic -- A Potion for Secret Love -- "Hither This Way": Musical Dryden for Nonmusician Students (and Nonmusician Teachers) -- "Originally Shakespear's": Adaptation, Critique, and All for Love and The Tempest -- The State of Innocence and Paradise Lost: The Politics of Adaptation. Prose and Tanslation: Dryden and Rochester: Tracing Literary Rivlaries in Dryden's Prefatory Texts -- Forgetfulness and Authorial Presence in Dryden's Prose -- Teaching Dryden's Latin Translations: Lucretius, Vergil, and the Honeybee -- Questioning Nature: Dryden's Fables, Ancient and Modern. Poetry: John Dryden's Trojan Horse -- Dryden the Elegist: "To the Memory of Mr. Oldham" and "To the Pious Memory of...Anne Klligrew -- Reading Dryden's verse: Generic Control in the Killigrew Ode and Oldham Elegy -- Dryden's Sweet Saint: the Killigrew Ode in the Survey Course -- A King and No King: How to Use Dryden's Engagement of the Reader in Absalom and Achitophel -- Absalom and Achitophel in an Eighteenth-Century Survey Course -- Restoring Dryden to the Core Curriculum: Groups, Crowds, and the Poetry of Public Occasion -- Forward from "Mac Flecknoe": British Literature, 1660 to the Present.