JOHN DRYDEN

who is John DREYDEN?

1. JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)

2. SYNOPSIS BORN 9 August 1631 Northamptonshire , England DIED 1 May 1700 (aged 68) London, England OCCUPATION poet, literary critic, playwright, librettist ALMA MATER Westminster School Trinity College , Cambridge NOTABLE WORKS Absalom and Achitophel ,   Mac Flecknoe

3. JOHN DRYDEN WAS BORN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, ENGLAND ON AUGUST 9, 1631. J OHN D RYDEN DIED IN L ONDON ON M AY 12, 1700, AND WAS BURIED IN W ESTMINSTER A BBEY NEXT C HAUCER .

4. FAMILY JOHN DRYDEN CAME FROM A LANDOWNING FAMILY WITH CONNECTIONS TO PARLIAMENT AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND . HIS IS MATERNAL GRANDFATHER WAS R ECTOR OF A LL S AINTS . SON OF E RASMUS D RYDEN AND M ARY P ICKERING. H IS FAMILY WERE P ARLIAMENTARY SUPPORTERS WITH P URITANS LEARNING.

5. HE WAS AN ENGLISH POET, DRAMATIST AND CIRITIC. HE WAS ALSO A LEADING FIGURE OF THE RESTORATION AGE. HE WAS SO DOMINATING PERSON THAT THE WHOLE AGE WAS KNOWN AS ‘AGE OF DRYDEN’. WALTER SCOTT CALLED HİM AS ‘GLORIOUS JOHN’ HE LEFT BEHIND ALMOST 30 WORKS FOR STAGE AS WELL AS A MAJOR CRITICAL STUDY (AN ESSAY N DRAMATIC POESY) AND A NUMBER OF TRANSLATIONS INCLUDING THE WORKS OF VIRGIL.

6. A FTER   J OHN D ONNE   AND J OHN MILTON , J OHN DRYDEN WAS THE GREATEST E NGLISH POET OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. A FTER W ILLIAM S HAKESPEARE AND B EN J ONSON , HE WAS THE GREATEST PLAYWRIGHT . HE HAS NO PEER AS A WRITER OF PROSE , ESPECIALLY LITERARY CRITICISM , AND AS A TRANSLATOR . O THER FIGURES , SUCH AS G EORGE H ERBERT OR A NDREW M ARWELL OR W ILLIAM W YCHERLEY OR W ILLIAM C ONGREVE , MAY FIGURE MORE PROMINENTLY IN ANTHOLOGIES AND LITERARY HHISTORIES , BUT D RYDEN ‘ S SUSTAINED OUTPUT IN BOTH POETRY AND DRAMA RANKS HIM HIGHER.

7. EDUCATION   H E STUDIES AS A K ING ’ S S CHOLAR AT THE PRESTIGIOUS W ESTMINSTER S CHOOL OF L ONDON . T HERE, D RYDEN WAS TRAİNED IN THE ART OF RHETORICAL ARGUMENT , WHICH REMAINED A STRONG INFLUENCE ON THE POET ’ S WRITING AND CRITICAL THOUGHT THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE . H E ENROLLED AT T RINITY C OLLEGE IN C AMBRIDGE THE FOLLOWING YEAR , WHERE HE LIKELY STUDIED THE CLASSIC S , RHETORIC , AND MATHEMATICS .

8. WORKS AFTER SHAKESPEARE, HE WROTE THE GREATEST HEROIC PLAY OF THE CENTURY, THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA (1670) THE GREATEST TRAGICOMEDY, MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE (1671) HE GREATEST TRAGEDY OF THE RESTORATION, ALL FOR LOVE (1677) THE GREATEST COMITRAGEDY, DON SEBASTIAN (1689) ONE OF THE GREATEST COMEDIES, AMPHITRYON (1690)

9. DRYDEN THE POET IS BEST KNOWN TODAY AS A SATIRIST, ALTHOUGH HE WROTE ONLY TWO GREAT ORIGINAL SATIRES, MAC FLECKNOE (1682) AND THE MEDAL L (1682). HIS MOST FAMOUS POEM, (MASTERPIECE) ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL (1681) DRYDEN'S OTHER GREAT POEMS— ANNUS MIRABILIS (1667), RELIGIO LAICI (1682), THE HIND AND THE PANTHER (1687), ANNE KILLIGREW (1686), ALEXANDER'S FEAST (1697), AND "TO MY HONOUR'D KINSMAN " (1700) HIS FIRST PLA Y , THE WILD GALLANT (1663),

10. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION MERVE KURT