Dryden's Palamon and Arcite

Name: Dryden's Palamon and Arcite
Author: Dryden, John

Dryden, John

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Knight's tale -- Adaptations; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700

1657. Left Cambridge. Attached to Sir Gilbert Pickering.

   1658. Heroic Stanzas on Cromwell's Death.
                            1658, Dunkirk seized from
                            Spain. Cromwell dies. His
                             son Richard succeeds.

                            1659, Richard Cromwell resigns.
                             Long Parliament restored.
                             Military government.

   1660, Astraea Redux.
                            1660, Long Parliament again
                                restored.
                             Declaration of Breda.
                             Convention Parliament.
                             Restoration Charles II.
                                                      1660, Milton,
                                                     Ready and Easy Way
                                                     to Establish a
                                                     Free Commonwealth.
                                                    Pepys, Diary begun.

                            1661, Panegyric on Coronation.
                             1661, Meeting of Cavalier
                           Parliament. Corporation Act.

   1662, Poem to Lord Clarendon.
                            1662, Act of Uniformity.
                            Dissenting ministers expelled.
                            Royal Society founded. King
                            declares for Toleration. Dunkirk
                            sold to France.
                                                       1662, Fuller,
                                                     Worthies of
                                                           England.

   1663, Married Lady Elizabeth Howard. Poem to Dr. Charleton. Wild Gallant.
                                                     1663, Butler,
                                                        Hudibras.

   1664. Reference in Pepys to 'Dryden, the poet.'
                            1664, Repeal of Triennial Act.
                               Conventicle Act.
   1664, Etheridge, Comical Revenge. Evelyn, Sylva.

   1665, Poem to the Duchess of York. Indian Emperor.
   Poem to Lady Castlemaine.
   Left London for Charleton.
                              1665, First Dutch War of
                              Restoration. Great Plague.
                              Five-Mile Act.
                                                       1665, Dorset,
                                                       Song at Sea.

   1666, Essay on Dramatic Poesy. Son Charles born.
                              1666, Great Fire.

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Dryden's Palamon and Arcite

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