Bibliograph

Marriage a-la-mode, John Dryden ; edited by David Crane

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Marriage a-la-mode, John Dryden ; edited by David Crane

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eng

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dramas

Main title

Marriage a-la-mode

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John Dryden ; edited by David Crane

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New mermaids

Summary

Half comic and half serious, 'Marriage A-la-Mode' is a spirited study of the trials and passions of love and marriage, a blend of satire and true romance. The play is set in the Sicilian court, and consists of a comic plot written in prose, and a tragic plot written in verse. The comic plot wittily explores the fluttering courtly mode of romance. The serious plot, by contrast, offers a timeless understanding of love and marriage as deeply intertwined, and of love as springing from country innocence and honour, and not from the social intriguing of shallow courtiers

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