All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost: A Tragedy

Bibliographic Details

Book Title: All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost: A Tragedy

Author: John Dryden

ISBN-13: 9789365612059

Pages: 220

Edition: First Edition (2027)

Binding: Paperback

Genre: Literature & Fiction > Drama > Restoration Drama > Tragedy > British Classical Literature

Recommended Age Group: 16+ years; suitable for senior secondary, undergraduate, postgraduate, theatre studies, and classic literature readers

Reading Difficulty: Advanced

Estimated Reading Time to Finish: 6–8 hours

Price: $10.99 | £09.99 | ₹275/-

Description

All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost: A Tragedy by John Dryden is one of the most important works of Restoration drama and a significant English reimagining of the tragic story of Antony and Cleopatra. Written with emotional intensity, rhetorical grace, and dramatic discipline, the play explores the conflict between love and duty, private desire and public responsibility, political ambition and personal surrender. Dryden narrows the tragic action to its emotional core, creating a powerful drama of passion, honour, loyalty, betrayal, and inevitable loss.

The play is especially valued for its controlled structure and heightened language. Unlike sprawling historical treatments, All for Love concentrates on the final crisis of its central figures, allowing readers to closely observe the moral and emotional pressures that shape their decisions. Antony’s divided loyalties, Cleopatra’s royal pride and vulnerability, and the surrounding voices of reason, politics, and friendship create a dramatic world where personal feeling and imperial consequence cannot be separated.

This edition is well suited for students of English literature, Restoration drama, classical tragedy, comparative literature, and theatre studies. It supports close reading, classroom discussion, examination preparation, and literary analysis of dramatic form, character, rhetoric, and tragic conflict. Readers interested in Shakespearean influence, neoclassical drama, and the evolution of English tragedy will find this work particularly rewarding. All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost: A Tragedy remains a valuable classic for understanding Dryden’s dramatic art and the enduring literary power of love tested against empire, honour, and fate.

Key Features

• Classic Restoration tragedy by John Dryden.
• Reimagines the tragic story of Antony and Cleopatra.
• Explores love, honour, duty, ambition, and political loss.
• Important text for English drama and literary history.
• Useful for Restoration and neoclassical literature courses.
• Suitable for classroom study and close textual analysis.
• Strong choice for students of theatre and tragedy.
• Features elevated language and concentrated dramatic action.
• Compact 220-page edition for focused academic reading.
• First Edition 2027 from AUMRAM Publications.

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