All for Love, or The World Well Lost
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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All for Love, or The World Well Lost, a tragedy by
Dryden (1678). Written in blank verse in acknowledged imitation of Shakespeare's
Antony and Cleopatra, it is Dryden's most performed and his best-known play. It concentrates on the last hours in the lives of its hero and heroine. In contrast to Shakespeare's play, it is an exemplary neo-classical tragedy, notable for its elaborately formal presentation of character, action, and theme. (See
neo-classicism.)
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