Kept women, comic clerics, and political schemers enliven the four plays in this volume of the California Dryden. Dryden asserted that The Kind Keeper was a moral play, dedicated to exposing the "crying sin" of keeping a mistress. The production was closed after three nights, but whether because of the play's success in moralizing, or in exposing, is hard to know.
| ISBN: | 9780520075610 |
| Publication date: | 1st March 1993 |
| Author: | John Dryden |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 652 pages |
| Series: | Works of John Dryden |
| Genres: |
Plays, playscripts |