All for Love, or the World Well Lost

Author(s): Dryden, John
Note: Based on William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. John Dryden (1631 – 1700)
Date of composition:
  • 1677 (latest)
Date of first performance: 1675 - 1677
Date of first publication: 1678
Genre (Annals): Tragedy

HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 1976 modern edition by Robert G. Lawrence
  • 1678 quarto Newcomb, Thomas Herringman, Henry Printed title: All for Love: or, the world well lost single-play print
  • 1692 quarto Herringman, Henry Printed title: All for love, or, The world well lost single-play print
  • 1696 quarto Warren, Thomas Herringman, Henry single-play print

Early Performances

  • Company: King’s Company Venue: Theatre Royal in Drury Lane Date: 1677
    Cast:
    • Hart, Charles Hart
    • Corey, Katherine
    • Clarke, Thomas
    • Goodman, Cardell
    • Coysh, John
    • Boutell, Elizabeth
    • Mohun, Michael
    Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
    Note: December.
    Information source: Maximillian E. Novak and George R. Guffey. The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIII: Plays: All for Love, Oedipus, Troilus and Cressida. 1985.

Modern Productions

(Selection)

  •  All for Love: A Tragedy by John Dryden. [Radio play] Prod. Peter Watts. Perf. Sebastian Shaw, Catherine Salkeld. British Broadcasting Corporation. 5 Jan 1948 (Channel: BBC Third Programme) [BUFCV record]

Modern editions

  • Womersley, David, ed. Restoration Drama: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. Blackwell Anthologies.
  • Thomas, David, ed. Six Restoration and French Neoclassic Plays. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1998.
  • Clark, Sandra, ed. . Shakespeare Made Fit : Restoration Adaptations of Shakespeare. London: Everyman, 1997.
  • Lawrence, Robert G., ed. Restoration Plays. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1994.
  • Novak, Maximiliam E.; Guffey, George R., ed. The Works of John Dryden. Plays: ‘All for Love’, ‘Oedipus’, ‘Troilus and Cressida’. Vol. 8. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
  • Roper, Alan; Swedenberg, H. T. ; Guffey, George R.; Dearing, Vinton A., ed. . Vol. 13. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
  • Lawrence, Robert Gilford, ed. All for Love. Dryden, John. In: Restoration Plays. London: Dent, 1976. pp. 1-80.
  • Andrew, N. J., ed. All for Love. Dryden, John. London: E. Benn, 1975.
  • Vieth, David M., ed. John Dryden: All for Love. Lanham and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1972. Regents Restoration Drama.
  • Caputi, Anthony, ed. Masterworks of World Drama.. Vol. 4. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1968. Baroque and Restoration Theater.
  • Morrell, J. M., ed. Four English Tragedies of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1953.
  • Moore, Cecil A., ed. Twelve Famous Plays of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. New York: Modern Library, 1933.
  • Gosse, Sir Edmund Restoration Plays. London: Dent, 1932. Everyman’s Library.
  • Dobrée, Bonamy, ed. . Five Restoration Tragedies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1928. Oxford World’s Classics.
  • Matthews, Brander; Leider, Paul Robert, ed. The Chief British Dramatists Excluding Shakespeare. London: Harrap, 1925.
  • Noyes, George R., ed. Selected Dramas of John Dryden with ‘The Rehearsal’ by George Villiers. Chicago and New York: Scott, Foresman & Company, 1910.

Select Bibliography: Translations

  • ES:
    • Dryden, John. Todo por amor, o el mundo bien perdido. Tra. Sumillera, Rocío G.. Madrid: Asociación de Directores de Escena, 2018. (Orig: All for Love, or the World Well Lost)
  • FR:
    • Dryden, John. Tout pour l'amour, ou Le monde, bien perdu, tragédie. Traduite de l'anglois par l'auteur des Mémoires d'un homme de qualité. Tra. Prévost d'Exiles, Antoine François. Paris: Didot, 1735.
  • IT:
    • Dryden, John. "Tutto per l'amore, ovvero Il mondo ben perso". Tra. Gerevini, Silvano. Ed. Orbetello, Alfredo. Teatro inglese. 2, Da Ben Jonson a Robertson. Milano: Nuova Accademia editrice, 1961, p. 457-521.
  • DE:
    • Dryden, John. "Alles für Liebe: Ein Trauerspiel in fünf Aufzügen". Neue Schaubühne der Ausländer. Mannheim: Verlag der Herausgeber der ausländischen schönen Geister, 1781. Vol. 1.

Select Bibliography: Criticism

  • Finlayson, J Caitlin. "'Originally Shakespear's': Adaptation, Critique, and ‘All for Love’ and ‘The Tempest’". Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2013, p. 132-139.
  • Hoxby, Blair. "Teaching the Passions in ‘All for Love’". Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2013, p. 104-109.
  • Berensmeyer, Ingo. "Restoration Tragedy and Heroic Drama: John Dryden's ‘All for Love, or The World Well Lost’". Sibylle Baumbach; Birgit Neumann; Ansgar Nünning. A History of British Drama: Genres-Developments-Model Interpretations. London: Methuen, 2011, p. 129-142.
  • Mora, María José. "Type-Casting in the Restoration Theatre: Dryden's ‘All for Love’, 1677-1704". Atlantis: Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. 2005, vol. 2, 27, p. 75-86.
  • Caldwell, Tanya. "Meanings of ‘All for Love’, 1677-1813". Comparative Drama. 2004, vol. 2-3, 38, p. 183-211.
  • Kroll, Richard. "The Political Economy of ‘All for Love’". Enchanted Ground: Reimagining John Dryden. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, with UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2004, p. 127-146.
  • Huse, Ann A.. "Cleopatra, Queen of the Seine: The Politics of Eroticism in Dryden's ‘All for Love’". Huntington Library Quarterly: Studies in English and American History and Literature. 2000, vol. 1-2, 63, p. 23-46.
  • Tomlinson, Philip. "Dryden's ‘All for Love’ and Jean Mairet's ‘Le Marc-Antoine ou la Cléopâtre’: Parallels in a European Dramatic Tradition". Seventeenth Century. 1998, vol. 1, 13, p. 50-68.
  • Frank, Marcie. "Fighting Women and Loving Men: Dryden's Representation of Shakespeare in All for love". Queering the Renaissance. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994, p. 310-329.
  • Davies, H Neville. "‘All for Love’: Text and Contexts". Cahiers Elisabethains: Late Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 1989, 36, p. 49-71.
  • King, Robert L.. "Res et Verba: The Reform of Language in Dryden's ‘All for Love’". ELH. 1987, vol. 1, 54, p. 45-61.
  • Armistead, J M.. "Egypt in the Restoration: A Perspective on ‘All for Love’". Papers on Language and Literature: A Journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature. 1986, vol. 2, 22, p. 139-153.
  • Hinnant, Charles H.. "‘All for Love’ and the Heroic Ideal". Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture. 1983, vol. 1, 16, p. 57-74.
  • Tierney, James E.. "Biblical Allusion as Character Technique in Dryden's ‘All for Love’". English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature. 1977, 58, p. 312-318.
  • Yots, Michael. "Dryden's ‘All for Love’ on the Restoration Stage". Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research. 1977, vol. 1, 16, p. 1-10.
  • Johnson, James W.. "John Dryden, His Times, and ‘All for Love’". Essays in Honor of Richebourg Gaillard McWilliams. {Falta nombre ciudad}: Birmingham-Southern Coll, 1970, p. 21-28.
  • Davies, H Neville. "Shakespeare's Sonnet LXVI Echoed in ‘All for Love’". Notes and Queries. 1968, 15, p. 262-263.
  • King, Bruce, ed.. Twentieth Century Interpretations of ‘All for Love’: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewoods Ciffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968.
  • Weinbrot, H. D.. "Alexas in ‘All for Love’: His Genealogy and Function". Studies in Philology. 1967, 64, p. 625-39.
  • King, Bruce. "Dryden's Intent in ‘All for Love’". College English. 1963, vol. 4, 24, p. 267-271.
  • Klima, S.. "Some Unrecorded Borrowings from Shakespeare in Dryden's ‘All for Love’". Notes and Queries. 1963, 10, p. 415-418.
  • Suckling, N.. "Dryden in Egypt: Reflexions on ‘All for Love’". Durham University Journal. 1952, 42, p. 2-7.
  • Muir, Kenneth. "The Imagery of ‘All for Love’". Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. 1940, 5, p. 140-147.
  • Leavis, F. R.. "‘Antony and Cleopatra’ and ‘All for Love’". Scrutiny. 1936, 5, p. 158-169.

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