Dryden's Adaptations from Milton, Shakespeare, and Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Lill, James Vernon.

Title
Dryden's Adaptations from Milton, Shakespeare, and Chaucer.

Published
Dissertation Abstracts 14 (1954): 1214.

Description
Includes comments on how in his adaptations of NPT, WBT, and KnT Dryden "substitutes . . . modish sophistication for colloquial charm and surface embellishment for profound humanity." Generally, Dryden "puts the stamp of his mind and his age on works that are congenial to neither."

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion