ENG337H1 Lecture : Emperor of the Moon
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Dryden first celebrated masculine heroes rulers, conquerors, lovers. When compared to his dramatic foil ventidius he seems indecisive. This is classifies as a heroic drama but when we think about that classification it can. It was to support the natural right of kings seem unsettling. What do you think might be going on here with dryden: revising notion of what is heroism , he is showing antony with a flaw, people are flawed natural, truer to life, not incredibly fantastical. What is it about antony that is praise-worthy. Octavius and ventidius are models of civic duties because he has a mistress. Charles ii had a number of mistresses. Antony is caught in the middle again: on the one hand he is an emblem of a glorious kingly power and on the other, all for love hand an individual who surrenders all for a foreign mistress.
