All for Love

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All for Love is a 1677 tragic play by John Dryden that retells the story of Antony and Cleopatra in a neoclassical style focused on intense emotional conflict and moral choice.

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All for Love canonical 4
All for Love; or, the World Well Lost 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf play
stage work
tragedy
alsoKnownAs All for Love; or, the World Well Lost
linked to: All for Love
author John Dryden
basedOn Antony and Cleopatra
basedOnWorkBy William Shakespeare
countryOfOrigin England
dramaticMode heroic tragedy
dramaticStructure five-act play
dramaticUnities unity of action
unity of place
unity of time
firstPerformanceDate 1677
focus intense emotional conflict
moral decision-making
genre tragedy
hasInfluenced later adaptations of Antony and Cleopatra
historicalFiguresDepicted Cleopatra VII
Mark Antony
Octavia the Younger
intendedVenue London theatre
language English
literaryForm drama
literaryMovement neoclassicism
literaryPeriod Restoration era
linked to: Stuart period
mainCharacter Alexas
Cleopatra
Mark Antony
Octavia
Ventidius
notableFor concentration on final hours of Antony and Cleopatra
departure from Shakespearean structure
originalMedium stage
period Restoration literature
publicationDate 1677
setting Alexandria
settingPeriod ancient Rome
linked to: Roman Antiquity
style neoclassical
subject Roman civil wars
political power and personal desire
theme conflict between passion and reason
duty
honor
love
moral choice
timeOfAction final days of Antony and Cleopatra
verseForm blank verse
writer John Dryden

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John Dryden notableWork All for Love
Shapeshifting hasPart All for Love
All for Love alsoKnownAs All for Love; or, the World Well Lost
linked to: All for Love
With You All the Way partOf All for Love
Raymond Jones notableWork All for Love