John Dryden’s 'All for Love' is a Restoration retelling of which Shakespearean tragedy?
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Correct answer: Antony and Cleopatra
Dryden's 'All for Love' (1677) adapted Shakespeare's 'Antony and Cleopatra' into a more tightly structured drama observing closer to the classical Unities of time, place, and action. It is a prime example of how the Restoration reinterpreted Elizabethan material for a new audience.
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