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Dryden's audiences in 1671, both aristocratic and middle-class, would
have been quick to respond to the themes of disputed royal succession,
Francophilia and loyalty among subjects in his most successful
tragicomedy. In the tragic plot, written in verse, young Leonidas has
to struggle to assert his place as the rightful heir to the throne of
Sicily and to the hand of the usurper's daughter. In the comic plot,
written in prose, two fashionable couples (much more at home in London
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Dryden's own ambivalence about King Charles and his entourage, on whom
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whose affectation cannot quite hide her endearing joie-de-vivre.
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- Publication date2003
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- Number of pages144
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