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Aureng-Zebe, Paperback / softback Book

Aureng-Zebe Paperback / softback

Edited by Frederick M. Link

Paperback / softback

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Aureng-Zebe was John Dryden's last rhymed play and it is frequently considered his best.

In this tragedy, produced in 1675, published in 1676, the plot is loosely based on a contemporary account of the struggle between the four sons of Shah Jahan, the fifth Mogul emperor, for the succession to the throne.

The hero is a figure of exemplary rationality, virtue, and patience whose stepmother lusts after him and whose father pursues the woman with whom Aureng-Zebe is himself in love.

Dryden evinces a deeply disturbing awareness of the anarchy and impotence which threaten every aspect of human life, emotional, moral, and political.

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