{"product_id":"marriage-a-la-mode-9780713666663","title":"Marriage A-La-Mode","description":"\u003cp\u003eDryden's audiences in 1671, both aristocratic and middle-class, would\u003cbr\u003ehave been quick to respond to the themes of disputed royal succession, \u003cbr\u003eFrancophilia and loyalty among subjects in his most successful\u003cbr\u003etragicomedy. In the tragic plot, written in verse, young Leonidas has\u003cbr\u003eto struggle to assert his place as the rightful heir to the throne of\u003cbr\u003eSicily and to the hand of the usurper's daughter. In the comic plot, \u003cbr\u003ewritten in prose, two fashionable couples (much more at home in London\u003cbr\u003edrawing-rooms than at the Sicilian court) play at switching partners in\u003cbr\u003ethe 'modern' style. The introduction of this edition argues that\u003cbr\u003eDryden's own ambivalence about King Charles and his entourage, on whom\u003cbr\u003ehe came to rely more on more for patronage, manifests itself in both\u003cbr\u003eplots; most of all perhaps in the excessively Francophile Melantha, \u003cbr\u003ewhose affectation cannot quite hide her endearing joie-de-vivre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Dryden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780713666663\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40104743829619,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_6322b9c6-2d61-4dc5-9aea-3f2083792f54.jpg?v=1653229577","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/marriage-a-la-mode-9780713666663","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}