Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, published in 1740, was a pioneering work in the history of the English novel. A sensation upon its release,

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John Dryden’s The Enchanted Island is a fascinating, Restoration-era adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. First performed in 1667, Dryden’s version reworks and reinterprets many

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