"A Foolish Marriage Vow": John Dryden's Marriage a la Mode and Amphitryon

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For our second episode on John Dryden, we'll talk about two of his plays which marked an innovation in the tragi-comic romance: Marriage a la Mode and Amphitryon.  We'll discuss the "split-plot" play, the exorcising of Restoration political anxieties, and why we sometimes mock that which we cherish.

Additional sound clip from Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Text of Marriage a la Mode: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15349/15349-h/15349-h.htm#page_231

Text of Amphitryon: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/47679/47679-h/47679-h.htm#Page_1

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