JOHN DRYDEN'S CONTRIBUTION TO CLASSICISM DRAMA

Abstract

This article discusses the stages of classicism in the literature of Europe. John Dryden and his contemporaries, who are considered prominent representatives of European literature, especially English drama, contributed to classicism literature and literary criticism, leaving a rare heritage to the next generation, such as John Dryden's drama “Aureng-Zebe”. The idea embodied in the drama, is about the mysterious and wonderful East for that time, in which the main character Aurengzebe Alamgir, the fifth representative of the dynasty of the Great Mogol Empire (Baburids), fights bravely defending his father as well as his state. The struggle for the throne, state administration, the internal atmosphere of the palace, family problems in Dryden's style and art in the direction of classicism are revealed in the article.