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Article: Self-assessment in Dryden's 'Amphitryon.'
- Article from:
- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
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By 1690, the date of John Dryden's Amphitryon, or the Two Sosia's, British drama reflects, along with its well-documented political emphases, an urgent concern with metaphysical and epistemological questions: How shall humans know, much less follow, the "right" when the "true" is so elusive? How shall one maintain moral or ethical integrity when one's very identity is called into doubt? In earlier comedies of intrigue, the essential question had been "Who are you?" and, in heroic plays, answers had been available as heroic natures semi-mystically recognized each other. In later plays, the essential question is that raised by Sosia: "what am I then? for my Mind gives me, I ...
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