Which English writer produced works including The Wild Gallant, All for Love, and The Maiden Queen?

Which English writer produced works including The Wild Gallant, All for Love, and The Maiden Queen?

• A. Miguel de Cervantes
• B. Edmund Spenser
• C. Jeb-Baptiste Poquelin (Moliere)
• D. John Dryden

Answer: (D)

The key idea here is recognizing which author is linked to these Restoration-era works. John Dryden is the English writer who produced The Wild Gallant, All for Love, and The Maiden Queen. The Wild Gallant is a Restoration comedy Dryden wrote early in his career. All for Love is his tragedy that reworks Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra for a Restoration audience. The Maiden Queen is a masque associated with Dryden’s courtly dramatic style. The other writers listed—Cervantes (Spanish), Spenser (Elizabethan/Arena-era English), and Molière (French)—did not author these English titles. So Dryden is the correct author to connect with all three works.

The key idea here is recognizing which author is linked to these Restoration-era works. John Dryden is the English writer who produced The Wild Gallant, All for Love, and The Maiden Queen. The Wild Gallant is a Restoration comedy Dryden wrote early in his career. All for Love is his tragedy that reworks Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra for a Restoration audience. The Maiden Queen is a masque associated with Dryden’s courtly dramatic style. The other writers listed—Cervantes (Spanish), Spenser (Elizabethan/Arena-era English), and Molière (French)—did not author these English titles. So Dryden is the correct author to connect with all three works.