In all he published some 30 plays between 1663 and 1694
1667-1670
Annus Mirabilis : the Year of Wonders, 1666 (1667)
Of Dramatick Poesie : an Essay (1668)
Almanzor and Almahide (1670)
1671-1680
The Conquest of Granada (1672)
- 2 parts
Marriage a-la-mode : A Comedy (1673 Herringman)
Amboyna : A Tragedy (1673 Herringman)
Aureng-Zebe : A Tragedy (1676 for Henry Herringman)
The State of Innocence : an Opera (1677)
- from "Paradise Lost"
All for Love (1678)
Macflecknoe : or A Satyr Upon T.S. (1678)
- against Thomas Shadwell
[Sold at auction in 2004 for £21.600]
The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery (1678 Herringman, London. 2nd Ed)
Troilus and Cressida, or Truth found too Late : A Tragedy (1679 Abel Swalle & Jacob Tonson)
Upon the Death of Lord Hastings (1680)
1681-1690
The Spanish Fryar, or The Double Discovery (1681 for Richard & Jacob Tonson)
Absalom and Achitophel (1681-2 London for JT)
- political satire in 2 parts
The Medall : a Satyr against Sedition (1682)
Religio Laici, or a Layman's Faith (1682 Tonson)
The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man : An Opera (1684 for Knight & Saunders, London)
Threnodia Augustalis : A Funeral-Pindarique Poem (1685 Tonson. 2nd Ed)
To Mrs Anne Killigrew : an Ode (1686 In Poems of Mrs Killgrew)
The Hind and the Panther : A Poem in 3 Parts (1687 Tonson)
A Song for St Cecilia's Day (1687)
Britannia Rediviva : A Poem on the Birth of the Prince (1688 for J Tonson)
Offered in 1992 for £250
Don Sebastian, King of Portugal : A Tragedy (1690 Jo Hindmarsh)
The Kind Keeper, or Mr Limberham : A Comedy (1690 Bentley & Magnes. 2nd Ed)
1691-1700
A Poem on the Death of his Late Highness Oliver, Lord Protector of England
(1659 for Wm Wilson, in fact 1691)
An Evening's Love, or the Mock-Astrologer (1691 Herringman for Bentley)
Eleonara : A Panegyrical Poem (1692 for Jacob Tonson)
Cleomenes : The Spartan Heroe - A Tragedy (1692 Tonson)
The Satires of Juvenalis (trans into English)
with the Satires of Persius (1693)
Of Dramatick Poesie : An Essay (1693 for Henry Herringman)
Love Triumphant, or Nature will Prevail : A Tragi-Comedy (1694 Tonson)
Aureng-Zebe : A Tragedy (1694 for R Bentley)
Alexander's Feast : an Ode in Honour of St Cecilia's Day (1697)
Troilus & Cressida, or Truth Found too Late (1697 Tonson & Swale)
The Works of Virgil translated into English Verse (1697)
Fables Ancient and Modern (1700 Tonson)
(1713 Tonson - 2 vols)
[Adaptations from the works of Boccaccio and Chaucer]
1701-1800
The Comedies, Tragedies and Operas : Now first collected (1701 Tonson, London)
- 2 vols
Offered in 1992 for £350
Dramatick Works of John Dryden
The Dramatic Works (1735 Tonson)
- 6 vols
Poems and Fables (1753 A reilly for William Smith, Dublin)
- 2 vols
Original Poems (1756 Foulis, Glasgow)
- 2 vols
The Miscellaneous Works (1760 Tonson)
- 4 vols
The Dramatick Works (1762 Tonson)
- 6 vols
Religio Laici or a Laymans Faith : A Poem (1683 Tonson)
The Fables (1797 Bensley)
- engravings by Lady Diana Beauclerc
Prose Works (ed Edmond Malone)
(1800)
- 4 vols
1800-1900
Works (ed Walter Scott)
(1808)
- 18 vols
The Poetical Works (1843-4 Wm Pickering, Aldine Poets)
- 5 vols
Essays (ed W P Ker)
(1900 Oxford UP)
- 2 vols
20thC
Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music (1904 Essex House Press)
- 140 on vellum
Poetical Works (ed George R Noyes)
(1909 Cambridge, Mass)
Essays (1926 Clarendon Press)
- 2 vols
The GHeorgics of Virgil (1931 Cheshire House, NY)
- 1200
The Dramatic Works (1931-2 Nonesuch Press)
- 6 vols. 800. Edited by Montague Summers
Offered in 1999 for £275
Letters (ed Charles E Ward)
(1942 Durham, NC)
Prologues and Epilogues (ed E B Gardner)
(1951 NY)
The Poems (ed James Kinsley)
(1958 Clarendon Press, Oxford)
- 4 vols
Songs and Poems (1957
Golden Cockerel Press)
- Lavinia Blythe. 500
Poems and Fables (ed Kinsley)
(1962 Oxford)
Of Dramatic Poesy & Other Critical Essays (ed George Watson)
(1962)
- 2 vols
The Dramatic Works (1968 Gordina Press)
- facsimile of 1923 Nonesuch Ed. 6 vols
The Poems : Standard Edition (1970 Clarendon Press)
- 4 vols. Edited by James Kinsley
Fables (1973 Scolar Press)
- Facsimile of 1700 edition
READING
George Saintsbury : Dryden (1881)
Mark Van-Doren : The Poetry of Dryden (1920 NY)
T S Eliot : Homage to Dryden (1924)
Louis I Bredvold : The Intellectual Milieu of Dryden (1934 Ann Arbor)
Hugh Macdonald : Dryden - a Bibliography of Early Editions and of Drydeniana
(1939 Oxford)
(1967 Dawsons PM)
J M Osborn : Dryden - some Biographical Facts & problems (1940 NY)
Smith Nichol : Dryden (1950 Cambridge)
Guy Montgomery : Concordance to the Poetical Works (1957, Berkeley, Calif)
L Proudfoot : Dryden's Aeneid and its 17thC Predecessors (1960 Manchester)
Charles E Ward : The Life of Dryden (1961 Chapel Hill, NC)