All for love Introductory Note

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WORDS

Impulse (to)

Context:With some falling off in spontaneity, the impulse to great dramatic production

Definition:a strong and constant feeling that you must do it ,which affects your actions.
Survival depends upon an animal's impulse to fight for territory .

Debase
Context:the stage only too faithfully reflected the debased moral tone of the court society of Charles II.

Definition:act in a way that is shameful or himiliating

It's absurd for journalists to debase themselves in this way .


Adherent
Context:He married Lady Elizabeth Howard, the daughter of a royalist house, and for practically all the rest of his life remained an adherent of the Tory Party

Definition:someone who holds a particular belief or supports a particular person or goup




Penetrating

Context:In these he shows himself not only a critic of sound and penetrating judgment, but the first master of modern English prose style.


Definition:be able to understand a subject or problem quickly and in great depth.



Context:represented in the present series by his Preface to the "Fables" and his Dedication to the translation of Virgil. In these he shows himself not only a critic of sound and penetrating judgment, but the first master of modern English prose style


Preface:an introduction at the beginning of a book ,which explain why the book was written or what it is about .


Dedication:a message which is written at the beginning of a book or a statement which is somethings made before a play or piece of music is performed ,as a sign of arection a respect for someone

Prose:a ordinary written language ,in contrast to poetry .

Triumph
Context:After triumphing in the three fields of drama, criticism, and satire, Dryden appears next as a religious poet

Definition:gain complete success ,control ,or victory ,often after a long or difficult struggle .
They had met the challenge and triumpled .

It's a bout the writer,the period when he was born and the circumstances where he lived
I think it is easier to understand the work written by the writer of who we know the background .Anyway literature is subjective.