SOURCE: Barbeau, Anne T. “Dryden's Plays of Ideas.” In The Intellectual Design of John Dryden's Heroic Plays, pp. 3-23. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970.
In this essay, Barbeau examines the view that Dryden's heroic plays emphasized ideas over emotion.
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