Steven Schwartz wrote:

>Dryden - no mean poet himself - even rewrote Antony and Cleopatra into the
>incredibly dull All for Love.

Dull it may be for Steve, who may not appreciate Dryden's thesis that women
as much as men are as "full of craving and as vain, and as busy and blind,"
working their way to ruin - all for love.  However, more to the point, All
for Love is no more a "rewrite" of Antony and Cleopatra than Puccini's
Manon Lescaut is a rewrite of Massenet's Manon.

John Dalmas
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