Emmeline

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According to Curtis Price, in Dryden's opera Emmeline personifies the "national conscience." The opera was probably an allegory of the Exclusion crisis, a major political dispute over who would succeed Charles II. Dryden was a convinced Tory.

When

First attested
1684 CE
Attested period
1684 – 1685
Historical notes
Opera by John Dryden and Henry Purcell.

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“Emmeline personifies the "national conscience."”

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