1. Marriage a la Mode John Dryden

2. John Dryden (1631 — 1700) First Poet-Laureate Marriage à la mode (1673) (Portrait by Michael John Wright, c1668) First Poet-Laureate Marriage à la mode (1673) (Portrait by Michael John Wright, c1668) Image: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/5157883/Newly-discovered-painting-of-John-Dryden-the-first-Poet-Laureate.html

3. Marriage à la mode Why should a foolish marriage vow, Which long ago was made, Oblige us to each other now When passion is decay'd? We lov'd, and we lov'd, as long as we could, Till our love was lov'd out in us both: But our marriage is dead, when the pleasure is fled: 'Twas pleasure first made it an oath. If I have pleasures for a friend, And farther love in store, What wrong has he whose joys did end, And who could give no more? 'Tis a madness that he should be jealous of me, Or that I should bar him of another: For all we can gain is to give our selves pain, When neither can hinder the other. John Dryden, New Court Songs and Poems, 1672/Ii Source: http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/746.html

4. Satires of Marriage William Hogarth, Marriage à-la-mode (1743— 1745) Images (following): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_%C3%A0-la-mode_%28Hogarth%29http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_%C3%A0-la-mode_%28Hogarth%29

5. William Hogarth, Marriage à-la-mode: The Marriage Contract

6. William Hogarth, Marriage à-la-mode: The Tête à Tête

7. William Hogarth, Marriage à-la-mode: The Inspection

8. William Hogarth, Marriage à-la-mode: The Toilette

9. William Hogarth, Marriage à-la-mode: The Bagnio

10. William Hogarth, Marriage à-la-mode: The Lady’s Death

11. ProductionProduction First performed in 1673 by the King’s Company in Lincoln’s Inn Fields Still performed: image from 2005 production at George Brown College in Toronto First performed in 1673 by the King’s Company in Lincoln’s Inn Fields Still performed: image from 2005 production at George Brown College in Toronto Image: http://www.georgebrown.ca/theatre/press/now_mag_reviews.aspx

12. Original Cast William Wintershall...................... Polydamas Edward Kynaston......................... Leonidas Michael Mohun............................ Rhodophil Nicolas Burt.................................. Palamede William Cartwright the younger.. Hermogenes Elizabeth Cox............................... Palmyra Rebecca Marshall......................... Doralice Elizabeth James............................ Amalthea Elizabeth Boutell.......................... Melantha Images: Kynaston; Mohun Images: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edward_Kynaston.jpg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michael_Mohun.gifhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michael_Mohun.gif

13. Social groupings Court Town City Country Court Town City Country

14. TragicomedyTragicomedy Parallel narratives /sets of characters Divergent approaches to a single theme Parallel narratives /sets of characters Divergent approaches to a single theme

15. For discussion: Two views of marriage: how do they interact? Does one prevail? Will Leonides and Palmyra be happy? Rhodophil and Doralice? Palamede and Melantha? Two views of marriage: how do they interact? Does one prevail? Will Leonides and Palmyra be happy? Rhodophil and Doralice? Palamede and Melantha?