Trace the development of the heroic tragedy in the Restoration period with reference to Dryden's work All For Love.

The genre of the heroic tragedy developed during the
Restoration years. It featured lyric and emphatic dialogues, idealized characters,
exotic contexts and dramatic plots. As the most respected playwright of the Restoration,
Dryden was the master of the genre. His play All For Love or The World Well
Lost (1677) is the story of Anthony and Cleopatra and represents a turning
point in the author's heroic tragedies. Here Dryden abandons his habit of writing in
rhymed couplets in favor of blank verse. He also compresses the action so that he
observes all the unities of classical theatre (time, place, action). The play presents
the dilemma of love against the demands of politics and society. In the opposition
between Rome and Egypt critics have also read a juxtaposition between the virtuous
England and the corrupted (and largely Catholic)
Europe.

Anthony is a heroic character in his
larger-than-life stature and passions, but Dryden challenges an entirely positive
reading of his hero as he points out Anthony's limitations as a
stateman.