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1 online resource (354 pages) |
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Princeton Legacy Library |
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Princeton legacy library.
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Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. The Pulpit -- CHAPTER 2. Parliament and the Press -- CHAPTER 3. The Nation 's Savior -- CHAPTER 4. The Association -- CHAPTER 5. A Second Restoration -- Epilogue -- APPENDIX 1. Political Allusions in Dryden 's Prologues and Epilogues, 1678-1684 -- APPENDIX 2. The Misplaced Lines in Absalom ,and Achitophel -- Abbreviations and Note on Documentation -- Notes -- Index |
Summary |
Exploring the political climate during the final years of the reign of Charles II, when John Dryden wrote his great public poems and several of his dramatic works, Phillip Harth sheds new light on this writer's literary activity on behalf of the monarch. The poems Absalom and Achitophel and The Medall, and the dramatic works The Duke of Guise and Albion and Albanius, have commonly been considered in relation to such public events as the Popish Plot, the Exclusion Crisis, and the Tory Reaction, but that approach does not explain the noticeable differences among these works or the specific purp |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-327) and index |
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Print version record |
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Dryden, John, 1631-1700 -- Political and social views
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Dryden, John, 1631-1700 -- Prose
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Dryden, John, 1631-1700 -- Prose
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Dryden, John, 1631-1700 -- Political and social views
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Dryden, John, 1631-1700 fast |
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Conservative Party (Great Britain)
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Conservative Party (Great Britain) fast |
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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Conservatism -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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Propaganda, British -- History -- 17th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Conservatism
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Criticism and interpretation
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Political and social views
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Politics and government
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Politics and literature
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Propaganda, British
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056896
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Great Britain
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Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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LC no. |
92027140 |
ISBN |
9781400872787 |
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1400872782 |
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