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| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: Absalom and Achitophel John Dryden, 2018-07-30 Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel is generally acknowledged as finest political satire in the English language.It is also described as an allegory regarding contemporary political events, and a mock heroic narrative. On the title page, Dryden himself describes it simply as a poem. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: Reader's Guide to Literature in English Mark Hawkins-Dady, 2012-12-06 Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: ABSALOM, ABSALOM! William Faulkner, 2023-06-21 The story concerns Thomas Sutpen, a poor man who finds wealth and then marries into a respectable family. His ambition and extreme need for control bring about his ruin and the ruin of his family. Sutpen’s story is told by several narrators, allowing the reader to observe variations in the saga as it is recounted by different speakers.—Goodreads.com.<P>Also: Absalom, Absalom! is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in 1936. Taking place before, during, and after the American Civil War, it is a story about three families of the American South, with a focus on the life of Thomas Sutpen. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: English Comedy Allan Rodway, 2023-04-28 English Comedy: Its Role and Nature from Chaucer to the Present Day offers an in-depth literary critique of English comedy, highlighting its evolution from the medieval period to modern times. The book is not a mere historical account but a critical exploration of the genre, aiming to deepen the appreciation for comic works that transcend their time. Unlike many comedies that are tied to contemporary issues and fade with their era, this study focuses on the works that stand the test of time, like Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel. The book addresses common misconceptions by distinguishing comedy from farce and other forms of entertainment. Its central thesis is that comedy, while often dismissed as a trivial form, serves important societal functions by critiquing and satirizing societal norms, offering both a reflection and a critique of its era. The study examines how comedy is shaped by and responds to social tensions, exploring its potential for both progressive and conservative social commentary. The structure of the book is divided into several parts, each serving a distinct purpose. Part I focuses on the theory of comedy, establishing a framework for the subsequent analysis. It distinguishes between the concepts of laughter and comedy, and defines key terms for understanding comic works. Part II applies these theoretical ideas to different literary periods, offering a comparative analysis of representative comic works. By doing so, it offers a critical evaluation that goes beyond historical context to explore the universal and enduring qualities of comedy. The book emphasizes the role of the comic writer, who, by depicting the absurdities of society, often reflects a larger societal critique. Through this, the author aims to provide readers with both a theoretical understanding and a personal appreciation of the masterpieces of English comedy, demonstrating how these works remain relevant despite their period-specific origins. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: All for Love John Dryden, 1972-01-01 Although John Dryden the poet is best known for his alexandrine epics, John Dryden the playwright is most honored for this blank verse tragedy. The summit of Dryden's dramatic art, All for Love (1677) is a spectacle of passion as felt, feared, and disputed in the suspicious years following the English Civil War. Due to its dramatic compression and elegance, All for Love is one of the most enduring plays of the Restoration repertory. It was so successful that in the eighteenth century Dryden's tragedy drove Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra from the stage. The play depicts the catastrophic passion of Cleopatra and Marc Antony, who could not be conquered but by love. Fidelity to family and friends, adherence to codes of honor, national loyalties, and the rule of law compete with each other, tearing the world with violence. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: The Rehearsal George Villiers Buckingham, 1777 |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: Mac Flecknoe.. John Dryden, 1692 |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: Lines of Authority Steven N. Zwicker, 2018-05-31 Focusing on the turbulent years between the execution of Charles I and the triumph of William III, Steven N. Zwicker reads English literature as a series of brilliant and deeply engaged polemical contests. Zwicker juxtaposes overtly polemical writings—pamphlets, broadsides, and ballads—with canonical works, including epic, historical verse, tragedy, and satire, in order to demonstrate how literature not only reflected on political action but also formed an important site of political exchange. Zwicker maintains that the sources of Restoration culture lay within the civil war years of the 1640s and that the memory of those years shaped writing and politics for the remainder of the century. In sensitive readings of such classic texts as Walton's Compleat Angler, Marvell's First Anniversary and Last Instructions, Milton's Paradise Lost, Dryden's Annus Mirabilis and Absalom and Achitophel, and Locke's Two Treatises of Government, he shows how these texts both engaged with pamphlet, squib, and broadside and challenged one another over the possession of cultural authority. Zwicker's analysis provides a new understanding of the connections between politics and aesthetics in the later seventeenth century and an appreciation for the texture of this culture. Successfully integrating literary history and political analysis, Lines of Authority will be valuable reading for a broad audience in the fields of Restoration and Protectorate literature, literary history, cultural and intellectual history, and the history of political thought. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: Marriage A-La-Mode John Dryden, 2014-06-13 Dryden's audiences in 1671, both aristocratic and middle-class, would have been quick to respond to the themes of disputed royal succession, Francophilia and loyalty among subjects in his most successful tragicomedy. In the tragic plot, written in verse, young Leonidas has to struggle to assert his place as the rightful heir to the throne of Sicily and to the hand of the usurper's daughter. In the comic plot, written in prose, two fashionable couples (much more at home in London drawing-rooms than at the Sicilian court) play at switching partners in the 'modern' style. The introduction of this edition argues that Dryden's own ambivalence about King Charles and his entourage, on whom he came to rely more on more for patronage, manifests itself in both plots; most of all perhaps in the excessively Francophile Melantha, whose affectation cannot quite hide her endearing joie-de-vivre. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: The Secret History in Literature, 1660-1820 Rebecca Bullard, Rachel Carnell, 2017-03-24 This collection explores for the first time the importance of secret history in the literature of the long eighteenth century. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: The Popish Plot John Philipps Kenyon, 2000 In 1678, against a backdrop of paranoiac fear of Catholicism, Titus Oates and his followers succeeded in convincing both Parliament and the public of a Jesuit and Catholic conspiracy to assassinate Charles II and overthrow the Protestant establishment. As a result, hundreds of Catholics suffered imprisonment and 24 were executed. Here is the background of that plot, its development, and its long-term repercussions. With the technical mastery of a seasoned professional...he retells in vivid detail an extraordinary tale of human credulity, knavery, and folly.--The Times. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: Dryden and Enthusiasm John West, 2018 This book explores ideas of enthusiasm, or divine inspiration, in the works of the poet, dramatist, and literary critic John Dryden. It offers a new view of a major seventeenth-century writer and also examines the complex political and religious tensions implicit in Dryden's interest in enthusiasm. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: Annotation Remi Kalir, Antero Garcia, 2021-04-06 An introduction to annotation as a genre--a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication--and its significance in scholarship and everyday life. Annotation--the addition of a note to a text--is an everyday and social activity that provides information, shares commentary, sparks conversation, expresses power, and aids learning. It helps mediate the relationship between reading and writing. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers an introduction to annotation and its literary, scholarly, civic, and everyday significance across historical and contemporary contexts. It approaches annotation as a genre--a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication--and offer examples of annotation that range from medieval rubrication and early book culture to data labeling and online reviews. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope, 1751 |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: The Battle of the Books Jonathan Swift, 2019-02-25 In ancient times, as story tells, The saints would often leave their cells, And stroll about, but hide their quality, To try good people's hospitality. It happened on a winter night, As authors of the legend write, Two brother hermits, saints by trade, Taking their tour in masquerade, Disguised in tattered habits, went To a small village down in Kent; Where, in the strollers' canting strain, They begged from door to door in vain; Tried every tone might pity win, But not a soul would let them in. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: The Works of John Dryden: Life John Dryden, Walter Scott, 1882 |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: Elegy in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray, 1888 |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: John Dryden David J. Latt, Samuel Holt Monk, 1976-04-12 John Dryden was first published in 1976. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This annotated bibliography represents a comprehensive updating of Samuel Holt Monk's earlier work, also published by the University of Minnesota Press, John Dryden: A List of Critical Studies Published from 1895 to 1948 (out of print). Since the publication of that earlier bibliography, the number of studies devoted to Dryden has more than tripled, and thus this new bibliography is essential for scholars of Dryden or related aspects of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature. This volume contains four times as many entries as the earlier volume, and there is an extensive introduction by Professor Latt which surveys the historical shifts in critical opinion of Dryden. The new volume incorporates all of the listings contained in the first one. The entries include works that focus directly on Dryden, those that discuss Dryden's works in the context of other writers, and those that investigate material of general importance to Dryden studies. Dissertations from American, German, English, and French universities are included. Complete bibliographic information is provided for virtually every entry. The listings are grouped in nine categories, and there is an additional section which covers festschriften and other collections of essays. Works of exceptional value and those which develop new points of view are so designated. The publishing history of each item is included along with the standard bibliographic information. The index includes topical as well as author entries. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: Study Guide to The Poetry of John Dryden Intelligent Education, 2020-06-28 A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by John Dryden, England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. Titles in this study guide include Annus Mirabilis, Upon The Death Of Lord Hastings, Absalom And Achitophel, The Medal, Religio Laici, The Hind And The Panther, To Anne Killigrew, A Song For St. Cecilia's Day, Alexander's Feast, The Wild Gallant, The Rival Ladies, and The Indian Queen. As a poet and playwright of seventeenth-century England, his work dominated The Restoration period. Moreover, he is most famous for his satirical pieces that focused on politics and British society. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of John Dryden’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons they have stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: Reconstructing Contexts Robert D. Hume, 1999 This book attempts to justify and theorize old historicism, defining archaeo-historicism as a method by which scholars can reconstruct past context in order to apply it to the interpretation of works and events of that time. If such reconstruction is to be more than wildly impressionistic, it must be grounded in hard evidence handled according to clear rules. In this intriguing and rigorous analysis, Robert Hume identifies legitimate objects for reconstruction and proposes procedures and principles by which such interpretation may be pursued. He then examines the failures of the same method, which works only when adequate evidence can be found. In particular, Hume flatly denies the intellectual legitimacy of literary history as it is commonly practised and attempts to disentangle such history from the practice of historicism. The final chapter is devoted to a cogent discussion of how archaeo-historicism relates to various forms of contemporary theory. Hume offers a profusion of examples of good and bad historicist reconstruction and interpretation, drawing largely on English literature but also on American and other world literatures, theatre history, and music theory. Although addressed primarily to literary critics, this wide-ranging and bold work will be of interest to historians and cultural critics as well. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: The Cambridge Introduction to Satire Jonathan Greenberg, 2018-12-20 In satire, evil, folly, and weakness are held up to ridicule - to the delight of some and the outrage of others. Satire may claim the higher purpose of social critique or moral reform, or it may simply revel in its own transgressive laughter. It exposes frauds, debunks ideals, binds communities, starts arguments, and evokes unconscious fantasies. It has been a central literary genre since ancient times, and has become especially popular and provocative in recent decades. This new introduction to satire takes a historically expansive and theoretically eclectic approach, addressing a range of satirical forms from ancient, Renaissance, and Enlightenment texts through contemporary literary fiction, film, television, and digital media. The beginner in need of a clear, readable overview and the scholar seeking to broaden and deepen existing knowledge will both find this a lively, engaging, and reliable guide to satire, its history, and its continuing relevance in the world. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: Paradise Lost John Milton, 1889 |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: Essays of John Dryden John Dryden, 1882 |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: Dryden as a Satirist K. Kuchenbächer, 1899 |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: Dryden's Poetic Kingdoms (Routledge Revivals) Alan Roper, 2015-06-03 Dr. Roper describes the mode of many of Dryden’s original poems by redefining the royalism that provides the matter of some works and the metaphoric vocabulary of others. Dryden’s royalism is seen both as an identifiable political attitude and a way of apprehending public life that again and again relates superficially non-political matters to the standards and assumptions of politics in order to determine their public significance. Dryden’s Poetic Kingdoms, first published in 1965, principally through readings of ten poems, comes to the conclusion that Dryden’s poems are most successful when they work to create a meaningful analogy between such topics as literature and politics or between the constitution of England and the constitution of Rome, the Garden of Eden, or Israel under David. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: The Medal John Dryden, 1709 |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 4, The Eighteenth Century H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson, 2005-12-08 This is a comprehensive 1997 account of the history of literary criticism in Britain and Europe between 1660 and 1800. Unlike previous histories, it is not just a chronological survey of critical writing, but a multidisciplinary investigation of how the understanding of literature and its various genres was transformed, at the start of the modern era, by developments in philosophy, psychology, the natural sciences, linguistics, and other disciplines, as well as in society at large. In the process, modern literary theory - at first often implicit in literary texts themselves - emancipated itself from classical poetics and rhetoric, and literary criticism emerged as a full-time professional activity catering for an expanding literate public. The volume is international both in coverage and in authorship. Extensive bibliographies provide guidance for further specialised study. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: In the Name of Salome Julia Alvarez, 2000-06-09 Original and illuminating.—The New York Times Book Review In her most ambitious work since In the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez tells the story of a woman whose poetry inspired one Caribbean revolution and of her daughter whose dedication to teaching strengthened another. Camila Henriquez Urena is about to retire from her longtime job teaching Spanish at Vassar College. Only now as she sorts through family papers does she begin to know the woman behind the legend of her mother, the revered Salome Urena, who died when Camila was three. In stark contrast to Salome, who became the Dominican Republic's national poet at the age of seventeen, Camila has spent most of her life trying not to offend anybody. Her mother dedicated her life to educating young women to give them voice in their turbulent new nation; Camila has spent her life quietly and anonymously teaching the Spanish pluperfect to upper-class American girls with no notion of revolution, no knowledge of Salome Urena. Now, in 1960, Camila must choose a final destination for herself. Where will she spend the rest of her days? News of the revolution in Cuba mirrors her own internal upheaval. In the process of deciding her future, Camila uncovers the truth of her mother's tragic personal life and, finally, finds a place for her own passion and commitment. Julia Alvarez has won a large and devoted audience by brilliantly illuminating the history of modern Caribbean America through the personal stories of its people. As a Latina, as a poet and novelist, and as a university professor, Julia Alvarez brings her own experience to this exquisite story. Julia Alvarez’s new novel, Afterlife, is available now. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: A Companion to Digital Humanities Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth, 2008-03-03 This Companion offers a thorough, concise overview of the emerging field of humanities computing. Contains 37 original articles written by leaders in the field. Addresses the central concerns shared by those interested in the subject. Major sections focus on the experience of particular disciplines in applying computational methods to research problems; the basic principles of humanities computing; specific applications and methods; and production, dissemination and archiving. Accompanied by a website featuring supplementary materials, standard readings in the field and essays to be included in future editions of the Companion. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: The Satires of Dryden John Dryden, 1893 |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: A summary catalogue of Western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, which have not hitherto been catalogued in the quarto series. 7 vols. [the 2nd in 2 pt.]. Bodleian Library, 1895 |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: Hudibras Samuel Butler, 1828 |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: Dryden:Selected Poems Paul Hammond, David Hopkins, 2020-08-17 Dryden: Selected Poems is drawn from Paul Hammond and David Hopkins's remarkable five-volume The Poems of John Dryden, and includes a generous selection of his most important work. The great satires, MacFlecknoe and Absalom and Achitophel, are included in full, as are his religious poemsReligio Laici and The Hind and the Panther, along with a number of Dryden's translations from Horace, Ovid, Homer, and Chaucer. Each poem is accompanied by a headnote, which gives details of composition, publication, and reception. The first-rate annotations provide information on matters of interpretation and give details of allusions that might prove baffling to contemporary readers. Some 300 years after his death, Dryden: Selected Poems will enable new generations of readers to discover the poet of whom Eliot wrote: 'we cannot fully enjoy or rightly estimate a hundred years of English poetry unless we fully enjoy Dryden'. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which Have Not Hitherto Been Catalogued in the Quarto Series: Index, by P. D. Record Bodleian Library, 1895 |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: The Text as Evidence , 1999 |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: The Age of Dryden , 1970 |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: Dryden's Satire John Dryden, 1966 |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: The Hind and the Panther John Dryden, 1900 |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: John Dryden and His Readers: 1700 Winifred Ernst, 2019-12-09 Dryden at the end of his life was admired, perhaps even beloved, by many in England, and his greatest skill over his long career—his controlled detachment—uniquely positioned him to write of both history and politics in 1700. His narrative poetry was popular among Whigs and Tories, women and men, Ancients and Moderns, and his imitations suggest historical connections between the War of the Roses, the Civil War, and the Revolution of 1688. All of these events combined easily in the minds of Dryden’s contemporaries, and his fables, fraught with conflicted loyalties and family strife not unlike a nation divided, may have caught and compelled his readers in a way that was different from other miscellanies: Dryden may have articulated in beautiful verse the emotions of many in the midst of enormous historical change. Fables is a pivotal cultural text urging national unity through its embrace of competing voices. |
| dryden absalom and achitophel analysis: Mentoring in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture Anthony W. Lee, 2016-04-22 In the first collection devoted to mentoring relationships in British literature and culture, the editor and contributors offer a fresh lens through which to observe familiar and lesser known authors and texts. Employing a variety of critical and methodological approaches, which reflect the diversity of the mentoring experiences under consideration, the collection highlights in particular the importance of mentoring in expanding print culture. Topics include John Wilmot the Earl of Rochester's relationships to a range of role models, John Dryden's mentoring of women writers, Alexander Pope's problematic attempts at mentoring, the vexed nature of Jonathan Swift's cross-gender and cross-class mentoring relationships, Samuel Richardson's largely unsuccessful efforts to influence Urania Hill Johnson, and an examination of Elizabeth Carter and Samuel Johnson's as co-mentors of one another's work. Taken together, the essays further the case for mentoring as a globally operative critical concept, not only in the eighteenth century, but in other literary periods as well. |
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