Absalom and Achitophel
Absalom and Achitophel

Author: Jacob Rabinowitz

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10-26

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13:

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This satire offers an amazingly vivid panorama of Restoration England: the out-of-power Puritans, the rakes and favorites of the court, Titus Oates, the Popish Plot, and the birth of true Parliamentary government. Told from a reactionary royalist point of view, this is conservative propaganda of genius, as though Shakespeare were writing copy for Fox News.The Kraken Series offers the only editions of Dryden's plays that fully explain all the archaic language, slang, historical references, as well as the perplexing syntax employed by Dryden, who wrote in English but often thought in Latin. Kraken does for Dryden what Folger did for Shakespeare. This volume contains a detailed historical preface.

Absalom and Achitophel (Annotated)
Absalom and Achitophel (Annotated)

Author: John Dryden

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9781500139322

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Absalom and Achitophel is a landmark poetic political satire by John Dryden The poem is an allegory that uses the story of the rebellion of Absalom against King David as the basis for discussion of the background to the Monmouth Rebellion (1685), the Popish Plot (1678) and the Exclusion Crisis. The story of Absalom's revolt is told in the Second Book of Samuel in the Old Testament of the Bible (chapters 14 to 18).