Title Pen for a party : Dryden's Tory propaganda in its contexts / Phillip Harth

Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1993 ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (354 pages) Series Princeton Legacy Library Princeton legacy library. 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 Notes Print version record Subject Dryden, John, 1631-1700 -- Political and social views Dryden, John, 1631-1700 -- Prose SUBJECT Dryden, John, 1631-1700 -- Prose Dryden, John, 1631-1700 -- Political and social views Dryden, John, 1631-1700 fast Subject Conservative Party (Great Britain) SUBJECT Conservative Party (Great Britain) fast Subject Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century Conservatism -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century Propaganda, British -- History -- 17th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Conservatism Criticism and interpretation Political and social views Politics and government Politics and literature Propaganda, British SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056896 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 92027140 ISBN 9781400872787 1400872782

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