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Pen for a party : Dryden's Tory propaganda in its contexts /
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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
1993.
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| Collection: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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. |
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| Description: | Includes index. |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (354 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-327) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400872787 1400872782 |