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Absalom and Achitophel Information
591 words, approx. 2 pages
 Absalom and Achitophel is a landmark poetic political satire by John Dryden. The poem exists in two parts. The first part, of 1681, is undoubtedly by Dryden. The second part, of 1682, was written by another hand, most likely Nahum Tate, except for a few...


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 Papers on Language & Literature
"A greater gust": generating the body in Absalom and Achitophel.
03/22/2004: 9,170 words, approx. 31 pages When my study of the "normative basis" of Absalom and Achitophel first appeared, it challenged the prevailing interpretation of the poem by arguing that Aristotelian hylomorphism provides a basis for structuring references to the begetting of sons, that the contrasting father-son pairs were...
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Critical Essay by Susan C. Greenfield
8,207 words, approx. 27 pages
 In the following excerpt, Greenfield observes that a marked ambiguity in Dryden's poem Absalom and Achitophel reflects the confusion and changing attitudes toward sexual biology, succession, and the monarchy which occurred during his era.
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Critical Essay by Jerome Donnelly
6,121 words, approx. 20 pages
 In the following excerpt, Donnelly demonstrates that in Absalom and Achitophel, Dryden relied upon humanist and Aristotelian theories to defend Charles's fitness as a monarch without condoning Charles's behavior as a man.


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