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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... 
Literary Criticism
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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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