SOURCE: "Aborting the 'Mother Plot': Politics and Generation in Absalom and Achitophel," in ELH, Vol. 62, No. 2, Summer 1995, pp. 267-93.
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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