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Political Allusions in Dryden's Later Plays

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

John Robert Moore
John Robert Moore*
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Indiana University, Bloomington
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Extract

There have been two different interpretations of Dryden's attitude toward church and state in his writings after the Revolution of 1688–89. Some have held that he would gladly have changed with the times but was unacceptable to the new regime because he was too notorious an offender; others, that he chose with silent dignity a relatively obscure place among the defeated minority.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 73 , Issue 1 , March 1958 , pp. 36 - 42
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1958

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References

1 The Consolidator (London, 1705), p. 29.

2 D. Nichol Smith, John Dryden (Cambridge, Eng., 1950), p. 67.

3 See my article, “Contemporary Satire in Otway's Venice Preserved,” PMLA, xliii (March 1928), 166–181.

4 Dramatic Works, ed. W. Scott and G. Saintsbury (Edinburgh, 1882), viii, 127–128—hereafter referred to in the text by volume and page.

5 Believe as you List, Introd. Charles J. Sisson (London: Malone Society, 1927). 6 A Tale oj a Tub, ed. Herbert Davis (Oxford, 1939), p. 43.

7 Poems, ed. John Sargeaunt (Oxford, 1945), pp. 275–276.

8 The Weesils (London, 1691).