
Dryden
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Dryden · 6 chapters
The age of Elizabeth, memorable for so many reasons in the history of England, was especially brilliant in literature, and, within literature, in the drama.
With 'Absalom and Achitophel,' a satire on the Whig leader, Shaftesbury, Dryden entered a new phase, and achieved what is regarded as 'the finest of all political satires.'
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