Semester : English Honours Third Semester
Author : Alexander Pope
Editor : Harriet Raghunathan
This edition of Dryden's MacFlecknoe includes an extensive introduction to the historical, cultural and literary contexts of the poem, along with a specific focus on the polemical play between Dryden and Shadwell. Following the fully-annotated text is a section that provides the student with the primary and secondary readings related to the poem for which have been chosen the prefaces of Shadwell's plays, The Sullen Lovers and The Humorists and Dryden's prologue written for Nahum Tate's The Loyal General and the epilogue tohis own The Conquest of Granada, Part Two. Also included are excerpts from Dryden's The Second part of Absalom and Achitophel, 'To His Sacred Majesty on His Coronation' and 'To My dear Friend Mr. Congreve on his comedy call'd The Double Dealer'. This section ends with a part of Dryden's Discourse Concerning the Origin and Progress of Satire. The secondary readings are eight critical essays.
alexander pope
Paper Back
worldview publications
2001
English
New
harriet raghunathan
English Honours Second Semester (Four Year)
8186423508
9788186423509
14.00” x 20.00” x 4.00"
0.30 Kg
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