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Cambridge University Press 0521824273 - The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden - Edited by Steven N. Zwicker Index More information INDEX Absalom and Achitophel, 40, 48 in Religio Laici, 9–10, 173–174, 176, anonymity of, 166–167 247–249 and Augustan culture, 79–80 see also Church of England biblical allusions in, 98–100 Anglo-Dutch Wars, 140–141 commemoration of Ossory, 80 see also Annus Mirabilis. The Year of and English academy, 190–191 Wonders, 1666 influence of Paradise Lost, 170–171 Annus Mirabilis. The Year of Wonders, and post-Fire London, 115 1666, 42–43, 62–63 and religious conflict, 243–244 and allegiance to Charles II, 225–229 religious subtext and anonymity, 168–171 and Anglican doctrine, 241 and shaping of literary life, 8 and Augustan culture, 78–79 use of triplets, 93–100 criticism of Dutch trade monopoly, 64–65 academy, see English academy; French dedications, 205–207 academy; sociability elegy on old London, 116 Addison, Joseph, 68 heroic bestiary, 227–228 adultery, 23–25, 27–28 ideology, 63–68 Aeneid, 41, 80–82, 235–236 and imperial imagination, 63–73 Albion and Albanius, 147–149 and post-Fire London, 114–115 Alexander’s Feast, 54 and shaping of literary life, 6 All For Love; or, The World Well Lost, anonymity, 156–178 29–30 Absalom and Achitophel, 166–167, and elegy, 54–55 168–171 and influence of politics on theatre, accusations of plagiarism, 164–165 145–146 attribution to Thomas Shadwell, 160–161 self-recognition as theme, 30 commendatory poems of Nahum Tate, Allusion to Horace, 45 167–168 Amboyna or The Cruelties of the Dutch to The Dunciad, 172–173 the English Merchants, 140–141, 142 An Essayupon Satire , 156–157 Amphitryon; or the Two Socias, 27–28 execution of Stephen College, 157–158 adultery, 27–28 versus identification in Religio Laici, and influence of politics on theatre, 150 173–174, 176 analogies, 42, 43 and impersonality, 166–167, 168–171 ancients, see classicism MacFlecknoe, 163–165 Anglicanism, 240–241 The Medal, 158–159, 168 in Annus Mirabilis, 241 motives for, 157–158, 166–167, 178 comparison to Catholicism of The Hind and political propaganda, 166 and the Panther, 176 and Roman Catholicism, 176–178 and satire, 159–160 290 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521824273 - The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden - Edited by Steven N. Zwicker Index More information index The Second Part of Absalom and Boccaccio, see Fables Ancient and Modern Achitophel, 172–173 Boileau, Nicolas, 38–39, 189–190 use of by Earl of Rochester, 161–162 Boyle, Roger (Earl of Orrery), 204–205 and wit, 174–176 Braganza, Catherine of (Queen of Great anti-scripturism, 247–249 Britain), 138 Antonyand Cleopatra , 144–145 Buckingham, Duke of, see Villiers, George see also All For Love; or, The World Well (Duke of Buckingham) Lost Butler, Thomas (Earl of Ossory), 80 architecture in poetry, 260–263 Art of Poetry, The, 189–190 capitalism, 62–63 Astraea Redux, 62–63 career, literary, see literary life and allegiance to Charles II, 224 Cartwright, William, 20 and Augustan culture, 78–79 Catherine of Braganza (Queen of Great attributions, see anonymity Britain), 138 Augustan culture, 75–90 Catholicism, see Roman Catholicism duration of, 89–90 Cavaliers, 39 Edmund Waller, 77–78 censorship Horace, 76–77, 81–82 and theatre, 149–150, 151 Ovid, 76–77, 82–85 see also politics as resource for interpreting Restoration changes, as theatrical device, 16–17, England, 75–76 28–35 and Restoration cultural events, 78–82 All For Love, 29–30 Absalom and Achitophel, 79–80 Aureng-Zebe, 28–29 Annus Mirabilis, 78–79 and choice, 32 Astraea Redux, 78–79 Don Sebastian, 30–34 MacFlecknoe, 79 Love Triumphant, 34 translation of classical literature, Secular Masque, 34–35 76–77 self-recognition, 30 Virgil character and satire, 40–41 Aeneid, 80–82 Charles I (King of Great Britain) Sylvae, 81–82 martyrdom, 72–73 translation of, 76–77 see also Church of England; politics The Works of Virgil, 85–89 Charles II (King of Great Britain), 144–145 Aureng-Zebe, 28–29 allegiance to, 224–229 authorship, see anonymity Catholicism of, 249–250 portrayed in All For Love, 145–146 Battle of Lowestoft, 15–16 see also patronage; politics; Restoration see also Essayof Dramatic Poesy,An Chaucer, see Fables Ancient and Modern beast metaphors, 233–235 Chetwood, Knightly, 191–192 bellicosity of heroic plays, 230–231 Cheyne, George, 42 bestiary, heroic Christianity Annus Mirabilis, 227–228 attacks against Bible, 247 The Hind and the Panther, 233–235 challenges to, 246–247 Bible see also religion allusions to in Absalom and Achitophel, Church of England, 239 98–100, 168–171 criticism of in The Hind and the Panther, attacks against, 247 250–253 Blackmore, Richard, 259 and Restoration, 240–241 attacks against Restoration theatre and see also Anglicanism; religion wit, 265 circularity, 263–264 and instructive tradition of fables, 271 City vice versus virtue in theatre, 268–271 contempt for, 120–122 see also Fables Ancient and Modern control of national economy, 122–123 291 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521824273 - The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden - Edited by Steven N. Zwicker Index More information index City (cont.) Cromwell, Oliver, 142 relationship to Town, 120–123 Heroique Stanzas, 223–224 see also London political allegiance to, 222–224 civility and religious conflict, 240 importance of in Town, 118–120 see also politics and sociability in Restoration London, culture, Augustan, see Augustan culture 183–185 culture, literary class, social, 45 translation of Virgil, 213–214 classicism, 55–56, 280–283 see also sociability Clifford, Hugh, Lord, 214–215 coffee houses Davenant, William, 40, 226–227, 230–231, and friendship, 192–193, 194 234 see also sociability definition of heroic poetry by, 222–223 College, Stephen, 157–158 The Tempest, 22–23 Collier, Jeremy, 259 dedications, 200–207 attacks against Restoration theatre, in Annus Mirabilis, 205–207 264–266, 267–268 City of London, 205–206 vice versus virtue in theatre, 268–271 Sir Robert Howard, 206–207 see also Fables Ancient and Modern on behalf of Henry Purcell, 202–203 comedies and critical debate, 204–205 Amphitryon; or the Two Socias, 27–28 to Earl of Dorset, 208–210 The Conquest of Granada, 21–22 in form of panegyrics, 202 and doubling as a theatrical device, 23 in form of private letters, 201–202 Marriage A-la-Mode, 23–27 to Lord Radcliffe, 215–216 vice versus virtue, 268–271 deism, 247–249 see also wit delight, as concept in Fables, 269–271 commerce Dennis, John, 186 benevolent ideology of digressions, 276–277 Alexander Pope’s Windsor Forest, 66 Dillon, Wentworth (Earl of Roscommon), Annus Mirabilis, 63–67 191–193 George Lallo’s The London Merchant, disappearances, 284 65 “Discourse concerning the Original and criticism of Dutch trade monopoly, 64–65 Progress of Satire, A,” 37–38, ideology of world peace, 67–68 208–210 compressions, as theatrical device, 18–22 divine providence, 241 The Conquest of Granada, 18–22 divinity and anonymity, 168 An Essayof Dramatic Poesy , 18 domesticity in Fables, 273–274 conflict, religious, see religion Don Sebastian, 30–34 Congreve, William, 193, 262 Dorset, Earl of, see Sackville, Charles (Earl Conquest of Granada, The, 18–22 of Dorset) and ambiguity of royalism, 139–140 doublings, as theatrical device, 22–28 comedy in, 21–22 adultery, 23–25, 27–28 isolation in, 20–21 Amphitryon; or the Two Socias, 27–28 and political allegiance, 229–232 in comedies, 23 conspiracies, see politics identity, 25–27 Cooper, Anthony Ashley (Earl of Marriage A-la-Mode, 23–27 Shaftesbury), see Absalom and The Tempest, 22–23 Achitophel; Medal, The; State of dramas Innocence, The literary rivalry between English and country, relationship to London, 127–129 French, 60–61 couplets, development into triplets, 92 and politics, 133–134 Court Wits, see Cavaliers see also theatrical imagination Cowley, Abraham, 185–188 Du Bartas, 189–190 292 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521824273 - The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden - Edited by Steven N. Zwicker Index More information index Duke of Guise, The, 146–149 Evelyn, John, 185–188, 247 Dunciad, The, 172–173 Exclusion Crisis Dutch Wars, see Anglo-Dutch Wars; English academy during, 188–193 Charles II (King of Great Britain); Absalom and Achitophel, 190–191 Marvell, Andrew; York, Duke of The Art of Poetry, 189–190 (James) Earl of Dorset, 193 Earl of Mulgrave, 191–193 economics, see commerce; London Earl of Roscommon, 191–193 elegy Viscount of Halifax, 191–192 Alexander’s Feast, 54 and satire, 232–233 All For Love, 54–55 see also sociability and satire, 54–55 Eleonora, 200 Fables Ancient and Modern, 259–277 empire, and influence of politics on theatre, defense of in Preface, 274–275 136–137 defense of music in theatre, 267–268 England delight, sex, and passion in, 269–271 ideology of trade supremacy and world domesticity in, 273–274 peace, 67–68 importance of imaginative chase, rivalry with France and Netherlands, 259–260, 263–264 59–61 improvisation of selections within, 260 see also Augustan culture; religion; and instructive tradition, 271–272 Restoration literary kinship in, 275–276 English academy and moral revolution, 264–265 Historyof the RoyalSociety , 186–187 presentation of poetry as architecture, and sociability in Restoration London, 260–262, 263 185–188 and shaping of literary life, 11–13 see also Exclusion Crisis use of digressions in, 276–277 English satire, 38–39 vice versus virtue, 264–265 see also satire virtue within, 272–273 epics see also Blackmore, Sir Richard; Collier, Absalom and Achitophel, 40 Jeremy; theatre see also Conquest of Granada, The; Fire of London, 114–116 MacFlecknoe; Paradise Lost; Virgil Absalom and Achitophel, 115 epic similes, 41–43 Annus Mirabilis, 114–115 Annus Mirabilis, 42–43 MacFlecknoe, 115 and politics, 42–43 “To the memory of Mr.
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