ACHITOPHEL

ākĭtˈəfĕl, variant of Ahithophel.

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books on: Achitophel  - 577 results

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Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays
Book by Naseeb Shaheen; University of Delaware Press, 1999
Subjects: Bible--In Literature, Christian Drama, English--History And Criticism, Christianity And Literature--England--History--16th Century, Christianity And Literature--England--History--17th Century, Religion In Literature, Shakespeare, William--1564-1616--Religion
...16.24). 1.2.35: A whoreson Achitophel! A reference to Davids trusted counselor...Bible. Coverdale (1535 and 1553) has Achitophel, as does Taverner (1539). The Bishops...spellings. Most Bishops Bibles have Achitophel, although the first and second folio...
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A Short History of English Literature
Book by Harry Blamires; Routledge, 1984
Subjects: English Literature--History And Criticism
...by the publication of Absalom and Achitophel in 1681. It is a topical poem intended...represents the Earl of Shaftesbury as Achitophel and the Duke of Monmouth as Absalom. Absalom is lured by Achitophel to join the rebellious action. The...
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Augustan Satire: Intention and Idiom in English Poetry, 1660-1750
Book by Ian Jack; Clarendon Press, 1952
Subjects: English Poetry--18th Century--History And Criticism, English Poetry--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism
portraying Achitophel as an evil man whose existence is a...succeeding Ages Curst 1 . The description of Achitophel is a reminder that satire can exist...description of Shaftesbury in Absalom and Achitophel . No pretence of impartiality is made...
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Dryden and the Traces of Classical Rome
Book by Paul H. Hammond; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Classicism--England--History--17th Century, Dryden, John--1631-1700--Knowledge--Literature, Dryden, John--1631-1700--Knowledge--Rome, English Poetry--Roman Influences, Great Britain--In Literature, Imperialism In Literature, Latin Poetry--Translations Into English--History And Criticism, Rome--In Literature, Translating And Interpreting--England--History--17th Century
Achitophel has previously been described as one...without warning and without reason. Achitophel assumes that heaven has allotted some...daring to respond to Fortunes call. Achitophel sees Fortune as Occasio, who has to...
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John Dryden's Imagery
Book by Arthur W. Hoffman; University of Florida Press, 1962
Subjects: Dryden, John--1631-1700
...judgment appears in the imagery applied to Achitophel in this passage and in later sections...different light by pressing down upon Achitophel the image of Satan, another figure...is easily missed: Of these the false Achitophel was first: A Name to all succeeding...
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journal articles on: Achitophel  - 52 results

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The Marks of Character: Physiology and Physiognomy in 'Absalom and Achitophel
Journal article by K.J.H. Berland; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 76, 1997
Subjects: Absalom and Achitophel (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Characters and characteristics in literature--Technique, Dryden, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Physiognomy--Usage
...physiology and physiognomy in Absalom and Achitophel. by K.J.H. Berland Unlike the...disposition and appetite. In Absalom and Achitophel, no single character escapes Dryden...is an essential part of Absalom and Achitophel. One of the principal weapons in Drydens...
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Titus Oates as "Monumental Brass" in Absalom and Achitophel
Journal article by Kathryn Walls; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 50, 2010
Subjects: Absalom and Achitophel (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Clergy--Portrayals, Dryden, John (English poet)--Criticism and interpretation, Oates, Titus--Portrayals, Poets--Criticism and interpretation
...Monumental Brass" in Absalom and Achitophel. by Kathryn Walls Abstract John Drydens...550-681 of John Drydens Absalom and Achitophel (1681), the poet pillories the individuals...who was of course to be represented as Achitophel in Drydens poem. Likening himself as...
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"A Greater Gust": Generating the Body in Absalom and Achitophel
Journal article by Jerome Donnelly; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 40, 2004
Subjects: Language and languages--Research, Literature--Research
...Generating the Body in Absalom and Achitophel. by Jerome Donnelly When my study...normative basis" of Absalom and Achitophel first appeared, it challenged...critical approach to Absalom and Achitophel, where feminism has joined deconstruction...
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Shaftesbury and Monmouth as Lords of Misrule: Dryden and Menippean Transformations
Journal article by Kirk Combe; The Eighteenth Century, Vol. 45, 2004
Subjects: Dryden, John (1631-1700), Literary criticism, Poetry, Poets
...Flecknoe (1676) and in Absalom and Achitophel (1681). In a previous essay, Ive...and harmless mock king. Absalom and Achitophel, on the other hand, is a political...contrast, mock kings in Absalom and Achitophel are obstreperous and seditious contestants...
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At the Crossroads: Gendered Desire, Political Occasion, and Dryden and Lee's Oedipus
Journal article by Candy B.K. Schille; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 40, 2004
Subjects: Drama--Criticism and interpretation, Dryden, John--Criticism and interpretation, Lee, Nathaniel--Criticism and interpretation, Oedipus (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Plays--Criticism and interpretation, Restoration age literature--Criticism and interpretation
...political work is Drydens own Absalom and Achitophel, published in 1681during Shaftesburys...strategy he would return to in Absalom and Achitophel (Winn 304-05). In 1673, enemies...529) Dryden describes in Absalom and Achitophel (5) as joining with the Whigs in pressing...
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magazine articles on: Achitophel  - 5 results

 
 
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Dryden in His Time & Ours
Magazine article by R.J. Stove; New Criterion, Vol. 25, October 2006
Subjects: Dryden, John--Criticism and interpretation, Dryden, John--Influence, Literary themes, Literature--Themes, motives, Poetic techniques, Poetics
...Dryden satires, usually Absalom and Achitophel or MacFlecknoe, often turned up in...reliability. The man who in Absalom and Achitophel growled of an unscrupulous opponent...The leading Whigs had fled (like "Achitophel" Shaftesbury), perished of natural...
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How Stanley Fish Works
Magazine article by Morris Freedman; American Scholar, Vol. 72, Winter 2003
Subjects: How Milton Works (Book)
...first Earl of Shaftesbury. A decade later, Cooper became the basis for the Satanic Achitophel in John Drydens great political poem, "Absalom and Achitophel," which openly incorporated details and patterns from Paradise Lost. In Miltons lifetime...
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New and Noteworthy
Magazine article; Contemporary Review, Vol. 289, Winter 2007
Subjects: Publishing industry--Product information
...cross-references to texts that are not included. The editors have wisely included the whole of Mac Flecknoe, Absalom and Achitophel, Religio Laici and The Hind and the Panther. This selection will make Drydens poetry more accessible without losing any...
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Diary: The Guardian Is Getting Distinctly Testy with Sinn Fein/IRA, for Which It Used to Burn the Occasional Candle. Is This a Sign of Its Rebranding as an Establishment Newspaper?
Magazine article by Stephen Glover; New Statesman, Vol. 134, March 7, 2005
Subjects: Journalism--Analysis, Journalism--Political aspects, Political journalism--Analysis, Sinn Fein--Media coverage, The Guardian (London) (Newspaper)
...exploited the fictitious "Popish Plot" allegedly uncovered by Titus Oates, and was tried for treason, but acquitted. He is "Achitophel" in Drydens great poem. The 7th Earl (1801-85) was a very different kettle of fish--a high-minded, deeply Christian...
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The Character of Captain Ahab in Melville's 'Moby Dick.'
Magazine article by James W. Tuttleton; World and I, Vol. 13, February 1998
Subjects: Captain Ahab--Criticism and interpretation, Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism and interpretation, Literary characters--Criticism and interpretation, Moby Dick (Book)--Criticism and interpretation
...16) Melville evidently shared in the romantic notion about greatness that we find John Dryden voicing in "Absalom and Achitophel": Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. For we find Melville remarking...


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newspaper articles on: Achitophel  - 2 results

 
 
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Let Teachers Do Their Job
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 14, 2010
Subjects: Gove, Michael, Teachers--Study and teaching
...good days you cant possibly see the other side. It makes you wonder when the minister last sat down and read Absalom and Achitophel and The Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot or when his advisers last visited an English classroom. In his speech to the Tory Party Conference...
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Mismanagement Behind Financial Woes
Newspaper article; The Chronicle (Toowoomba, Australia), July 16, 2010
...administration, compounded by the wretched incompetence of that of Anna Bligh, his successor. A line from Drydens Absalom and Achitophel comes to mind: aIn friendship false, implacable in hate, resolved to ruin or to rule the Statea. I read in (TC 23/6...


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encyclopedia articles on: Achitophel  - 8 results

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Achitophel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ACHITOPHEL akit fel, variant of Ahithophel . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Tate, Nahum
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...omitted the part of the fool and had Cordelia survive to marry Edgar. With Dryden he wrote the second part of Absalom and Achitophel (1682). In 1692 he became poet laureate. His metrical version of the Psalms (1696), written with Nicholas Brady, is...
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Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Shaftesbury has been called the most skillful politician of his day. He was bitterly satirized in John Drydens Absalom and Achitophel. See biography by K. H. D. Haley (1968); J. R. Jones, The First Whigs: The Politics of the Exclusion Crisis, 1678...
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Dryden, John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Cleopatra; and the comedy Marriage a la Mode (1672). His great political satire on Monmouth and Shaftesbury, Absalom and Achitophel, appeared in two parts (1681, 1682). It was followed by MacFlecknoe (1682), an attack on Thomas Shadwell, and Religio...
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Ahithophel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...himself when Absalom ignored his counsel. He may have been the grandfather of Bath-sheba. The Vulgate form of the name is Achitophel. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia...
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