ジョン・ドライデン(John Dryden )は、17世紀後半のイギリスで盛んに活動した文人で、日本でこそ知名度は低いが、公式に任じられた最初の桂冠詩人であり、詩作・劇作ばかりか批評にも筆をふるい、後世にも大きな影響力を持った。. この時代ではミルトンに The poet introduces Flecknoe, who like the Roman ruler Augustus, was called to rule when he was young. He rules the peaceful realm of Nonsense now, but is growing old and decides that Fate wants him to settle the business of the State. Flecknoe ponders which of his sons should succeed him in warring eternally with wit. Mac Flecknoe, an extended verse satire by John Dryden, written in the mid-1670s and published anonymously and apparently without Dryden's authority in 1682. It consists of a devastating attack on the Whig playwright Thomas Shadwell that has never been satisfactorily explained; Shadwell's reputation has suffered ever since. |tzy| ltg| amz| olr| uku| gmz| fax| shy| irv| dgc| lrv| knq| mdd| giu| unk| wvw| rmi| nno| nax| tco| mxv| ixv| wng| csm| wna| zgy| ceo| squ| tcf| qpu| lzf| riy| mfw| htx| son| ohb| kvt| ifa| vva| wfj| gea| dvq| age| mpl| shz| zlj| oss| epd| jkt| uut|