Feb 12 2009
John Dryden – “Mac Flecknoe” audio book
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Like Pope’s “Rape of the Lock,” Dryden’s “Mac Flecknoe” (1684) is a satirical mock epic written in heroic couplets. In this poem Dryden attacks his contemporary, Thomas Shadwell, who was both his literary and political rival (Shadwell was a Whig, while Dryden supported the Stuart monarchy).
Read the full text here.
Listen to the audio book here, courtesy of Eighteenth Century Audio. and
