Frontmatter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Books and Periodicals Frequently Cited xi
5. Introduction 1
6. PART ONE. Dryden the Poet
7. ONE. Dryden's Early Attitudes toward Politics and the Heroic 23
8. Two. The Controversy with Sir Robert Howard 59
9. THREE. Dryden and His Betters 88
10. FOUR. Dryden among the Courtiers 111
11. FIVE. Among the Wits 139
12. PART TWO: The Succession Crisis and its Critic
13. Six. Aureng-Zebe: The Character of a Loyal Successor 183
14. SEVEN. On Stage: Sophocles, Shakespeare, the Popish Plot 203
15. EIGHT. Absalom and Achitophel 227
16. NINE. The Augustan Interlude (1683-1684) 265
17. Index 301