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	Absalom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Absalom or Avshalom (אַבְשָׁלוֹם "Father/Leader of/is peace", Standard Hebrew Avšalom, Tiberian Hebrew ʾAḇšālôm), in the Bible, is the third son of David, king of Israel.
		Absalom was now the eldest surviving son of David, and the present position of the narratives (15-20)--after the birth of Solomon and before the struggle between Solomon and Adonijah---may represent the view that the suspicion that he was not the destined heir of his father's throne excited the impulsive youth to rebellion.
		Absalom reached the capital and took counsel with the renowned Ahithophel.
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	Absalom and Achitophel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Absalom and Achitophel is a landmark poetic political satire by John Dryden.
		The poem is an allegory that uses the story of the rebellion of Absalom against King David as the basis for discussion of the background to the Monmouth Rebellion (1685), the Meal-tub Plot (1679) and the Exclusion Crisis.
		The story of Absalom's revolt is told in the Second Book of Samuel in the Old Testament of the Bible (chapters 14 and 15).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Absalom_and_Achitophel (531 words)

	§21. Political Satire: "Absalom and Achitophel," Part I. I. Dryden. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge ...
		of Absalom and Achitophel 79 is complete in itself, being intended to help in producing a direct result at a given moment, and that it is in no sense to be regarded as a mere instalment of a larger whole, or as an introduction to it.
		Absalom and Achitophel veils its political satire under the transparent disguise of one of the most familiar episodes of Old Testament history, which the existing crisis in English affairs resembled sufficiently to make the allegory apposite and its interpretation easy.
		Absalom and Achitophel remains the greatest political satire in our literature, partly because it is frankly political, and not intended, like Hudibras, by means of a mass of accumulated detail, to convey a general impression of the vices and follies, defects and extravagances, of a particular section or particular sections of the nation.
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		One Thing that makes "Absalom and Achitophel" especially difficult is that the poem draws on two different narratives to weave a complex historical and religious commentary.
		Achitophel is introduced and characterized as an unscrupulous, self-serving minister who resolves to bring down David by convincing Absalom to mount a challenge to the crown.
		Achitophel capitalizes on the ambition he perceives in Absalom's speech and unleashes a second series of arguments designed to sway the young prince.
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	Outline for Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel"
		Absalom is described this way (verse 25):] But in all Israel there was one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty; from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
		Absalom asks for another opinion and sends for Hushai, who disagrees, reminding the plotters that David is strong and his men are mighty; instead, Absalom should gather "all Israel" as his army and fact David in his own person.
		And absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the aok, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
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	"An Ungrateful Soyl": The Sexual Politics of John Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel" -- Essay at LiteratureClassics.com
		This feminization of the enemy rests on three pillars: the barrenness of the queen, the parallel Dryden infers between Absalom's temptation and sin and that of Milton's Eve, and the reference to the rebellion as a "Mother Plot;" the resulting parallel lies in that as Queen Michal is physically sterile, while Absalom is morally impotent.
		In essence, Absalom and Achitophel attempts to show how a rebellion against the king is a rebellion against the patriarchal system, and hence a rebellion against God; this rebellion is emphasized then through a feminization of the rebelling factions.
		In the poem, David is accused by Achitophel of being a Jebusite---a Catholic---so as to pull the Israelites' support away from David in favor of Absalom (the Duke of Monmouth being a Protestant).
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Absalom
		Under such circumstances it is not strange that Absalom, idolized by those around him, whilst his natural sense of gratitude and filial duty became gradually dulled, was led to cultivate that species of egotism which grows cruel in proportion as it counts upon the blind affection of its friends.
		Absalom turns the opportunity of this altercation with Joab to good account by pleading his own neglected and humiliated condition: I would rather die ignominiously, he argues, than have this rancour of the King against me all the days of my life.
		Achitophel, one of David's oldest counsellors, had joined the conspirators, and by his design a strong current was being directed against David.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01058c.htm (1683 words)

	TermPapers-TermPapers.com - Absalom And Achitophel
		Achitophel attempts to remove the kingship and the question of secession from the authority of Heaven and the law of God by falsifying the account of David's return from exile.
		Achitophel chooses this image to contrast the descending, faltering light of David's kingship with the rising royal planet of Absalom's aspirations; but the use of this simile reveals more than the wordy resemblance.
		The most obvious is that Achitophel unknowingly predicts the final triumph of David as a Samson figure who wreaks havoc on his enemies and asserts the force of God's law.
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	§24. "Absalom and Achitophel," Part II. I. Dryden. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and ...
		This cycle of Dryden’s writings is completed by his share in the Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel, published in November, 1682, a few weeks after Mac Flecknoe, and in the same month as Religio Laici.
		Dryden could therefore hardly have had time for extensive collaboration with Nahum Tate, a painstaking and talented writer who, with enduring success, adapted King Lear and took part in a version of the Psalms with Nicholas Brady, 87 and who, in his turn, was poet laureate (from 1692 to 1715).
		Instead of the wary assailant of political and social leaders like Achitophel and Zimri, we are now confronted by the writer of genius spurning, with ruthless scorn, the brotherhood in letters of a Doeg or an Og; what is best and strongest in the satirist seems now up in arms.
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	Reading Political Poetry: Absalom and Achitophel
		Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel (1.2075–99), is an allegory of the political crisis of the years 1678–81.
		Absalom and Achitophel is at once a piece of party-political propaganda (brought out to influence events in 1681) and a denunciation of party politics.
		Achitophel's method is to arouse and to manipulate the prejudices of the majority.
	www.wwnorton.com /nrl/english/NAEL71/Period4Eighteenth/CourseSessions4/RestorationAbsalom.html (456 words)

	Absalom and Achitophel: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Absalom and Achitophel is a landmark poetic political satire satire quick summary:
		Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) often as an intended...
		Achitophel is the vulgate spelling of ahitophel, a figure who appears in the 2 samuel in the hebrew bible....
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	Absalom and Achitophel information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Absalom is the Duke of Monmouth, one of Charles's illegitimate sons.
		And an equally useful one on Titus Oates, one of the central figures in the so-called "Popish Plot," which was stirred up as a way of fomenting anti-Catholic hysteria.
		The long section from 2 Samuel in which the story of King David and Absalom is recounted is worth knowing, to see what kinds of alterations and modifications Dryden made.
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	Literary Encyclopedia: Absalom and Achitophel
		Absalom and Achitophel is generally regarded as the greatest political poem in the English language.
		Enlisting scripture’s account of David and Absalom from II Samuel 15-18, Dryden defends the king and the lawful succession against his opponents who want to alter the succession and install a monarch who will be more pliable to financial, mercantile and commercial interests.
		Absalom and Achitophel takes its allegorical inspiration from the anonymous poem Absalom’s Conspiracy (1680), and from Naboth’s Vinyard (1679) by John Caryll-a Catholic imprisoned in the Tower as a result of Oates’s Popish Plot allegations-whose poem situates contemporary political events within biblical history.
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	Chapter Aberdeen Philosophical Society <i>to</i> Accidente of A by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Absalon, in Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, is meant for the duke of Monmouth, natural son of Charles II.
		Absalom and Achitophel, the best political satire in the language, by Dryden, in about 1000 lines of heroic verse, in rhymes.
		The general scheme is to show the rebellious character of the puritans, who insisted on the exclusion of the duke of York from the succession, on account of his being a pronounced catholic, and the determination of the king to resist this interference with his royal prerogative, even at the cost of a civil war.
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	ENL 3230 Fall 2005 Class 8
		Absalom (Monmouth) is the most favored of these children.
		Achitophel's (Shaftesbury's) portrait -- his career in the government and his current ambition.
		Achitophel tempts Absalom to join him; to become the successor to the crown against his father's wishes.
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	DRYDEN
		Dryden's Medal is a great satire and his Absalom and Achitophel and MacFlecknoe are distinguished poetic works but the satire of the latter two works has the greater potency by being enclosed in a poetic form.
		In Absalom and Achitophel we meet Shaftesbury in the person of Achitophel and, in this poem, Dryden's main satiric weapon is his poetry.
		Absalom and Achitophel and MacFlecnoe flourish on account of the forceful use of imagery and other poetic devices.
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	ENL 6236
		Absalom and Achitophel is considered Dryden's greatest satire; it constructs a parallel between the story of David in 2 Samuel and that of Charles II and his illegitimate son Monmouth ('Absalom').
		Of this poem, in which personal satire was applied to the support of publick principles, and in which therefore every mind was interested, the reception was eager, and the sale so large that my father, an old bookseller, told me he had not known it equalled but by Sacheverell's trial.
		Absalom and Achitophel is a work so well known that particular criticism is superfluous.
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	Outline for Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel"
		Achitophel (Earl of Shaftesbury): self-interested; anti-"Jebusite" (Catholic); appeals to the public.
		Achitophel's speech to persuade Absalom that the people need him to be King.
		Achitophel points out David's weaknesses, and the undesirability of the next designated heir (i.e., James II, a distinctly Catholic man).
	www.geneseo.edu /~easton/DrydenAbsalom.html (237 words)

	Absalom
		Absalom, Hebrew, "Father of Peace," was the third son of David and Maacha, the daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur.
		Absalom did not live up to the Hebrew meaning of his name since he stirred up a rebellion against his father after killing his half-brother Amnon, who had raped their sister Tamar.
		Absalom since became the perennial name for a rebellious child.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/a/absalom.html (212 words)

	Ahitophel - TheBestLinks.com - Absalom, Allegory, Books of Samuel, David, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		See Absalom and Achitophel for the political allegory about the Monmouth Rebellion by John Dryden.
		David sent his old friend Hushai back to Absalom, in order that he might counteract the counsel of Ahithophel (2 Sam.
		This end was so far gained that Ahithophel saw he had no longer any influence, and accordingly he at once left the camp of Absalom and returned to Giloh, his native place, where, after arranging his wordly affairs, he hanged himself, and was buried in the sepulchre of his fathers (2 Sam.
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	John Dryden
		His next tragedy, Amboyna (1673), an exhibition of certain atrocities committed by the Dutch on English merchants in the East Indies, put on the stage to inflame the public mind in view of the Dutch war, was written, with the exception of a few passages, in prose, and those passages in blank verse.
		The advantage he had gained by his recent studies of character was fully used in his portraits of Shaftesbury and Buckingham, Achitophel and Zimri.
		To the second part of Absalom and Achitophel (November 1682), written chiefly by Nahum Tate, he contributed a long passage of invective against Robert Ferguson, one of Monmouth's chief advisers, Elkanah Settle, Shadwell and others.
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	FORWARD : FastForward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The comparatively clear account of the revolt of King David's son Absalom, urged on by the high priest Achitophel (2 Samuel 14-18), can give us an understanding of the likely nature of the insurrections described in Numbers 16 and 17.
		After Milton's "Paradise Lost" and "Samson Agonistes," Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel" is surely the greatest midrash in the English language.
		Absalom, who excelled at both war and love, was David's favorite son.
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	Bloomsbury.com - Research centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Charles had no legitimate son and his heir was his brother James, Duke of York, a Catholic (see Catholicism), whose succession was feared by many as a menace to the Church of England and the liberty of Parliament.
		Monmouth becomes Absalom, Shaftesbury becomes the evil tempter Achitophel, the Duke of Buckingham appears as Zimri, and Titus Oates as Corah.
		Part II, which was published in 1682, is mainly by Nahum Tate, but includes a vivid passage by Dryden (ll 412-509) satirizing the poets Settle and Shadwell under the names Doeg and Og.
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	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Absalom and Achitophel. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		David is meant for Charles II.; Absalom for his natural son James, Duke of Monmouth, handsome like Absalom, and, like him, rebellious.
		Achitophel is meant for Lord Shaftesbury, Zimri for the Duke of Buckingham, and Abdael for Monk.
		The selections are so skilfully made that the history of David seems repeated.
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	ENL 3230 Fall 2005 Class 9
		Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel served as an introduction to the political party system in Britain, and as a capstone to the political and religious controversy of the seventeenth century.
		"Mac Flecknoe" differs from Absalom and Achitophel in both tone and style, even though it uses the same poetic line and rhyme scheme (which is...?).
		While Absalom and Achitophel adopts a straight heroic style, "Mac Flecknoe" is a mock-heroic.
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		Absalom and Achitophel is John Dryden's response to the nervous political situation that resulted from the Popish Plot and the subsequent events surrounding the Exclusion Crisis.
		One of the great achievements of Absalom and Achitophel is its portrayal of current events by drawing parallels between them and the story of the biblical King David.
		Dryden forces us to see similarities between the biblical David and Charles II; in the process, he suggests that human nature is rather constant in its failings, thereby deflecting criticism of Charles's moral lapses.
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