Anti-Achitophel (1682): Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John DrydenPordage, Samuel
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Anti-Achitophel (1682): Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden
Pordage, Samuel
Dryden, John, 1631-1700. Absalom and Achitophel
TABLE OF ALLUSIONS
NAMES
The persons and places referred to in the allegories are identified
in the following lists of names. M indicates the ascription in the
Manchester copy; B, that in the Leeds University copy. Within the list
for each poem, names similarly used in _Absalom and Achitophel_ are
omitted; those used with a different meaning are marked with an
asterisk.
ABSALOM SENIOR
*_Absalom_, Duke of York
*_Achitophel_, Halifax
*_Adriel_, Earl of Huntington
_Amasai_, Earl of Macclesfield (M, B)
_Amnon_, Godfrey
*_Amiel_, Buckingham (B)
_Amram_, Sir William Jones
_Arabia_, Portugal
_Ashur_, Fourth Lord Herbert of Cherbury (M)
_Babylon_, Rome
_Barak_, Drake
*_Barzillai_, Shaftesbury (B)
*_Caleb_, Laurence Hyde, son of Clarendon (B)
_Camries_, Third Lord Howard of Escrick (M)
*_Corah_, Sir Edward Seymour (B)
_Deborah_, Queen Elizabeth
_Endor_, Oxford (B)
_Geshur_, Ireland
_Hanaan_, Lord Nottingham
_Hazor_, Spain
*_Helon_, First Duke of Bedford
*_Hothriel_, Slingsby Bethell
*_Hushai_, Earl of Argyll
_Ithream_, Monmouth
_Jabin_, Philip II
*_Jonas_, ?Sir William Gregory (M glosses as Seymour; _see Corah_)
*_Jotham_, Earl of Essex
_Laura_, Anne Reeve
_Levitick chiefs_, English bishops (B)
_Micah_, Sir William Williams, Speaker of the Commons
*_Nadab_, Lauderdale
*_Shimei_, Jeffreys (B)
_Sidon_, Denmark
_Sisera_, Medina Sidonia
_Zeleck_, unidentified
POETICAL REFLECTIONS
*_Amiel_, ?Finch, Lord Chancellor
*_Bathsheba_, ?Queen Catherine
_Nimrod_, Cromwell
_Tory Roger_, L'Estrange
AZARIA AND HUSHAI
_Abidon_, unidentified
_Amalack_, ?Henry Hyde, son of Clarendon
_Amazia_, Charles II
_Aminadab, Ashur_, unidentified; _see_ Ashur _above_.
_Athalia_, Mary Queen of Scots
_Azaria_, Monmouth
_Azyad_, Sir Edmundbury Godfrey
_Bibbai_, L'Estrange
_Canaanites, Chemarim_, Papists
_Doeg_, Danby
_Edomites_, Irish
_Elam_, Lawrence Hyde, Earl of Rochester
_Eliab_, Lord Russell
_Eliakim_, Duke of York
_Elishama_, ?Macclesfield
_Elizur, Enan_, unidentified
_Essens_, nonconformists
_Gamaliel_, unidentified
_Gedaliah_, Edward Coleman
_Gibbar_, ?Lord Clifford
_Harim_, ?Lord Wharton
_Helon_, Bedford
*_Hushai_, Shaftesbury
_Jehosaphat_, Henry VII
_Jeptha_, see Settle, p. 21
_Jerusha_, Anne, Countess of Buccleuch
_Joash_, Charles I
_Jocoliah_, Lucy Walters
*_Jotham_, ?Halifax
_Libni_, Oates
_Muppim_, ?Lauderdale
_Nashai_, Essex
_Pagiel_, unidentified
_Pharisee_, high churchman
_Rehoboam_, unidentified
*_Shimei_, Dryden
_Zabed_, Cromwell
_Zattue_, unidentified
REFERENCES
Biblical parallels and parallels with _Absalom and Achitophel_ are
omitted. The _Dedications_ of the poems can be compared with Dryden's
in _Absalom and Achitophel_.
ABSALOM SENIOR
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