Pen for a Party
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Absalom
Absalom and Achitophel
Acclamation
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Ahab
Algernon Sidney
Appeal to the People
Arraignment
Assassination
Astraea Redux
Attainder
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Bill of attainder
Books of Kings
Cabal
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Conradin
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Day of the Barricades
Declaration of Breda
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Edward Turberville
Elizabeth Cellier
English Civil War
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Era of Good Feelings
Estates General (France)
Exclusion
Exclusion Crisis
Grand jury
House of Guise
Indulgence
Jeremiad
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Majesty
Miles Prance
Nathaniel Lee
On the Eve
Oxford Parliament (1644)
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Pamphlet
Papist
Parliament
Penitential
Permanent Settlement
Petition to the King
Political alliance
Political satire
Politician
Popish Plot
Portraits of Shakespeare
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Proclamation
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Pundit
Puritans
Recusancy
Restoration (England)
Roger L'Estrange
Rye House Plot
Sedition
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Stephen College
Stephen Dugdale
Superiority (short story)
Supporter
The London Gazette
Theatrum Mundi
This House (play)
Titus Oates
Tories (British political party)
Veracity (Mark Lavorato novel)
Well-made play
Whiggism
Whigs (British political party)
William Hone
William Sancroft
William Shakespeare
Zedekiah
Product details
- ISBN 9780691633480
- Weight: 652g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 19 Apr 2016
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Exploring the political climate during the final years of the reign of Charles II, when John Dryden wrote his great public poems and several of his dramatic works, Phillip Harth sheds new light on this writer's literary activity on behalf of the monarch. The poems Absalom and Achitophel and The Medall, and the dramatic works The Duke of Guise and Albion and Albanius, have commonly been considered in relation to such public events as the Popish Plot, the Exclusion Crisis, and the Tory Reaction, but that approach does not explain the noticeable differences among these works or the specific purposes for which they were written. Harth argues that the immediate contexts of these works were not the historical events themselves but a constantly developing series of propaganda offensives, both Tory and Whig, designed to influence public opinion toward fluctuating conditions. Pen for a Party traces the halting process by which the government of Charles II developed propaganda as an effective instrument for gradually winning the public's acquiescence in its divisive policies.
It likewise shows how Dryden fashioned his own works to meet the needs of this propaganda campaign in each of its successive phases. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
