What picture of the contemporary English
literary scene do you get from John Dryden’s Macflecknoe? / Comment on
Dryden’s presentation of Shadwell in Macflecknoe.
/Discuss Macflecknoe as a verse
satire/personal satire/political satire.
Mac Flecknoe is the finest short satirical poem in which Dryden has treated Thomas Sahdwell with humorous contempt. Mac Flecknoe is both a personal and literary satire. In Mac Flecknoe, not a single reference of prevailing political crisis can be found only but the political and dramatic activities of Shadwell are also mentioned. Dryden presents Shadwell as a dull poetaster, a corpulent man and a plagiarist. Dryden’s uses the heroic couplet for satirical purposes. Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel was followed by his another piece The Medal, which was answered by Thomas Shadwell in Medal of John Bayes, a coarse satire on Dryden. He decided to avenge himself on Shadwell and Dryden fully revenged himself by the publication of Mac Flecknoe in 1682.
Dryden presents Shadwell as a dull poetaster, as an idiot.
He is the dullest son of Flecknoe. He “never deviates into sense” Even fog
prevails throughout the day in Shadwell has been presented as a prince of a
bond of a musician, he produces shrill unpleasant sound. He was born as an
enemy of wit and common sense and at the time of coronation he swore that he
will maintain dullness until death. Dryden exposes the dramatic skill of
Shadwell by saying that his comedies make people shed tears and his tragedies
create laughter................................................
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