Kevin Twohy -- DIS 1I
Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel" appeared during the height of the Exclusion Crisis in England. Dryden employs the Biblical allegory of Absalom's rebellion against King David from the Old Testament's second book of Samuel (King David representing Charles II) to engage the political climate surrounding the Exclusion Crisis as well as some of the the Popish Plot. Dryden's poem ultimately upholds the stability of the English monarchy, arguing against a change of regime that might be more easily corrupted.
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