After John Donne and John Milton, John Dryden was the greatest English poet of the seventeenth century. He was a greatest playwright as well. And he had not had been a writer of prose, he dealt with literary criticism, and translator. The poet is known today as a satirist, he wrote two original satires, Mac Flecknoe (1682) and The Medall (1682).
Mac Flecknoe is the resultant of a series
of disagreements between Thomas Shadwell and Dryden. The quarrel evolves the
fallowing disagreements:
1. Their different estimates of genius of
Ben Jonson
2. The preference of Dryden for comedy of
wit and repartee and of Shadwell
3. A sharp disagreement over the true
purpose of comedy
4. contention over the value of rhymed
plays
5. Plagiarism
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