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Settle, Elkanah

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Settle, Elkanah (1648–1724), the author of a series of bombastic oriental melodramas which threatened Dryden's popularity and aroused his hostility. His The Empress of Morocco (1673) had such a vogue that Dryden, with Crowne and Shadwell, wrote a pamphlet of criticism of it. Dryden satirized Settle as Doeg in the second part of Absalom and Achitophel. Settle published Absalom Senior, or Achitophel Transpros'd in 1682, and Reflections on Several of Mr Dryden's Plays in 1687.

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Elkanah Settle

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Elkanah Settle 1648–1724, English dramatist and poet. Thanks to the patronage of the earl of Rochester, Settle's heroic dramas for a time rivaled those of Dryden. His most successful play, the elaborate and bombastic Empress of Morocco (1671), provoked a long quarrel with Dryden, who satirized Settle as Doeg in Absalom and Achitophel.

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