Whom did John Dryden refer to as “Mac Flecknoe” in his 1682 poem of the same name?

July 15, 2020October 24, 2011 by Pamela Landy

Thomas Shadwell was refer to as “Mac Flecknoe”, a playwright whose work John Dryden despised.

Dryden satirized Shadwell as the son of (“Mac”) Richard Flecknoe, another bad contemporary poet.

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